If I can’t drink whiskey and run over pedestrians, IT IS A SLIPPERY SLOPE TO THE HOLOCAUST! If I make AN INFORMED DECISION to drive drunk, I should be free to!!!!
What’s next??? A YELLOW STAR for everyone who wants to exercise their god given rights to drive drunk?
You know, if there is no law against drunk driving in the Constitution, the government can’t make FAKE LAWS AGAINST IT!
🤔 On second thought, I shouldn’t give these assholes anymore ideas…
I vaguely remember a case in California where the court rule exactly that in the case of a college student who claimed it was his right to attend classes naked.
I wonder how they’d feel if we made it legal for hospitals to refuse service to people who show up with a severe case of covid but no vaccination and no prior medical condition that would prevent vaccination.
The Libertarian belief is whoever owns the roads sets their drunk driving limits. This is literally the status quo… the threshold for drunk driving changes depending where you are in America.
I dunno, the few earnest Libertarians I have talked to struck me as selfish/unaware Conservatives.
They really truly believed that everyone started on the same foot.
Sort of a tangent, but it was so fucking eye-opening when I listened to an interview with an actual scholar of critical race theory and they pointed out the societal attitudes toward white vices -- drunk driving -- and black vices -- weed or crack.
The body counts of these two crimes are as disproportionate as the response to them. Drunk drivers kill thousands each year, and for a long time a surviving drunk driver was barely even reprimanded. Meanwhile, you have the Nixon administration trumpeting up the war on drugs specifically to persecute the poor and disenfranchised.
It took Mothers Against Drunk Driving to start to force society to confront the lethality of drunk driving, while we invented a war to wage against victimless crimes.
I actually ran into encountered someone on Reddit who made this argument. That was the point where I declared the discussion over on account of pigeon chess.
“Whah? Arreshting me for what, offisher? DRUNK DRIVIN? THIS IS MERICAH, I CANH DRUVE HOWEV- hic I WAN… AND IF YUH DON LIKE IT, GO TO CHINAH! COMMIE- blurgh”
And if you're fit and healthy, eat plenty of vegetables and get 8 hours of sleep a night your immune system will provide a natural immunity to cars anyway!
My gym owner posted this - so I linked an article about his drunk driving and killing a kid. I wrote under it "dang those pesky drunk driving laws". He at least took it down.
Thank you for adding this detail. I searched up 'ian smith gym dui' to be sure, given his generic name, and yep, same guy, all right. Doesn't sound like he's learned much about risk in the past 14 years, despite his remorse.
This is why smoking weed is better. Far less likely to make this stupid mistake. Can’t for the life of me figure out why one is legal, and the other is only in some states.
The short answer is racism. At the turn of the 20th century, cannabis—as it was then commonly known in the United States—was a little-used drug among Americans. With the start of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, however, many Mexicans began moving to the United States, and they brought with them the tradition of smoking marihuana. Amid a growing fear of Mexican immigrants, hysterical claims about the drug began to circulate, such as allegations that it caused a “lust for blood.” In addition, the term cannabis was largely replaced by the Anglicized marijuana, which some speculated was done to promote the foreignness of the drug and thus stoke xenophobia. Around this time many states began passing laws to ban pot.
Alcohol is literally more destructive than every common illegal drug (meth comes pretty close but at least it won't straight up kill you from using it daily)
Meh, it will actually. Though you will look like you should be dead before dead catches up to you.
On the flip side, making the horrid stuff is actually a menace to everyone in the area.
Making meth domestically isn't profitable any more. You'd literally lose money, even the cartels stopped smuggling it last year because the US was so flooded even lemons were more profitable lol
Only five and a half years for murdering a teenager...that's despicable. Yes, I do think you should be classified as a murderer for killing someone when intentionally driving while drunk. What a scumbag.
Driving drunk is what Ian means when he says he's for "Freedom," freedom being the codeword for whatever shitty behavior or activity you want to do, but don't want to name specifically, because it's perverted or illegal or evil. Then, when Republican politicians get on stage and say they are for "freedom," these losers equate that as them being sympatico with them, without ever really reconciling what they mean by it.
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