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NASCAR is a relic from alcohol trafficking, imagine if the opiate epidemic created a sport of flying doctors to the Bahamas real fast (en.wikipedia.org)

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these glowie lumpen swine LOVE celebrating the deaths and decay of their countrymen. Truly disgusting

Stock car racing in the United States has its origins in bootlegging during Prohibition,[9][10] when drivers ran bootleg whiskey made primarily in the Appalachian region of the United States. Bootleggers needed to distribute their illicit products, and they typically used small, fast vehicles to better evade the police. Many of the drivers would modify their cars for speed and handling,[10] as well as increased cargo capacity.[11]

The repeal of Prohibition in 1933 dried up some of their business, but by then Southerners had developed a taste for moonshine, and a number of the drivers continued "runnin' shine", this time evading the "revenuers" who were attempting to tax their operations.

is this CIA counter-revolutionary funding of their bourgeois crime families?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

flying doctors to the Bahamas really fast

That’d be fucking awesome.

Another fun sport, homemade submarine racing!