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Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story (www.timesofisrael.com)
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[–] 7 points 6 months ago (8 children)

Yes prohibition of alcohol worked so well in America, the 18th amendment, in the 1919 that 14 years later they repealed it, the 21st amendment.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    They should adopt the same approach they use in Sweden to fight alcoholism: tax the hell out of it. You won a million by doing "insider trading" on the most recent dumb government decision? Congratulations, you owe the IRS half a mil.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Arguably prohibition did reduce alcohol consumption during that time period.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    That does not mean that it "worked" in any practical sense, considering all else that was associated with it.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    If the goal was to reduce alcohol consumption then it was successful at that. I'm not saying it didn't cause other issues, and it was decided that it wasn't worth it, but it did not fail at the intended goal of reducing alcohol consumption.

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  • [+] -10 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Not talking about alcohol try again

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Well what is the difference? A vice is a vice. Both are used to distracte us from the daily life of contant reminder that we are just a flesh bag being controlled by a mass of fat that will decay and die at some point. While we circle around a massive black hole. So why is this one vice so different that you think that prohibition would work?

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