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Masculine Policy: The GOP’s Plan To Outlaw ‘Porn’ And Suspend The First Amendment (www.techdirt.com)
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[–] Sorchist@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean we literally did that in the 1920s

[–] thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Alcohol consumption was like 800% higher before prohibition happened. It seems silly today, but alcohol abuse was a super rampant issue in the early 1900s.

[–] PostmodernPythia@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

And yet we drank more during actual Prohibition than before. I wonder if other things happened in that time period… /s