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30 years ago it was more of a “no harm, no foul” attitude. People would regularly drive around while actively drinking and mostly were not bothered.

Then organizations like Mothers Against Drunk Driving did a lot of lobbying and got politicians to make more laws and police to actively enforce them.

Now the blood alcohol limits before you can be arrested for DUI are fairly low.

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Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
And drunk driving deaths are also down.

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- explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  All crime is down
  
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- Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  They’re not defending it, just talking about how it used to be portrayed.
  
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FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Drunk drivers hurt other people because of their selfish stupidity

You’re fucking dense

Typical fucking yank. “I’m fine, so fuck everyone else” while being too stupid to know that you’re not fine.

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- dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I don’t remember saying that
  
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  - Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Its funny, the words you wrote made people think that.
    
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- Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Nothing they said indicates they think drink driving is OK, just that people used to view it like that.
  
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  - Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Their posts reads like drinking used to be accepted and okay but now its not accepted but still okay. Also, it was women that ruined it for us. This is some bullshit Charlie Kirk level of dishonest debate.
    
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    dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Lol, because I mentioned an organization named Mothers Against Drunk Driving (I didn’t name it that), now I’m against women?
    
    I lived through the societal change, I was just trying to briefly describe the change. Geez.
    
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