• @ThunderclapSasquatch
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    23 months ago

    It says something about how fucking nuts Prohibition was that the states agreed to it and then agreed that was a terrible idea.

    • @idiomaddict@feddit.de
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      3 months ago

      It was a huge womens rights movement issue at the time. They weren’t all prudes, they just thought it would be a more effective way to cut back on domestic violence than going at it directly (more enforceable and politically viable), iirc. Then everyone hated it.