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[-] callouscomic@lemm.ee 102 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Remember that Dale also did not know what the confederate flag truly meant. He just thought it was a southern thing. And the minute someone told him how offensive it was to them, he went and immediately scraped it off his truck and apologized.

Dale wasn't no damn loser traitor.

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

And nowadays, he'd be labeled woke and accosted by the right...

[-] KellysNokia@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

🇺🇲🫡

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 90 points 1 month ago

That and it was prohibition so your moonshine operation was against the law.

[-] Firebirdie713 27 points 1 month ago

One of my favorite songs from Jim Croce, Rapid Roy the Stock Car Boy, has a whole verse on this!

Rapid Roy, that stock car boy, He's the best driver in the land He says that he learned to race a stock car By runnin' shine outta Alabam' Oh the demolition derby and the figure 8 Is easy money in the bank Compared to runnin' from the man In Oklahoma City With a 500 gallon tank

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[-] TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 month ago

Capitalism is why. There was a market for moonshine and high profit margins for the risk.

Money is usually the motivation

[-] modifier@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 month ago

Seems a bit reductive. Everything boils down to money if you're content to look no higher up the hierarchy of needs.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

Capitalism isn't market forces existing at all.

Capitalism is directing and manipulating those forces towards accumulation and endless growth, following an ethos of "more is more and more is inherently good"

I suspect that there would be a shitload more anticapitalist people in the world if everyone was aware that markets and capitalism aren't synonyms..

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 month ago

Capitalism is not equal to smuggling or free markets. Capitalism means the private ownership of the means of production, and a market economy is possible under other systems.

[-] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

Yee haw, fuck the law.

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 26 points 1 month ago

Reminds me of Bikers with a rebel lifestyles being the ultimate bootlickers

[-] datelmd5sum@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

There's an antique boat style here called 'pirtuvene', literally grain alcohol boat. These boats smuggled millions of liters of pure alcohol through the gulf of Finland from Estonia. Smugglers were gunned down, coast guard were gunned down, people were drinking more booze than ever and boat builders were doing good business both with the smugglers and the cops.

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 month ago

When people are digging to China, sell shovels

[-] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

If they could only be a little quieter outside my house.

[-] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Booze, actually. But same basic concept.

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