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Ahhhh...
The 'Murican attitude that it's ok to drink and drive...
Yup, people in, say, Eastern Europe or South Africa never drink and drive. Hell, even Canada has higher mortality rate than the U.S. for drunk driving.
I get that it’s fashionable to shit on America (and like 99% of time it’s justified), and I will not go as far as to say there is no drunk driving problem here (cause of course there is), but it’s not an “American attitude”
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2016/08/11/the-worst-countries-in-the-world-for-drunk-driving-infographic/
Your link does not say that Canada has a higher mortality rate than the US for drunk driving. It says that drunk driving is responsible for a slightly higher percentage of motor vehicle fatalities (34% compared to 31%). Given that the US has three times as many traffic fatalities per capita, this means that the US has almost three times the mortality rate for drunk driving as compared to Canada.
And if anything drinking culture has become less popular do to cannabis recreation legalization in about half of all states.
Bro don't try to fool me, I watched Ray Donovan so I know how bad it is!
Yeah, seems pretty clear that the drinking was done in a parked car after getting to the place they were supposed to meet. So not really.
And then they teleported back to homes <3
Sure, or any of all other ways without driving themselves. If you cant think of any you need to get outside more.
Explain how they are supposed to take their car home without driving it. Because if they leave it there it would probably get towed
You'll pretty much never get your car towed from outside a bar, they know damn well why that's a bad idea.
That very much depends on the neighborhood!
What are you supposred to do?? Walk? Not drink? Insanity
I think the obvious thing to do is to make up stories on the internet
https://youtu.be/ccreGXv2YKI
She didn't drive, she's sitting in a parked car. But sure, America is bad because of a random story that is probably made up. Where do you live that's perfect, I'd love to move there.
It's safe to assume that if she drove to the place of the date, she planned driving home as well.
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.
And drunk driving deaths are also down.
They're not defending it, just talking about how it used to be portrayed.
Crime overall is down
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.
I don't remember saying that
Its funny, the words you wrote made people think that.
Nothing they said indicates they think drink driving is OK, just that people used to view it like that.
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.
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.
That description is your perspective, which says a lot about you.
You also haven't denied that you dislike women in general, or that you are for people driving drunk.
Feel free to set the record straight if youd like.
What the fuck is wrong with this platform? Why are people like this?
Its not that serious my guy.