On the contrary, I know a case where a fellow in Kentucky IIRC read about the 13th Amendment passing, so he gathered everybody together to announce, more or less, “Well, you’re all free now and I’m financially ruined by it, so here’s the key to the liquor shed. I’ll be in my room with my bourbon if anybody needs me.”
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Alcohol is the only way by which agricultural civilization can sustain itself. All states are fundamentally based on the production of narcotics.
Dandanatha on
Alcohol is severely underrated in its role as a tool of war.
The last king over at my place lost his crown thanks to all the liquor caskets the British doped him up with.
This mfer’s capital was on mountain terrain, flanked by long winding forests and accessible only through mud roads and carefully hidden footpaths. No redcoat columns or cannon could make their way there without getting picked apart by guerillas.
What did the brits do? Made friendly overtures and got the king’s men to transport liquor caskets back to the palace. Over time, the king became a straight up alcoholic, bordering on crack-addict behaviour. When he wasn’t too busy doping up or signing away huge swaths of land over to the Brits for a steady supply of alcohol, he was groping his nobles’ wives. Long story short, the nobles rebelled, tied up the “unkingly” king, brought him all the way to the lowlands through that aforementioned unassailable terrain and handed him and his kingdom over to the British.
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Russia:
Afraid-Milk6614 on
Bread and circuses people. Bread and circuses
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Iirc Russia/USSR made vodka cheap and in high availability in purpose to keep it’s population under control.
Generalizing alcoholism keeps the people dull, poor, and in no state to organize resistance.
WhimsyDiamsy on
This is why prohibition is good btw
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Basically Russia
KeneticKups on
Just like with the rest of society
Antifa-Slayer01 on
Alcohol tastes like shit
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POV: Russia during WW2
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This is actually talked about in Frederick Douglas’s autobiography. Specifically how slave masters did this during the holiday and I believe it was even encouraged to the point where it wasn’t like “Enslaved people really want to get drunk so master gives it.” It was forced on them to be drunkards for those holiday nights.
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On the contrary, I know a case where a fellow in Kentucky IIRC read about the 13th Amendment passing, so he gathered everybody together to announce, more or less, “Well, you’re all free now and I’m financially ruined by it, so here’s the key to the liquor shed. I’ll be in my room with my bourbon if anybody needs me.”
Alcohol is the only way by which agricultural civilization can sustain itself. All states are fundamentally based on the production of narcotics.
Alcohol is severely underrated in its role as a tool of war.
The last king over at my place lost his crown thanks to all the liquor caskets the British doped him up with.
This mfer’s capital was on mountain terrain, flanked by long winding forests and accessible only through mud roads and carefully hidden footpaths. No redcoat columns or cannon could make their way there without getting picked apart by guerillas.
What did the brits do? Made friendly overtures and got the king’s men to transport liquor caskets back to the palace. Over time, the king became a straight up alcoholic, bordering on crack-addict behaviour. When he wasn’t too busy doping up or signing away huge swaths of land over to the Brits for a steady supply of alcohol, he was groping his nobles’ wives. Long story short, the nobles rebelled, tied up the “unkingly” king, brought him all the way to the lowlands through that aforementioned unassailable terrain and handed him and his kingdom over to the British.
Russia:
Bread and circuses people. Bread and circuses
Iirc Russia/USSR made vodka cheap and in high availability in purpose to keep it’s population under control.
Generalizing alcoholism keeps the people dull, poor, and in no state to organize resistance.
This is why prohibition is good btw
Basically Russia
Just like with the rest of society
Alcohol tastes like shit
POV: Russia during WW2
This is actually talked about in Frederick Douglas’s autobiography. Specifically how slave masters did this during the holiday and I believe it was even encouraged to the point where it wasn’t like “Enslaved people really want to get drunk so master gives it.” It was forced on them to be drunkards for those holiday nights.