Qatar should be a model for America: We Need Democratic Control of the Alcohol Industry, my friends! Regulate it, tax it, why not eventually outlaw it

[basquebromance]

Probably one of the most graceful players I've ever seen bias aside. He is like Zidane making incredible difficult technical things look very easy.

De Bruyne is 10 trillion times better than Zidane

 

[Woodznutz]

A big game today to finally determine which country is greater, Mexico or Poland.

Poland makes gyroplanes, so...Poland.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I think it has been tried before. It's called prohibition and if I recall it wasn't exactly a success.

Ask old Joe Kennedy how successful it was!


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[forkup]

De Bruyne is 10 trillion times better than Zidane

I wouldn't say that. Much cleaner striker of the ball. Zidanes first touch though made him so efficient at controlling a game. Different strengths IMO

 

[Polishprince]

Do you have a reliable source for that claim?
And how many people died from drinking moonshine/ bath tub gin?

I gave a link to that in post #28 above.

It is a stat for a specific disease, regardless of whether it was contracted by legal or illegal booze.

 

[Ralph Norton]

De Bruyne is 10 trillion times better than Zidane

If you actually believe this, you should maybe stop posting any opinions about soccer.

 

[basquebromance]

If you actually believe this, you should maybe stop posting any opinions about soccer.

i do, and i won't

 

[ReinyDays]

There are places in the United states where alcohol sales are illegal ... so-called "dry counties" ... move there and see if you like it ... Salt Lake City is beautiful this time of year ...

Boozing is a personal choice ... just because you can't handle your liquor doesn't mean I have to start toddling tea ... let's be succinct: I'm not getting laid without alcohol in her belly ... see? ... women aren't sub-human where I live, Qatar's customs don't work ... I have to pay money to feed her and get her drunk ... or I'm in the barn with my favorite ewe ...

Sooooooooo ... access to booze prevents animal cruelty ...

 

[bripat9643]

I fully support Qatar’s ban on alcohol in stadiums. It’s time for the Western, allegedly “Christian world,” to face it’s disgraceful alcoholism.

We Need Democratic Control of the Alcohol Industry

Alcohol consumption has skyrocketed in recent decades, and so, too, have alcohol-related deaths. Putting the industry under public control could push back against the public health crisis — and show how to regulate other drugs.

jacobin.com

That's the dumbest idea ever posted in this forum.

 

[Anathema]

You don't take the medicine away before the ailment is cured. People drink because of their various 'ailments' .

I don’t buy the idea that these products have a legitimate non-prescription medicinal use.

I have several “ailments” for which I take a variety of prescribed medications. Among those illnesses are two (seizures and glaucoma) which could be treated with “medical marijuana”. I choose to use the more chemically-based treatments for those illnesses. Many people would use alcohol, tobacco or other drugs to treat my low level PTSD/Depression issues. I choose other, less disabling options.

 

[bripat9643]

Prohibition was partially successful. The country was able to reduce the number of deaths from cirrhosis by more than half.

We vastly increased the number of deaths connected to alcohol smuggling.

 

[The Original Tree]

This Dumbass writing this thread forgets America went through Prohibition and all it did was make Mobsters Rich because the people still wanted a drink and then had to obtain the drink through a speak easy and bootlegging.

BTW, Moohamad was a Heroin Dealer, a Caravan Thief, a Homosexual, and Pedophile, Not a Prophet.

 

[Anathema]

This Dumbass writing this thread forgets America went through Prohibition and all it did was make Mobsters Rich because the people still wanted a drink and then had to obtain the drink through a speak easy and bootlegging

Those people should have been dragged out into the streets and shot. Their assets should have been seized as well.

 

[The Original Tree]

Those people should have been dragged out into the streets and shot. Their assets should have been seized as well.

Asset Forfeiture is Unconstitutional yet somehow our government gave those powers to The IRS and Federal Reserve.

 

[blackhawk]

Outlawing alcohol has been tried here before it didn’t work out very well.

 

[basquebromance]

That's the dumbest idea ever posted in this forum.

no alcohol for you!

 

[whitehall]

Legalize drugs and outlaw alcohol. What will the left think of next?

 

[surada]

Why don't you move to Qatar so they can throw you off of a tall building or cut your head off for hairy man ass loving?
Qatar is a brutal country, and people have little to no choices, and no freedom.

Jackass Troll.

You've never been to Qatar either. You're confused. You know there's many different countries in the Middle East. ISIS was born in Camp Bucca prison in Iraq in 2004. Could you be any more stupid?

 

[Polishprince]

This Dumbass writing this thread forgets America went through Prohibition and all it did was make Mobsters Rich because the people still wanted a drink and then had to obtain the drink through a speak easy and bootlegging.

BTW, Moohamad was a Heroin Dealer, a Caravan Thief, a Homosexual, and Pedophile, Not a Prophet.

The amount of drinking in America really did decline during the Prohibition Era. The law increased the price enough that a lot of people cut down on their boozing or cut it out altogether.

 

[surada]

because you'd end up dead

Nope. You'd just be told to leave the stadium.