born of an inside-ish joke with my friends, this is not real NHTSA propaganda please don’t drink and drive 😭

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    “They’re making laws where you can’t drink when you want to, you have to wear a seatbelt when you’re driving,” the woman says. “Pretty soon we’re gonna be a communist country.”

    “It’s kinda getting communist when a fella put in a hard day’s work — put in 11-12 hours a day, and then get in your truck and at least drink one or two beers,”

    Not allowing drinking and driving is communism!

    Source: People in 1980s reacting to new driving under influence laws

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      Communism is when I don’t crash my car into the lobby of Bed, Bath, and Beyond after drinking a fifth of Jack