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I actually support your policy prescriptions there, but purely from an accelerationist and tactical viewpoint

While I do see the logic, assuming that Australia now is going to be like the US of 100 years ago may be a mistake. In South Africa, they banned/ unbanned alcohol during covid in multiple waves and it resulted in large reductions in murders as opposed to the US where organised crime created a bloodbath. Of course, it can be argued that this is an even more different population, but I believe that Australia with a median age of 38 will fall into line much more than the USA with a median age of 25.3 in 1920 did.

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Low Information Voter 1y ago

I think you're right about majority compliance here, but the majority of Americans complied during Prohibition. And overwhelming majority at first.

A minority were very committed to their activities, and the State delegating governance to organised crime caused many problems.

Happly Nostr, Fediverse, Tor and I2P already exist and are less evil than the Purple Gang.

Curious about South Africa's Prohibition experience there, but I think separating causality from correlation might be hard (a lot of other changes occurred during lockdowns), as would predicting outcomes if the policy were extended.

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