• andros_rex@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    They are still buttmad that Jimmy Carter asked them to not use up gasoline like toilet paper after a day of chipotle and Taco Bell. Its oppositional defiant disorder as politics. Remember how absolutely pissed people were about seat belt laws?

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      13 hours ago

      Sadly or luckily I missed the seatbelt controversy by not being born until after it was all settled

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        3 hours ago

        I grew up in the kind of place where conservative fundamentalists still identified as Democrats into the 90s - Dixiecrats were alive and well. Heard rants from relatives about the monstrous government overreach into the ‘10s as they’d refuse to put their seat belts on.