All you'd have to do to lower the US drinking age to 18 is get 18-20yos to boycott the militaryHow are 18-20yo Americans such pathetic chumps that they don't realize this? The Government only lowered the Age of Majority to 18 to begin with due to the Vietnam War protests that were demoralizing the military.By the way, it was Reagan that hiked the drinking age to 21.Just have empty faith in a rigged system goy!
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>>525079516It’s 21 because we have the lowest driving age in the world at 16. It’s a fair trade off, cars >>> alcohol anyway.
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Yes let's tell kids to start drinking earlier and stop defending their country/freedom, what a great message!I assume youre a leftist and also want kids to troon out like you, right?
>>525079516India is lgbt drinking
just get your fake id taken away or something kid?nobody cares, and if anything the age will go up since there's pretty undisputable evidence that drinking if bad for you at any level and particularly bad for young people
>>525082149There's no trade-off, Reagan hiked the age because you let him to do it like a coward. The lower driving age is due to population density/suburban sprawl, which was caused by people trying to escape desegregation.
>>525079516>just become alcoholics goyjej
>>525079516>Switzerland16. what could go wrong?
>>525082729>>525082294Then why don't you institute a maximum drinking age since alcohol accelerates cognitive decline?>fighting for orwellian definitions of freedom>fighting for literal restrictions on freedom (drinking age)
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Do people even drink alcohol anymore?
>>525082149you can drive with an adult here at 14 and alone at 16. Drinking age is 18.I however agree with your assessment. Alcohol is for retards.
Zoomers dont drink. The point is moot.
>>525090136But the principle isn't! It only becomes moot when the government stops enforcing the law a la drug legalization!
>>525079516Drinking should be illegal everywhere
>>525082294>old enough at 18 (17 with parental consent) to go to war, use various firearms and explosives, make split second life altering and life ending decisions, get ptsd, lose limbs, get cte from concussion blasts, and huff shit that causes ailments like gulf war syndrome>21 to drink alcohol and use tobacco products, because sorry! you're just not mature enough before then!>But you are mature enough to be charged as an adult at 18 and even younger.>Oh, and you cannot own a pistol until 21 too.>But sign up for the military and go to war, goyLol ok.
>>525092898>>525082294Oh, but as long as you sign your body over to enslavement by the government, you can drink at 18 with a military ID! Because the U.S. was totally founded on creating a soldier class who can have special privileges that the regular citizen can't, unless they sign themselves over to service of the crown, I mean government!I don't even like younger people drinking, but these rules are a fucking joke, and anyone who defends them are complete fucking good goy hypocrites.
>>525083571Doesn't change the fact that when states lowered the drinking age to 18, usually after voting age changes, traffic fatalities for that age group increased. Raising the drinking age 21 magically reversed that. Not a hard concept.
>>525083853No, sorry, op, we don't get to have sense and consistency when it comes to certain discussions, and age gates to certain activities are one of them. Just like how no one gives a shit that in various states, if you 18, 19, or 20, you can be charged with DUI, but have absolutely no legal way to have proof you weren't intoxicated, because police legally do not have to administer a breathalyzer to you at those ages; breathalyzers are legally defined as an instrument determine if a person is within the legal limits of a BAC, even if they have consumed alcohol, but not to determine if they have any alcohol in their system or not. Which means if you're under 21 and it's illegal for you to have any in your system, they don't have to give it to you, since determining if you have any alcohol in your system or not is not its legally defined use. Amazing how we can absolutely fuck out youth over at every turn, but feel entitled to their service in fighting for our defense.
>>525079516If I was the President, I'd make troops able to wear beards (not in a faddish or styled fashion), legalize weed for all troops 21+, spend much more on barracks and dining facilities. Oh and I'd make former SMA Dan Daily SECARMY.
>>525088488You can drive at 10 in Canada if you aren't doing it near a big city. Most cops will let you go if you aren't a faggot.Same with drinking.I wouldn't recommend underage drinking and driving though: it might be a bit too based for pigs.
>>525094120Drinking Age was never lowered to 18, it was originally 0, it didn't exist, then it was hiked to 18, then Reagan hiked it to 21.
>>525096613Wrong.After prohibition most states set the legal drinking age to 21, aligning with the minimum voting age at the time.1970-1975 was when the voting age was reduced, resulting in several states lowering the drinking age to match.
21 is the Legal Drinking Age | Consumer Advice https://share.google/T0HIhWM2jRmxaY7YU
>>525097983>1970-1975 was when the voting age was reduced, resulting in several states lowering the drinking age to match.This was probably the only time the U.S. had laws around all of this that actually made sense. If someone is legally an "adult", that should be the end of it; everything legal for you, not this "ur old enough for the consequences and to go to war to look like pic related, but not old enough for any of these other 'rights' and privileges. If you raised the enlistment age to at least 25, I could call bullshit a little less, but claiming someone is old enough to go get fucked by an IED or huff fire from trash pits in the middle of a foreign desert, but not smoke a cigarette, is all the explanation you need why the youth don't give a fuck if you piecemeal their "rights" and privileges, but not consequences.
>>525097983Pre-Prohibition there was no drinking age at all, post-prohibition, most states had it at 18.
>>525099135Read the link I posted OP>>525098177>After Prohibition, nearly all states adopted a minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) of 21. Fuck you for making me defend the government because you couldn't get your facts right first.
If self-driving cars become a reality (don't get a massive faggot who sees this as an opportunity to derail the thread with your Special Boy Knowledge of blah blah blah), would that remove the justification for the drinking age to be 21?
>>525079516It should be 35.
>>525099390>justificationNo, because if driving was the main motivator, cops wouldn't hand out public intoxication charges as much to people unless they are a genuine danger to others and themselves, and wouldn't be such cunts about someone 20 but turning 21 in less than 24 hours. Governments don't like losing sources of revenue for the entire system.
>>525099331It appears that most states post-prohibition did have it at 21, yes. though pre-prohibition, there was no drinking age at all generally. The drinking age also wasn't enforced as well historically along with the general adulthood age in general (teens that lied about their age for contacts were once held liable, not considered grooming victims).
>>525101092FWIW, I do agree with the main point of your thread.
>>525079516nonmedical drugs are cringe
>>525104724Then raise the military age to 21. If a kids not old enough to drink theyre not old enough to get droned fighting for ZOG.
>>525105332Not happening, because every other nation would have to to hike their conscription age to 21 to make that possible, which they won't do. The adulthood age for that reason, can only go lower, not higher. If competitive foreign militaries start conscripting under-18 teenagers, then the US would have to follow suit.This is why the whole 18 age hysteria is so retarded, the age is fundamentally quite fragile.
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>>525108306It is not even enforced in most countries, thus making the US age even more retarded.
> All you'd have to do to lower the US drinking age to 18 is get 18-20yos to boycott the militarynobody *needs* alcohol todayit was needed in middle ages, when there was no fridges to store the food and no taps and kettles to get you clean boiled water(although lead pipes in USA are still prevalent)people added spirits to the water to help it get rid of bacteria or drank it as snack and leisure in times when there was not much to eat left in the root cellar before the next harvestcan you imagine the absolute insanity of the zeitgeist that feminists rallied for ban on long shelf life high caloric food, that was on the market for the whole duration of human civilization, just so that (((industrial fridge storage owners))) can turn a better profitlater they were also delivering poisonous alcohol to people, and established mafia so that civic people would change their opinion on alcohol from a way to store food into some retarded club culture shtick for special consumption, that require age limitations
>>525108560it's enforced at the counter, but that's extra, since people don't like the taste of alcohol till they're like 25so it doesn't need any enforcement, if you're not some sort of asian, who would die from one cup of alcohol or milk
>>525109015third world countries don't enforce the age at all
>>525079516so how do people survive for 18+ years without drinking? The human body cant survive for 3+ days without water. The quality of this board has gone downhill with all those trolls posting fake infographics and AI images.
>>525079516It was 18 then in the 80s the busybodies of MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) started lobbying the hose, senate, and the Reagan administration to bump the age back up to 21. To make sure the states complied with the law it was tied directly to federal highway funding, no 21 drinking age, no federal money. Good luck getting it changed back.
18 year olds shouldnt be able to drink or votet. 35 year old alcoholic veteran
>>525115861I hate MADD and all these little shit faggy fuck special interest lobby groups. Government is so far from what regular people actually want, short of going to Mars with a clean slate so many places have decades if not centuries of horse shit bullshittery fucking nigger kiked governments
>>525079516WTF? It's legal to drink in a pisslamic shithole like Bangladesh?
>>525082294>2026>still using the defending muh freedumz line
>>525079516Canada is 18 & 19 as the subtitle says, not 19.
>>525083571fify>The lower driving age is due to Ford, Firestone, et al (the same companies that lobbied to destroy good public transit in the USA) making sure the market for the products is as large as possible."Sorry about your teens having that crash, but your family's gonna need a brand new car and car accessories!"
>>525082294>defending their country/freedom
>>525079516Romania has no legal drinking age, bozo. You don't get arrested for underage drinking like a mutt. The legal drinking age is 0 (zero) and the legal purchase age is 18 in theory in practice you can buy from 12 if you're smart enough.
>>525082729>mutts need to commit a felony (fake id) to buy alcohol until 21>can do porn and die in the military at 18Kek
Anyone who cares about the drinking age drinks anyway, and everyone that doesn't drink obviously doesn't care
>>525120441Yeah probably in your meth town, how many felonies do you have to commit to buy a beer at the age of 18 in a big city? Lmao
>>525079516in Austria its 16 for beer & wine
>>525079516Germany is 14 with supervision btw. 16 is when you can start buying and consuming your own booze.
Every single friend of mine who drinks started drinking when they were a teenager. I had my first drink when I was 14 or 15. The drinking age really doesn’t fucking matter.
>>525109610doing so is not a sign of first world, it's a sign of useless ordnungnigger
>>525092898You think they let anyone into the army? Where as those laws limit everyone.
Even here they shouldn’t sell alcohol until 21 but I think they shouldn’t give tickets or give anyone under 21 any trouble for drinking . Pretty sensible
