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Here's an article about how it did: https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/how-prohibition-created-the-mafia-video https://www.history.com/topics/roar
by rpmisms 3y ago
Here's an article about how it did:
https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/how-prohibition-created-the-mafia-video https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/how-prohibit...
And another from the literal mafia museum:
https://prohibition.themobmuseum.org/the-history/the-rise-of-organized-crime/the-mob-during-prohibition/ https://prohibition.themobmuseum.org/the-history/the-rise-of...
Don't move the goalposts.
> the idea that it was some kind of obvious catastrophe is nothing short of ridiculous
It was literally an unmitigated catastrophe, which is why it was the only constitutional amendment to be overturned.
It also led to government agents spiking ethanol with methanol, leading to blindness. Pure evil.
- DinaCoder99 3y ago[flagged]
- rpmisms 3y agoI'm not going on an academic deep dive to prove that the mob in America was catapulted to power by prohibition. It's self-evident, and continues to be so as you go deeper.