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Remember that Dale also did not know what the confederate flag truly meant. He just thought it was a southern thing. And the minute someone told him how offensive it was to them, he went and immediately scraped it off his truck and apologized.

Dale wasn't no damn loser traitor.

And nowadays, he'd be labeled woke and accosted by the right...
Checks out! What a bro.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/earnhardt-remove-flag-sticker/
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Most people back then didn't give the Confederate flag a second thought.

That and it was prohibition so your moonshine operation was against the law.

One of my favorite songs from Jim Croce, Rapid Roy the Stock Car Boy, has a whole verse on this!

Rapid Roy, that stock car boy, He's the best driver in the land He says that he learned to race a stock car By runnin' shine outta Alabam' Oh the demolition derby and the figure 8 Is easy money in the bank Compared to runnin' from the man In Oklahoma City With a 500 gallon tank
- 1800l of shine would weigh more than most cars, what on earth was he driving?

Actually it was bootlegging.

The underlying point is the same. Bootleggers were providing what the people wanted and cops were in the way because ACAB. That's the core of it.
- I'll remind you that prohibition required a Constitutional amendment, the idea was very popular.
- Well some people want kiddie porn and cops are in the way of that too, so probably not the best line of reasoning there.
Same difference.
Yeah. And bootleggers run from the cops. Because fuck em
- Also because they'd prefer to stay alive and free.
Actually, there was a big culture in rural areas to just fuck with cops for fun, and the best way to avoid being arrested is to be faster than the cops.

Wasn't the whole stock car thing started by shinerunners?

Yes, which is the entire point of the meme.
- In that case, they were running from the police because they'd have gone to prison if they got caught.
Pretty sure stock cars started with Ford with their Model T.

Capitalism is why. There was a market for moonshine and high profit margins for the risk.

Money is usually the motivation

Seems a bit reductive. Everything boils down to money if you're content to look no higher up the hierarchy of needs.
Capitalism isn't market forces existing at all.

Capitalism is directing and manipulating those forces towards accumulation and endless growth, following an ethos of "more is more and more is inherently good"

I suspect that there would be a shitload more anticapitalist people in the world if everyone was aware that markets and capitalism aren't synonyms..
Capitalism is not equal to smuggling or free markets. Capitalism means the private ownership of the means of production, and a market economy is possible under other systems.

Raise Hell, Praise Dale

Yee haw, fuck the law.

Reminds me of Bikers with a rebel lifestyles being the ultimate bootlickers

Wellll there's two types of bikers, there's those that want to seem like rebels, and there's meth dealers that will kill you. There's also people who ride motorcycles that aren't "bikers" too.
- Totally! I did a ride along with a bunch of boomer bikers riding harleys while I rode my "crotch rocket". Half were police officers. it was weird to be anti-establishment in our get up and watch the ride leader radio police to back off.
  
  Totally agree on the meth bikers. They're scary.

There's an antique boat style here called 'pirtuvene', literally grain alcohol boat. These boats smuggled millions of liters of pure alcohol through the gulf of Finland from Estonia. Smugglers were gunned down, coast guard were gunned down, people were drinking more booze than ever and boat builders were doing good business both with the smugglers and the cops.

When people are digging to China, sell shovels
That's fuckin wild lol

If they could only be a little quieter outside my house.

Why run though? You got a car, drive mofo!

Booze, actually. But same basic concept.