You make a good point. I still don't have an ounce of patience for alcoholics who drive, but I do agree that it creates a mental trap of "you have a perfectly good car right here if you just stop drinking for 24 hours"
I don't think alcoholics should be allowed to drive, is that too much to ask?
Driving is a privilege, not a right, and the roads are already dangerous enough as they are.
I understand the dynamics in the US are what they are regarding cars and the lack of public transportation or bicycle infrastructure, but I don't believe the avoidable deaths are a worthy trade off. Change needs to start somewhere, and excusing the deaths for some artificially created issue is not acceptable.
It sounds like a parrot of the way conservative people talk, by coining new adjectives to make them sound like they had a "gotcha" moment. In reality, it adds nothing to the discussion, it's just a dog whistle.
There is a huge difference between the two. The article states snowball, but it's not impossible it was actually ice chunks, which would constitute assault. Ice is basically a rock.
Reminder that VPNs are mostly pointless for privacy if you post on Facebook and don't make your browser hard to fingerprint and track.