capsaicinintheeyes

capsaicinintheeyes t1_jdi0yp7 wrote

Reply to comment by Lvl7King in [OC] In 2022, Mexico traded more with Texas than it did with all of Asia and 6x as much as it did with all of LatAm. by latinometrics

I thought I remembered a bunch of sound and fury followed by the passing of a bill that was 99% pre-Trump NAFTA...but that's not to say there was nothing new in there that may have helped our trade I vaguely remember for the Mexican side something about insisting on minimum wages being higher for manufacturing cars that would be sold in the US, so either Mexican workers get a raise, US workers become more competitive, or both...which all seems win-win-win to me.

How does the data on OP's graph compare to the years before Trump's revisions passed, tho? I wouldn't know where to begin

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capsaicinintheeyes OP t1_iu9m8yk wrote

Reply to comment by TumLab in TIL Al Capone was only 33 when he was locked away for tax evasion and developed neurosyphilis, leading to his death at 48. Eliot Ness was 27 when he formed the Untouchables--he died in a state of financial ruin in his 50s, likely hastened by his heavy drinking in his later life by capsaicinintheeyes

Hey, we also bump gangsta rap!

EDIT: but kidding aside, I think a lot of it does have its roots in prohibition: it was an era where a lot of otherwise mild-mannered people suddenly found themselves on the wrong side of the law, and I don't think our culture ever really "recovered" from it.

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capsaicinintheeyes OP t1_iu9kz5r wrote

Reply to comment by rubemechanical in TIL Al Capone was only 33 when he was locked away for tax evasion and developed neurosyphilis, leading to his death at 48. Eliot Ness was 27 when he formed the Untouchables--he died in a state of financial ruin in his 50s, likely hastened by his heavy drinking in his later life by capsaicinintheeyes

You'd need to send somebody with a thick skin for periodic racist screeds, but HP Lovecraft

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capsaicinintheeyes OP t1_iu70qg8 wrote

Reply to comment by translucentpuppy in TIL Al Capone was only 33 when he was locked away for tax evasion and developed neurosyphilis, leading to his death at 48. Eliot Ness was 27 when he formed the Untouchables--he died in a state of financial ruin in his 50s, likely hastened by his heavy drinking in his later life by capsaicinintheeyes

Eliot Ness, his LE hotness

very well, it's gone. Let it die a slow, lingering death from its sickness.

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capsaicinintheeyes OP t1_iu5vkhd wrote

Reply to comment by bolanrox in TIL Al Capone was only 33 when he was locked away for tax evasion and developed neurosyphilis, leading to his death at 48. Eliot Ness was 27 when he formed the Untouchables--he died in a state of financial ruin in his 50s, likely hastened by his heavy drinking in his later life by capsaicinintheeyes

>made the Mob what it is

Really reawakened our national hybristophilia we hadn't seen since the days of the old West

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capsaicinintheeyes OP t1_iu5uwx5 wrote

Reply to comment by res30stupid in TIL Al Capone was only 33 when he was locked away for tax evasion and developed neurosyphilis, leading to his death at 48. Eliot Ness was 27 when he formed the Untouchables--he died in a state of financial ruin in his 50s, likely hastened by his heavy drinking in his later life by capsaicinintheeyes

No chorus, just freeform lyrical structure: his Valentine's Day Massive Verse

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capsaicinintheeyes OP t1_iu5um37 wrote

Reply to comment by JohnDunstable in TIL Al Capone was only 33 when he was locked away for tax evasion and developed neurosyphilis, leading to his death at 48. Eliot Ness was 27 when he formed the Untouchables--he died in a state of financial ruin in his 50s, likely hastened by his heavy drinking in his later life by capsaicinintheeyes

He's one of those people whose life ended before his legacy took off—you wish there was a way to let them know what the judgment of history will be

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capsaicinintheeyes OP t1_iu5ty6w wrote

Reply to comment by darkhorse298 in TIL Al Capone was only 33 when he was locked away for tax evasion and developed neurosyphilis, leading to his death at 48. Eliot Ness was 27 when he formed the Untouchables--he died in a state of financial ruin in his 50s, likely hastened by his heavy drinking in his later life by capsaicinintheeyes

They noticed his syphilis pretty early on in his confinement...I wonder if its early symptoms include any accelerated aging or facial swelling?

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capsaicinintheeyes OP t1_iu5tf7q wrote

Reply to comment by Chundlebug in TIL Al Capone was only 33 when he was locked away for tax evasion and developed neurosyphilis, leading to his death at 48. Eliot Ness was 27 when he formed the Untouchables--he died in a state of financial ruin in his 50s, likely hastened by his heavy drinking in his later life by capsaicinintheeyes

He lost his head over it?

>!^(sorryimsorryimsorryimsorryimsorryimsorryimsorryimsorryimsorry)!<

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capsaicinintheeyes OP t1_iu5t1hu wrote

Reply to comment by bolanrox in TIL Al Capone was only 33 when he was locked away for tax evasion and developed neurosyphilis, leading to his death at 48. Eliot Ness was 27 when he formed the Untouchables--he died in a state of financial ruin in his 50s, likely hastened by his heavy drinking in his later life by capsaicinintheeyes

And even if you hate prohibition, it does change things when the people moving it are carrying out systemic, organized murder

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capsaicinintheeyes OP t1_iu4xa9i wrote

Reply to TIL Al Capone was only 33 when he was locked away for tax evasion and developed neurosyphilis, leading to his death at 48. Eliot Ness was 27 when he formed the Untouchables--he died in a state of financial ruin in his 50s, likely hastened by his heavy drinking in his later life by capsaicinintheeyes

& Eliot Ness; Capone, pictured here ~age 34 during his trial, had only been the head of the Chicago outfit for 7 years when he got pinched.

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