Unironically ban all gambling
Probably my most “conservative” view when I was in college was that gambling should be outlawed. That happened to be the “christian” perspective in my pink red state which had been upheld for decades - until it wasn’t. I remember arguing with my roommates about why it was a bad idea and would ultimately just extract wealth out of impoverished communities. They regurgitated the same idiotic talking points about it being taxed and the money being dedicated to schools or whatever the fuck.
The advertising is all over our billboards and FM radio, you can hardly drive anywhere without being bombarded with sports betting ads. Dear lord, just let me take a train…
ty I always wondered how sports betting was overnight legal everywhere in the country.
lol my solution would be less like ban gambling and more like ban professional sports.
I would prefer it if MORE people were gambling on things where I actually want to know their opinions. Will Putin still be in power in 2024? Will Biden run again? OH wow 10-1 the Boston Goobers are going to beat the Kansas City Weasles, that interesting as fuck…
The fantasy football gambling stuff is so perfectly American because everyone thinks they’re a super genius who, through the power of watching games on the TV, perfectly understands the sport and can use their genius masculine brain to come up with the perfect lineup, when in reality it’s dominated by the 1% of guys who’ve written algorithms to constantly take in data and update their roster.
my gf works in a grocery store and the stories abt ppl addicted to the lottery and scratch off tickets are super depressing. ppl will ask how many scratch offs there are left on a roll as if theres some strategy for it. and ppl will buy a 40oz with a scratch off every single day :shrek-pixel-despair:
It reminds me of the usual confluence of betting shops and pubs (especially brand ones such as Wetherspoons) in the UK. You find a betting shop, there’s very often a pub adjacent. Just straight up predatory.
Betting shops or “casinos” in Denmark are often places in poor areas with many unemployed people and people on disability. These dimly lit dens reeking of depression and cigarette smoke are often staffed by moonlighting workers who can be paid very little and have no legal protection as they will get in trouble for “benefit fraud” if the authorities find out about them working there. It’s predatory as fuck.
