honestly think DraftKings is one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. It is the antithesis of decency. It's Satanic the way fundies mean it emotionally when they mean things are Satanic. All the people involved with it should be fully vacated of a relationship with the human social condition - ThreadSky

nymphomachy.meangirls.online • 7 days ago

honestly think DraftKings is one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. It is the antithesis of decency. It's Satanic the way fundies mean it emotionally when they mean things are Satanic. All the people involved with it should be fully vacated of a relationship with the human social condition

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ldpuppy.bsky.social•6 days ago

IDK how its over in the US, but here in Germany most sports betting is also full on run by organized crime.

loudpenitent.bsky.social•7 days ago

Gambling should occur in seedy speakeasies and saloons on a modest scale like God intended

the-pied-piper.bsky.social•7 days ago

It’s astonishing to me that every single “there is a war on men” grifter is sponsored by Fan Duel, Draft Kings, etc, but their followers don’t realize the only thing close to a war on young men that actually exists is mobile sports gambling.

antesolar.bsky.social•7 days ago

Why? Are you just generally against gambling?

I will say I find it weird that basically all of my male and a third of my female coworkers are sports betting at 3 am (I work nights) on their phone, but I hate sports so.

maddie.gay•7 days ago

I have no a priori objection to gambling, but I oppose online sports gambling because of how harmful it is

https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/online-sports-betting-is-draining-household-savings

antesolar.bsky.social•6 days ago

Oh, this is a fascinating data driven article. Thank you for linking it. I'm not sure if it will influence my opinion on this, but it's definitely been an interesting read and given me something to think about.

maddie.gay•6 days ago

I don’t have sources for this lined up atm, but they’ll also limit/ban you if you win too much, and they specifically target people they know they can manipulate into betting (and losing) more

nymphomachy.meangirls.online•7 days ago

Gambling is a terrible hobby that makes human beings fundamentally worse and burglarizes innocent people of their livelihoods and these systematized institutions of gambling are psychotic at every level of exchange

antesolar.bsky.social•7 days ago

Are they innocent when they want to gamble? Like, I dunno, I definitely feel like gambling is dangerous but so is booze and I don't have an issue with bartenders or the server who is upselling the liquor at my table or whatever.

nymphomachy.meangirls.online•7 days ago

their kids and spouses are usually innocent

antesolar.bsky.social•7 days ago

I mean, I guess, but this is also a very Prohibition-y argument.

nymphomachy.meangirls.online•7 days ago

well sure, as an antinatalist I'd personally rather that shitty people not make entire-ass human beings

chewy2152.bsky.social•7 days ago

The NFL is a gambling organization, they own the gambling rights to their own sport….. until they produce a produce not corrupt I am not compelled to support it…..

nymphomachy.meangirls.online•7 days ago

there is nothing in even the most CIA-embellished accounts of Uyghurs in China that I would not have visited upon people involved in sports betting

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