YES! thank you for saying this. I fear for all the young people (mostly guys) who do sports betting as if it nothing more than playing video games. It is not!
In 2023, there were over 2,3004 gambling operators in the British gambling market licensed to provide gambling activities in Great Britain, covering both land based and online activities.
The total Gross Gambling Yield of British gambling industry £15.1 billion, an increase of 6.8 percent from 2022
Pretty competitive field. I think letting Trump be president twice nudges the gambling out. Billionaire Sacklers intentionally hooking people on Oxy was also bad.
yeah, I'm getting a lot of responses like this. Important to remember that I'm not just talking about the US. Canada legalized sports betting in 2021 too.
I agree with the premise. It’s terrible. In its own way, gambling is addictive as crack. It’s all the same dopamine reward system. Making it so easy to gamble will impoverish a lot of people.
Yippers, but drinking alcohol has been legal for over 100 years. Total the death and damage from that. We are a very wealthy nation...seems we can afford those losses. Well probably do the same with "legalized gambling" (outside of Vagas)👽
I hate listening to it, I do NOT UNDERSTAND what it means, favoured by 1 1/2 goals etc …jeezus when my Canucks lose I now think it was fixed instead of ….well the usual lol!
Sport betting is just feeding another addiction imo.
I’m no fan of sports betting, but how does it compare with letting uncontrolled money into elections, electing Trump not once but twice(!), reversing Roe vs Wade, and the list goes on and on before we even get close to legalizing sports betting.
Can't argue with that. The gambling addiction is already worse than the opioid crisis was for creating addicts. Millions will be trapped in an endless cycle of being dirt poor and constantly indebted, with a constant desire to bet. You almost think it was intentional
The repercussions of legalized betting is going to start showing up within the next 5-10 years. Bankruptcies, suicides, dissolved relationships, substance abuse.
And we'll even have less resources to deal with it.
Orwell warned us about how spineless and stupid people would be. He wasn't even fucking close. He failed to mention demBOYS would be such cowards & leave the fascism fight to women over the last 40 years.
Not many comments on the athletes, coaches, and refs who are also the target audience. Pete Rose was vilified during his lifetime for gambling on his own team, now all of that punishment is erased. Fairness in sports and sportsmanship is not far behind.
I do hate this. With celebrities, athletes and influencers who are millionaires featured in the commercials that awes the regular working Joes and Janes.
But no worries, there is an 800 number in case you become addicted to it.
They’ve figured out a way to get young people addicted to gambling with online sports betting via their phones. Every family will see the effects of this dangerous addiction. It leads to loss of jobs, homelessness, families, stealing & much more. Greedy people don’t care who they destroy.
Not. Even. in the top 5!
1-Elect Trump 2016
2-notifying UN we were withdrawing from Paris Agrmt.
3-Ignore COVID until it was too late.
4-not demanding a Democratic primary 2024
5-Trump II
it was always eventually going to be legalized. Too much money, too many addict gamblers (lol I speak as one). I agree it needs regulations but really only two make any money we know the two. It does need serious regulation but like once Pandora’s box was opened…I’m glad Texas it’s still illegal.
In the world of sports, absolutely. Hard to put that removing freedom of bodily autonomy from women. But I get your vibe, the glorification of gambling has been fucking awful and sports betting has and will continue to ruin lives.
If we're really and truly ranking things this nation's dogged commitment to genocide from the first steps it took on this soil to the last several decades of doubling down on ICE from both sides of the aisle ranks near the top
But making men miserable, through patriarchy functioning as intended,
It encourages such shitty behavior. Nothing like watching a bunch of grown dudes call a 22 year old the most vile names online and at the TV because they committed the unimaginable sin of not beating the spread.
Betting is betting is betting... gambling has felled nations! There's nothing good about it, destroys lives, always run by underworld, nefarious and dangerous characters. Stop all betting and we revive the financial health of about 1/3 of the population (think of ALL the ways we gamble with lives)
Amen! Michael Lewis's podcast "Against The Rules" richly describes how unscrupulous the big online betting companies are, and all the damage legalized betting is doing to young people.
Making Powerball and Megamillions into national lottery monopolies in the 90's was worse. There can be only 1 winner (for each) but people buy those tickets as if they have a chance to win.
They don't want taxes on the rich bc they are just one lottery ticket away from being a multimillionaire.
The things being heavily promoted to young men are making them unfuckable. But then men and the right wing blame women and progressives for the unfuckability of them all
It's bad. As a high school teacher I try to counsel my seniors (boys) about the dangers. Both in a funny way s well as a serious way. Anything I can do to be a little voice in their head to stop them down a horrible path
I mean is it any wonder why younger men are turning to authoritarian fascism with losing money like this? A whole generation of cheated and bankrupted men. I know this is generalizing but I’m sure there’s correlation there
Scott Galloway has some mind boggling stats on young men. It’s unreal. More young women own homes and have better education. How many young men are on the parents couch betting on sports ?
My friends who are college professors say it’s a crisis. Classes full of young women. Not nearly as many young men, and the ones who are there are not achieving at the same level.
There also is absolutely no care for gambling addicts compared to drugs or alcohol. Maybe three inpatient facilities and it’s still mostly drug or alcohol. Rehabs still make their money off that, gambling is the hidden addiction. But it’s not hidden anymore.
Hey no worries! Those men will just blame women for not having sex with them and non white people for betting better than them. Grievevence finds a way.
I completely agree, however I misread this as "Legalizing sports might be one of the worst things we've done in the past decade" and was incredibly confused.
It's nowhere close to the worst but it will be a scandle when the inevitable expose covering the number of underage people using sports betting apps comes out.
Many of my high school students regularly bet on the silliest parlays. They also use it to scam each other by running their own books.
A key step in America's moral & cultural downward spiral .
Along with -
• Legalizing gambling, in general .
• Increasingly violent sports, movies & video games .
• Glorification of gangster lifestyle & mafia figures .
• Increased sexualization of women & children .
• Adulation of obscene wealth .
Literally right now the dems are funding an initiative to figure out how they can reach white men and all the QRTs on the other site are about how dems are out of touch because they hate white men
Oh...it's a disaster. Will make the opioid epidemic look like a picnic. 10's of millions of young men in particular will grow up with this "mentality". It is forced on them everywhere. ESPN being the worst scrolling their ESPN BETS about every 2 minutes.
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The total Gross Gambling Yield of British gambling industry £15.1 billion, an increase of 6.8 percent from 2022
I hate listening to it, I do NOT UNDERSTAND what it means, favoured by 1 1/2 goals etc …jeezus when my Canucks lose I now think it was fixed instead of ….well the usual lol!
Sport betting is just feeding another addiction imo.
And we'll even have less resources to deal with it.
..the rush of (the possibility of) winning, outweighs the negativity of a loss..”I’ll get it next time…”
That was worse but yeah I get you.
This late stage capitalism is pretty ugly.
Though legalizing sports betting was a really bad thing.
But no worries, there is an 800 number in case you become addicted to it.
1-Elect Trump 2016
2-notifying UN we were withdrawing from Paris Agrmt.
3-Ignore COVID until it was too late.
4-not demanding a Democratic primary 2024
5-Trump II
We have become a game show
An #idiocracy
https://bsky.app/profile/cooleenofcourse.bsky.social/post/3lq46pjtumk2h
But making men miserable, through patriarchy functioning as intended,
They have, however, allowed Native American Casinos to have sports books now. So you have to leave your home to place wagers.
They don't want taxes on the rich bc they are just one lottery ticket away from being a multimillionaire.
I was at a Jays game a few weeks ago and it felt like every young man around me was checking lines every few minutes
Think that captures 70% easily of under 30 crowd
https://www.sportsbookreview.com/news/us-betting-revenue-tracker/
https://rg.org/statistics/us
Many of my high school students regularly bet on the silliest parlays. They also use it to scam each other by running their own books.
The company that features Ice T was just heavily fined by our federal government for not delivering on promises implied in the commercials.
He doesn't care. Just cashes the checks.
He's a convicted felon. Spent years in prison. Wrote songs like "Fuck the Po-Po" and other anti-establishment material.
But he's the guy you go to for help with extending the warranty on your car?
Along with -
• Legalizing gambling, in general .
• Increasingly violent sports, movies & video games .
• Glorification of gangster lifestyle & mafia figures .
• Increased sexualization of women & children .
• Adulation of obscene wealth .
the camel's nose under the tent that
normalized crypto wagering
Gutting pre-clearance from the VRA is number two.
It is strange to see gambling ads and odds lines during games, especially MLB games, considering the League's history with gambling.
The ads almost always feature black male athletes and entertainers but don't depict/portray Just Folks using the apps: what is this framing about?