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[Newphone]

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Bro, you work for Draft Kings or something?

Gambling is one of the worst vices someone can get into.  Pretty shameless to promote that shit.

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Fucking hell. Here's my last pot on the matter. I'm so confused to see so many people have an issue with putting money on a sports game. I don't use Draft Kings nor do I care if you like it or not, but there's tons of people who use it responsibly to have fun with it and, in the same instance in any sort of medium, it can be used poorly as well. Of course gambling is an issue with people. So we should just outright ban sports betting? I'm lost why that's a controversial take that we shouldn't just sweepingly ban things than can cause people harm. Fully ban alcohol. fully ban cigarettes. Fully ban fast food. fully ban social media apps. Let people decide what they want to do with their money. Fuck some regulatory environment saying what I can and can't do. Doesn't seem like a controversial take, but apparently SLAP is so bummed Tony Hawk is promoting the option for people to bet money on something they enjoy.

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You're talking big picture/long term with people who are mostly concerned about instant results in the short term.

There's no point in trying man.

Gambling is a horrible vice, the gambling industry is predatory, this is true.

But I would argue that strict government intervention/regulation has far worse implications in the long run. It's much easier to takedown a predatory private party than a predatory government. If I have to choose between one or the other existing, its going to be the private party.

Both options have their flaws, decide which flaws you would rather deal with. People having the ability to potentially ruin themselves financially (which they can do in several other completely legal ways). Or reinforcing the precedent that the government can/should ban peoples ability to do what they please.

Tax the fuck out of gambling (like most vices are, I say we add fast food to the list) and use the revenue for a good cause. affordable housing, hell even gambling addiction treatment. Casinos should be required to post the odds of winning the games being played in clear sight near each game. Inform people, let them make their own (stupid) decisions.

I say all of this as someone who has been to a casino exactly 3 times in my life, never because i wanted to, and I dont ever plan on going to one again. Not my thing, but im not gonna try and stop other people.

I smoked cigs/vaped for years, that shit was dumb and unhealthy but i dont think we should ban those things. I would argue those industries are far more predatory since they literally destroy you form the inside out.

We're all gonna die anyway, have some fun while you're here. Dont be a fucking idiot about it, and if you do, its not my or the goverments fault.

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That shit in bold will never happen and modern gambling is made predatory as fuck. I cant watch a UFC fight without odds dropped in my face every round. I can't imagine if I watched other sports how bad it would be.

The problem with online gambling is the same with social media, it's in your face and accessible instantly all the time.

"Both options have their flaws, decide which flaws you would rather deal with. People having the ability to potentially ruin themselves financially (which they can do in several other completely legal ways). Or reinforcing the precedent that the government can/should ban peoples ability to do what they please."

This argument doesn't work when the point is making money through taxes from gambling it's not about people's ability to do what they please it's just another income source lololol

Betting on combat sports has been around forever obviously, but everyone’s issue with it seems to be the gamification and ease that modern gaming is moving toward, if I understand correctly?

These same arguments are made about the legalization of drugs (or needle exchange), abortion being safe and legal, et cetera.  The idea that things considered vices in the past should be regulated and in the open, without adding all the stigma and danger of making them illicit, is the way to go is progressive and most likely the future. 

It’s weird seeing some of slaps most progressive posters missing this with legal gambling.  You think there’s a better chance that money paid to a loan shark or bookie is making it somewhere good than the taxes collected from these legal sites?

Also, gambling online is not new, it’s been done offshore through loopholes for years now (betonline.ag for example), the government is realizing that it’s probably better to bring it onshore and keep the money in the US.

[Billy Bitchcakes]

Did you just compare the predatory practices of gambling companies to abortion rights?

[manysnakes]

Did you just compare the predatory practices of gambling companies to abortion rights?

LMAO at the "harm mitigation" argument being used to argue in favor of legalized sports betting phone apps and the celebrities endorsing them. Beyond parody.

[IpathCats]

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Did you just compare the predatory practices of gambling companies to abortion rights?

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LMAO at the "harm mitigation" argument being used to argue in favor of legalized sports betting phone apps and the celebrities endorsing them. Beyond parody.

He was only comparing the logic behind the "pro" arguments for both of these things (both of which he seems in favor of). In no way did he equate the importance of the two issues.

Stop trying so hard to disagree with everyone on everything, trust me, it will just happen naturally.

I'm done here. hopefully jah gets a dick tatt or something soon, im tired of this other shit.

[Newphone]

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Did you just compare the predatory practices of gambling companies to abortion rights?

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LMAO at the "harm mitigation" argument being used to argue in favor of legalized sports betting phone apps and the celebrities endorsing them. Beyond parody.

Eye-rolling is not an argument.


If that’s the side you fall on in the argument here’s a peice from the Atlantic about the subject where the author takes that stance and happens to use the exact three examples I mentioned;

“The other story involves not the safeguarding of inalienable rights but the ostensibly reluctant acknowledgment that various pervasive social evils (the use of drugs, for example) should be mitigated rather than proscribed. This is how we are supposed to make sense of clean-needle-exchange programs and the distribution of prophylactics in schools; it was also, in the days of “safe, legal, and rare,” the most common account of abortion rights. Although not as sweepingly heroic as civil rights or First Amendment absolutism, harm reduction is nevertheless understood as a triumph of the same essentially humane principles.

In which of these two categories—the enshrinement in law of a basic first-order good or the rueful acceptance of a seemingly ineradicable vice—does the legalization of online sports betting belong? I, for one, don’t see how being able to place a $30 prop bet from the comfort of one’s toilet seat is a civil right, much less how the sordid legislative process that has given rise to legalized gambling is comparable to the generation-spanning struggle to end segregation, for example. Even the most enthusiastic proponents of FanDuel Sportsbook would probably agree with me about this.“

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/online-gambling-sports-betting/629790/

He goes on to suggest the absurdity that people in rural communities would gamble through bookies (they do) or use the “dark web” (betonline is an easy to use regular website).  Still, feel free to read this guys stuff if you feel drawn to his side of the issue (he writes often for the lamp, a catholic literary journal) if these are the arguments you feel drawn to.  Maybe consider joining him in Catholicism?

There are two sides to this argument nonetheless, I agree with the one I stated (though I don’t gamble at all) and no amount of eye rolling or calling people “executable dumbass” will make yours right, to this clearly multifaceted, nuanced issue.  Feel free to put a “stop gambling!” Sticker next to your “end war!” Sticker and sleep well knowing you’ve done your part and everyone’s so stupid, again you guys are the real heros!


I could also use a nyjah Dick tat pic right about now and am done with this as well.

[manysnakes]

1) I don’t give a shit what that drunk Catholic covert blowhard thinks
2) You’re trying to do some Ben Shapiro “nice ad hominem” argument and then you do your own ad hominem

I don’t know what else you’re talking about here, I never called anyone an “executable dumbass” and I have taken pains to not insult anyone at all here. Many of the responses here seem extra sensitive to being reminded that they have, in fact, so deeply imbued the ambient libertarian values of “freedom to consume” they that they believe that not only are betting apps an expression of liberty, but also that celebrities should market them to teenagers.

If there’s another explanation to this insane overreaction to my post, please let me know.

[Watson]

Can you gambling aficionados take that shit to Reddit or atleast the whatever section. Or just exchange phone numbers and continue privately.

Fucking for real. This shit is triggering. I spent a VERY dangerous amount of time lingering in the frozen foods section of the supermarket yesterday.

[boogs]

I just wanna play hold ‘em and Omaha

[IpathCats]

1) I don’t give a shit what that drunk Catholic covert blowhard thinks
2) You’re trying to do some Ben Shapiro “nice ad hominem” argument and then you do your own ad hominem

I don’t know what else you’re talking about here, I never called anyone an “executable dumbass” and I have taken pains to not insult anyone at all here. Many of the responses here seem extra sensitive to being reminded that they have, in fact, so deeply imbued the ambient libertarian values of “freedom to consume” they that they believe that not only are betting apps an expression of liberty, but also that celebrities should market them to teenagers.

If there’s another explanation to this insane overreaction to my post, please let me know.

Who is it exactly that believes this?

I don't recall anyone taking that stance or supporting those things. I admittedly did not read all of this thread though, so please correct me if I missed something.

[cky enthusiast]

make it all legal: then only the smartest survive

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Not a pro, but I saw this thread got deleted. Not sure if the person deleted their account or a mod deleted it? But right wing commentator Tim Pool is offended by Indy changing their logo and is now claiming he's starting a skateboard company and using that at the logo, just to piss off Indy and see if they come after him. Not sure if he's actually going to do it or not.

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Of course Paul Hart up in the comment saying "Perfect!"

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I'm sure Jason Jesse is mad stoked!

Was hearing about oblow defending jj about the interview stuff. Been done with IG a long time but curious what oblow did to jj

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Did you just compare the predatory practices of gambling companies to abortion rights?

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LMAO at the "harm mitigation" argument being used to argue in favor of legalized sports betting phone apps and the celebrities endorsing them. Beyond parody.

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Eye-rolling is not an argument.


If that’s the side you fall on in the argument here’s a peice from the Atlantic about the subject where the author takes that stance and happens to use the exact three examples I mentioned;

“The other story involves not the safeguarding of inalienable rights but the ostensibly reluctant acknowledgment that various pervasive social evils (the use of drugs, for example) should be mitigated rather than proscribed. This is how we are supposed to make sense of clean-needle-exchange programs and the distribution of prophylactics in schools; it was also, in the days of “safe, legal, and rare,” the most common account of abortion rights. Although not as sweepingly heroic as civil rights or First Amendment absolutism, harm reduction is nevertheless understood as a triumph of the same essentially humane principles.

In which of these two categories—the enshrinement in law of a basic first-order good or the rueful acceptance of a seemingly ineradicable vice—does the legalization of online sports betting belong? I, for one, don’t see how being able to place a $30 prop bet from the comfort of one’s toilet seat is a civil right, much less how the sordid legislative process that has given rise to legalized gambling is comparable to the generation-spanning struggle to end segregation, for example. Even the most enthusiastic proponents of FanDuel Sportsbook would probably agree with me about this.“

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/online-gambling-sports-betting/629790/

He goes on to suggest the absurdity that people in rural communities would gamble through bookies (they do) or use the “dark web” (betonline is an easy to use regular website).  Still, feel free to read this guys stuff if you feel drawn to his side of the issue (he writes often for the lamp, a catholic literary journal) if these are the arguments you feel drawn to.  Maybe consider joining him in Catholicism?

There are two sides to this argument nonetheless, I agree with the one I stated (though I don’t gamble at all) and no amount of eye rolling or calling people “executable dumbass” will make yours right, to this clearly multifaceted, nuanced issue.  Feel free to put a “stop gambling!” Sticker next to your “end war!” Sticker and sleep well knowing you’ve done your part and everyone’s so stupid, again you guys are the real heros!


I could also use a nyjah Dick tat pic right about now and am done with this as well.

i will go to catholic mass tomorrow if you’ll join me in becoming a practicing catholic newphone. you just wear a hair shirt and i’m all in on jesus

[Newphone]

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Did you just compare the predatory practices of gambling companies to abortion rights?

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LMAO at the "harm mitigation" argument being used to argue in favor of legalized sports betting phone apps and the celebrities endorsing them. Beyond parody.

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Eye-rolling is not an argument.


If that’s the side you fall on in the argument here’s a peice from the Atlantic about the subject where the author takes that stance and happens to use the exact three examples I mentioned;

“The other story involves not the safeguarding of inalienable rights but the ostensibly reluctant acknowledgment that various pervasive social evils (the use of drugs, for example) should be mitigated rather than proscribed. This is how we are supposed to make sense of clean-needle-exchange programs and the distribution of prophylactics in schools; it was also, in the days of “safe, legal, and rare,” the most common account of abortion rights. Although not as sweepingly heroic as civil rights or First Amendment absolutism, harm reduction is nevertheless understood as a triumph of the same essentially humane principles.

In which of these two categories—the enshrinement in law of a basic first-order good or the rueful acceptance of a seemingly ineradicable vice—does the legalization of online sports betting belong? I, for one, don’t see how being able to place a $30 prop bet from the comfort of one’s toilet seat is a civil right, much less how the sordid legislative process that has given rise to legalized gambling is comparable to the generation-spanning struggle to end segregation, for example. Even the most enthusiastic proponents of FanDuel Sportsbook would probably agree with me about this.“

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/online-gambling-sports-betting/629790/

He goes on to suggest the absurdity that people in rural communities would gamble through bookies (they do) or use the “dark web” (betonline is an easy to use regular website).  Still, feel free to read this guys stuff if you feel drawn to his side of the issue (he writes often for the lamp, a catholic literary journal) if these are the arguments you feel drawn to.  Maybe consider joining him in Catholicism?

There are two sides to this argument nonetheless, I agree with the one I stated (though I don’t gamble at all) and no amount of eye rolling or calling people “executable dumbass” will make yours right, to this clearly multifaceted, nuanced issue.  Feel free to put a “stop gambling!” Sticker next to your “end war!” Sticker and sleep well knowing you’ve done your part and everyone’s so stupid, again you guys are the real heros!


I could also use a nyjah Dick tat pic right about now and am done with this as well.

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i will go to catholic mass tomorrow if you’ll join me in becoming a practicing catholic newphone. you just wear a hair shirt and i’m all in on jesus

Thinking of becoming catholic? Username already checks out.

[work_lurker]

I went on a cruise for my birthday last year and won $1,200 in the casino off penny slots, which paid for the cruise with a little left over.

[GuessAgain?]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh I get why it’s a hot topic now, I must have missed the part about online sports betting being a newish thing in the states. I’m from the UK and this stuff has been totally normal for my entire adult life. Never knew it wasn’t the same in the US.

I guess I’ve just been desensitised to it all and as of last year they’ve tried putting rules in place to stop ex-sports stars and celebs being in the adverts over here… The more you know ay. My view is probably skewed to shit then, over here Paddypower made funny ads with Jose Mourinho and Ryan Giggs’ brother and the general public consensus was “fucking legends”

[elbarto]

Can y’all please shut the fuck up and go find a new post to argue about for the love of god

[lurkluke]

The difference between sports gambling vs other vices (or things people say should or shouldn't be legal, such as abortion) is how little oversight there is for advertising and marketing.

If abortion or weed ran ads like companies run gambling ads people would shit.

Keep it legal and regulated but don't have ads for it everywhere.

[Sizzle]

Not a pro but congrats to @IpathCats  for making the  Grind Queen Trucks ig story

[IpathCats]

Not a pro but congrats to @IpathCats  for making the  Grind Queen Trucks ig story

gotta love it when a joke lands haha.

[TwisT]

The difference between sports gambling vs other vices (or things people say should or shouldn't be legal, such as abortion) is how little oversight there is for advertising and marketing.

If abortion or weed ran ads like companies run gambling ads people would shit.

Keep it legal and regulated but don't have ads for it everywhere.

regulate Jart Graphics

[vinithebr]

you can't lose if you keep doubling the bet till you win 

[HeavyAndExpensive]

In the early 2000s I developed a serious Bagel Bite addiction. I lost my savings from buying so many Bagel Bites, my girlfriend for not sharing my Bagel Bites, and I broke the microwave and my parents kicked me out of the basement because of it. It was a dark time in my life.

Pizza in the morning
Pizza in the evening
Pizza at supper time
When pizzas on a bagel
I NEED pizza all the time

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Did you just compare the predatory practices of gambling companies to abortion rights?

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LMAO at the "harm mitigation" argument being used to argue in favor of legalized sports betting phone apps and the celebrities endorsing them. Beyond parody.

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Eye-rolling is not an argument.


If that’s the side you fall on in the argument here’s a peice from the Atlantic about the subject where the author takes that stance and happens to use the exact three examples I mentioned;

“The other story involves not the safeguarding of inalienable rights but the ostensibly reluctant acknowledgment that various pervasive social evils (the use of drugs, for example) should be mitigated rather than proscribed. This is how we are supposed to make sense of clean-needle-exchange programs and the distribution of prophylactics in schools; it was also, in the days of “safe, legal, and rare,” the most common account of abortion rights. Although not as sweepingly heroic as civil rights or First Amendment absolutism, harm reduction is nevertheless understood as a triumph of the same essentially humane principles.

In which of these two categories—the enshrinement in law of a basic first-order good or the rueful acceptance of a seemingly ineradicable vice—does the legalization of online sports betting belong? I, for one, don’t see how being able to place a $30 prop bet from the comfort of one’s toilet seat is a civil right, much less how the sordid legislative process that has given rise to legalized gambling is comparable to the generation-spanning struggle to end segregation, for example. Even the most enthusiastic proponents of FanDuel Sportsbook would probably agree with me about this.“

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/online-gambling-sports-betting/629790/

He goes on to suggest the absurdity that people in rural communities would gamble through bookies (they do) or use the “dark web” (betonline is an easy to use regular website).  Still, feel free to read this guys stuff if you feel drawn to his side of the issue (he writes often for the lamp, a catholic literary journal) if these are the arguments you feel drawn to.  Maybe consider joining him in Catholicism?

There are two sides to this argument nonetheless, I agree with the one I stated (though I don’t gamble at all) and no amount of eye rolling or calling people “executable dumbass” will make yours right, to this clearly multifaceted, nuanced issue.  Feel free to put a “stop gambling!” Sticker next to your “end war!” Sticker and sleep well knowing you’ve done your part and everyone’s so stupid, again you guys are the real heros!


I could also use a nyjah Dick tat pic right about now and am done with this as well.

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i will go to catholic mass tomorrow if you’ll join me in becoming a practicing catholic newphone. you just wear a hair shirt and i’m all in on jesus

If he thinks the salary of the editor of a major skateboard publication is excessive, wait til he find out about the pope! It’s like being the top editor of a major world religion.

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Did you just compare the predatory practices of gambling companies to abortion rights?

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LMAO at the "harm mitigation" argument being used to argue in favor of legalized sports betting phone apps and the celebrities endorsing them. Beyond parody.

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Eye-rolling is not an argument.


If that’s the side you fall on in the argument here’s a peice from the Atlantic about the subject where the author takes that stance and happens to use the exact three examples I mentioned;

“The other story involves not the safeguarding of inalienable rights but the ostensibly reluctant acknowledgment that various pervasive social evils (the use of drugs, for example) should be mitigated rather than proscribed. This is how we are supposed to make sense of clean-needle-exchange programs and the distribution of prophylactics in schools; it was also, in the days of “safe, legal, and rare,” the most common account of abortion rights. Although not as sweepingly heroic as civil rights or First Amendment absolutism, harm reduction is nevertheless understood as a triumph of the same essentially humane principles.

In which of these two categories—the enshrinement in law of a basic first-order good or the rueful acceptance of a seemingly ineradicable vice—does the legalization of online sports betting belong? I, for one, don’t see how being able to place a $30 prop bet from the comfort of one’s toilet seat is a civil right, much less how the sordid legislative process that has given rise to legalized gambling is comparable to the generation-spanning struggle to end segregation, for example. Even the most enthusiastic proponents of FanDuel Sportsbook would probably agree with me about this.“

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/online-gambling-sports-betting/629790/

He goes on to suggest the absurdity that people in rural communities would gamble through bookies (they do) or use the “dark web” (betonline is an easy to use regular website).  Still, feel free to read this guys stuff if you feel drawn to his side of the issue (he writes often for the lamp, a catholic literary journal) if these are the arguments you feel drawn to.  Maybe consider joining him in Catholicism?

There are two sides to this argument nonetheless, I agree with the one I stated (though I don’t gamble at all) and no amount of eye rolling or calling people “executable dumbass” will make yours right, to this clearly multifaceted, nuanced issue.  Feel free to put a “stop gambling!” Sticker next to your “end war!” Sticker and sleep well knowing you’ve done your part and everyone’s so stupid, again you guys are the real heros!


I could also use a nyjah Dick tat pic right about now and am done with this as well.

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i will go to catholic mass tomorrow if you’ll join me in becoming a practicing catholic newphone. you just wear a hair shirt and i’m all in on jesus

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If he thinks the salary of the editor of a major skateboard publication is excessive, wait til he find out about the pope! It’s like being the top editor of a major world religion.

I always thought being the pope would be lame,   all that power and money and you can't do anything fun!!!

[ungzilla]

popes fuck

[RichardBarkley]

Is it me or does Mike look high?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Co5O32FvRdI/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=

[fulltechnicalskizzy]

goddammit mike, you have lupus

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Is it me or does Mike look high?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Co5O32FvRdI/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=

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doesn't he still party pretty hard?

He was taking Kratom at one point and that’s usually to ween off opiates.

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Is it me or does Mike look high?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Co5O32FvRdI/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=

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doesn't he still party pretty hard?

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He was taking Kratom at one point and that’s usually to ween off opiates.

there was a girl shirt w the numerical code for either percs or oxys on it like 5ish years ago so that wouldn’t surprise me. hope the dude is doing ok

[woodsman]

That's some shoddy detective work with the Kratom assumption. Plenty of nerds just like taking Kratom.