“They sell you on what good it might do. In order for you to ignore the real bad, it will do!”
Gambling in the past, i.e., Poker Machines, caused massive damage to SC Citizens in the past. Greedy Companies will take your money, and give you: Financial ruin, drug and Alcohol abuse, family destruction, and massive taxpayer costs. JUST LIKE IT HAS DONE EVERY SINGLE OTHER TIME IN SC.
Because none of those things will happen unless gambling is available to the masses?
If you want to prohibit things, I can play that game. But gambling is going to be down the list. I am guessing you don’t want to hear what might end up at the top of the list.
Go to a casino in a state with legalized casinos, place a $5 bet on a hand of blackjack, and you have a 48% chance of winning the hand, assuming you have any knowledge of the game. This is at the same time that you are enjoying free alcohol on the house. Buy $5 worth of lottery tickets that allows the Power Ball lottery, such as SC, and you have a 25% chance of winning anything, and only one chance in 270 million of winning it all. Meanwhile, you have plopped down your own money for that cold beer that you are drinking as you ride down the road. Think about it, which would you choose?
This is a terrible idea. Nothing good can come from legalized gambling. If you want a generation of young men destroyed by sports betting then allow it. The corrupt legislators who can think of nothing more than extracting more revenue from the citizens and how much of it they will get is disgusting.
I used to do the whole libertarian “let people be free to mess up their lives” shtick but at some point I grew up and realized this isn’t about freedom to do anything worthwhile. For some, gambling is entertainment, but for most it is simply a disease. It is a sickness whereby obscenely rich people exploit tons of people who can’t stop themselves.
I don’t think someone gambling away everything they have to their name, losing all of their friends and family, and ending themselves because their lizard brain reacts to the dopamine hits in ways they can’t resist, just so some greaseball schmuck gets a few thousand dollars more to their name does anything at all to improve the quality or quantity of our supposed freedoms.
Spend about an hour reading tales from casino workers or people who lost family members to the addiction. It will turn your stomach. It’ll also infuriate you that people do the same with sports gambling and online gambling apps, losing everything and ruining lives in the comfort of their own home. If you aren’t one of the “it’ll never happen to me so why care” types it will make you sick to your stomach, change you.
Republicans will extoll the virtues of the free market when it benefits the rich at the expense of the poor, yet deny the basic rights to grow plants and have bodily autonomy.
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“They sell you on what good it might do. In order for you to ignore the real bad, it will do!”
Gambling in the past, i.e., Poker Machines, caused massive damage to SC Citizens in the past. Greedy Companies will take your money, and give you: Financial ruin, drug and Alcohol abuse, family destruction, and massive taxpayer costs. JUST LIKE IT HAS DONE EVERY SINGLE OTHER TIME IN SC.
Because none of those things will happen unless gambling is available to the masses?
If you want to prohibit things, I can play that game. But gambling is going to be down the list. I am guessing you don’t want to hear what might end up at the top of the list.
Go to a casino in a state with legalized casinos, place a $5 bet on a hand of blackjack, and you have a 48% chance of winning the hand, assuming you have any knowledge of the game. This is at the same time that you are enjoying free alcohol on the house. Buy $5 worth of lottery tickets that allows the Power Ball lottery, such as SC, and you have a 25% chance of winning anything, and only one chance in 270 million of winning it all. Meanwhile, you have plopped down your own money for that cold beer that you are drinking as you ride down the road. Think about it, which would you choose?
This is a terrible idea. Nothing good can come from legalized gambling. If you want a generation of young men destroyed by sports betting then allow it. The corrupt legislators who can think of nothing more than extracting more revenue from the citizens and how much of it they will get is disgusting.
I used to do the whole libertarian “let people be free to mess up their lives” shtick but at some point I grew up and realized this isn’t about freedom to do anything worthwhile. For some, gambling is entertainment, but for most it is simply a disease. It is a sickness whereby obscenely rich people exploit tons of people who can’t stop themselves.
I don’t think someone gambling away everything they have to their name, losing all of their friends and family, and ending themselves because their lizard brain reacts to the dopamine hits in ways they can’t resist, just so some greaseball schmuck gets a few thousand dollars more to their name does anything at all to improve the quality or quantity of our supposed freedoms.
Spend about an hour reading tales from casino workers or people who lost family members to the addiction. It will turn your stomach. It’ll also infuriate you that people do the same with sports gambling and online gambling apps, losing everything and ruining lives in the comfort of their own home. If you aren’t one of the “it’ll never happen to me so why care” types it will make you sick to your stomach, change you.
Republicans will extoll the virtues of the free market when it benefits the rich at the expense of the poor, yet deny the basic rights to grow plants and have bodily autonomy.