• PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Please ban all online betting and only make it legal at places where you have to actually go there in person to do. Impulse gambling on smartphones and prediction markets are straight cancer to society.

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      4 days ago

      It used to be illegal to run away from your plantation, too.

      No reason to outlaw this, why bother? People have always made wagers, and they enjoy it.

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        3 days ago

        well because a lot of the wagers are easily manipulated by the same insiders who own the platform? No ones stopping you from betting with your pals. We don’t want a fake rigged market place that’s a black hole of money.

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          7 hours ago

          Insiders and wagers go hand in hand, that’s all part of the odds.

          It’s not a “fake rigged market place” OR the stock market is also a “fake rigged market place”.

          …and anti-gambling laws lead to lots of “stopping you from betting with your pals”, for example see all of human history, pick an era. Police don’t need a lot of incentive to seize all of your assets, it doesn’t matter. This is just another excuse to do so

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        4 days ago

        People enjoy making wagers with friends and acquaintance. Gambling apps are highly addictive commercial products which have negative value to society. Ban them and shoot the owners and shareholders.

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          3 days ago

          Food is highly addictive. Video games are highly addictive. Sex is highly addictive.

          You are not “the decider” of which activity is of value to society or not, it’s of value to THEM.

          Instead, ban and shoot everyone who would want to ban and shoot other people for owning entertainment venues (like gambling).

          They’re more trouble than they are worth.

            • Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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              6 hours ago

              … and you would if you could, too… and Republicans… and then the religious… and then Independents… and so on… and that’s why we don’t trust you with anything more than a scooter. NO LICENSE FOR YOU

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                5 hours ago

                Republicans yes, but I don’t know how you got “independents” (whatever that is) and the religious out of it.