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Luka and Book secretly besties.![]()
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Yes, but there isn't a 5 minute segment on TNT called "Charles Barkley's IPA's of the Night" with updates 4 times a quarter on how those IPA's taste.
Gambling is fine; the fact I can't watch basketball (or hockey for that matter) for 20 minutes without knowing the over/under and my parlay options is beyond irritating.
Gambling is a part of the American/human fabric and it’s here to stay. Just saying, not going to allow a country that promotes alcoholism and alcoholics (not saying you drink) try to guilt trip us folks into not gambling. Not me at least
That’s not really the point of that video tho.
They’re just showing you whats happening, how the culture shifted so radically in 5 years.
And how these gambling corporations use your personal data against you to make sure you never leave - and if you do, how they find ways to entice you back.
Alcohol and beer advertisements are plastered all across sports. From commercials, to still shots of fans drinking and chugging beers. So, your point is null and void.
Darn near 30% of all advertisements are alcohol/beer brands. The NBA has a crown royal commercial that plays, with an OutKast song in the backdrop, that airs almost during every game![]()
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Now that’s some passion…
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its gunna be an epidemicIt is completely reasonable for people to look at the negative consequences of more gambling legalization
It was done with alcohol and tobacco as well.
Companies preying on people with gambling addictions is not a necessity for their to be legalized gambling
My point isn't null and void. Print and display advertising isn't a segment. Literally the basis of my arguement.
And 30% is hilarious. Here are the stats from the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth done in 2003:
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While 20 years old, you seriously think with increased advertising restrictions, it has increased 5 times?
Admittedly a very small sample size, are a few games from 2023 (CBC and University of Bristol):
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You don't like alcohol advertising, but you like gambling advertising. Which is fine. To believe they are being treated equally is disingenuous.
It's cumulative now?
What are you even talking about at this point.
I used to think that only the gambler faced the consequences of a gambling addiction, but since moving to Vegas I realized that isn't true
I have seen people lose their cars, homes, retirement savings, kids' college funds. Ruining the lives of their families in the process.
Cruise lines prey on older people with gambling problems too.
It has been noted since online sports betting has become more widespread, calls to gambling crisis hotlines have skyrocketed
Just like alcohol, tobacco, and weed, there is nothing wrong with wanting it legal.
But that doesn't mean everyone has to bury their heads in the sand about the negative consequences to society as a whole.
So yeah, I think it is legal but banning certain advertising of it is completely reasonable.
You can’t compare 2-3 years of gambling advertisements, with over 30,40,50+ years of alcohol being advertised on TV. I’m 36 so again, I’ve dealt with it my whole life.
But had gambling been legal for that same tenure, then the argument probably would make sense.
I’ve always hated alcohol, alcohol and beer advertisements, but I’ve always been the type of dude to respect peoples vices.
If I were out here on a crusade to stop advertisements or taking axes to barrels like those politicians during prohibition in the 20s, than it would be different