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2025-11-17 -Great Cultural Revolution

The Next Social Epidemic Is Already Here: Legalized Sports Gambling

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Posted by Besoeker 2025-11-17 04:26|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1800 views ] Top

1 Might explain the short-lived outrage over recently exposed pro-sports gambling.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-11-17 04:35|| 2025-11-17 04:35|| Front Page Top

2 Before I wondered if a player critical to my team might get popped for PEDs. Now I cringe at every waste pitch.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-11-17 05:58|| 2025-11-17 05:58|| Front Page Top

3 "Pete Rose... Calling Pete Rose.
Mr. Rose has a call on the white discourtesy phone!"

Posted by Skidmark 2025-11-17 08:25|| 2025-11-17 08:25|| Front Page Top

4 NBA Tells Teams to Provide Cell Phone Data in Gambling Probe

Posted by Skidmark 2025-11-17 09:25|| 2025-11-17 09:25|| Front Page Top

5 panem et circenses

Posted by jefe101 2025-11-17 10:32|| 2025-11-17 10:32|| Front Page Top

6 Too bad the league never thought to keep a record of everyone's cellie contact info.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-11-17 10:44|| 2025-11-17 10:44|| Front Page Top

7 It's going to happen anyway if it's legal or not.
Best the government get a cut.
We tried Prohibition.
It didn't work.

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2025-11-17 11:26|| 2025-11-17 11:26|| Front Page Top

8 The technology of consumption and effect, and consequently the soical norms, is unchanged in the 5,000+ year history of alcohol consumption. legal digital gambling in the era of the i-phone, with no cultural curbs or markers, essentially an APP game one has been programmed to play for the last decade, is a bit different. but that's just me.

Posted by jefe101 2025-11-17 11:47|| 2025-11-17 11:47|| Front Page Top

9 All the kids are doing it.

Posted by mossomo 2025-11-17 12:24|| 2025-11-17 12:24|| Front Page Top

10 I never gamble on things where humans are involved!

Every single time, I note that they are always corrupted and increase my chances of loosing.

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2025-11-17 18:36|| 2025-11-17 18:36|| Front Page Top

11 apparently, well over $10B/yr business and there are already support groups for addicts of this activity

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-11-17 19:35|| 2025-11-17 19:35|| Front Page Top

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