If we ban betting on sports, they’ll just move betting to some other random indeterminate outcome. Like…which industries and markets are going to perform better than others month by month.

[–] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Woah woah woah, lets not get crazy, no one is trying to ban gambling! Just advertising it.

Whooo, thats a close one eh? Ban gambling. Ha! Whats next, ban cocaine?

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[–] Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

I guess some way to change your mind is giving you a share of the money the gambling industry is paying for having this happen

Before it was outlawed, in my country some gambling website even paid to rename the league to "bet and win league"

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

who tf gambles on sport (probably why they are advertising on tv)

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is an unbelievably massive, multi-billion dollar industry that is rapidly growing in the US right now. A number of states have relaxed their laws about online gambling and sports books, we are going to see a whole new generation of addicts. Every single fraternity at American universities has a point person at this stage. Many did prior they just did it on the sly.

Caesars Sportsbook just bought the sponsorship for the NFL stadium out from Mercedes in my city. You cannot go a quarter-mile without seeing a billboard about it. YouTube is flooded with it if it detects I’m in my home state. It’s relentless now. And if it’s not Caesar’s palace bombing me with ads, it’s draft kings.

[–] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 1 year ago

Gambling on sports is one of the oldest types of gambling.

And, look. If you have the cash to spare, and gambling isnt a vice for you, it is kinda fun. Thats kinda the problem, its easy for the average person to get into it with some friends as a way to have more fun watching the game only for that to be the first domino.

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lots of people. Probably the same people that play Fantasy Football.

People will literally gamble on anything.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Bet.

wait no

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[–] heavy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good to see people agree on this. The way that gambling in sports has flourished really targets and is detrimental to young men, IMO. I've noticed that younger men tend to feel it's normal to risk a significant amount of money gambling on almost all sports, to include E-sports, when really it shouldn't be something they think about constantly.

I like gambling as much as the next person, and I feel like you should be allowed to if you're responsible, but I think we shouldn't be glorifying gambling like it's just something everyone does. Shame on all these celebrities using their status to trick younger people into gambling.

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's honestly insane. I have been watching sports with the same group of people for almost 30 years now, and the past few years it's gotten fucking insufferable. These people genuinely believe that they've got a system going, doing bet arbitrage against their six different apps and seventeen different accounts. They don't even watch the fucking game. They are just watching phones and laptops. I hate it.

So what ends up is that I'm watching our team win, and happy about it, but half the room is punching holes in the wall because thirteen different stats across six different games didn't magically align to give them a 100:1 payout. Two of the original group have literally taken on major debt to fund their addiction and still think it's perfectly fine to keep betting.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The worst are podcast ads. It's like 30% "you can win $100 on a $10 bet with promo code xyz" and 70% disclaimers and gambling addiction hotline numbers.

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[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Edit his mug so it doesn't have that Nazis name on it. Maybe have it say boot or dumbass lol

[–] Veedem@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Governments want that tax income. They want that business to boom. They don’t care about the side effects.

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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

no. you're right.

[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I get why we want to get away from that dumbass(heh) that's the normal part of this meme?

But Red would give zero fucks about gambling.

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do they advertise sports gambling on tv?

In California I don’t see this. You do get the occasional ad for an Indian casinos, or Las Vegas though.

[–] bonn2@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Some states have recently legalized it, and, oh boy, no time was spared filling every commercial break with ads for it.

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