Sports gambling must be banished to where it belongs: Vegas, 1-900 numbers, OTBs, dive bars, fraternity house basements, and country club locker rooms. That’s it.

You shouldn't be allowed to gamble without knowing a guy.

Nope.

You gotta leave your house to place a bet, in cash, to a real person.

with the exception of horse racing, I agree.

Unironically, yes. Take away the scale of mass industrialization and this shit is nowhere near the problem it is now.

we ran a book in high school, harmless fun, five dollars on this and that, no crime in that other than the crimes we were doing.

I spent too much money on $10 bets in college along with too many terrible odds parlay cards when I worked in factories.

That and a black jack game with a real shoe and a real felt table that got the dealer kicked off the golf team.

Holy shit, getting kicked off the golf team is some incredible petty-tier degeneracy.

He’s a neurosurgeon now so it worked out.

🏆 Him: "Russ, you're having an aneurysm. We can save you but we need to operate now." Me: "Hold on. Let's make this interesting." Him: "... I'm listening." Me: "Twenty says I don't fully recover, another twenty says the surgical site gets infected." Him: "You're on."

I'm working to a theory that gambling only became a problem when nerds started doing it. (Other than the massive social problems and divorces and bankruptcies.)

The last quarter century of American history, where gambling got more and more ubiquitous and younger and younger people partook in the dumbest games, is a real problem

Can I say it’s good that he’s at least acknowledging leftism isn’t the most dangerous thing in the world for liberals to embrace

he's not being serious, he doesn't think that

As said further up it’s all gender. Further left politics doesn’t code as feminine to him so it isn’t as much a threat

How did we reach a place where MAGA can threaten every minority underneath the sun, but Blueskyism is the problem? Is this more Gender bullshit?

yes

Can’t wait for Nate to somehow blame Blueskyers for Obergefell getting overturned next summer.

“If those nagging woke fuckers on Bluesky weren’t so mean, my Neo-Nazi tech neighbors totally would support gay marriage!”

temperance movement but for gambling

No Lips That Touch FanDuel Shall Touch Ours Hm might have to workshop this a bit further but you're onto something

Fan Duel must be made an example of.

I unironically support this

nothing but slots from now on

Forming a bipartisan coalition to outlaw sports gambling with Wesleyan and Holiness churches, economists, and the current leadership of the Mafia