Why has gambling taken over American youth-culture under Trump? Are there any solutions?
Because those gambling companies gave Trump a lot of money so he changed the laws and regulations in their favor.You got what you voted for.
>>542815623Almost all of that legalization occurred under Biden. I would know because I had to start muting DraftKings, BetMGM and Polymarket on social media somewhere around 2022 and 2023.
>>542815277It's just been made available online without restriction because they market it as "speculative trading", and targeted it at sports retards.>Whoah I can watch sports and use my INSANE SPORTS ACUMEN to put a little skin in the game?>Bro I know Jaquantay Jackson is gonna have that X-factor tonight and they're gonna beat the Philadelphia Mandingos>It's a sure thing, I'm gonna put $500 on it and maybe do a parlay for the spread being 20+ points and Markeeze Washingon getting 60+ rushing yards and scoring the final 3 pointer!>It makes watching the game so much more FUN!Fucking goycattle
Desperation. Figuratively zero jobs for young men, so they turn to gambling for a final hail mary out of their horrible situations.> just learn a trade broALREADY oversaturated in most major metros, some areas have openings but the days of high commanding salaries from the trades is loooooonnnnnggg gone. The consequence of too much supply to too little demand.
>>542815277Recall the lottery from 1984
>>542815277No prospects, everyone is grifting. No hope for upward mobility. Money is fun, work is lame. If you are devalued and dehumanized, devaluing everything to follow trends and try to make money in them sounds smart. It makes you feel smart too, seeing all the dumb assholes supposed win. Why not you?Also it's an addiction, proven to be unhealthy and leads people to financial ruin. Regulations are for cucks though, right?
>>542815277Gambling, like cocaine, is only addictive if you're rich. Poor people realize pretty fast it isn't fun to blow 750 dollars in a night.
I dunno but follow my blog, I went to a party with my wife's cow orkers and her cow orker's boyfriend was a "gamer" so he had heard about how I know computers, so the legend goes. Anyway we were chatting and he had at the time a gaming rig and he was like "what's your rig" andI was like bahhh, baww, nothing special. But he kept badgering me so I told him I use an old Ryzen (still do) but mainly to kick off jobs on my Talos Raptor and he had to look it up and didn't understand why I got it seeing as how it's no use for gayming. This was years ago, it's kinda creaky now but I can't really sell it lol.
>CHOMO CASINO>AMERICAS SOCIAL CASINO
children have been tricked into thinking the game is fair and they just need to get lucky
Anyway I had to break this into 2 posts, the guy was like "gee why have 512 GB RAM (this was back when it was cheap) and I told him I was unwinding the blockchain but I think he just heard "crypto" and thought I was a gambler. He was gambling on all kinds of shit. Sports, live casino, he was poor as balls. He was also a fully kitted doodle nigger lel. Still I managed to get along with him OK but I never did meet up with him online. Sadly.
>tiktok brained youths fall for nonsenseIf it wasn't gambling it would have been something else.
>>542815277>Whychecked,Watch this interview:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMAnOxKx3H4>gambling>porn / OnlyFans>video games>marijuana products>prediction markets
Ultimately I learned something over and over - the more doodle nigger'd out somebody is, the less the understand tech, unless they are a troon or the tats are small and poorly drawn.
>>542815712Correct, it's been a decade-long process of dozens of states (far beyond Nevada, NJ) legalizing online gambling, OF, marijuanaNot just the federal gov's purview, many corrupt states and their Legislatures, political leaders are on the payroll. All of a sudden, most of the states in the U.S. approve of both gambling and porn (when they strictly prohibited it back in 2000s/earlier).Every anon reading this needs to watch the ^interview posted here, clearly explains the full convoluted picture and how it happened
>>542815277People have been gambling for thousands of years.
>>542819274so?they've been doing plenty of bad other things too including trying to suck their own penis
>>542819331>so?So gambling supposedly "taking over youth culture" is a crock of shit. Young people have always gambled. Millennials might be the exception because they're such boring and lifeless people.
>>542819331>they've been doing plenty of bad other things too including trying to suck their own penisspeaking of i've got something you should totally try to suck on
>>542815277Work is not worth it anymore. Pay is shit and everything costs too much. Ai will replace workers and they are demoralized, looking for any method to actually make it since the normal avenues have failed.Fix those problem, and you have your solution. Banning gambling/prediction markets won't fix the hopelessness. Another outlet will merely be found.
>>542815277My crackpot theory is that political interest groups realized gambling markets could be used to manufacture a false consensus, so they pushed hard to put them front and center and basically like another other social media site.2016 polling was notoriously garbage, but the betting markets were far more shrewd. That was mostly money guys and autists making calls they thought were safe and reasonable.In 2020, the polls predicted a clear Biden blowout. Instead, election night turned into election month, and Biden just so happened to benefit from every coincidence under the sun all at once. The betting markets, by contrast, correctly saw a more competitive race.Around that time, I assume political actors noticed “Oh shit, people are actually using these markets to spot real trends. What if we just flood the fuckers with money to make our side look more competitive?”Then 2024 rolls around and suddenly the betting markets are just as schizo and retarded as the polling data. Trump gets the Teamsters endorsement and RFK’s and Harris still surges in the odds because reasons? We also started seeing whale accounts that only appeared online the moment Harris became the Dem pick. They dumped huge money exclusively on her odds and apparently didn’t care about any other markets or subjects.It’s also around this time that the betting sites went from underground nerd/day-trader territory to full dude bro faggotry. Polymarket, for example, added comment sections to the markets around 2025, and those threads are now just retards insulting each other or grandstanding about lame shit instead of making actual predictions.
>>542819449what's got you so sore there chemo-slobby?
>>542820096Watch the interview ^^^^^Intention of Kalshi, Polymarket et al. goes way beyond prediction markets for electoral politics results alone. Get your mind out of that sole topic (by watching the interview for one).Their vision is a world where *EVERYTHING ALL HUMAN EVENTS AND INDIVIDUAL ACTIONS* are bet and speculated upon / 'predicted' in markets, all the time. Constantly. They've already transformed spectator sports with this.Essentially (taking a method from the post-1970s Financialized global economy that generates all wealth from speculative debt instruments) their vision is the Earth of 9 billion humans, all relations-interactions between 160 nations of the world, everything is part of meta casino and prediction markets will rule over it all.The prediction market / oddsmaking firms are connected at the hip with Financialized Wall St and global investment banks, insurance, et al. as are their key personnel and oligarchs in charge of them. This is about taking the debt-based global Financialized economy principle and actually farming all human events inside a casino, from which they can extract maximum profit (on backs of people's subscriptions and addictions).
>>542815277If you're white and you do any sort of gambling or betting to make money you're actually spiritually a nigger, unless it's some sort of thing you do once a year as a joke
