“I shit in all these boxes”
“I shit in all these boxes”
I never see people here talk about it. Unlike other “treats”. If they were defending it out of personal enjoyment I’d expect people to cite that more rather than argue more from an ideological libertarian point of view.
I don’t really see much “treatbrain” here, I doubt many people here enjoy sports gambling, or gambling in general. I think it’s just that, somewhat understandably, the failure of the war on drugs in the US has made most western leftists hyper-libertarian on vice regulation. It’s an attitude I’ve seen a lot even with otherwise smart comrades. Decades of people getting thrown in jail for possessing a small amount of marijuana kinda does that to people.
I may do a cartoon burglar guy, get a stripped shirt and little mask.
Yeah but don’t you want to finish up a nice day fishing with a few whiskeys and a hand of poker there partner?
But then, shouldn’t we also do the same for alcohol and drugs
Thing is we kind of already do. There’s a ton of regulations regarding the sale and advertisement of alcohol and tobacco, many of which are the product of activism by anti-smoking and temperance movements.
Idk how I feel about gambling personally, but you don’t really have to take a hardline prohibitionist or libertarian stance on these things. I suppose one could make the argument that adults should have the right to gamble responsibly, but like you can also think regulations against problem gambling are good.
Edit: also…
on the other hand, I know of one case where the shuttering of a sex work website due to human trafficking charges (which Kamala Harris lead the charge on, as it happens) actually made a lot of sex workers feel less safe.
So I don’t really have time right now to delve deep into that article, but I kind of suspect they were interviewing adult, independent sex workers who are in the profession mostly voluntarily. Not that their experience and concerns aren’t valid but I do feel like I see a lot of pro-legalization arguments coming from that crowd and I think it’s worth considering their experiences as sex workers is nothing like most women in the industry. They’re independent and working in a lucrative industry on their own terms, often in semi-legal niches often for wealthier clientele. I think some people in that world fail to realize legalizing full service prostitution is essentially opening the doors for it to be industrialized which like likely lead to what is essentially sex-trafficking-in-all-but-name.
Second I see someone with this I’m robbing their ass.
For some reason I thought Musk was a teetotaler.
The weirdest rich people tend to be teetotaler.
The opioid epidemic has made a lot of people, myself included, skeptical of anti-prohibition. Turns out pushing something underground often does have the effect of making it more expensive and inconvenient to access. There some study I can’t find now, but it claimed legalizing prostitution actually increased human trafficking because now traffickers could mask their operations as legal sex work opening them up to new clientele they normally wouldn’t have access to. I suspect there’s a lot of men who would be going to brothels regularly if it was as easy as going to 7/11 but don’t want to go to the bad side of town to pick up a sex workers who could be a cop doing a sting.
Same with drugs, going from a system where you had to import raw opium from Afghanistan or wherever to the west via camel and make shift submarine, then process and distribute it clandestinely, made being a heroin addict and expensive pain in the ass. Now you can buy pills made semi-legally in a factory in Mexico that some guy got prescribed to him by a shady Floridian doctor for a broken ankle he had 10 years ago.
Prohibition didn’t work for weed and booze cuz both of those are things easy to make and distribute even when they’re illegal, plus they’re both easier to consume, and even abuse, while being a functional member do society. I think there are vices thought where you could reduce the consumption and abuse of just by making it a big fucking pain in the ass to get access to and gambling I think is one of them.
Not all harm in our society is simple one-on-one “I swing my arm and strike your face” harm. We live in a complex social order where all actions taken interact with the broader world. There are a lot of behaviors that don’t cause direct immediate harm to others but cause a degrading effect on society at large when enough people are doing it.
What the fuck would people be gambling in this hypothetical society? M&M? I don’t think the government current breaks up retirees player poker for pennies in their spare time.
You live in a society asshole, existing around other humans necessitates regulations on “how you live your life”. If you don’t like it you can go Ted Kaczynski off to Idaho if you want.
obvious joke
You clearly haven’t been here long if you think this is obviously a joke
Fentanyl and OxyContin seem to suggest otherwise
God dammit you beat me to it
I think your municipal electricity bill is a matter of public record.
High electricity bills are a potential sign someone is running a growhouse (that and they can to thermal readings of the house). Idk how exactly it works but if a building has usually high energy usage for it’s zoned purpose it can potentially lead to police investigation.
Or just like… have a squad car drive past it?
“Hey uh Chief, I checked out that location that got pinged cuz of their energy bill.”
“WE HAVE THE SWAT TEAM READY!!!”
“No, Chief, it’s a radiology clinic, they got like, X-Rays and shit.”
“WE’RE GONNNA ROLL OUT!”
“Chief, I’m pretty sure there isn’t a gro…”
“LOCK AND LOAD!!!”
There’s that one guy, but besides him most people seem to be drawing parallels to drug prohibition. Which again is understandable because the war on drugs has been an utter failure in the US.