Some commenters reframe gambling as a systemic industry problem, not just LeBron
4 Sep 22 10:22 PM · 1d ago · 28 comments · 1 source · development 4 of 4
Later replies broadened the critique beyond James, describing casino and betting-app business models as designed to strip customers of assets and noting the proliferation of gambling-app advertising.
“Business model of all casinos is to separate customers from ALL of their assets.”
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Business model of all casinos is to separate customers from ALL of their assets. If you don't have any money left they zero out your comps and call you a problem gambler. Until they bust you out you're a good customer. Society should be aware of this as we continue to let gaming proliferate.
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I don’t buy anything from the App Store (Shut up… Apple Music doesn’t count) Every fucking free app I downloaded now has nothing but Polymarket/Kalshi/Hard Rock Bets ads. For fucking fucks sake. Fuck every last one of them.
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Did you ask the same thing about Gronk in 2015? What about when it was Eli, Peyton, or Derek Jeter?
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and to think, the people who actually legalized it are completely blameless
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G
💯💯 they always looking for the ink spot in the milk.
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Cable and network programming are literally saturated with gambling commercials. Young athletes are having their lives, threatened due to the outcome of the game based on someone's betting. This will not end well. 
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But those weren't black people, this country has a long and storied tradition of criminalizing blackness, why stop now? Anyone remember this energy when Gronk became a Draftkings ambassador in 2015?
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He is a drug dealer now. Gambling is an addiction. If you're selling to an addiction, you are a drug dealer.🤷🏼♀️
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I can’t help but notice how all the gambling ads are directed at black people too. With mostly black actors.
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For the house to win, someone has to lose. And the house always wins.
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Nah, half the maga dipshits on SNAP in my area use gambling apps.
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He's not only one. There's Jon Hamm, Tom Brady, Ben Affleck, etc.
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You think he ever cared about anything but money?
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So he took the bribe to pay off a debt? Ole Michael Jordan ended up going into baseball because he was doing something illegal in basketball? Remember So is this his choice or you do this for them to forgive a loan ?
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Unlike crack they can do this in their living room without legal worries. With the economy like it is you know that many many people who cannot afford to have started down this path in desperation.
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I’m in Canada, but I heard something on the radio this morning that said the visits to emergency rooms by young men with gambling issues has spiked recently because they don’t know what else to do
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All those bullshit PR donations are easily wiped out by promoting online gambling, which introduces economic instability to the most vulnerable people in society. Fuck off with your bullshit.
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Government agents facilitated the sale of cocaine on behalf of the United States government, soooo... He wouldn't be any worse than them. Or Pat Macafee on ESPN... Or a bunch of other mfs...
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I agree another fucking black eye for Cleveland and yes I know he no longer plays here but so many people here still worship the ground he walks on! Not me that is for damn sure !
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This will fuck his reputation into the ground. Self-inflicted stupidity. Or greed. But he's always been know as a decent person, so I'd go with plain stupidity.
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LeBron pushing people into working with a company that exists to get people addicted to gambling so it can take all their money. and Break their Legs
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People have no idea how many teenagers are online gamblers. Have called parents. They know but they still don’t take the phones away.
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And he was supposed to be one of the good guys. Fuck Marshawn Lynch and J Balvin too (different bankruptcy machine, same shit) .
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