An award-winning ESPN producer resigned after 24 years over the network’s embrace of sports betting: “I’m not going to have blood on my hands.”

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      The crazy part is that the US can already see exactly how this path goes by looking at Austrailia. And unlike Austrailia the US can’t rely on high rollers from Asia where gambling is largely illegal.

      As a cheapskate who likes casino promos I’m personally pro-gambling, but we need incredibly strong regulations to prevent self destructive levels of it. The stuff you see in the assistance line while adding promos to your players card is crazy. The casino workers don’t even question it when people ask for a cash advance on their credit cards.

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          Every time I have to attend a work conference in Atlantic City, they’re there. It’s almost like they take the night shift so they’re sleep cycle isn’t disturbed when they go home.

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      No, that’s how we’ll look at the drug war and normalizing throwing people in dungeons over drugs (and gambling).

      A free society is a gambling and drug-using society. Your viewpoint is conservative, and an unfortunate side effect of our fundamentalist religious roots.

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        I am anti advertisement of gambling. I also think that drugs and alcohol should be legal, and the advertisement should not exist. The tax dollars should be spent on better schools and people who need help with addiction and cessation.

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        fuck you

        it can be legal and not normalized, gambling is retarded and exploitative. there is no reason to have gambling ads anywhere, keep it in the casinos and regulate and tax the shit out of them.

        you’re braindead