What's the Deal with [GAMBLING ADS]?! 😏

in #hive-19623328 days ago

Seriously -- I can't be the only one noticing this trend.

OLG (our province lottery), BetMGM, Fanduel, PlayOjo, SportsBet, PointsBet, Draft Kings, Bet365... And these are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head! 😬 I must see at least several gambling ads a day. There are two -- two!! -- billboards dedicated to BetMGM in my city alone! 🤦

Like... this isn't normal, right? 😅 lol in all my years of consuming media, I have never seen such an epidemic of encouraged gambling.

In fact, I'll be the first to note that this increase originally appeared shortly after the pandemic.

Isn't that kind of a strange thing for governments to do? advertise gambling to a majority of people who just experienced stressful financial situations?

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The day that I realized that the government does not have the masses best interests at heart made it much easier to recognize the atrocities that are truly going on.

The government wants us all addicted and homeless.

The government does not give two shits about you. The government purposefully locked down countries and destroyed economies over the fucking flu -- yep, let's not fucking forget! 🤣 The government ostracized an entire demographic, took their jobs, froze their bank accounts for refusing to comply with their demands. In layman's terms, we call that 🎉 terrorism!~ 🎉

Now the government willingly chooses to shove gambling down your throat, hoping that you'll cave, where you will ultimately lose and end up calling shelters for vacancy.

When our government was handing out $2,000 bi-weekly cheques during the pandemic, a lot of people caved, gave in then, and spent the money unwisely. Do you know where a lot of those people are today? In tents. Do you know how I know this? Because that's how I ended up in one! 😀

So don't give in, because the government realized this outcome a long time ago.



(No, I haven't forgotten, and I will keep reminding people about the choices they made. There were people wishing death upon my family and I, my newborn daughter... over the fucking flu. You lay in that bed)

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Yeah I’ve been getting a history lesson on a lot of this stuff. It dates back to the 1940’s when Las Vegas was created in the desert.

What do casinos do? Block out sunlight, pump in air and maximize artificial blue-heavy light.

What are we doing today? Most people are minimizing natural sunlight and are heavily exposed to strong artificial blue light. This light plays on the addiction part of our brain and keeps us on the dopamine train until our hormonal system is overwhelmed and burnt out. It also plays into addictions like porn and gambling.

Crazy enough, I’ve heard on many areas that this stems from the mafia back in the 40’s. Organized crime is behind all of this stuff and has expanded its control to the present day.

Really wild stuff! Thankfully there are brilliant people like Jack Kruse out there expanding the consciousness of people on these topics. I think there are great changes coming in this regard - fighting back on the toxic blue light we are washed in daily.

I'll be the first to say that I hate the blue light, absolutely despise it 😠 We have them in our public bathrooms so junkies can't shoot up in the stalls. Meanwhile I wish for a world full of soft orange lighting again. I can't stand these LEDs...

But anyway, back to topic, that you're absolutely right. This has been an issue since the origin of casinos, and you're right that they're heavily influenced and operated by nefarious forces...

With these online advertisements though, especially on YouTube, more could and should definitely be done. There are betting apps being advertised in my children's kid videos. If smoking has become demonized to the point of no return, perhaps we could start doing the same with gambling! 😩

Anyway thank you as always for reading, and thank you for your feedback! I hope you enjoyed the recent festivities 😊