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This is a complicated problem. I'm sure there are plenty of service members who occasion the slot rooms and fully understand what they're getting into. And why
by bena 4y ago
This is a complicated problem. I'm sure there are plenty of service members who occasion the slot rooms and fully understand what they're getting into.
And why shouldn't our service members enjoy some of the things they'd be able to at home when possible?
But yeah, it's very bad optics to essentially take their paycheck back. But one of the reasons they are playing the slots are to win money. So if you make it cash neutral, it's really pointless.
And you could instead just set up a free-play arcade. Or even a quarter to help with maintenance costs. But people look at video games and gambling differently. One is for children and one is for adults.
But then again, these people signed up to be told what to do, what to eat, etc. I would say it's fair that the military could say that gambling while enlisted is not allowed and shut down the slot rooms.
- DonHopkins 4y ago>I would say it's fair that the military could say that gambling while enlisted is not allowed and shut down the slot rooms. Then you'd have the right wing whining about how "woke" the military is with their cancel culture, shutting down gambling the same way they shut down homophobia and sexism and racism by integrating and ordering enlisted people to suck it up and follow the military orders and regulations they signed up to follow.
- Pigalowda 4y agoRight wing typically doesn’t support gambling, so getting rid of it would be a good thing to them.
- kraussvonespy 4y agoExcept those forms blessed by the church like bingo, keno, pickle cards, raffles, etc. As long as the invisible friend gets a cut, they’re a-ok with gambling.
- DonHopkins 4y agoThe right wing has absolutely no values or principles any more and is totally about performative obstruction and opposition to anything they don't perceive as far right as they are, as demonstrated by McCarthy taking 15 rounds of voting to get elected to Speaker of the House by his own majority. They're much more passionate about using gas stoves and abusing drag queens and electing pathological liars than any "traditional" conservative issues.
- Pigalowda 4y agoI'm a Biden Republican, if you say I have no values or principles that's fine. I'm glad you found a way to fit us all into one nice little box. It definitely makes reality easier to navigate.
- scarface74 4y agoOf course they do. They are as much proponents of state funded lotteries as anyone else.
- Pigalowda 4y agoOk.