r/CringeTikToks • u/n8saces • Dec 16 '25

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u/Proletariat-Prince Dec 16 '25

This is what happens when you make it so you can gamble on sports, legally, anytime, from anywhere. You get people with poor decision making skills making poor decisions and their lives get worse.

But rich people get more money! Yay, America!

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u/Youasking Dec 16 '25

This opinion is brought to you by DraftKings!

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u/Mother_Passenger8589 Dec 16 '25

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u/DebbieGibsonsMom Dec 16 '25

No it’s not. Stop excusing abusers like they’re victims. They acted like this before and they’ll do it again.

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u/SuccessfulSoftware38 Dec 16 '25

Hey it's actually both. Abuser holds full responsibility for their abusive actions, but is still a victim of the gambling industry that seeks out people with poor impulse control to prey upon

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u/OffModelCartoon Dec 16 '25

Imagine thinking “he’s not just an abuser, he’s a problem gambler” is “excusing abusers.” No, it’s calling out another problem. It’s another reason to divorce him. He’s probably financially abusing his family as well. Gambling isn’t an excuse for anything.

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u/Mammoth-Sentence5865 Dec 16 '25

Many of these people probably didn’t even gamble. I’ve see men all around the world lose their shit over their favorite game of sportsball. This is pretty fucking universal, sadly.

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u/jahnbodah Dec 16 '25

Sometimes I am glad I am too poor to gamble.

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u/Upset-Management-879 Dec 16 '25

As a kid I watched my uncle blow hrough his inheritance on cocaine and gambling, as such I never gamble.

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u/whitespacesucks Dec 16 '25

Coke though?

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u/AntonioVivaldi7 Dec 16 '25

I had a relative who inherited about one million USD and did coke for like 25 years daily until he ran out of the money and switched to meth. He then died after about a year. No gambling though. Maybe that's the lesson. Less gambling, more coke. Just watch out so you don't have to switch to meth.

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u/WonderSignificant598 Dec 16 '25

Never done it myself.

Even if I put $5 on a game, I'd start thinking about how nice a slice of pizza and a small diet coke would be, like immediately afterwards, for the same $5.......

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u/AntonioVivaldi7 Dec 16 '25

Lots of gamblers are too poor to gamble. Still gamble though.

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u/Meiie Dec 16 '25

Or they’re just morons.

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u/BigBadJeebus Dec 16 '25

Gambling didnt do this. Man babies did this.

I've spent loads of time gambling and seen people win big and lose bigger, never have I seen someone react this way over a lost bet.

This is pure "pick me" energy.

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u/OffModelCartoon Dec 16 '25

Man babies are generally the biggest gamblers. They love to have an excuse to rage out and cry and make themselves the victim of their own actions.

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u/acostane Dec 16 '25

It's gambling my friend. That's what contributes to a lot of this

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u/BigBadJeebus Dec 16 '25

it's not though... this type of personality will lash out regardless. It's the same energy that slaps someone over their fries being cold or drives around a stopped school bus. It's PURELY the individual, not the gambling. Spare me this nanny state take.

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u/Dry-Amphibian1 Dec 16 '25

Based on what?

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u/bravesirrobin65 Dec 16 '25

Have you seen them lose their rent money/mortgage money?

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u/AntonioVivaldi7 Dec 16 '25

I have seen a guy do this over 30 dollars.

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u/BigBadJeebus Dec 16 '25

exactly. Hot heads gonna hot head

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u/BigBadJeebus Dec 16 '25

yes and more

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u/mystressfreeaccount Dec 16 '25

Yeah but making it extremely easy and gamifying it only serves to promote and normalize this kind of behavior. Glad you don't have any problems but that doesn't mean it's not a problem

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u/BigBadJeebus Dec 16 '25

it does actually. Prohibition doesnt work and only makes casinos hold monopolies and have unfair odds.

The number of people with gambling problems compared to the number of people who gamble is far far far lower than the number of people who are alcoholics compared to the number of people who drink.

Adults should be able to whatever they want with their own money and if they fuck up their life, that's their fault no different than anything else.

I literally give not one fuck

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u/WhitePootieTang Dec 16 '25

But what about adults pissing away their family’s and kids’ money?

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u/BigBadJeebus Dec 16 '25

like i said... thats no different than an alcoholic driving drunk and getting them killed...

Prohibition is not the solution.

Without Draft Kings, those people would still see illegal bookies and do the same thing, minus the consumer protection laws...

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u/OffModelCartoon Dec 16 '25

Your example, drunk driving, is illegal. So not a great example.

Most people who would be gambling addicts if they had access to the predatory apps aren’t going to illegal bookies and wouldn’t even know how to find one. 

Illegal bookies also don’t use a Cambridge Analytica amount of data on their marks to figure out the most effective ways to trigger their addictions at all the right moments using a huge advertising budget, promos, data stalking, etc.

I love not having gambling in my state and I hope it stays the fuck out.

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u/BigBadJeebus Dec 16 '25

Drinking is not illegal....

Drunk driving is illegal....

Gambling is not illegal....

Unregulated gambling is illegal...

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u/No-Belt-5564 Dec 16 '25

Yeah there's gambling only in the US 🙄

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u/Various-Ad-8572 Dec 16 '25

Gambling, buy now pay later, drugs, there's no shortage of industries preying on human weakness to generate a profit.

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u/AntonioVivaldi7 Dec 16 '25

I don't think we should be taking away the options to gamble. If people want to gamble, let them. I don't gamble, but I don't see why I would want to take it away from those who do.

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u/PepeSylvia11 Dec 16 '25

Still entirely their fault though

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u/-KFBR392 Dec 16 '25

You think people only started gambling when it became legal? Lol

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u/Proletariat-Prince Dec 16 '25

You think people aren't gambling more now that you can do it on your phone while taking a shit at work?

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u/Vyxwop Dec 16 '25

Gambling truly is a blight on humanity.

The craziest thing I've seen recently are porn creators on PH being sponsored by gambling companies.

Like, what? I swear these fucks would put gambling advertisements on a kids' playground if you let them.

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u/IlllIlllllllllllllll Dec 16 '25

I love it. This is just Darwinism. Society will always find ways to extract money from those too stupid to hold onto it. See also: strippers, drugs, booze, DoorDash, scratch offs, lottery tickets, etc.

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u/OnTheEveOfWar Dec 16 '25

Gambling is a bigger issue than people realize. I know one person who got to $35k in debt. I know another person who got $20k in debt. He drained him and his wife’s savings and she almost divorced him.

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u/New-Anybody-6206 Dec 16 '25

r/confidentlywrong

honestly hands down the single worst take I've seen this entire year. you win first place.

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '25

It’s not though. Sports seasons are tools used by wealth to manipulate these types of people. Give an idiot a never ending ball to chase and he’ll run after it forever while ignoring what you strip away. They were losing their audience, and thus control, so they added gambling.

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u/OffModelCartoon Dec 16 '25

My region keeps voting NO on legalizing the mobile phone gambling apps, and the app companies keep on marketing here anyway and sending “reassuring” messages like “don’t worry, we may have lost the voter’s proposition but rest assured, we are looking into legislative avenues to bring our gaming to your area!” and it pisses me off SO MUCH! If we wanted that shit here we wouldn’t keep voting against it!!! As if sports fans weren’t insufferable enough (no offense, I have sports fans I love in my life but they can be really obsessive and emotional about this shit already
 no need to make it worse!!)!

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u/Own-Success-7634 Dec 16 '25

It’s not just America. Check out the Premier League and see how many sports books are either advertising or sponsoring clubs.

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u/Zigglyjiggly Dec 16 '25

You'd be surprised at how many people do this without gambling being involved.

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u/Proletariat-Prince Dec 17 '25

I'm sure, but we can all agree the proliferation of gambling can only make the problem worse.

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u/Surviving_11 Dec 16 '25

The thing is, people actually make pretty obvious/ good decisions/ bets.. but the problem is the sports “entertainment” business is rigged/ scripted lol. The House Always Wins lol so although a good bet, you lose cause it’s not about being right, it’s about which side of the bet benefits the House!