Quote (SBD @ Nov 25 2025 11:53am)

Woosh, the point was you don't have to disarm a populace to maintain a 2 tier system where the average person is getting screwed over and over.

And what do you idiots honestly think it is, 1800's? 1960's? Its 2025 and you have drone fleets doing light shows. You think joe and is rifle rising up are going to do anything against a fleet of drones with ever advancing tech. Lmao, what a bunch of idiots.

Anyways, this topic is about the rise of the gambling issue, which if you are not blind has grown to be quite prevalent.

Quote (Shadowoffury @ Nov 25 2025 11:25am)

The government has nukes. If they go totalitarian and they want to destroy the continental united states, they can.

Obviously this would not be in their best interest, no one wants to be the ruler of a pile of rubble. They would have to get rid of the people they didn’t want without destroying cities, as Hitler did. If those people refuse to leave their homes and they defend themselves and their neighbors with guns, the efficiency of the holocaust becomes impossible.

All of those modern weapons are useless when using them is contrary to your aims.

Quote (SBD @ Nov 25 2025 01:33pm)

I didn't say nukes nor reference anything to that magnitude of destruction. Lets not play fucking dumb, no civil uprising is happening because of an armed populace with some ARS , handguns and hunting rifles. The notion is laughable and some meal-team 6 dream scenario. I can see the potato chip crumbs sitting atop their stomach now.

Quote (Shadowoffury @ Nov 25 2025 11:38am)

I said it. Whatever other modern weapons you want to bring up, including drones, are just a smaller version of the same problem. We know what drone warfare looks like.

Humanity has not changed. At every point in human history people have been capable of rising up, for good or ill. Why do you believe now is any different?

Quote (SBD @ Nov 25 2025 01:41pm)

What's your breaking point, North Americans have already willingly rolled over to nearly every poor change in the past few decades while gov't caters to corporate interests. Not only that, you have so many more vices to quell a population and keep them nice domestic fat cattle. The little uprising is a dead scenario, and quite laughable at best.

Quote (Shadowoffury @ Nov 25 2025 11:50am)

Lol the breaking point is totalitarianism, it always has been.

What vices do you think are new?

When exactly do you think people suddenly became incapable of rising up?

Quote (SBD @ Nov 25 2025 01:53pm)

Around the same time half of Americans became incapable of rising up off their own sofa.

Quote (SBD @ Nov 25 2025 01:53pm)

Around the same time half of Americans became incapable of rising up off their own sofa.

Quote (xrmd @ Nov 25 2025 09:19am)

Ti would stuff trumps dick down his throat if he had the opportunity to and call himself straight in the process. I'm surprised any of you even reply to him, he can't form a coherent sentence. I wouldn't be surprised if his Twitter account showed he's connected via a 3rd world country.

Back to gambling though; I think advertising it should be banned as an initial step. An idiot and their money can make their own decisions, should they want to risk it. Let them make the conscious effort to seek it out should they want to. The concern I have is the possibilty of getting people addicted from a young age. Sports betting has got out of hand, especially in Canada. Advertisements are EVERYWHERE. Every TV channel I see my parents watch, my own YouTube ads, and even physical advertisements on the trains, etc. it's crazy.