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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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psilotop
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Joined: 2023-07-03
#52 Posted:   Subject: Re: An award-winning ESPN producer resigned after 24 years ov... Quote Reply

lol I was ok with big pharma. I was ok with weapons manufacturers like Boeing. I was ok with tech perverts like Meta and Alphabet. I was ok with oil and gas companies. But I draw the line at .... gambling?

She wasn't working for those industries though...

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SocialMediaRefugee
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Joined: 2023-07-27
#53 Posted:   Subject: Re: An award-winning ESPN producer resigned after 24 years ov... Quote Reply

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.

No, it is based on observation, history and understanding of human nature.

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