Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]
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Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]@hexbear.netto news@hexbear.net•Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Huge MistakeEnglish1·10 months agoThe opioid epidemic has made a lot of people, myself included, skeptical of anti-prohibition. Turns out pushing something underground often does have the effect of making it more expensive and inconvenient to access. There some study I can’t find now, but it claimed legalizing prostitution actually increased human trafficking because now traffickers could mask their operations as legal sex work opening them up to new clientele they normally wouldn’t have access to. I suspect there’s a lot of men who would be going to brothels regularly if it was as easy as going to 7/11 but don’t want to go to the bad side of town to pick up a sex workers who could be a cop doing a sting.
Same with drugs, going from a system where you had to import raw opium from Afghanistan or wherever to the west via camel and make shift submarine, then process and distribute it clandestinely, made being a heroin addict and expensive pain in the ass. Now you can buy pills made semi-legally in a factory in Mexico that some guy got prescribed to him by a shady Floridian doctor for a broken ankle he had 10 years ago.
Prohibition didn’t work for weed and booze cuz both of those are things easy to make and distribute even when they’re illegal, plus they’re both easier to consume, and even abuse, while being a functional member do society. I think there are vices thought where you could reduce the consumption and abuse of just by making it a big fucking pain in the ass to get access to and gambling I think is one of them.
Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]@hexbear.netto news@hexbear.net•Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Huge MistakeEnglish1·10 months agoFentanyl and OxyContin seem to suggest otherwise
Ah dude I miss my early 20s, studio apartment in an east coast city life. I would just like get high, bike to a park, sneakily drink in public, go to the art museum cross faded, then get tacos and then go home and sext somebody I meet on Tinder.
I really miss my youthful public substance abuse and recreational sex life, but alas I’m in my 30s now.
Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]@hexbear.netto games@hexbear.net•It's dialectical you seeEnglish0·1 year agoHe’s a petite bourgeois
Stardew is literally a petite bourgeois fantasy role play game. You inherit property from your grandpa in some cutesy pastoral town where everyone is a small business Kulak. The proletariat culture of the towns mining past totally erased by these upper middle class yeoman larpers who probably moved into the area when all the mining jobs dried up.
There should be a mod where the Red Guards come into Stardew and forcibly collectivize all your Kulak ass property to grow wheat for the proletariat.
It is a fun game tho I get to make such a cute farm!!!
Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]@hexbear.netto chapotraphouse@hexbear.net•noooooo they killed the heckin murderdoggoEnglish1·1 year agoYeah, if the IDF had mounted cavalry would I be expected to condemn the Palestinian resistance for shooting horses? You deploy animals in a military situation you shouldn’t be surprised if they get shot.
Thing is we kind of already do. There’s a ton of regulations regarding the sale and advertisement of alcohol and tobacco, many of which are the product of activism by anti-smoking and temperance movements.
Idk how I feel about gambling personally, but you don’t really have to take a hardline prohibitionist or libertarian stance on these things. I suppose one could make the argument that adults should have the right to gamble responsibly, but like you can also think regulations against problem gambling are good.
Edit: also…
So I don’t really have time right now to delve deep into that article, but I kind of suspect they were interviewing adult, independent sex workers who are in the profession mostly voluntarily. Not that their experience and concerns aren’t valid but I do feel like I see a lot of pro-legalization arguments coming from that crowd and I think it’s worth considering their experiences as sex workers is nothing like most women in the industry. They’re independent and working in a lucrative industry on their own terms, often in semi-legal niches often for wealthier clientele. I think some people in that world fail to realize legalizing full service prostitution is essentially opening the doors for it to be industrialized which like likely lead to what is essentially sex-trafficking-in-all-but-name.