• TheLepidopterists [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    I’m not going to lie, I’ve been very anti treatbrain rhetoric in the past but I think this thread has broken me of that. I’m genuinely unsure how we got to this point, never expected so many Hexbear to defend DraftKings like this

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      2 months ago

      I’m genuinely unsure how we got to this point, never expected so many Hexbear to defend DraftKings like this

      It’s a simple but powerful motivational force: they got theirs. That’s all there is to it. The sports betting app went beepbeep, pleasure centers of the brain activated, defensive tendencies engaged if the source of pleasure is criticized.

      Many such cases. rust-darkness

      EDIT: Or, maybe, it’s just some ideological puritanism that requires no restrictions on absolutely any treats because of dae le Prohibition bad.