Sadly, yes
GuyLivingHere
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Haha, that (poker night with the boys type thing) is probably an exception. I was mostly talking about casinos.
The 'house' in gambling terms is the establishment in which you are gambling. It's usually not an actual house.
Statistically, this applies to all other forms of gambling as well. The house almost always wins.
What's the official punishment for treason again? Used to be summary execution way back when, but I believe we eliminated the death penalty in 1976.
Edit: Just looked it up. 25 years. Ehh, better than nothing if it could stick.
Most people (I would say 90%) are not what we would call 'political junkies'.
The only time they seriously think about anything political is when it effects them directly.
I probably devote more time than the average schmuck to politics because I operate my own business and I can set my own hours (plus, fall-winter is quiet in my line of work).
But for most people who work 12 months of the year, they are too tired at the end of the workday to care about whether or not fascism is slowly taking over, because the kids need to get to karate class, dinner needs to be made, and they need to sit down and forget about the horrible incident at work today. So I get why most people only really pay attention to politics when it is dressed up as entertainment.
It is a sad indictment of society that life is this way for so many of us, because it just allows the powers that be to keep their boots firmly on our collective necks.