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[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

With that in mind as a marketing word, I really hate the smuglordery from treat defenders that say "if you get addicted to it (or if they pedantically say addition isn't technically biologically happening because pedantic reasons) that's on you. I'm fine. I got mine" and apply that to everything from deliberately habit-forming gameplay loops to FOMO and predatory monetization practices such as time-conditional "battle/season passes" and the like, or as had happened on Hexbear at least once: to fucking corporate sports gambling apps.

It's assholish and low-key ableism on top of that, seeing psychologically vulnerable people as deserving of suffering in some treat-Calvinistic way.

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago

It's not low key ableist, it's plainly ableist. Literally blaming a sick person for their disease.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago

I called it "low-key" because I'm sure the fair-weather self-described leftists that said it during the corporate sports gambling struggle session (not going to name names) didn't want to think it was ableist to say "if you can't afford to gamble don't gamble. Simple. I don't want a nanny state telling me what to dooooooooo." smuglord

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