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SPORTS BETTING - THE CRASH TEST OF THE TWO POLITICAL SYSTEMS

Sports betting is the crash test of the two political systems, communism and capitalism, and both systems are found wanting and are brought into disrepute.
How and why ?
I will start by explaining what is sports betting.
Sports betting is -basically- a gentlemens agreement, between us.
We -let's suppose- the 30-40 forum members gather together and say this:
Gentlemen we are going to wage our money on the prediction of the football-racing results. Those who win will win, but there is also the danger of losing.
Everyboy agrees with this proposal, either consciously or subcnsciously.
The clever ones will win, the others will lose.
In exactly the same way when we were sixth form students we wanted to take part in the "mathematics Olympiad", organized by the national mathematical society. There is no difference.
If -therefore- the 30-40 of us formed a sufficiently sizeable pool we could bet against one another and life would go on.
Every time a big winner cropped up would the rest envy him ? Not really. They would send him congratulations - because that's also what happens in real life. If the one who won learned about a fixed match and took advantage would the rest grumble ? Again no, they would send him congratulations because industrial espionage is part of the game and because this too is what happens in real life. Only if it was he himself who fixed the event to steal the pool money would he incur the justifiable wrath of the others.

But we cannot do this, even if we succeeded in communicating with one another, because the law does not allow it. Only the national betting agencies and the licensed bookmakers can offer betting services.
But nonetheless, the basis of my hypothesis does n't change: It is the informal agreement between us.

Who are againt the bettors now ?
It is on the one side the bible belt-Ayattolah Khomeini belt. These people believe -following their interpretation of the holy scribes- that all humans should live in the fields with the four leaved clover and the fish. Anything else is a sin.
On the other side is international communism. Those too believe we should live in the kolhoz-komsomol camps and work all day and night for a plate of beans.
Those two then are against us.

But it's not only those two.
It is also the capitalist state who are taxing us until the pips squeak and then some more !
And at the same time the capitalist state allows the private bookie companies steal our money unashamedly (instead of protecting us).
Yesterday I logged in to bet365 and there was the match Union Berlin v. Bayern of Munich.
Their price for 1.5 goals or over at half time was 2.15 and the score was 0-0 and it was the 35yh minute !!
Holy begorah !
For one instant I was fooled because I thought it was the 5th minute, but then pulled back.

It therefore follows that both systems violate brutally all kinds of human rights.
But we have no way out !
If we curse the one system the other lot will say to us "welcome to the kolhoz tavaric - take this pick and start digging".
If we curse the other system, then the ones of the first system will say to us "here is your copy of Our belief by George Papadopoulos, read it to improve your mind".
This is the "trick du jardin votanique" !

What might be the ideal system ?
The ideal system would therefore be a socialist democracy, in which all betting would be free but supervised by a national authority the "national betting transactions service". Those guys wuold also be responsible for publishing the fixture lists, tv broadcasts and so on.
At the same time the public -the winners- would be paid at the normal rate and then go about their business.

In these virus days it is true that we have seen the national authorities projecting a different image of kindness and understanding, to fight the virus.
Nobody dares say to us "pay up" or "medicines only for the Britons" or "medicines only for the Greeks" or anything like that !
They would n't dare because this is a virus situation and anyone who dared behave in this way would be cobbered real bad.
So the idea of a society with "justice for all" is not a utopia.
But we have allowed the wool to be pulled over our eyes and we are tolerating everything.
 
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In order to have public betting on sporting events we do of course have to pay for the people who work for the national or private betting company plus also the listing rights of the various events. But allowing for that, it has gradually developed into a scam.
 
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