Re: This is getting bad (375 Views)
Posted by:
STB66 (IP Logged)
Date: August 27, 2023 01:53AM
It's indicative of the way popular opinion is turning - twenty years ago it would have been biz as usual tomorrow. And my hands ain't free of blood in that either because I woulda been there and saying, yeah, too bad about yesterday, but this 10-1 shot in the 8th is interesting. They know they have a PR disaster on their hands and they know they gotta at least LOOK like they are doing something about it. It's not beyond the realm that general public opinion sees the game as an exercise in animal cruelty and turns against it to the point where it is no longer politically feasible to support the sorts of subsidies that keep the game afloat. I kinda ranted against dogs and their owners earlier tonight but the attempted point was, the public has anthropomorphized animals to a level never seen before in this society. When they see a video of a racehorse going down like it a bomb had detonated from within its stomach, they may collectively decide that hey, this is an endeavor that needs to go.