If you play the lottery you WILL win! Twice in one day! It's easy!
@dumb-news
Posted 1d ago · 4 min read
The propaganda to keep the poor as poor as possible continues with a site that has these "articles" featured every 3rd or 4th post between extremely biased and stupid articles about world politics.
We have reached a level of idiocy in the media that has never been seen before and I truly feel sorry for anyone that looks at any of this and thinks there is even a shred of truth to it.
So the story goes that a man won a little bit on a pick-3 and then figured "oh what the hell, I'll buy a stupid scratch ticket before I go home" and wins $300,000.
The funny thing about these supposed winners is that they always have really noble plans for the winnings and this guy is going to pay off his parents' car, buy himself a new car, and "bolster his savings."
I don't know many people that regularly play the lottery, but the ones I do now don't have any savings to bolster and this is due to the fact that they are foolish with their earnings and do things like play the lottery. The odds, which these various lotteries are required to print, of winning this prize is 1:12,674,000. The odds of winning this and a $250 pick-3 at the same time is so unlikely that we need not even think about it.
Yet if you are to read the propaganda filled news and you were a moron, you would think that you are a fool for not playing the lotto when the reality is precisely the opposite.
I doubt that this winner actually exists an that anything this website publishes has very much truth to anything they talk about.
I recall the days when bullshit publications like the Enquirer were just good dumb fun in the grocery aisle. These days, it seems as though everyone is racing to see how completely full of shit they can possibly be.
I'm not saying that nobody ever wins the lottery, because they clearly do, but I personally know 2 people that have won more than $50,000 in lotto money and neither of them have anything at all. One of them is on welfare. It is a mindset you see. People who would gamble on a state sponsored game where definitely "the house always wins" are going to be suckers for get-rich-fast schemes, multi-level-marketing, Ponzi scams, and any other sort of crap that is utilized by smart people, to keep dumb people shelling over their wages.
I just wonder what the lives of the people that perpetuate these untruths are like. Are they happy knowing that they are contributing to the overall unhappiness of society? Do they look at their kids or their own grandmother and think "how can i get some money out of these pricks?" Are they really so selfish that they will screw over just anyone?
Maybe I have too much empathy because I couldn't do that.
There is one thing that everyone needs to remember though. Systems are designed to screw you over and are presented as if they were put there to protect or enrich you. The reality is that nobody is coming to save you and you have to look out for your own best interests and work towards protecting your own wealth. Playing the lottery is one of the stupidest things a person can do in relation to finance. I get that it is fun, but so is gambling in a casino as long as you win, right?
I can't believe that this sort of journalism is legal, let alone believed. I sincerely hope that most people look at websites like UPI and immediately say "yeah, that's a bunch of BS!"
