The cartoon of the week, signed by Jackson Ramirezis not an exaggeration. It’s a portrait.
And like any good uncomfortable portrait, it doesn’t name names — it exposes the system.
In an election year, the script repeats itself: on the microphone, the politician shouts against bets, sells moral indignation and promises to “fight this evil”. Behind the scenes, away from the cameras and applause, the same State counts the money. A lot of money.
The numbers don’t lie — and they don’t apologize.
According to the Periodic Overview of the regulated fixed-odds betting market from 2025published by Secretariat of Prizes and Bets of the Ministry of Finance (SPA-MF)the sector generated around R$9.95 billion in federal revenue in 2025. GGR surpassed R$36.9 billion. An extremely efficient “evil” when it comes to filling public coffers.
The cartoon exposes this institutional schizophrenia:
🔊 moral speech to the audience,
💰 fundraising pragmatism behind the scenes.
It’s not about defending or attacking bets. It’s about intellectual honesty. If the game is treated as a villain in the speech, why is it treated as a solution in the budget? If it “destroys families”, why does it support sports, tourism, public safety and social security?
The collection of cartoons and strips from Gaming365 it was born exactly for this: to remove the veneer of the debate and show the gears behind the narrative. Where morals change according to the electoral calendar and ethics tend to lose out to revenue.
📎 To understand the size of the contradiction, access the official data:
👉 Periodic overview of the regulated fixed-odd betting market
Fonte: Gaming365 – Brasil
