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DevinBelow Apr 16, 2026 +346

Seems cleaner to just ban "prediction markets".

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PazzoBread Apr 16, 2026 +82

Won’t happen anytime soon, Trump affiliates are heavily invested.

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DevinBelow Apr 16, 2026 +28

I am aware. In general, the wealthy are heavily invested, which means it's not going anywhere.

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Tyrrox Apr 16, 2026 +16

Which is wild because the gambling addiction crisis is real

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DevinBelow Apr 16, 2026 +18

And the wealthy make major gains off of gambling, so they have hedged against that crisis. Who do you think own the c*****'s and online gambling platforms? They are not local mom and pop businesses.

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Harley2280 Apr 17, 2026 +2

I mean we've raised entire generations on gambling at this point. Late Gen X had computer games, millennials had that and trading card games, late millennials and beyond have had all of the above and blind boxes, lootboxes, and basically everything else introducing some form of gambling mechanism.

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NotThatHandsomePete Apr 16, 2026 +4

By affiliates, you mean family?

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Fallouttgrrl Apr 16, 2026 +4

Just giving them the recognition Trump does, lol

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rysto32 Apr 16, 2026 +17

US federal courts aren’t even allowing *states* to regulate prediction markets let alone counties.

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Vio_ Apr 16, 2026 +3

but not easier - especially at the county level.

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worldofzero Apr 17, 2026 +2

They are already banned in a lot of places they're just ignoring local state law and asking the federal government and Trump admin to take over.

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Educational_Yam_7617 Apr 17, 2026 +36

Prediction market is the single worst euphemism of the 21st century. Gambling is gambling. Degenerates don't get to sugar coat it.

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RamBamBooey Apr 16, 2026 +46

Things are going to get worse before they get better, aren't they?

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DevinBelow Apr 16, 2026 +26

The first part is definitely correct.

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s0da_pressed Apr 16, 2026 +11

shoutout to DelCo for doing something right for once

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Mrs_SmithG2W Apr 16, 2026 +28

Can we just ban them all together? Nothing but wasted time and money amd a rot on society. Gambling should be legal in certain physical spaces you must go to not at home in your dirty undies on whether or not Trump/ Epstein drops a nuke. You know that the idiot spawn of Trump our investors right? Another way to take from the working class and prey on people with gambling addictions. Sick.

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spez_might_fuck_dogs Apr 17, 2026 +4

I'll definitely take the bet that Epstein is not going to drop a nuke.

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FootballWise1426 Apr 17, 2026 +2

Seeing the stats on the percentage of Americans on these apps was very depressing. The majority of bets do not seem to be on actual chance, but instead on access to inside knowledge. Yet, the majority of people betting on these things are putting money into “bets” as if they’re chance. I could be making money based off of my access to sensitive industry information. But I’m not, because it’s f****** unethical.

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Bagellord Apr 17, 2026 +1

What if you wear clean underpants?

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greg8872 Apr 17, 2026 +2

Or none at all.

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brickyardjimmy Apr 17, 2026 +6

Fine with me. While we're at it--why not ban the whole enchilada?

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Piney_Wood Apr 16, 2026 +19

Prediction markets definitely need to be regulated. That said, the notion that one individual rogue election worker can cause the election to be stolen is a rightwing fantasy.

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Harley2280 Apr 17, 2026 +6

Maybe if you're only considering federal elections, but state and local are entirely different stories.

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SlicksterRick Apr 17, 2026

I’m looking at it from more of an inside information lens.

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Piney_Wood Apr 17, 2026 +6

The little old lady counting envelopes doesn't find out who won until everybody else finds out who won. I promise. Paranoia and ignorance about how elections work are rampant and it really needs to stop.

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Lyricanna Apr 17, 2026 +2

While that is true, a person who counted even a relatively small number of ballots could mathmatically extrapolate the election result with a concerning level of accuracy.

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dogwoodcat Apr 17, 2026 +2

I couldn't have done this with our last election. My polling place was overwhelmingly for the Blue Team but the electoral district went Red Team.

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McMaster-Bate Apr 17, 2026 +1

They'd only be able to extrapolate the way their county voted. And most likely by the time they got that far the county would already be publishing numbers publicly. Also the individual poll workers likely are not counting each ballot race-by-race unless they're in a county with a population of 500. I've heard some counties do things precinct-by-precinct instead of county wide too, which will make their extrapolations much worse.

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SlicksterRick Apr 17, 2026 -1

I’m more talking about getting information before the actual vote tallies are reported. I have loads of respect for the people who run elections, but I think this is a legitimate place where insider info could lead to money. Not accounting for the fact that the current administration is profiting hand over fist on prediction and stock markets, but I will never be too harsh on governments trying to get ahead of scams as long as they don’t restrict freedom too much, and the freedom price on this is microscopic

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Escape-artist-43 Apr 17, 2026 +4

Please walk us through how the old lady at the polling center will bypass all the physical and digital safeguards specifically designed to prevent this. This is pure paranoia

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Piney_Wood Apr 17, 2026 +6

Educate yourself about how elections work. Jeez dude.

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tabrizzi Apr 16, 2026 +6

What will stop them from relaying info to family and friends?

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ShibeCEO Apr 16, 2026 +2

what will stop them from participating themselves?

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MrInternetInventor Apr 17, 2026 +2

Getting Kashi ads in this thread

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SeanCrevalle Apr 17, 2026 +2

But not the politicians...

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endofworldandnobeer Apr 17, 2026 +1

~~Dystopian future~~ Dystopian now

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astanton1862 Apr 17, 2026 +1

What about their friends? I'm asking hypothetically.

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DevinBelow Apr 16, 2026 +9

True, but betting literally incentivizes it.

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beadzy Apr 16, 2026 +4

at least they are officially taking a stance and documenting the opposition. it means people can be removed from their positions, theoretically at least. it’s how making things illegal starts. most people straddle the line between if something is okay or not based on consequences. so it should at least scare most casual opportunists from trying. those who want to do wrong will find a way no matter what.

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Old-Suspect4129 Apr 17, 2026

Whenever a pollster calls me, I lie.

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CanWeTalkEth Apr 17, 2026 -12

I think the prediction market madness right now is *because* people think of it like gambling and want to ban insiders. This is backwards. Prediction markets are supposed to incentivize insiders to put up or shut up to get the closest thing to the truth out there. Prediction markets say we’re going to invade Venezuela the day before? Uh, Venezuela should have prepared better I guess. We shouldn’t be focusing on the symptom, insiders trading on inside info, we should be focusing on the disease- that we allowed rotten people to be in charge of the worlds best military and greatest economy.

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farqhuarson Apr 17, 2026 +16

Jeezus f****** christ, lets ignore insider trading, allowing people to mainulate markets events and scamming the world out of their money and focus on the \*REAL\* bad guys" Might be the stupidest f****** take in all the stupid f****** takes.

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machsmit Apr 17, 2026 +4

"insider trading is good actually because you can just watch the insiders' trades" bb it's too early in the day to read such a degenerate take

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CanWeTalkEth Apr 17, 2026 -2

Well, no one is forcing you to take the other side of any of these trades. People need to be responsible for themselves a little bit. Military maneuvers aren’t ducking random, and we know the real degenerates are in charge so why would you take the side against them?

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machsmit Apr 17, 2026 +4

ok let's engage then, against my better judgement. > no one is forcing you to take the other side of any of these trades the blatant manipulation fucks up global markets regardless of whether you're actively participating in the gambling, so what are you even arguing here > Military maneuvers aren’t ducking random yes, they're determined by the same people who are betting on them in prediction markets. We call it insider trading but it's _worse_ - rather than just trading on knowledge, they actively self-deal by betting on their own decisions. > we know the real degenerates are in charge we're talking about the _same f****** people_ you halfwit

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