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The White House has been ahead of the curve on this one for months

Yeah! If you're gonna falsify journalistic reports for financial gain, change your name to "Eliison."

When some people don't believe in "facts" it does not make the facts wrong It makes the morons wrong and they should be told that they are wrong... and morons Repeatedly

Gambling is a scourge.

I was told that polymarket was an accurate and truthful indicator of sentiment that wouldn't be a swaying force in itself

Huh its almost like society made gambling illegal at one point for a reason. Who could have guessed.

Given that this guy's job is covering the IDF for a pro IDF paper, there's a good chance the tiny detail is something like "the armed terrorist" actually being a "crying toddler"

1 in 5 gambling addicts attempt suicide.

at least a drunk has X% chance of being a "fun drunk" there is no "fun gambler". its just an addiction orobouros with none of the tangible intoxication of chemical addiction. sad shit, man.

Polymarket and Kalshi need to be nuked

I see a Twitter problem personally

Journalists making things up is the crest of the WHCA publishing lies for access

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& only a matter of time before an athlete gets seriously hurt

I grew up watching 140 baseball games, 50-60 basketball games and every single football game and countless college games for free on local TV There were definitely some gambling-affected games but not like today 1970-1990 really was a golden era

I don't think it's comparable to alcohol. Gambling is inherently a predatory industry where one side is exploiting the other. With alcohol, you get cut off if you drink too much. We have laws about drunk driving. There is a lot of restrictions on alcohol advertisement.

The leagues are likely the vulnerable point - if betting corrupts the leagues, the leagues and their players are out of work and the casinos don't have anything to sell bets on (and have more potential to lose if the outcomes are rigged), and the money from casino ads won't cover the losses to them.

Education is woke Experience is woke Reason is woke We are pure Id, pure action The triumph of stupidity

Furthermore, we take proven truths and flip them over. Pardon me for just a sec while I go water my plats with Gatorade...

Banned in America, the rest of us managed to have sports gambling without losing our minds for generations!

It's literally how professional wrestling became fake. It used to be a real sport until the 20s!

The “status quo” voices are becoming softer and softer.

It's totally tenable and I think it's cool, but it IS astonishing.

I like a good old fashioned 'fuck off'. Need to see more of them.

We're gonna have to publicly execute the Kalshi guys.

I assumed this guy was a sports journalist, but apparently his job is whitewashing for the IDF, so hey maybe the Polymarket guys are right on this one.

Oh, AI slop, gambling addiction and a Troll mentality... This is going to get ugly.

Holy crap

The combination of suffragettes,, teetolars, and anti-gambling advocates 125 years ago makes a lot more sense than it used to. But Trump looks back at those days fondly because of Tariffs and no Income tax

We should throw bricks at these people...

John Brunner already wrote about that in his novel Shockwave Rider fifty years ago, at least the part about gambling predictions being covertly manipulated by the government.

Whats inconsequential change? I must know

What did you expect when people addicted to gambling bet everything they own on stupid bets? The House always wins!

50/50 the detail he's being asked to change is whether something is a war crime.

Polymarket etc. have to be shut down. Do we need to allow “businesses” that are just entirely toxic? No, we do not.

In what universe is Fabian journalist?

This would be really bad if he was, say, a sports reporter. It's significantly worse when you learn that he's a military correspondent.

As someone who (a while back) was established in the Sports Gaming industry this is as foreboding a comment thread as I could read

Every time I see something like this that makes me think back to Zac Gallen and 2023. He was pitching and left the game in like the 2nd-3rd inning. Betters online were openly bitching about losing thousands of dollars because he left early and hoping he was injured because of it.

They'll squeeze the last drop of life out of everything, eventually. And where do they live? Not in the United States of America! ..and there's your sign.

Fuck all the polymarket/ kashi degenerate losers.

A culture of addiction. In so many forms, all mythmaking, all money grabs.

Jesus.

All the malignancy from crypto, which is dead, is swarming over to betting markets.

uh yeah

I don’t think he reports on sports…