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[โ€“] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 6 points 54 minutes ago

The market self regulating ๐Ÿ˜Œ

[โ€“] TrustedFeline@hexbear.net 24 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

America's hardest working gamblers being mugged by woke executives

kelly Polytically incorrect

[โ€“] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 13 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

What about betting on a percentage of people living in fallout shelters in the near future? Unrelatedly.

[โ€“] Tabitha@hexbear.net 12 points 3 hours ago
[โ€“] Meltyheartlove@hexbear.net 26 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Betting on the collpase of capitalism

[โ€“] christian@hexbear.net 7 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

What do you plan to do with your winnings?

[โ€“] Meltyheartlove@hexbear.net 1 points 3 minutes ago

Increase shareholder value ๐Ÿ˜ค

[โ€“] iByteABit@hexbear.net 11 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Betting on USSR 2 Electric Boogaloo with Cyborg Stalin

[โ€“] Lowleekun@hexbear.net 2 points 51 minutes ago

I would bet against it, so i have money to lessen my sorrow when Cyborg Stalin does not happen.

[โ€“] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 6 points 2 hours ago

Good, now for housing and business

[โ€“] Elysia@hexbear.net 33 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Murphy warned that allowing these wagers to go on could create incentives for people in the Situation Room to think about how they could profit from military decisions instead of focusing on national security.

Can't incentivize winning the big upset "no US war crimes for a day" bet

[โ€“] spudnik@hexbear.net 11 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

anakin-padme-4 So that means they'll be removing all the other bets that offer a perverse incentive for our leaders to abuse their positions of power for their own gain?

[โ€“] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 10 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Reminds me of this scene in Bowling for Columbine where the brother of Oklahoma City bombing accomplice Terry Nichols reluctantly concedes that there should be some limits to the right to bear arms.

... He cocked a .44 mag and put it to his temple right in front of Moore right before this.