No shit. Gambling overall has gotten out of control.
Guess whose conservative appointments to the Supreme Court voted to legalize gambling everywhere.
this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2026
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Any country even slightly in the crosshairs of Trump's regime would be wise to monitor these sites very closely.
People in the know are enriching themselves off of privileged information and tragedy. They are placing massive bets on military actions hours or even minutes before those actions take place with little or no betting history on those accounts. It's not luck, it's war profiteering.
If there is any way to track whom is making what bets, particularly if they can actually ID individuals who may have insider info, they would almost certainly be waiting for those amoral disaster capitalists to attempt to profit off of human suffering and use what forewarning they can get to protect themselves, minimize casualties, and maybe even make a preemptive offensive. It's moronic that they Trump Government wouldn't see that risk and shut that betting shit down. But what about them isn't moronic?
I guarantee you, the only justice the families profiting off of suffering will face is at the hands of vigilantes.
There is no way the system will come after them because they own the system.
always have been
Couldn't they have stuck to betting on inconsequential things like Taylor Swift's wedding date?
yup
Fuck national security.
Fuck prediction markets more!