‘Bone-Chilling’: Gamblers ‘Vowing to Kill’ Journalist Unless He Changes Iran War Report to Help Them Win Polymarket Bet — “After you make us lose $900,000, we will invest no less than that to finish you.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-journalist-polymarket-threats
37 Comments
We fucked up by legalizing online gambling in the usa.
That shit is ruining so many lives.
Combining the dopamine hit of gambling + smart phones was really a poor choice.
Used to be if you had a gambling problem you could avoid the casinos…now its in your pocket.
Smfh.
Law enforcement simply out to lunch or what?
Degenerate gamblers doing what degenerate gamblers do. Blame someone else for their bad bets and degeneracy.
And this is was Kalshi and their ilk need to be banned completely.
Honestly should put some legislation in place to limit what these gambling sites are able to bet on. Its pretty messed up to be betting on actual conflicts.
The worst part is polymarket and kalshi are putting a target on uninvolved human beings backs by announcing publicly they are the ones who settle the bets. IIRC this bet was settled by a specific source that was quoting times of Israel
The only way this becomes tolerable is if the ceo of each company has the sole decision of which side won the bet. Let’s see them deal with the maniacs they created
Meanwhile they’re giving CNN or whatever all the risk and none of the profit
Gambling is a plague.
Tell’em to bring it on! Then show this shit to the FBI and your local news outlets
Ban polymarket already what the fuck lol
If they’re that pissed about 900k I doubt they have another 900k to go after him, but the precedent of what this means is crazy.
When people form their opinions based polymarket and others it’s game over.
I dont know what’s more batshit, the AI psychosis and all the snake oil around it or some seriously sad people betting on everything.
It’s not new at all. Bone chilling to nobody who has seen crazy gamblers, or heard about this issue for many decades in professional sports.
Win, lose or draw, many pro athletes (especially tennis players) regularly get death threats from gamblers because of the result.
Raise your hand if you knew this would happen but didn’t know it would happen in weeks.
Quick PSA: any gambling you do online or in person is 100% on you. If you gamble close to $1,000,000 and don’t like the outcome, that’s your fault. Not the fault of the house, a journalist, or the grocery store you bought your scratch-offs from.
At that point, you might want to look into things such as gambler’s anonymous or the gambling hotline.
Legalizing gambling like this in the USA is one of the biggest mistakes ever.
Too accessible = people start to bet on everything, it becomes full depravity.
My gf has had people at work, literally 18 years old placing bets throughout the day, sports betting on the job, that’s insane to me. But I’m not a gambling man. I’ve been to casinos, but it’s always someone else’s idea to want to go.
What’s so bad about allowing people to bet lots of money on outcomes they can directly influence again?
Oh yeah.
Ban this garbage
This is why speculation gambling needs to be outlawed. Gambling on a game is one thing. Gambling on all the details just asks for problems like this.
Surprising that gambling brings the worst out of people.
There’s a reason gambling has been banned everywhere but Las Vegas for decades..
Oh good, now I’m a little more aware of which journalists to pay attention to.
OK cool, can we make these degenerate gambling markets illegal yet?
They are so damn stupid they don’t understand a journalist report is not gonna change reality ?
My uncle always said that gambling is just a stupidity tax and now it’s literally everywhere. Legalizing gambling everywhere in the US is destroying so many lives. It’s such a shame that people are allowed to exploit others like this.
Fuckin predictable. Ugh
Is trump announcing how that one dude is supposed to die in June, a part of this gambling shit? I feel like their corruption knows no limit.
The worst part is, someone would probably bet on said murder happening or not 💀
Bunch of sore losers hahaha😂🤣😂
Yeah, Polymarket shouldn’t be a thing.
Thank goodness they saved us from the very specific dangers of online poker and nothing else
Now this is cyberpunk
I understood why sports betting became universally legal, but felt that it was not good for sports.
There is NO redeeming qualities of monetizing any (all?) events or decisions. This is another example of Internet enshitification reaching into the real world.
I know that major university football and basketball teams have had to hire robust armed security as a result of legalized sports betting because their athletes are being threatened.
Someone saw Rat Race and thought the old rich men betting on ridiculous things and turned it into a business model.
Yall remember Biff and his tower? I feel like we’re right about there somewhere.
This, folks, is the unintended consequences of making it possible to bet on anything. The fraud and blackmail that will come out of this ability is going to screw over society.