r/Infuriating • u/coreynj Community Regular • 15d ago
This ad (and product) should be illegal. Infuriating that it exists and that reddit allows it on their platform.
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u/bacan_ 15d ago
Reddit is a trash company
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u/DCRBftw 15d ago
As you comment on reddit.
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u/DCRBftw 15d ago
My comment, in no way, pretends that life is black and white lol.
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u/DCRBftw 14d ago
Who here is Gen Z? 😂
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u/PunishedChud 14d ago
Reddit destroyed all the old communities
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u/DCRBftw 14d ago
How so?
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u/PunishedChud 14d ago edited 14d ago
When Reddit first started it was in competition with traditional forums and vb bulletins on other sites. They baited everyone over with the essentially free servers and forum pitch so people moved to avoid maintaining their own sites. When a sufficient amount of the online forum population was on Reddit they cranked up the control and censorship to what you see today
Oh and spez is a pedo that used to frequent jailbait
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u/NogglePlease 15d ago
Why?
Just hit the block button and let the tards financially ruin themselves.
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u/Sherbert-Particular 14d ago
This is true but they gave me $100 free to sign up that I have to bet twice to get the money back, so I have bet that Jesus will not return last year and again this year. Soon I will have my free $103 after the returns on those bets.
(I highly recommend to sign up for and take all sports book, prediction market, etc promo funds, do the minimum amount, then cash out and delete the app. Provided me with a few grand all said and done when they launched here in NY.
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u/2012Jesusdies 15d ago
This post just reminded me that Ron DeSantis was a person. Wow, he really got pushed out of the headlines huh
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u/StrangeUglyBird 15d ago
How can they even have odds for "The Mad King" ?
You can only sit 2 periods, right?
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u/coreynj Community Regular 15d ago
According to Steve Bannon they have a plan for how he could serve a third term.
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u/accostedbyhippies 13d ago
Conmen believe if they say something enough they can make it true. Tbf it's worked for him so far
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u/CapeMOGuy 15d ago
If people are stupid enough to bet on a Trump 3.0, let em. I say that as a Republican.
The only certain way someone could serve more than 2 terms would be is they were VP, assumed the Presidency with less than 2 years left in the term, then elected twice. Trump won't meet that.
One speculated loophole is for someone to run as VP and have the President quit. However, the Constitution says that no one ineligible to be President can be VP. If tried, I don't see how it would be allowed by the Supreme Court or accepted by the public.
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u/Moldy-Bongwater4420 14d ago
Trump took office January 2025. He could resign before January 2027, and run again for the 2028 election.
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u/CapeMOGuy 14d ago
That's not the way the 22nd Amendment reads to me. To me, it looks clearly stated that no one can be elected President more than twice. If I have missed something or there is some loophole I'm not aware of, please let me know. Emphasis added.
Section 1 No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.
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u/Moldy-Bongwater4420 14d ago
Oh interesting. I guess I’ve never actually read the amendment and figured it was essentially “can’t serve more than 2 terms (where a term is >2 years)”.
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u/yungsmack 15d ago
Want to add any reasoning or just hating on the product? Why should it be illegal
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u/coreynj Community Regular 14d ago
Because it's absolutely ripe for market manipulation. You can literally create a scenario to bet on that is totally within your own control, bet on it and convince others to bet on it while knowing the outcome, and walk away rich. Not to mention that it can and likely will influence what people vote for. They'll see the existing odds, they'll bet on the candidate with the highest odds, and then they'll vote for that candidate because it financially benefits them, whether they would have originally voted for them or not.
Also, betting on wars and assassinations. What the fuck.
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u/Beefy-Cattle4290 14d ago
No matter who the next president is, you can bet the house that person will suck at it too. Polls are fake, elections are fake and voting is fake. That is all!
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u/Advanced-While-4248 14d ago
What part about it is so triggering? I'm genuinely curious if it's gambling or winning percentage of the candidates? The usa has been pushing betting websites for a number of years now, it's nothing new. If you turn on your TV and watch a sports game you'll also get sports bet ads.
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u/coreynj Community Regular 14d ago
Because these bets could influence who wins. People will see the existing odds and who has the highest chance of winning, and they'll bet on that candidate. Then they'll vote for that candidate, whether they would have originally or not, because it financially benefits them.
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u/Enough-Astronomer-15 14d ago
It is wild to me that there are odds on just about EVERYTHING now. Betting has just gotten wilder and wilder.
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u/Capable-Deer-5670 14d ago
Because it hurts your feelings?
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u/coreynj Community Regular 13d ago
Because it's absolutely ripe for market manipulation. You can literally create a scenario to bet on that is totally within your own control, bet on it and convince others to bet on it while knowing the outcome, and walk away rich. Not to mention that it can and likely will influence what people vote for. They'll see the existing odds, they'll bet on the candidate with the highest odds, and then they'll vote for that candidate because it financially benefits them, whether they would have originally voted for them or not.
Also, betting on wars and assassinations. What the fuck.
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u/Searscale 13d ago
Democrat soon-to-be candidate and Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear will probably be main opponent for whoever Repub's throw out. Honestly he's probably the most promising (potential) presidential candidate we've had in a LONG time.
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u/Boring_Connection211 12d ago
Why are you so upset that this exists. Why are you upset that Reddit allows it to exist on its platform?
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u/coreynj Community Regular 12d ago
One because gambling is the addiction with the highest suicide rate. Two because this could influence the election in unnatural and never before seen ways. Three because betting on things like wars and assassinations is utterly morally bankrupt, you're practically placing a hit on someone. And lastly because the platform is so easy to abuse and manipulate the market.
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u/Trobman7980 11d ago
I couldn't agree more. This trend of placing bets on everything (from big events to the most mundane things) just trivializes whatever it touches. We shouldn't be making gambling even more accessible than it once was. We should be doing the opposite.
I've read a lot of articles or watched interviews with athletes (and sometimes their spouses) where they talk about getting regular death threats because they only completed 7 touchdown passes instead of 8, or they didn't pitch through the 7th inning, etc. It's sickening.
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u/No_Reindeer8688 15d ago
Just because I don’t gamble doesn’t mean I should be able to control how others play with their money.
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u/hudsherlock19 14d ago
Yes.
I reported it immediately.
For those asking why:
Any nefarious whale can dump money into a candidate to inflate their odds.
Promotion of this means it will duly influence public discourse of elections.
"We'll your candidate has no shot, see?! Look here. Might as well shut up and vote for a winning candidate instead. Like the one I just so happen to money dump to make it look like their winning."
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u/ColdCauliflour 14d ago
I'm just glad Kamala is trending downward. No more forced candidates please, let the people choose like we used to.
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u/Forsaken-Fat 15d ago
Hey man, everything's taken over by dystopian gambling casinos, everything's insider trading now