return2ozma'Bone-Chilling': Gamblers ‘Vowing to Kill’ Journalist Unless He Changes Iran War Report to Help Them Win Polymarket Bet
certified_expertCan somebody eli5 me this? I am not sure I am getting it
quick_snailPoly market is a gambling platform where people bet on things that will happen in real life.
Bob made a bet that Iran would bomb Israel on some specific date.
Unrelated and unaware about Bob, Fabian is a journalist. Fabian wrote an accurate article describing an attack where Iran bombed Israel.
Bob’s bet was wrong. He’s about to loose a lot of money. So Bob threatens to kill Fabian. Bob tells Fabien he must change his story, so Bob doesn’t loose money.
First, that is deeply fucked up. Second, who pays or determine which way a bet went?
Do you see how many bets may end up in ambiguous states where it is interpretable which side won?
What’s even more fucked up is that there’s nothing preventing DoD employees from also betting on this stuff while simultaneously being the ones deciding the who, what, when, where, and why of bombing another country.
isn’t it DoW, now?
DoW… DOW… coincidence? I think not
Nah, I refuse to normalize the rhetoric of the treasonous Nazis leading the country.
djdarrenI don’t think they can actually change the name without jumping through tons of hoops, and we know they aren’t doing that. So its still DoD they just call it DoW.
hoshikarakitaridiaAlways cool when the commander in chief promises no wars, starts multiple geopolitically unprecedented conflicts and at least one war while renaming the department of defense into the department of war. Hope he gets the nobel peace price, he seems like he really deserves it.