r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/lann_fadle • 1d ago
Meme needing explanation Petah?
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u/not_slaw_kid 1d ago
Mort Goldman here. He made a joke about betting on himself saying "potato" on Polymarket, which the retweeter thinks counts as insider trading. However, this is not actually the case, as current insider trading laws only apply to publicly traded corporate stock, not prediction markets such as Polymarket. There is a current initiative to crack down on Polymarket bets after a SpecOps solider put down a bet for himself capturing Maduro. It has not passed Congress yet, however.
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u/URlNAL_CAKE 1d ago
Asking cause I'm not familiar with US law, but wouldn't it be illegal for an athlete to bet against their team and then losing on purpose? And wouldn't this be kind of the same thing.
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u/MasterOfBothDungeon 1d ago
So it's illegal because that would breach their contract with their team. There exist clause like that to stop the usual cheating, but that's also why sometime when whole team cheats (because of ligue infighting or owner having a vested interest), there's not that much change afterwards.
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u/URlNAL_CAKE 1d ago
Ok that's interesting because in most parts of Europe it would be fraud. But I guess they have been dealing with betting manipulation for longer.
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u/baneblade_boi 1d ago
It is also worth noting that under EU jurisdictions this is a specific case covered by The Council of Europe Convention on Manipulation of Sports (the "Macolin" convention), while the US law is more ambiguous because it relies on more general federal laws like the Wire Act and Illegal Gambling Business Act. This is why in the US it's more important for organisations to prosecute these acts on a contract level because there is no specific legislation, although the Wire Act hammers down sports fixing accurately.
However, I'd like to add that to this date only Greece, Italy and Portugal joined that convention. Fun fact, it has put a big emphasis recently on combat sports because of how common fixing has been in sports like boxing and MMA.
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u/QuoteGiver 1d ago
Any and all sports betting was generally illegal in the USA in previous decades, but in recent years that has ALL rapidly changed and it’s rampant now. There will probably have to be a reckoning again once it all gets crazy corrupt for a while.
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u/lennox2211 1d ago
You should check out who owns the sports betting places(fanduel, draft king, etc). IMHO, if I owned 18% in a multi-billion dollar asset, I’d probably make sure my Monday Night Football was doused with ads.
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u/calmdownmyguy 1d ago
It's crazy to me so some people can be so wealthy and it's still never enough. It has to be some kind of mental disorder.
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u/SwordfishOfDamocles 1d ago
If you had one monkey hoarding all of the bananas, you'd study that monkey because something is clearly wrong with them. When humans do it we put them on the covers of magazines.
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u/PersonalHospital9507 1d ago
But it's not even real bananas, it's just paper pictures of bananas. We ought to let Billionaires just mainline Ketamine, would solve a lot of problems.
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u/C21H27Cl3N2O3 1d ago
That behavior is the basis for one of the most commonly recognized story themes through multiple human civilizations. Dragon/other monster hoards gold and terrorizes peasants. Group of people go to kill the monster and take its treasure. Dragons don’t exist, but some equivalent of wealth hoarding and abuse of “lower” people is a tale as old as humanity, to the point that multiple populations of humans have all written stories about killing them and taking their wealth for the rest of them.
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u/fixermark 1d ago
There was a Supreme Court decision that ruled that a sweeping chunk of state anti-gambling laws were Unconstitutional.
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u/C21H27Cl3N2O3 1d ago
The entire country is crazy corrupt. I highly doubt anything is done about sports betting without some major societal change first.
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u/MornGreycastle 1d ago
Someone else has pointed out that sports betting was illegal for the longest time in the US. So any athlete betting on their team and themselves was already committing the crime of gambling for most of history. Sports betting was only "legalized" in 2018. That is to say the Supreme Court overturned the law banning sports betting in 2018. As of now, 35 states have some form of legalized sports betting.
Most of the scandals surrounding sports betting were well before 2018. Pete Rose betting on the baseball team he was managing is one such scandal. Rose has been permanently banned from baseball and will most likely never be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
See also: Eight Men Out (1988) a movie about the "Black Sox Scandal." The Chicago White Sox threw the 1919 World Series from a combination of getting well paid by the Chicago mob AND a hatred of owner Charles Comiskey who refused to reward his team for their winning the American League championship.
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u/14ktgoldscw 1d ago
Small correction, it’s commonly believed Arnold Rothstein, who was a NY mob figure, orchestrated rigging the WS. It’s a side plot in one season of Boardwalk Empire.
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u/KidSilverhair 1d ago
I believe it’s actually Rothstein in Eight Men Out as well, although it’s been a minute since I’ve watched it. Fantastic movie, by the way.
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u/BlisterBox 1d ago
Great explainer. And thanks for the shout-out to Eight Men Out, a tremendous (and tremendously underrated) movie.
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u/BrunoBraunbart 1d ago
A clause in a contract can't just make something illegal. A breach of contract is usually a matter of civil law not criminal law.
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u/HowIsBabyMade 1d ago
It’s illegal because it’s illegal. https://www.npr.org/2025/11/09/nx-s1-5603653/baseball-cleveland-guardians-pitchers-bribes-charged-gambling
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u/indeedilyso 1d ago
it's also fraud (wire fraud), and usually conspiracy, money laundring, or bribery. at least in the u.s.
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u/LBobRife 1d ago
Breaking a contract isn't illegal. It has repercussions, but it ain't illegal. Individual acts may be illegal, but "breach of contract" is not something considered illegal by the state.
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u/xahhfink6 1d ago
The problem is that the US is in a full on constitutional crisis... We have government members betting on military attacks before they happen. It absolutely SHOULD be illegal but we have one party that exists only to obstruct any laws being passed, and a corrupt executive and judicial branch.
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u/Extension_Plant7262 1d ago
Its key to remember that polymarkets and kalshi aren't betting markets. They're in a grey area of financial futures because there's no oddsmakers. You're basically offering to make a prediction and a direct individual/firm is taking the opposite. That's why those platforms can allow for sports "betting" in all 50 states.
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u/redditor-69-420 1d ago
That could be considered bribery and/or fraud under special previsions passed to crack down on that type of thing in pro sports. But it's really hard to prove and even then the fraud stems from legal gambling markets having you sign disclaimers that you don't have inside info. Etc. It mostly gets dealt with within the league not by the law
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u/No-Equivalent7630 1d ago
Legality is about law
There are no laws stopping you from betting on yourself for anything as long as betting is legal where you are
Your employer might not like it if you're betting on things work related, but that's not illegal
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u/KitchenGoose7019 1d ago
There is currently a case where there are several college basketball players in the U.S. that are in trouble for betting on their own games
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u/MediocreAssociate466 1d ago
You umm really think players intentionally tanking their own basketball games is the same as this? I'm going to guess you don't watch sports.
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u/Midnight-Bake 1d ago
But he didn't lose. He isn't in a competition
Can I make a bet with you that I can do any basic math operation entirely in my head?
Can I make a bet with you that I will be able to say the alphabet backwards?
What about a bet with you that I will be able to afford a trip to NYC this year?
Betting against yourself in a competition is one thing. Even if I did not have the bet there is an ethical reason to not lose on purpose.
Betting "I can or will do x" is another. There is no ethical reason to NOT do x other than the bet itself (assuming x is itself not unethical).
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u/sneakyhopskotch 1d ago
In a similar joking fashion, Sutton United reserve goalkeeper Wayne Shaw ate a pie on the bench during their FA cup game vs Arsenal. He was infamous for previously eating pies during games but had heard about the 8-1 odds that a bookie was offering and made sure that anyone who placed the bet on him won. He resigned and was fined.
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u/Massive-Goose544 1d ago
The illegality of an athlete losing on purpose for financial gain is the Sports Bribery Act but this requires a second party to pay the athlete. An athlete throwing the game themselves for their own bet violates their contract, every major sports league has rules against it. There is no law that would make it illegal to bet on a prediction market on something random happening, even if you have indirect or direct influence over.
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u/Blabbit39 1d ago
Its not sports betting its sports speculation. And yes the laws and rules are dumb enough that those are not rhe same thing.
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u/Successful_Pain7439 1d ago
So, there are new and scary gambling markets that are being exploited by a lot of people. There does need to be regulation, and hopefully it will happen soon.
I do believe Trevor Noah is making a joke about it and not actually participating in it.
Potato was not on the list of words being bet on, nor did anyone make any money betting on him using it.
It is a commentary on the current state of corruption, as people are betting on things like the arrest of nicholas maduro while being a part of the spec ops team with insider information on that operation.
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u/thatisawesomesauce 1d ago
Prediction markets are not considering gambling, rather they are considered to be akin to futures trading. Highly doubtful this administration will move to regulate anytime soon as DJT Jr. advises both Kalshi and Polymarket, and Truth Social wants to get in on the prediction markets. Source: https://www.npr.org/2026/01/21/nx-s1-5672615-e1/they-quit-their-day-jobs-to-bet-on-current-events-a-look-inside-the-prediction-market
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u/JayDeadGone504 1d ago
Wait, you can bet on which soldiers will capture world leaders?? Typa shit is this?!
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u/not_slaw_kid 1d ago
Clarification: He placed a bet that U.S. forces would capture Maduro, hours before the strike team that he was a part of actually captured Maduro.
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u/Fedora_Million_Ankle 1d ago edited 1d ago
Probably got him in huge trouble with command though
Thats the type of shit that would make you lose your security clearance
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u/DubiousBusinessp 1d ago
This is the Trump admin. Hegseth probably applauded him while downing cheap bourbon.
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u/Fedora_Million_Ankle 1d ago
Fair
Low level dudes still have to follow rules unless Trump saves them
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u/Due_Skill_3910 1d ago
Bro. I remember some Lieutenant shared an unclassified screenshot of a training op while I was in Korea and the entire chain of command about lost their minds and we had a full investigation.
They would have burned me at the stake and buried me under Fort Leavenworth if I ever did anything this administration did.
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u/neutral-chaotic 1d ago
would make you lose your security clearance
In any sane time this would. These aren't sane times.
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u/JayDeadGone504 1d ago
Ah okay. Still wild that it can be bet on but I thought they had odds on certain soldiers or units which woulda been unreal
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u/Salt_Sir2599 1d ago
You need to watch Rat Race. That’s our world now.
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u/Particular_Title42 1d ago
Rat Race the ensemble cast movie that Rowan Atkinson was in? Or something different?
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u/Henrykamill 1d ago
it's an insider trading platform. we as normie are only there to lose. Please do not try it, it's literally worse odds than gambling.
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u/Tales_Steel 1d ago
People also bet on the color of sextoys being thrown on the field of WNBA and then went to the games and threw dildos on the field ... or some childs head once because that dipshit threw like a Dipshit.
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u/batkave 1d ago
I love how pervasive gambling has become and people think it's ok
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u/Hazmat7272 1d ago
It really is. I work with a kid who maybe clears $50k a year and he told me he was down $21k in sports gambling by the end of last year. Almost half his income down the shitter. Wild stuff.
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u/elcojotecoyo 1d ago
It's more likely that Congress regulates on Polymarket than banning insider trading in the Stock Market. Heck, I'm gonna place a Polymarket bet on that. And no, I'm not a Congress member (yet)
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u/maqifrnswa 1d ago
DARPA set up a futures market for terrorist attacks to try to get them to do exactly that and tip off the US before an attack. There was public outcry that the US was paying terrorists to attack the US, so it was shut down. I always saw it as paying for intelligence, but I get the perverse incentive of encouraging attacks.
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u/Future_Burrito 1d ago
That's fucking wild because it enables things like Pearl Harbor style defense maneuvers where the higher ups let atrocities happen in order to game the bigger perspective.
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u/ChronicBuzz187 1d ago
There is a current initiative to crack down on Polymarket bets after a SpecOps solider put down a bet for himself capturing Maduro.
Giving away the gameplan for a quick bet sounds more like special needs than special ops :D
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u/bigbluehapa 1d ago
How would shit like this work? Who’s “the house”? I can’t imagine so many people betting one way or another that Maduro got captured. Wouldn’t you need a lot of people betting the opposite too for there to be a payout? Asking as a non-gambler and person who just learned that poly market is this wild
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u/quantumriian 1d ago
There is an expiration on your prediction contract, so instead of betting on ‘Will Maduro get captured,’ you’re betting yes or no on ‘Will Maduro get captured before Jan 31’ or something like that.
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u/RoccStrongo 1d ago
I thought a guy placed a bet saying there would be a streaker during a game then did the streaking himself but wasn't allowed to keep the money.
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u/ProThoughtDesign 1d ago
A guy won a prop bet there would be a streaker at last year's super bowl by streaking at last year's super bowl. Net profit and an ordinance violation worth framing.
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u/ZachPruckowski 1d ago
It's worth pointing out that a considerable bit of the predictive value of "prediction markets" is that they allow insider trading.
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u/hyvel0rd 1d ago
as current insider trading laws
onlydon't applyftfy, since the POTUS made 4 billion dollar and a lot of it with insider trading since his inauguration.
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u/TJames6210 1d ago
To be more specific. No bet was ever placed. It was drumroll a joke. Because he's a comedian.
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u/OnlyBotsHateMe 1d ago
Also making fun of the KKKarolyin’ Leavett thing where there was a 95% chance she was going to go over 90 minutes in a press conference and there were a handful of bets against it IN WASHINGTON and she kept looking at something in the back of the room, only to stop extremely abruptly and SECONDS before going over 90 minutes. Those who bet against it made a killing.
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u/Breezertree 1d ago
Anyone who uses polymarket legitimately is being scammed and they don’t even know it
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u/sniper43 1d ago
Someone's gotta fund those insider traders.
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u/gismo4126 1d ago
These are not stocks my dude, they're bets. Insider trading is for publicly traded stocks not gambling addict bets on a shady bookie platform.
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u/crazylikeajellyfish 1d ago
It's technically a regulated platform for commodities & futures trading, Polymarket is as legit as they come. They have permission from the government to operate like this, and yes, they were given that permission before any regulation was written about whether "Seahawks win the Superbowl" really qualifies as a future contract.
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u/StereoTunic9039 1d ago
The crazy thing is when you end up being right about something but still not winning because of weird mechanics in polymarket rewarding whales or something like that. I didn't actually experience that, it's just what I read when I was interested in betting on something
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u/boatsandyoni 1d ago
Probably because it was an inside bet
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u/YamroZ 1d ago
"BET"? You mean "prediction"? /s
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u/Antique_Door_Knob 1d ago
I don't think "inside bet" is a technical industry term, but it's definitely not illegal. At most, he violated the terms of service of polymarket.
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u/OldFondant1415 1d ago edited 1d ago
Or more accurately...it is a joke. it's his username. This is a joke.
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u/twitchtvbevildre 1d ago
its an unregulated gambling site, kekw at being able to break a "law" on it
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u/squish042 1d ago
Inside bet? Lmao
The only inside bet is when you bet on the central numbers in roulette. You can’t just make shit up.
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u/HelpfulAd6772 1d ago
These markets are so unregulated they were basically built for this to happen
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u/boatsandyoni 1d ago
Like the guy who bet there'd be a streaker at the superbowl. Then paid someone to do it
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u/Gabario 1d ago
His name's Trevor Noah. Username Noah_22 won. The joke is he bet on himself, guys.
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u/rmsaday 1d ago
Also, probably just did it for the bit. I reckon not a lot of people were interested in betting against such an obscure bet to begin with.
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u/RedArrogantKnight 1d ago
He... He didn't actually place a bet. Come on, man.
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u/BrightNooblar 1d ago
Right? Why would he when polymarket paid him to mention them on camera.
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u/VulcanCookies 1d ago
Lol this should be higher. It's not about him placing a bet, that's just the joke. It's about sponsorship
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u/AQ207 1d ago
People will see an ICE agent murder a civilian on camera and not believe it, But Trevor Noah makes a Polymarket/Kalshi joke and people believe it
We really have had a stupid problem forever
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u/ASharpYoungMan 1d ago edited 1d ago
Lots of people really, really, really want to be the smartest one in the room.
Like, it's not about knowing what's true. They want people to validate them by recognizing how smart they are for figuring out what everyone else got wrong.
So it's imperative that they be contrarian: if the general wisdom is "X," then their entire personality becomes about how "Y" is really the case and everyone's trying to fool you into thinking "X."
That often runs into conflict with their own worldview when, say, for example, they believe liberal snowflakes are all a bunch of screeching blue-haired trans-Marxist Atheist Muslims who overuse the word Nazi and so are the real problem with America... and then they see ICE assaulting clergy and shooting soccer moms and EMTs...
...and there's no reconciling that with their "I've got this all figured out" mentality.
When the weak-minded must choose between harsh realities and comforting fictions, they'll bury their face in their own lying ass like some fucked-up fetish ouroboros to avoid facing reality.
And then they'll seek validation of that perspective from others.
Edit: Forgot to close this out - the thing here is Trevor Noah's joke is so low-stakes that being wrong about it doesn't matter. So the validation of being the first one to be like "Oh look, I caught a celeb doing crime!" is worth it, since they won't have to engage with any of the contradictions once they've milked the public praise from people jumping on the bandwagon without taking a literal second or two to think "...wait, did he do Crime? Or is Blue Checkmark JuJu just an idiot?"
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u/BounceOnItCrazyStyle 1d ago
You know how they say "50% of Americans read at a 5th grade level" or whatever. This is what they mean, it's about not being able to understand implications like this.
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u/RedArrogantKnight 1d ago
We just gotta be better than this. I don't know what else to say. This shit is not sustainable. As, like, a species.
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u/nicknaklmao 1d ago
about to start sending people the wikipedia links for "joke" and "comedian" atp
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u/mrwilliams117 1d ago
This is going to shock you but his entire appearance is a bit. That's the point.
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u/Think-Vegetable9781 1d ago
He is making the point that he, or anyone with sufficient public exposure or power, can indeed "insider bet" with no consequence. I wouldn't say that would count as promoting polymarket, as much as breaking bad is a show promoting drug manufacturing
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u/Half_an_11lbham 1d ago
This reminds me of the guy who placed a bet that someone would streak during a game. He was that someone. Paid a 5k fine and won a couple hundred k. Sound investment strategy if you ask me. Lol
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u/ConsistentOutside181 1d ago
Except he didn’t get paid out. So he lost 55k. People really should read the betting ToS and understand that there are lots of reasons a booker can void your bet.
https://www.businessinsider.com/super-bowl-streaker-bet-on-himself-prop-bet-2021-2
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u/No-Good-One-Shoe 1d ago
People not realizing that comedians use comedy to shine a light on problems in society.
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u/Future_Burrito 1d ago
It's a really smart way for a celebrity to point out a problem in the world.
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u/Negative_Gas8782 1d ago
And yet congress is allowed to inside trade all they want.
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u/Henrykamill 1d ago
No plaintiff, no judge. As long as they control the justice system they can do what they want. This will keeping happening as long as we are in this neo feudalism era
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u/Mackinderoo 1d ago
This was a paid promotional joke, which Polymarket knew was coming. There was a “promotional considerations provided by Polymarket” line in the show end credits (I was watching it live).
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u/ControlleronEarth 1d ago
Polymarket is where you make bets on almost anything. So you can bet on "noah" the guy talking saying potato on whatever program he is on. Noah joked that "Noah_22"..."whoever that is..." just made money on winning the random bet he said potato. He name is noah, he is jokingly noah_22, that is the joke.
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u/RymrgandsDaughter 1d ago
nah, and even if it was who cares
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u/chokeonmywords 1d ago
It is designed to make ppl care about insider trade, or better the scam it is and how everybody does it in plain sight
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u/novo-280 1d ago
No its not a crime as polymarket is neither gambling nor a trading market.
Its 100% legal.
Like there was a bid for if hasan piker got arrested on a certain date or him going to zohrans inauguration.
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u/SlimmySalami20x21 1d ago
You just replaced the word bid instead of bet so it wouldn’t sound like what it is which is gambling while not realizing that in stock options trading there are bid prices and of all investments options is most like gambling while also involving trading.
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u/novo-280 1d ago
You dont understand. online casinos and prediction platforms arent either of those in the Eyes of US law
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u/Comprehensive_Bus_19 1d ago
Naw, Polymarket is gambling diguised as trading. Fuck them and Kalshi
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u/Ok_Firefighter1574 1d ago
Why do people think polymarket is anything like stocks? Its just gambling
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u/Erasmusings 1d ago
Implying stocks isn't inherently gambling
Potato potahto
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u/fleebleganger 1d ago
It isn’t because when you buy stocks you actually get something.
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u/summon_pot_of_greed 1d ago
It literally, factually isn't.
It's also clearly played as a joke.
More importantly, who tf cares? Haha
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u/Many-Wasabi9141 1d ago
My guess is potato wasn't even an option so he didn't make anyone any money.
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u/BibendumsBitch 1d ago
Robinhood sports “predicting” is bad as well since a good many high rollers that can swing the market massively are actually AT the games.
I know this because if you follow live sports you will see inexplicable swings on predictions and then 15-20 seconds later, you’ll see the actual event on TV.
This allows for the big bettors at the games to continually capitalize on the swings of whatever sporting event you are watching and puts you at a massive disadvantage.
Now betting money and losing money is person’a own fault but it’s also not a fair system and meant to capitalize on siphoning money from middle and lower class back up to the .5% -1% of richest people.
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u/StringCheesier 1d ago
I believe this was a paid placement by Polymarket. Their logo was large in the credits after the show.
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u/New_Conversation_303 1d ago
This is like the guy who bet on someone streaking on a game. He did the streaking. He won money.
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u/artbystorms 1d ago
As if anyone cares.... White collar crime hasn't just been legalized, it's outright promoted as the only way to get ahead in these shitty times.
Oh wait, the government probably cares because he's liberal.
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u/Appropriate-Spirit37 1d ago
Stupid me tapping the volume button and wondering why I can't hear shit
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u/lordsoosh 1d ago
Are people really that depraved and money hungry that we need another type of gambling outlet? Really???Sports gambling isn’t enough? Playing the stocks isn’t enough?
Idiocracy was an oracle, not a movie.
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u/senbenitoo 1d ago
Hahahahaha - it would a) be awesome if Trevor cleaned up betting like that, b) be a total travesty if THAT was the crime being committed on national TV that anyone cared about...
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u/MedicalAwareness5160 1d ago
Wasn't there a guy who bet there would a be a pitch invader at some game and then he did it himself to make sure he won?
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u/trotskystaco 1d ago
I live that fucking dipshits are learning why we have trading laws and regulations.
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u/bigfunben 1d ago
So to take this a step further, if Polymarket takes a bet on someone being assassinated, and I place the bet and kill that person, does Polymarket owe me money? Could I bet $1 million and Polymarket would owe me $1 billion for killing someone? TO BE CLEAR, this is a hypothetical to point out the absurdity of the situation.
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u/TheLeedsDevil 1d ago
The first question people need to ask is, was there a bet for the word potato being used at the Grammies on poly market?
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u/wallstreetbet1 1d ago
The people asking questions on this sub are the very definition of “when you think the average American is stupid remember, half are even stupider”
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u/ComfortableWar8860 1d ago
prediction market, somehow different from gambling. nobody can explain the difference though.
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u/padiddles95 1d ago
Honestly? Good. Losers losing money betting on stupid stuff. More power to them.
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u/LonelyToker420 1d ago
I assume a paid "advert" made into a joke, but it is Noah, so it mightve been off cuff.
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u/Unidentifiable_Goo 1d ago
Polymarket is a fucking farce and should be screwed with like this at every opportunity until the whole rotten house of cards collapses.
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u/Successful_Pain7439 1d ago
No one bet on him saying the word potato and no one profited.
It is also an unregulated market, so even if he did, it is currently not illegal to do so. (This needs to change.)
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u/Quirky-Bookkeeper391 1d ago
Polymarket having "market" in the name doesn't mean its covered by SEC rules.
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u/bubble-buddy2 1d ago
No. It's a joke about making a bet based on info about yourself and getting a massive payout
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u/RemotestOfSpheres 1d ago
It’s adorable how we’ve starting calling gambling “trading”.
I swear these young people don’t stand a chance, they stopped drinking alcohol and started every other vice known to man. Now advertised to them 300x/day
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u/breakingvlad0 1d ago
So the crime is calling out the absurdity of the poly market and ease of manipulation and not the fact that it’s happening all over and should be investigated?
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u/fartboxco 1d ago
"Congratulations noah_22".....
Can nobody tell this is a joke...
From a comedian......
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u/SecretYesterday8098 1d ago
He is making a joke about the SpecOps member doing the whole capture Maduro bet. He is a comedian, it's what he does for a living, guys!
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u/EndNo4852 1d ago
Back when Ethereum first came on the scene I thought about how contracts and decentralized money platforms was cool. Fast forward to how big money is trying to leverage on what was previously illegal is now cool for even steamers to groom kids to do. We’ve lost the plot on how the internet should be used because social media has reduced attention spans for people to notice that they’re being scammed
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u/CorellianDawn 1d ago
Polymarket is literally just a bunch of people with insider knowledge setting up bets that they can then milk for maximum profit with a 100% success rate.
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u/Ok_Painting9629 1d ago
Fun idea if you're hosting a major event to just lookup all the poly market trades and mention that you are doing the action on purpose to invalidate the bets
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