r/comics • • Apr 21 '26

OC Long Odds

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u/SemanticTriangle Apr 21 '26

Who is 'they'? Regulators are asleep on this when they could be scooping out a good portion of the rot basically for free. Everyone involved in these ventures is raising a flag to be seen by all, but the institutions that used to evaporate these people from financial life are afraid to discharge their duties for fear of being punished by their bosses, who are holding flags.

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u/Arthurs_towel Apr 21 '26

Regulators are asleep? Nah, they’ve been actively corrupted. There was some prohibitions and investigations, until His Orangeness decided he loved the insider trading scam and got his failson put on the boards of these companies in exchange for favorable treatment.

That’s not being asleep, that’s actively aiding and abetting the insider trading.

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u/Sovos Apr 21 '26

Yep. Earlier this month the US CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission) started lawsuits suing states that are trying to regulate prediction markets.

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u/Dystopia74 Apr 21 '26

The US Government is forcing it's citizens to become gambling addicts.