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New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal

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Re: New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal

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How is it unjust? A company is not owed any profits, if it gets rekt by an union then it gets rekt. It cannot say "oh its not fair you guys are fighting me, only I can fight you in a just fight!" Ridiculous logic.

palmotea really wants to torque hN's literal mindednes, don't they? This is one place where the joke gets funnier as it gets explained.

Re: New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal

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Unfortunately, this shows how much facts and reality have been turned into nothing more than a loyalty test by both sides of our political debate. > A partnership between The Times (for The Athletic) and Kalshi would also provide validation that their prediction market data should be taken seriously as an indicator of the future. Facts prove otherwise. They could have objected to the partnership on any number of vali…

Politics is the act of organizing people.

Your whole comment misses the point of the sport. It is not effective to look for the most accurate or rhetorically tested point, the goal is to rally as large a group around a point that dosent make them look like hypocrites, or materially clashes with how they present their identity in other parts of their lives.

This point being mealy mouthed is by design.

Re: New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal

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Sports gambling is a cancer, as are prediction markets. None of it should've been legalized and all of it should be banned.

You do realise that countries other than the USA exist, right? The UK has had various forms of sports gambling legal for nearly 100 years and society hasn't crumbled and neither did sport.

Imagine two siblings, one who can handle the freedom of choosing their own bedtime and one who cannot.

Re: New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal

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Sports gambling is a cancer, as are prediction markets. None of it should've been legalized and all of it should be banned.

You do realise that countries other than the USA exist, right? The UK has had various forms of sports gambling legal for nearly 100 years and society hasn't crumbled and neither did sport.

America is not the UK and its citizens are not capable of regulating themselves in the face of this sort of exploitation.

Re: New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal

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post #45

Unfortunately, this shows how much facts and reality have been turned into nothing more than a loyalty test by both sides of our political debate. > A partnership between The Times (for The Athletic) and Kalshi would also provide validation that their prediction market data should be taken seriously as an indicator of the future. Facts prove otherwise. They could have objected to the partnership on any number of vali…

In practical terms commercial prediction markets are unregulated gambling. That's where the money comes from. Stapling a vitamin C packet to your cigarette box doesn't diminish that you're selling cigarettes.

Re: New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal

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Sports gambling is a cancer, as are prediction markets. None of it should've been legalized and all of it should be banned.

have you seen stock market these days?

Yes. It feels more and more like a casino as time goes by.

Re: New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal

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The only thing I know is that journalism stopped being independent and unbiased a long, long time ago.

Citizen's United was the nail in the coffin for honest journalism, because it sold out to those with the largest wallets. If you truly want truth in journalism support independent journalists financially, and with your attention. Ignore corporate media.

Re: New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal

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Sports gambling is a cancer, as are prediction markets. None of it should've been legalized and all of it should be banned.

have you seen stock market these days?

Is the stock market able to distinguish cancerous vs non-cancerous growth?

Re: New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal

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The linked article is pretty interesting: > found a pattern of [Polymarket] sharing false and misleading information https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/technology/polymarket-soc... They don't have much to say about Kalshi other than "unlike real mainstream journalism, there’s no accountability". Which isn't saying much, because nobody is claiming prediction markets are a type of journalism.

This website has been full of people that say it's better than journalism, so I don't think you're really capturing the entirety of the dynamic
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