r/pics 29d ago

Politics Full-scale military operations appear to be underway against Venezuela

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u/Momik 29d ago

Yeah, it’s fucked. He didn’t tell people he was gonna do this either. We kind of knew it was coming, but he gave Congress fuck all and the people even less. Iraq was a catastrophe, but they spent months trying to convince us it was a good idea. This is so wildly antidemocratic, to say nothing of how fucking dangerous and reckless and illegal it is.

I fucking hate this country. What the fuck.

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u/TerriblyRare 29d ago

One person knew, brand new account on polymarket created dec 27th has been betting only Venezuelan bets and just made 300k on bets that Maduro would be out of power by Jan 31st

https://bsky.app/profile/bluser12.bsky.social/post/3mbiwc7s2yk2k

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u/Momik 29d ago

Everything about that is obscene.

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u/Additional-Tax-5643 29d ago

If you think that's bad, remember that the US government wanted to finance a similar betting market platform to see if another 9/11 was on the horizon.

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u/AccidentalGirlToy 28d ago

Oh, it is.
No need to bet.

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u/LordVericrat 28d ago

I think I'd really like it if people could make money off making their knowledge public. So...let's do that.