22 Responses to “Politics and Gambling”

1. WilhelmDrake Says:
   January 13th, 2012 at 2:01 am

   @25039255
   No, there is a distinction.
   It’s the difference between having a horse in the race and just betting on the outcome. The later is gambling the former is not.
   “… you are betting that the share price will go up…”
   Not necessarily, one buys stocks for a variety of reasons, dividends, etc.

2. KillerBee256 Says:
   January 13th, 2012 at 2:54 am

   @patatepowa Heck poker has some skill involved, it’s funny he reacted when Michael compared it to sports gambling when what he is talking about is the same thing.

3. 25039255 Says:
   January 13th, 2012 at 2:58 am

   @WilhelmDrake Of course its gambling you are betting that the share price will go up wtf else is it

4. oolong2 Says:
   January 13th, 2012 at 3:09 am

   Yeah that’s exactly what this country needs…. More gambling…

   Instead of playing around with “monopoly money” why don’t you invent something that actually improves peoples lives?

   “gambling on politics” has nothing to do with fucking “corn futures”. This guy is simply talking out of his ass to justify a SCAM.

   Yeah sure Micheal “it would be fun”…. as if we don’t already have enough problems with MONEY in POLITICS.

5. theBIGbadwolf101 Says:
   January 13th, 2012 at 4:00 am

   @ooMONKEYoo what is especially remarkable is the fact that you’ve chosen a limp issue like this to posture as an expert and its beyond tragic that you don’t know what you are talking about. To parse Bale “its FUCKING distracting” when there is someone walking about in the background, and Shure is visibly distracted at points in the episode, hence my comment.And since Bale wasn’t financing the picture its moronic to suggest his outburst was because “film is a lot of money”. Get a clue eejit.

6. ooMONKEYoo Says:
   January 13th, 2012 at 4:36 am

   @theBIGbadwolf101 The funniest thing on the internet is people posing opinions without the slightest background on the issue at hand.

7. ooMONKEYoo Says:
   January 13th, 2012 at 5:24 am

   @theBIGbadwolf101 If you really like being an ignorant idiot, okay.

8. ooMONKEYoo Says:
   January 13th, 2012 at 5:58 am

   @theBIGbadwolf101 You don’t understand why Christian got angry. Idiot.

9. Sapiensspin Says:
   January 13th, 2012 at 6:13 am

   Haven’t we had enough of picking candidates with wallets?

10. rolfalmao Says:
    January 13th, 2012 at 7:08 am

    Fuck yeah, I was waiting for the American version of intrade. Gotta love the free market. Time to lose some money.

11. ooMONKEYoo Says:
    January 13th, 2012 at 7:20 am

    @theBIGbadwolf101 This is live, no extra cost to them. Film is a lot of money.

12. SrRulao Says:
    January 13th, 2012 at 7:38 am

    Great! Just what we need! More manpower devoted to finance, should we invest our brainpower trying to engineer a better environment? Hell no! Let’s keep going down the path of finance industry, because it has worked so well so far.

13. shraka Says:
    January 13th, 2012 at 8:31 am

    @patatepowa It’s more like betting on the horses, except the winnings aren’t divided up based on what horse won, but on which horse everyone likes the most.

14. DeJach Says:
    January 13th, 2012 at 8:34 am

    Prediction markets are awesome. End of discussion.

15. WilhelmDrake Says:
    January 13th, 2012 at 9:22 am

    @25039255
    All stock & share trading are NOT gambling.

16. dangerouslytalented Says:
    January 13th, 2012 at 10:21 am

    IT’S GAMBLING. THIS GUY IS A BOOKIE.THIS IS NOT AN INVESTMENT.

17. patatepowa Says:
    January 13th, 2012 at 10:39 am

    @25039255 its as much gambling as poker is, people who know what theyre doing win those who dont lose

18. 25039255 Says:
    January 13th, 2012 at 11:15 am

    Its fucking Gambling just like all stocks and shares trading duh

19. shittyfagg Says:
    January 13th, 2012 at 11:40 am

    I think there’s something morally wrong with placing bets on the mentally challenged.

20. ransomdave Says:
    January 13th, 2012 at 12:40 pm

    @neopersia99 wow!

21. theBIGbadwolf101 Says:
    January 13th, 2012 at 1:26 pm

    Good to see Shure didn’t pull a Christian Bale with that fella walking across the set mid-question.

22. endauthority Says:
    January 13th, 2012 at 2:08 pm

    @stvnprr bash

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