> There is now more than $500,000 (£371,000) staked on whether Russia will capture Kostyantynivka this year .

Now everyone has a chance to profit from war ! Thank you Polymarket

hoppyhoppy2 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Are users able to bet specifically on whether prisoners of war in Kostyantynivka will be killed? Or whether women and children will be raped? That kind of fine-grained war market could be groundbreaking

	▲	b65e8bee43c2ed0 35 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I know you're just being snarky, but FYI, oldtimey rape and pillage requires the civilian population to be present at the time of the assault, and that only happened during the first month or so of this war. since summer 2022, the Russian advance has been so slow that women and children had months to safely evacuate. besides, each settlement is reduced to rubble by artillery and gliding bombs before assaults begin.

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falcor84 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You make it sound bad, but I personally am very much in favor of regular people having access to the same bad things that the people in charge have.

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nullstyle 2 hours ago | parent [-]

You think normal folks should have access to precision guided munitions and chemical weapons?

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falcor84 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Look, I don't think people should have access to these at all, but at the same time, I think that the average Joe would be a better custodian of these than Trump and Netanyahu.

My hope is that equal access might make us stop treating these things as if they are ok.

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yunohn an hour ago | parent [-]

This has clearly worked out well with giving guns to the entire US population…

	▲	falcor84 15 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It definitely hasn't, but my argument would be in favor of making regular police forces be unarmed as well, like in the UK.

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paulnpace 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

War profiteering for the people!

	▲	ks2048 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Lots of publicly traded war profiteering companies. The president even highlighted one a couple of days ago.