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And it is considered responsible to make longshot high payoff bets that close family members will die unexpectedly.

That is a very good point.

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And it is considered responsible to make longshot high payoff bets that close family members will die unexpectedly.

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That the Honorable Swan would loudly distance himself from the actions of a "bookie" makes sense -- when you recall Swan himself was once investigated for a campaign contribution he made. With this taint on his record, it is in his interest to separate himself from all the connotations of financial shenanigans associated with the term "bookie" or anything on a sports betting site.

This just re-inforces the fact that prediction markets will not be taken seriously until the separate themselves from sports betting sites, and stop formatting their websites to look like sports betting sites.

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And it is considered responsible to make longshot high payoff bets that close family members will die unexpectedly.

That is a very good point.

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And it is considered responsible to make longshot high payoff bets that close family members will die unexpectedly.

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That the Honorable Swan would loudly distance himself from the actions of a "bookie" makes sense -- when you recall Swan himself was once investigated for a campaign contribution he made. With this taint on his record, it is in his interest to separate himself from all the connotations of financial shenanigans associated with the term "bookie" or anything on a sports betting site.

This just re-inforces the fact that prediction markets will not be taken seriously until the separate themselves from sports betting sites, and stop formatting their websites to look like sports betting sites.

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