oh there's 6 more; I can power through <:chad:431600553806790667>

"Voting is also mocked. Maybe because voting creates market uncertainty for big banks and monopoly capitalists from whose perspective this game was apparently designed? Voting is portrayed as serving mainly to "shake things up" and something socialists are "constantly" doing. 16/"

yes, because it's called MONOPOLY which not at all points at how socialism is just another monopoly. Oh wait, sorry that'd discredit your narrative that capitalism is all about monopolies.

and shaking things up is what's done to undermine the credible democratic system

or if the socialists are in power, to continue the democratic farce, if there's a shift in internal leadership? I don't think you're aware that china exists as a country.

it's how Xi Xinping got into power, but nevermind that, china doesn't exist!

and the first thing Xi did do was to execute or jail all of the yes men of the Guy before him

"Of course the great irony here is that that the game we now know as "Monopoly" originally started out as "The Landlord's Game," invented by Georgist feminist comedian Lizzie Magie to satirize capitalist rent-seeking... 17/"

so that's the deep lore! You've cracked the deep lore! Sins of the father, sins of the son. Like, it's all somehow connected, so it can never change from its point of origin.

It's not like ideas evolve either.

monopoly was created in the 1930s

but things haven't changed since then

no wonder you think socialism is new when it's really 200 years old

"But then the game was stolen by a male capitalist, made even more brutally and unironically captitalist, and sold to Parker Brothers, who later abused the legal system to get around copyright laws in a classic case of...capitalist rent-seeking. 18/"

was lisning to some old comedians from the 1970is, and 90% of the shit he was saying was still relevant, just with new names

oh shit, the guy was pushing capitalist ideology without actually convincing anyone at all... it's not like he was just in it for profit, which as you believe, is political! Somehow anyway. Profit is political, even though it's merely addictive at worse. Wait, is money the root of all evil? You should become christian, but you'd hate that. Keep calm, and go back to the marxist bible.

@Nordhand because I think things have stagnated since the 70s, we're going through a historical loop of repetition

cultural repetition too

but things definitely have changed a lot since 30s

"In sum, I can't quite figure out who the target audience of this game is. It would be as if other themed "Monopoly" games attempted to viciously mock the theme, like if Dog Monopoly mocked dogs and dog owners, or Star Wars monopoly mocked Star Wars fans for being nerds. 19/"

If you acknowledged the target audience, you would have lost any argument with them. You can't acknowledge, if it defeats your narrative. Also, no way can an IP ever be transformed. It has to stay put, because iconoclasm, etc.

it for people that knows socialism is a scam

"I guess maybe in this golden age of "Euro-style" board games like Catan, nobody under 60 plays "Monopoly" anymore? Maybe Hasbro actually knows its audience, and that audience is just hate-filled Boomers raised during the Cold War and triggered by whatever people under 40 do? 20/"

ah yes, all boomers, boomers every single one. Socialism is the truth and the light, and the red scare was a black era on the history of america. All history is black and white, and forget about the past 200 years. Boomers are hate filled, optimistic and lazys, all rolled into one. The alt-right similarly blames boomers, so have fun with that. Maybe go back to /r enlightenedcentrism to show how woke you are, my dude.

nvm that a lot of boomers actually helped make society more leftist to begin with.

without the middle left (those left of center left), the far left would never have a chance in hell

i know the same can be said about the right, but it bears awareness

go to far left or right will just tear the system apart

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"Judging by this other Hasbro Monopoly game called "Monopoly for Millennials," the answers to these questions are yes and yes. 21/"

Fucking woke. Cracked the code. <:high_iq:382980759012638731>

i think we need a national akkadian front

that's what I'm saying

xD

millenial monopoly actually sounds pretty funny

https://nypost.com/2018/11/14/hasbros-new-monopoly-for-millennials-game-is-an-insulting-experience/

"“Money doesn’t always buy a great time,” says the insultingly disingenuous description. “But experiences, whether they’re good — or weird — last forever.”

Let’s just hope their student loan debt and the threat of losing Social Security don’t."

No it will if the dems bail out student loans.

Because it'll encourage further loan predation, as well as further govt debt.

And inflation and all that jazz.

"when ur definitely not mad someone made fun of your weird and discredited 19th century economic philosophy"