Plutocracy Monopoly Game Board
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Category: Humor, Politics, Really, really bad calls
Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor implied. If you could repeat previously discredited memes or steer the conversation into irrelevant, off topic discussions, it would be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
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Brilliant.
‘Bureaucracy, The Board Game’ could be just as entertaining.
BR- your political leanings, I just can’t figure it out…
Holy shit, don’t you get it, both parties are going to screw us, just in different ways!
@ndmaster
BR will criticize both parties. When he criticizes the Republicans, he applies the full fury of his considerable ironic and analytical arsenal. But when he criticizes the Democrats, it’s sometimes from the left (e.g. Obama isn’t doing enough) and always much more nuanced and calm than his critiques of the right. (Check out links he sometimes provides as evidence of even-handedness.) The man is entitled to his opinions and to favor Democrats–it’s his blog! Thankfully, his excellent market analysis is unaffected by his apparent political disposition.
I dislike the Democrats, I detest the Republicans.
The Democrats are merely inept — it doesn’t take much to criticize their haplessness. The GOP’s disdain for science, reality, evolution, etc. warrants my full fury.
Criticizing Obama for continuing Bush’s Bank Bailouts, hiring banksters Larry Summers/Tim Geithner, and continuing to subsidize TBTF banks is hardly from the left.
Capitalism requires insolvent entities to go bankrupt. If you think that is a Leftist premise, you are misinformed.
For more on my politics, see:
1) Last of the Independents (March 23, 2004)
2) The Tragedy of the Bush Administration (Nov 2, 2004)
3) Democrat or Republican ? (September 17th, 2010)
4) The Tragedy of the Obama Administration (November 2nd, 2010)
and lastly, the following was written long before the Citizens United case.
5) The Left Right Paradigm is Over: Its You vs. Corporations (Sep 27, 2010)
Unless we get the corporate money out of our government, disallow the “corporations as persons” idea, ban lobbyists, set strict term limits for politicians, and have publicly funded elections – this corruption will continue and the country will become a wasteland.
i think we’ve already crossed the line of no return and that we’re on our way out, personally. We’re now a fascist state by any loose definition you care to use, we’re running on scrip rather than any viable currency based on something of value or “real” and the system is so corrupted now that it cannot be “fixed” from within. (Aside from that Mrs. Lincoln, how’s that democracy goin’?)
WTF Barry,
Democrats are merely inept!? Both parties are detestable and inept and corrupt!
At least you could have put both Romney and Obama on as “Either one wins, you lose” cause that is the reality.
ndmaster – let me help you out…. BR is a shill for the left. perdiod. look past the writings blasting both sides. when you add it all up, BR is shoot first at the gop, then offer some harsh words about the dnc.
That the monopoly board contains no reference to the crony-capitaism embraced across the Obama admin (green energy $$ for bundelers, the auto-bailout-cramdowns, stimulaus for unions, the silience on the nlrb ) tells you all you need to know.
BR used to teach us to look at all sides, give assumptions no quarter, question conflicts of interest, etc, etc., but when it comes to politics, it’s a one way train.
My guys are just well meaning bumblers.
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Sure do like your answers Barry!
“Not until Texas executes one, will I believe corporations are people”…author unknown
BR Says: “I dislike the Democrats, I detest the Republicans.”
In short time you will detest the Democrats too, you can only fool yourself for so long.
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BR: I have a special dislike of those who are reality challenged . . .
Rest assured Barry, there are plenty of us Independents out here who see things pretty much like you do.
Unfortunately, so far the frustration mounts with no clear pathway to politically viable solutions.
Nice board there. I particularly like that Boardwalk and Park Place now take up two entire sides making them simultaneously represent the increased possessions of the plutocrats as well as the inevitability of paying them rents on half your moves.
@ alexanderdelarge:
Accusing BR of partisanship because he recognizes that contemporary conservatives more consistently refuse “to look at all sides, give assumptions no quarter, question conflicts of interest” tells us much more about you than about him.
“Fair and balanced” is Fox BS and real independents make no attempt to emulate it: They just call ‘em as they see ‘em and if it happens that most of the cat-calls land on one political party then that party has the problem, not the one making the call.
I’ve always been a Democrat because when growing up they were on the right side of key moral – political issues namely civil rights and pollution. Mainstream Republican positions on those issues in back then are to the right of even Glenn Beck.
But Republican are right about the importance of key values like personal responsibility, the importance of family and the essential of a market economy and those are driving forces in society. Their problem is they don’t recognize the more subtle but essential forces like community and fairness. It’s like a pickup basketball game, they only want to play make-and-take (when you score you get the ball again) and by getting the best team they ri=ruin the game.
That’s the role of Democrats, to prevent the Republican from ruining the game and they aren’t doing a very good job.
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One of my favorite strategies is the housing shortage. ;)
You can horde/control 20 houses (62.5% of the housing stock) for only $1,000, and bleed them slowly.
Barry, I read you every day and think you are damn smart, but not just that, willing to put skin into a game.
Nevertheless I think FNG is closer to the truth when he says:
“At least you could have put both Romney and Obama on as “Either one wins, you lose” cause that is the reality.”
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BR: I didn’t create it, I just cut & paste it from the source.
REF: Romney and Obama on as “Either one wins, you lose”
http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/obamas-follies