Postcards from the Clown Show

[Occam's Banana]

Except I wouldn't call it a children's game, although childhood is usually when people start playing it. It's not childishly insipid like Candy Land or The Game of Life. There's real strategy to it.

I suspect such niceties would be lost on Turner.

She only seems to be interested in pretending that a dice-based game in which the win condition is contrived to be "one person controlling everything" somehow "demonstrates" something about "free market capitalism". (In that respect, she probably thought calling it a "children's" game supports her ridiculous "point" - assuming she even thought about it at all.)

Do you remember Anti-Monopoly? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Monopoly

Never heard of it. Interesting!

To be honest, though, I'm not quite sure what to make of it, LOL:

Players take the role of federal case workers bringing indictments against each monopolised business in an attempt to return the state of the board to a free market system.

I appreciate the apparently pro-free-market sentiment, but I can't say I care much for promoting the notion that monopolies just sort of happen and it's up to government to ride in and save the market from itself - especially given the instrumental role governments so often play in enabling and protecting monopolies and cartels in the first place.

But at least it gives me an excellent excuse to promote something from the currently ongoing Mises University 2023:

Competition and Monopoly | Peter G. Klein
Government attempts to limit “monopoly power” cannot improve well-being.
Download lecture slides at: https://mises.org/MU23_PPT_15
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 25 July 2023.
https://odysee.com/@mises:1/competition-and-monopoly-peter-g.-3:1

 

[Anti Federalist]

https://twitter.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1684231028448145411

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1685485385554563072

 

[Anti Federalist]

https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1685452714904580097

 

[ClaytonB]

Welp, these exist...

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/reddit_lies/status/1685852206375870464

 

[cjm]

Sounds like Monopoly, one of the most popular board games in history.

There's no currency competition in that game. Legal tender rules are the real monopoly in that game.

 

[oyarde]

Sounds like Monopoly, one of the most popular board games in history.

Thats the one with the fake money like FRN's . I teach our tribe the evils of those inflationary , unbacked junk currencies before they are old enough play the board game but it is a start I guess for the less fortunate kids.

 

[Anti Federalist]

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1686057019394998273

 

[Sonny Tufts]

There's no currency competition in that game.

Thats the one with the fake money like FRN's . I teach our tribe the evils of those inflationary , unbacked junk currencies before they are old enough play the board game but it is a start I guess for the less fortunate kids.

You can always pretend that the Monopoly money is backed by gold if that makes you feel better. Or if you really wanted currency competition you could allow the players to speculate on the price of gold and exchange currency for gold and vice versa from time to time. But this adds a needless complication to the game. You might as well demand that players be allowed to invest in something other than real estate.

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/Juicemang762/status/1686591551781457920

 

[CCTelander]

https://twitter.com/Juicemang762/status/1686591551781457920

The idea that ANYONE gets ANY kind of "say" over my life IN ANY WAY, unless and until I actually go so far as to commit immediate, provable harm to another or their property is intolerable.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

https://twitter.com/scarlett4kids/status/1686586415591612421

 

[Occam's Banana]

h/t Not the Bee

https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1686720247208751104

 

[Occam's Banana]

*heavy sigh*

https://twitter.com/TimcastNews/status/1687164368625025035

 

[CaptUSA]

h/t Not the Bee

https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1686720247208751104

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/scarlett4kids/status/1686586415591612421

Cops Arrest Kid Protesting Drag Event | First Amendment Violation?
Do you think the cops acted based on the substance of his speech, or were they "content-neutral?"
Details: https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/20...testing-drag-event-first-amendment-violation/
Prior Video from Reading, PA: https://youtu.be/PQ74iS13Aqk [see this post - OB]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylRzhqUNa1g

 

[Anti Federalist]

 

[Occam's Banana]

I'm pretty sure that's not how that works.

But then again, I'm not a biologist, so ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2023/texas-abortion-law-teen-parents/

 

[unknown]

Republicans are not coming to save us.

https://twitter.com/GunOwners/status/1584577744129884160

Glad to see GOA calling out Judas goat Republicans.

Theyve traditionally kissed the GOP's ass despite caving on so many occasions.

At some point, these pro-freedom groups are going to have to start calling out the men just following orders.