Everything Is Political: Board Games

Everyone's going to lose!

Austin Bragg and Andrew Heaton | 4.28.2023 10:30 AM

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Republicans and Democrats understand Monopoly.

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But SkyNet is a Private Company 3 years ago (edited)

This Boaf Sidez stuff is HILARIOUS! Just hilarious

Those wacky Republicans and their guns. Us Cosmotarians surely think they are so icky.

And of course the debt is the Republicans fault as well

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1. sarcasmic 3 years ago
  
  Just to be clear, the Republican jokes made you feel bad and you feel they should have only made fun of Democrats?
  
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  1. mad.casual 3 years ago (edited)
    
    Can’t speak for SkyNet but, as I indicated below, the only part that really offended me was the suggestion that Santos was, somehow, the GOP’s fault. Maybe it was intended to demonstrate that the NY State Republican Committee is wholly captured by the Democrats, but even then, they obfuscate the critical parts where NYSRC went to the media multiple times about how shady, if not criminal, the guy was only to be ignored if not outright dismissed by the Democrat-Media Complex.
    
    Make Santos a libertarian candidate and the NYSRC the NYSLC and it’s effectively Reason laughing and glossing over, again, how a TPD-Media complex effectively capitalized on managing their constituent managed like mushrooms.
    
    I can understand how the gun and debt jokes contain some elements of truth and might offend some and make others laugh, but the Santos joke comes across as Reason simultaneously laughing about not doing their job while mocking those who tried to do it for them. And I can't conceptualize the person, outside the Statist-Media Complex who would laugh about that.
    
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    1. sarcasmic 3 years ago (edited)
      
      You’re talking about the Republican who made international news when he lied on his resume, and nobody caught it until after the election, right? Seems to me like the joke was spot on.
      
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      1. Its_Not_Inevitable 3 years ago
        
        As an independent libertarian type individual I see him as a politician. i.e. A liar seeking power and money. Par for the course. Party has nothing to do with it.
        
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        sarcasmic 3 years ago
        
        If you don't hold allegiance to a party, why is mentioning the guy's party so offensive?
        
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        Its_Not_Inevitable 3 years ago
        
        I get it. You're trolling as usual. Sorry, I'm not the Republican you're looking for.
        
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        Mike Laursen 3 years ago
        
        If sarcasmic was trolling he was trolling Skynet and mad.casual. Which raises the question why you jumped into the conversation if you are an independent, whom one would assume is unconcerned about people making fun of Republicans.
        
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        mad.casual 3 years ago
        
        As I indicated, the problem isn't mentioning his party. The problem is the concoction of a false, selfish or self-oriented narrative in the format or style. It's the same line that Oliver, Stewart, Noah, etc. crossed, then crossed repeatedly until their popularity collapsed. You can stretch the narrative and, when telling jokes, you can stretch the narrative further than normal and there's less of a problem with frequently stretching the narrative. But if you continue to stretch it and in the wrong way, you have to recognize that's what you're doing or you wind up without an audience wondering, "What did I (not) do?"
        
        And I'm not here to say what the right way is, I'm not the comedian(s), the right way depends a lot on the comedian and their stage or platform (there is no one right way), nor am I here demanding any sort of an apology. I'm just stating that the one joke felt more like, at best, a brief, off-color lecture than a joke.
        
        Like when Heaton keeps making jokes about how The Jones Act. The idea that we enacted cabotage laws to combat a zombie Franz Ferdinand is funny. The idea that we should have cabotage laws that should more closely mimic Europe's, going on to say that ships should be able to sail (e.g.) between China and the US the way ships (don't) sail between Spain and Greece, just demonstrates that, again at best, he doesn't know what he's talking about.
        
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        TheReEncogitationer 3 years ago
        
        I'll say you're not a comedian.
        
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      2. Libertariantranslator 3 years ago
        
        This guy could be an asset to the LP. Santos' district is where most dope and the 2% or so of liquor that wasn't made from Glucose and Fleischmann's arrived in These States before the October 1929 Syndicate bust. God's Own Prohibitionists are sure to knife him out of gluteus-intolerant bigotry, and GDR Dems because he joined the fascisti. Santos' defection would be worth 10,000 girl-bullying mystical Amish "former" Tea Party Gee-Oh-Peetalitarians.
        
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      3. But SkyNet is a Private Company 3 years ago
        
        Just like Warren, Biden, Obama, etc
        
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2. TheReEncogitationer 3 years ago
  
  My game right now is playing Wack-A-Mole with all the Biz-Op spam above your post and throughout this Comment section. 🙂
  
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Ajsloss 3 years ago

The Yahtzi bit made me lol.

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1. TheReEncogitationer 3 years ago
  
  Well since there are Grammar Nazis, Yahtzi Nazis were bound to happen too. 🙂
  
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mad.casual 3 years ago (edited)

Most of these were pretty good, but @1:17 ‘Sorry!’ is pretty tone-deaf cringe. There's plenty of libertarian hash to be made and had over an NPC catfishing voters over Democratic candidate less popular than an NPC. But after the, 'Fauci was just a friend in the back seat of our collective navigation of the COVID happening', the narrative of New York Republicans are at fault in Santos’ election because, while bound, gagged, stuffed in the trunk, and still shouting about how shady, if not criminal the guy was, while the Democrats and media (Reason among them) repeatedly asked each other, “Do you hear something?” (again after the 2016 election) is just terrible on all kinds of levels.

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1. Overt 3 years ago
  
  I generally agree that Democrats and the media in New York looked the other way when it was clear that a deeply suspect republican was going to win. And I think it is pretty clear that they did it because they wanted a lying liar to win the seat so that they could then "discover" that this dude was a shithead.
  
  I don't hold Reason to the same account. I don't expect a libertarian magazine- or in fact most national publications- to give a shit about representatives. There are hundreds of them, and most are unremarkable. I think it is likely that no one at reason knew he existed until this whole thing blew up.
  
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  1. mad.casual 3 years ago
    
    I think it is likely that no one at reason knew he existed until this whole thing blew up.
    
    I'm not saying they didn't have justification for not reporting the story. I'm saying the joke doesn't ring true as much as it rings truthy.
    
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Ersatz 3 years ago

noone going to comment on 1:07 .... wear mask to show you're not republican?
How did that get past reason editors?

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1. Libertariantranslator 3 years ago
  
  Hay fever.
  
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DMobley 3 years ago

Hilarious - gotta love book-end politics

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Jefferson's Ghost 3 years ago

+++++

Did I miss the one about "Risk"...? 🙂

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1. Its_Not_Inevitable 3 years ago
  
  If you win Ukraine, the world follows!
  
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  1. CE 3 years ago
    
    Hard to top this one:
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujzzdutMo2o
    
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JWatts 3 years ago

That was great. A decent selection of games with political jokes about all of them.

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1. Libertariantranslator 3 years ago
  
  Decent? Without Duke Nukem and Leisure Suit Larry? (Git 'im!)
  
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ATCme 3 years ago

I no longer own my favorite political board game but I highly recommend it:
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/866/lie-cheat-steal
Lie, Cheat & Steal, the honest game about dishonest politics

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Libertariantranslator 3 years ago

It hurts to admit it, but these guys are more FUN than most everybody contributing to Reason anymore.

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TheReEncogitationer 3 years ago (edited)

No Mumblety-Peg with plastic knives for the British Left?

And no Twister No Homo for the Religious Right?

No Nuke-Powered Stratego?

No Tiddly-Winks with Bitcoins?

This video could have gone on a lot further.
🙂

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Think It Through 3 years ago

Equity Chess, where's everyone's a pawn. lol

Wait it's not funny.

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Liberty Yeti 3 years ago

Many overlooked possibilities:

California Power Grid
Union Tycoon
The Isle of Cat Ladies
Stone Age (ESG/climate agenda inevitable result)
Railroaded Russians (works both ways)
Acquire
Liar's Dice
Though the Rages: a Story of Civilizational Collapse
Container (supply chain crisis edition)
2021: Rebellion
Apples to Suspension Bridges: The Game of Political False Equivalencies
Chicago Express: Exodus
Bureaucracies of Mad King Xiden
Pipeline
Lost Cities
TransAmerica: Child Sterilization & Mutilation Edition
A Few Acres of Vinyl Chloride

And then at the end, it could have mentioned the only two games worth playing when it comes to politicians and bureaucrats: No Thanks! and Guillotine.

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