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| Subject: Funny: Monopoly Socialism board game upsets snowflakes on Twitter Sat Aug 24, 2019 1:04 am | |
| Monopoly Socialism -- which has the tagline: “Winning is for capitalists” -- is an adult parody version of the game that goes completely against the point of traditional Monopoly.
While the goal of traditional Monopoly is to buy real estate and force opponents to go bankrupt, Monopoly Socialism is about contributing to “community projects,” according to the game description on Amazon. “Players move around the board working together to make a better community by managing and contributing to projects such as a no-tip vegan restaurant, an all-winners school, or a museum of co-creation. But nobody said that cooperation is easy!” the description says. On Wednesday, Twitter user Nick Kapur posted a 21-tweet thread about the game, calling it “mean-spirited and woefully ill-informed.” Kapur slammed the game for its “old-timey” pieces, which he said is “presumably because ‘socialism’ is so outdated.” He also complained that the game made “tons of references to health food and veganism” and that it made fun of environmentalism. “It goes without saying that this game is entirely uninterested in trying to understand what socialism actually is and how it might function,” he wrote.
https://news.yahoo.com/monopoly-socialism-board-game-waters-215705953.html |
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