i hate monopoly it is like some old white guy was sitting around and then thought to himself, what if we could make capitalism fun? well you tried and you failed dipshit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_board_game_Monopoly it was actually created by a Georgist to illustrate the principle that rent makes landlords richer and tenants poorer. She designed it to be incredibly not fun, to show that if you don’t own property you experience an inevitable foreseeable slow dwindling of your resources until you eventually go bankrupt. She figured that through Monopoly people would be so bored and frustrated that they would understand how terrible the system of rent is
Then Parker Brothers patented it, mass-produced it, people bought it because people have terrible taste in games, and the original creator experienced an inevitable foreseeable slow dwindling of her resources until she died impoverished and obscure
society is a horrific parody of itself
No wonder this game makes me aggressive
Her name was Elizabeth Magie and her game was stolen by Charles Darrow.
Darrow went bankrupt after the 1929 Stock Market Crash, so when he saw his neighbors playing the game, he copied down the instructions, and published his own version of the game.
Then he sold it to the Parker Brothers who popularized the game. Darrow became a millionare within the year. Despite this, Hasboro currently lists him as the sole creator on their website.
Magie was amazing, and not just for her game. She liked to mock societal standards of the time through theater and even made national headlines mocking the institution of marriage. She supported herself until her mid 40s, proving that marriage was not the only option for women, before tying the knot herself.
Elizabeth Magie is attributed with this, “Girls have minds, desires, hopes, and ambitons.” Dont forget her name.
This is the saddest and most representative of the United States thing ever.
Magie actually had a second set of rules for a more fair game to show how the system could be improved. The game was meant to be unfair to illustrate the unfairness of runaway capitalism at first, and then switch to a new set of rules, which provide a much more even playing field (and a much more fun game). Darrow scrapped this second ruleset when he stole it, eliminating the teaching purpose and also all the fun. Here’s the original rules, with the second ruleset included
a post about scar: talks about the horrors of war and trauma and genocide, gives an in-depth analysis oh the character of scar as a deeply traumatized individual who may or may not use a method you agree on (I do), but is ultimately right in wanting to take revenge against the military and Amestris, maybe even focuses on the fact that the single “mistake” he did (killing winry’s parents) came from the fact that he was incredibly shocked and terrified in that moment, and therefore not fully responsible for his actions
every single fucking reply and reblog: omggg!!! I thought this was about the lion king xddd lol! rotfl
I love how confused adults get with our humor and vine refrences cause like i just replied to my brother with ‘four female ghostbusters?? the feminist are taking over!!’ and he just screams ‘IM AN ADULT VIRGIN’ and my mom still has no idea what we’re talking about
Sometimes I fear we accidentally created a new language
why fear it when you can embrace it
We actually have…an updated version. You know how the idioms we have are said but never finished because it’s assumed that as long as the person you’re talking to speaks the same language they’ll understand the rest?
Ie. Jack of all trades master of none->better than a master of one
Great minds think alike->but fools rarely differ
Over time the second half gets lost because it’s been passed down orally so some idioms meanings have been warped but that’s a different conversation (ie. “Blood is thicker than water” is actually “the blood of the convent is thicker than the water of the womb”)
Vine are like that for us. You only need say the first half and every person under 30 knows the second half, no context needed. It’s cool as shit how the internet has done that for us. Vine sayings have become idioms in a sense…
road work ahead??
Yeah i sure hope it does
CHRIS
IS THAT A WEED?
No this is a crayon-
IM CALLING THE COPS
As a Brazilian when people start talking in ~vine language~ I get lost, cause vine never really took off here so I don’t get the references and I’m like
“It looks like English so why can’t I understand it”
I came to learn vine talk like last year and all bc of tumblr’s vine compilations and memes that referenced them so muvh that, ecen though i had never seen the vone, i knew how it went
Having said that,
Two guys chillin in a hot tub
FIVE FEET APART CAUSE THEIR NOT GAY
I AM THE SAND GUARDIAN
GAURDIAN OF THE SAND.
Poseidon quivers before him!
FUCK OFF!
Hi my name’s Micheal with a B and i’ve been afraid of insects my entire life
i have so many Feelings about the word ‘bitch’. i love when it’s used humorously (’i’m out here ruining my own life as always bitch’), i love when it’s reclaimed (’i’m a boss-ass bitch’), i love when my female friends call me jokingly (‘listen here bitch’), but when a man says it? sirens, warning lights. when a man calls a woman it it comes with such hatred. it’s stabbing. it’s sharp and vile and it drips misogyny. it’s funny how the word can be fine 95% of the time and the other 5% of the time it genuinely fills me with fear
This is the nature of reclamation! In 2019 “bitch” is for women. Gay jokes are for lgbtqia+ people. The n word is for African Americans. And the list goes on. There’s a reason why those words feel different depending on their source; just because we’ve reclaimed the word for ourselves does not mean we’ve reclaimed it for everyone. It doesn’t mean that word is cleansed of its history and stripped of its weight. And it certainly doesn’t mean that the groups who used to wield those words as weapons against us can’t still hurt us with them - even if that’s not their intention.
