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Campaign-Themed Video Games?

Posted by timothy on from the bread-circuses-joysticks dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Gov. Jesse Ventura has come up with a 'great' way to get his campaign message to the younger demographics. 'The Ventura game -- or collection of games -- would be entertaining, 100-percent political and distributed free to voters as campaign literature, he says.' Wow, I can't wait, I haven't been this excited since Avoid the Noid from Dominos Pizza came out." Too bad video games aren't considered protected speech.

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  1. Creative idea... by AmigaAvenger · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Not that Jesse ventura cares, but do the people really want their tax money spent on this?

    Ventura recently opposed a plan to give a little money to teachers for retirement, with a paltry cost of $15 million per year. (Star Tribune I guess he had video games in mind instead.

    1. Re:Creative idea... by Galvatron · · Score: 1, Flamebait
      First of all, the money goes into his campaign no matter what else he spends taxpayer money on. Government campaign contributions are a fixed amount. I could go a tirade about how this is an underhanded scheme to keep third parties out of office, but suffice to say, it doesn't matter if he spends this money on videogames or tv ads, the money still gets spent.

      As for the teachers, they already get retirement benefits, this was just a scheme to strengthen the seniority system that public schools are based on. For those who start teaching at 24, retirement would kick in at 57! And they only had to work half the year every year! It's absurd. If any public school teachers ever did a day of REAL work, they'd die.

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      "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than that of whether a submarine can swim" -EWD
  2. Re:My campaign software by SiskellAndEbert · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Ebert: I am married to a black woman and I find this troll thoroughly offensive. Thumbs down Gene, WAY DOWN.

    Siskell: hahahahah

  3. Protected Speech? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "Too bad video games aren't considered protected speech."

    Please tell me you're kidding. Anyone with any legal education (or sense) can tell you why games aren't considered protected speech (of course, there would be exceptions).

    Why is it slashdot (and the open source community in general) tends to attract such extreme political ingnorance/stupidity?

    That's not a rhetorical question...I'm really curious.