# "Whack a Democrat" - Political Game **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 6, 2012, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whack-a-democrat-political-game/636874 "2012-10-06T03:20:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whack-a-democrat-political-game/636874/1 "2012-10-06T03:20:39Z")
If it’s ok to [link to a conservative bashing game](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=667815), then surely it is also ok to link to this fun and compelling little game, too: [Whack a Democrat](http://www.freepoliticalgames.com/Political-Games/84/Whack-A-Democrat.html) ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whack-a-democrat-political-game/636874/2 "2012-10-06T03:23:16Z")
Self reported for title fix ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whack-a-democrat-political-game/636874/3 "2012-10-06T03:40:25Z")
Yeah, because a game that involves pretending to hit your political opponents has just as much place as a game that involves dispelling the lies of your political opponents on a messageboard dedicated to fighting ignorance. I’ve seen lamer attempts at equivalencies, but not many. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whack-a-democrat-political-game/636874/4 "2012-10-06T04:57:16Z")
Meh, truth invaders is educational at least. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whack-a-democrat-political-game/636874/5 "2012-10-06T05:00:15Z")
Bah, the gameplay in “Truth Invaders” sucks. This game is more fun. Who wouldn’t like to bop Hillary Clinton with a mallet? ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whack-a-democrat-political-game/636874/6 "2012-10-06T07:52:06Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#): > > Yeah, because a game that involves pretending to hit your political opponents has just as much place as a game that involves dispelling the lies of your political opponents on a messageboard dedicated to fighting ignorance. I’ve seen lamer attempts at equivalencies, but not many. On the contrary, I think it illustrates essential differences in liberal and conservative thought. There’s a time and place for careful discourse and debunking, and there’s also a time and place for brute force. We disagree mostly about the times and the places, and possibly the supremacy of one way or the other. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whack-a-democrat-political-game/636874/7 "2012-10-06T08:09:54Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Bah, the gameplay in “Truth Invaders” sucks. This game is more fun. Who wouldn’t like to bop Hillary Clinton with a mallet? You think Clinton hatred is not a conservative thing? Seriously? And don’t try to backpedal and claim that this is now for everyone. You admitted that it was a conservative game. We can’t help it that yours is about a childish desire to hurt people while ours is about trying to help people by fighting off lies. And don’t say you weren’t taking it seriously, or you wouldn’t have gotten all butthurt about the other game. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whack-a-democrat-political-game/636874/8 "2012-10-06T12:44:04Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Bah, the gameplay in “Truth Invaders” sucks. This game is more fun. Who wouldn’t like to bop Hillary Clinton with a mallet? I don’t generally want to hit anyone with a mallet and certainly not Hillary Clinton. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whack-a-democrat-political-game/636874/9 "2012-10-06T14:33:46Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Who wouldn’t like to bop Hillary Clinton with a mallet? An adult. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whack-a-democrat-political-game/636874/10 "2012-10-06T14:35:21Z")
> [@game](#): > > You have 60 seconds to whack as many of my fellow hippie Democrats as you can When you promote a game as banal as this, **Oakminster** , do you spend any time at all worrying how it might make you look? ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whack-a-democrat-political-game/636874/11 "2012-10-06T16:32:32Z")
Next time one of the conservative posters here goes on about how conservatives think liberal ideas are bad, but liberals think _conservatives_ are bad, I’m going to link to these two threads. Hint: attacking statements with facts is nowhere near the same as attacking people, or simulations of them. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whack-a-democrat-political-game/636874/12 "2012-10-06T18:34:03Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > When you promote a game as banal as this, **Oakminster** , do you spend any time at all worrying how it might make you look? Not to people like you. This is ridiculous. A fucking moderator links to a blatantly conservative bashing game in an otherwise non-political forum, and that’s perfectly ok. A conservative links to a liberal bashing game, and it’s some horrible thing. Hypocrites. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whack-a-democrat-political-game/636874/13 "2012-10-06T18:49:45Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > This is ridiculous. A fucking moderator links to a blatantly conservative bashing game in an otherwise non-political forum, and that’s perfectly ok. A conservative links to a liberal bashing game, and it’s some horrible thing. Hypocrites. Ahhh, the smell of false equivocation. Look, find a game that provides facts to rebut liberal positions or statements, then come back with that hypocrisy charge. Hurr-hurr-hit-em-on-the-head isn’t anywhere near the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whack-a-democrat-political-game/636874/14 "2012-10-06T19:07:11Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Not to people like you. > > This is ridiculous. A fucking moderator links to a blatantly conservative bashing game in an otherwise non-political forum, and that’s perfectly ok. A conservative links to a liberal bashing game, and it’s some horrible thing. Hypocrites. Basically, you have responded to a detailed critique of Republicans with “Hit the hippie Democrats on the head-Hee Hee!!” This has nothing whatsoever to do with hypocrisy, and everything to do with your apparent inability to respond in kind. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whack-a-democrat-political-game/636874/15 "2012-10-06T19:13:55Z")
Fighting ignorance and physical assault are the same thing, huh? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whack-a-democrat-political-game/636874/16 "2012-10-06T19:30:55Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > I don’t generally want to hit anyone with a mallet and certainly not Hillary Clinton. I can’t stand Hillary Clinton, but I don’t want to hit her with anything. Also, since “whack” has a meaning other than “hit with a mallet,” **Oakminster** might be in line for some Secret Service attention. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whack-a-democrat-political-game/636874/17 "2012-10-06T19:36:58Z")
> [@Sudden\_Kestrel](#): > > I can’t stand Hillary Clinton, but I don’t want to hit her with anything. Also, since “whack” has a meaning other than “hit with a mallet,” **Oakminster** might be in line for some Secret Service attention. ROFLMAO. Yet the game Dex posted has bombs destroying the White House, and that’s ok. :D:D:D:D ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whack-a-democrat-political-game/636874/18 "2012-10-06T19:50:08Z")
Yeah, that’s really reaching, **Kestrel**. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whack-a-democrat-political-game/636874/19 "2012-10-06T21:41:16Z")
I’m a Democrat and I’ll admit I’ve occasionally wanted to slap Joe Biden for some of the goofy things he’s said, or just Joe Lieberman for being a tool. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whack-a-democrat-political-game/636874/20 "2012-10-06T22:19:44Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > Yeah, that’s really reaching, **Kestrel**. It was a _joke_, **'tone**. I have no mole in the Whack-a-Whatever game.