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Trevor Noah: Are Trump's Secret Police Finally Pulling Out of Portland?

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Targetpractice7/29/2020 11:17:00 pm PDT

re: #32 goddamnedfrank

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There was a turn-based game many moon backs called Shattered Union that is fucking eerie to look at in retrospect: Unpopular-as-fuck presidential candidate wins the ‘08 election, leading to increased domestic strife and the imposition of martial law. 4 years later, the SCOTUS bench basically drops a ruling that disqualifies the most popular opposition candidates, such that the incumbent asshole wins by a narrow EC win. On Inauguration Night, a nuke blows up in D.C., wiping out virtually the entirety of the federal gov’t in one attack. After an emergency vote, the EU sends in “peacekeepers” to reconstruct D.C. and keep the US intact. But that only lasts a few days before states start declaring “home rule” and then entering into political pacts that leave the US separated into five factions (Hawaii just says “Fuck you, mainlanders” and doesn’t take any side until one faction manages to retake the whole of the continental US). The endgame is finding out that attack on Inauguration Night was orchestrated by the Russians, under the rule of a strong-man dictator who wants to restore Russia to its former glory with the support of generals who became rich selling weapons through the black market. And you have to retake Alaska, which Spetsnaz paratroopers seized control of in the chaos.

Did I mention this game was released in ‘05?