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    2 days ago

    This makes me think of one of the citizens from the begining of Half Life 2.

    You enter a ramshackle shared apartment as the Civil Protection is breaking down the neighbor’s door.

    This one guy is in a kitchenette, sitting in a stupor next to basically a 40 on the table.

    As you dodge the ongoing bust by ducking into his apartment, he looks up lazily and speaks with a slur:

    “Was that you knocking? I didn’t even know we still had a door.”

    … That guy, that scene basically exemplifies the average American in person response to basically anything that isn’t some kind of consumer media product right now.

    Within about 60 to 90 seconds of him saying that, the CPs will arrest or kill everyone in the building.