Oh, right. I keep forgetting that I'm from the future with you.
[She makes a strange gesture with her hands as she says 'the future' as though it's some mystical thing. She's so used to being fifty years behind most of the people here, it's still quite a novelty to her.
It's also the first time she's had to explain the cold war, and she's doing it while completely drunk.
She sits up a little, getting into storytelling position.]
So after the war-- There was another war, the one I was involved with, in the 40s. And Russia was on our side, but after the war there was us and them as the big military powers. And Russia's completely communist, so that was kind of a problem, especially when you've got most of Europe having been ravaged by the Nazis and Russia like right there next to it. They got most of Eastern Europe, and we gave as much aid to Western Europe as we could to try and contain the spread of communism, and we've been in a war with North Korea for the last two years and everyone in the States is scared that everyone else is secretly a communist and so we're all checking for reds under the bed and the government seems to think it's fun to harass citizens and accuse them of being Soviets for no reason.
[She sounds rather bitter there. She also realises she's not making much sense.]
The whole idea of the free market and American capitalism is an insult to them. I'd like to think not only do I support that, but I'm a damn good example of individual freedom you only get in my country.
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[She makes a strange gesture with her hands as she says 'the future' as though it's some mystical thing. She's so used to being fifty years behind most of the people here, it's still quite a novelty to her.
It's also the first time she's had to explain the cold war, and she's doing it while completely drunk.
She sits up a little, getting into storytelling position.]
So after the war-- There was another war, the one I was involved with, in the 40s. And Russia was on our side, but after the war there was us and them as the big military powers. And Russia's completely communist, so that was kind of a problem, especially when you've got most of Europe having been ravaged by the Nazis and Russia like right there next to it. They got most of Eastern Europe, and we gave as much aid to Western Europe as we could to try and contain the spread of communism, and we've been in a war with North Korea for the last two years and everyone in the States is scared that everyone else is secretly a communist and so we're all checking for reds under the bed and the government seems to think it's fun to harass citizens and accuse them of being Soviets for no reason.
[She sounds rather bitter there. She also realises she's not making much sense.]
The whole idea of the free market and American capitalism is an insult to them. I'd like to think not only do I support that, but I'm a damn good example of individual freedom you only get in my country.