Politics

"I'm a policeman."

"I'm a policeman."

"I'm a policeman."

"Something bad I guess? I'm sorry, I say stupid things sometimes, I didn't mean to annoy."

"Our hammer toting comrade was at the bottom of those stairs."

"Do you have any money?"

"Do you have any money?"

It's the future leader of a proletarian uprising.

"But you're a foreigner. I'm protecting the business interests of foreign nations!"

"Then I'm protecting a state lawlessness. I'm not an officer of law, I'm an officer of common anarchy."

"So 'cool' guys protect businessmen while everyone else lives in the ruins? I can think of cooler things."

The lieutenant nods approvingly.

"A gossamer state? You're right, this is cool. I'm part of a hip, thin, almost non-existent state apparatus!"

"That's why I want them. I think I might be low-fi socialist junk myself."

"This economy is really just a distraction from the cultural issues. You know -- immigrants and..."

"It's just nature: Powerful economies expand, weak economies go extinct."