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This New Destroy Obama Video Game, Made By Some Guys in Brooklyn, is Just for Fun!

Posted by Alex_Pasternack on Friday, Nov 20, 2009

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A new World of Warcraft-style role playing game caches in on the hilarious trend that’s sweeping America: trying to revolt against the evil Obama administration and turn the country into one large God-fearing, gun-toting, liberal baby-eating libertarian paradise!

The game imagines that Glenn Beck has been mysteriously killed, the GOP has been driven out of Congress, Obama has proclaimed himself the “Lost Imam,” and lots of other funny stuff. (Sadly, Robotic Obama is not mentioned.) Meanwhile Ron Paul is running for president again and looks slated to win this time. “We faced total collapse at the hands of the fascists in both parties and finally America is waking up to that fact,” Paul tells supporters. “It is unfortunate we had to lose thousands of lives across our great nation to get to this realization.”

To “get to this realization” the game’s 13,000 users can riot, engage in hacker attacks and generally cause mass chaos. The creators, a small band of libertarians, apparently live in Brooklyn behind a metal door.

But this isn’t part of any partisan agenda, they say. It’s just part of a big ol’ fun MMORPG project, United States of Earth, in which players build their own empires in order to “dominate other members’ regimes across real-world maps.” C’mon everyone, lighten up! If that old more porn means less rape argument is right, then this could probably help lots of people unload their hardcore Obama fantasies.

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    Alex 3 months ago

    I can't imagine that there's a market for a browser-based-American-meltdown simulator. I've been wrong before though.

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    Mason 3 months ago

    It's a lukewarm trade off... dead glen beck but not robot obama.

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    Another 3 months ago

    Caches in? Rimshot!

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    Tucker 3 months ago

    You don't have to kill him. You can pray that God will. http://gawker.com/5407568/christian-conservatives-praying-for-god-to-kill-obama

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