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Brian Reindel 👾⚔️'s avatar

This is a beautiful country.

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Andy Futuro's avatar

🙏

It really is.

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ARC's avatar

Welcome to the Beautiful Country—where every breath is a gamble, every sip is a death wish, and tourism doubles as a survival game. Five stars!

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Andy Futuro's avatar

Thank you 🙏

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Emil Ottoman's avatar

Keep writing shit like this. Yes. Outstanding work.

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Andy Futuro's avatar

Thank you 🙏

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Jessica Maison's avatar

I laughed and then I cried. Great piece!

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Andy Futuro's avatar

Thank you 🙏

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Ian Patterson's avatar

Satire so good and relevant it made my heart hurt.

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Andy Futuro's avatar

Thank you 🙏

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Jeannine's avatar

Oh my goodness, I think I may be living in the future Beautiful Country... though a lot of it seems to have gone that way already. You are really very, very good at showing the terrifying side of "normal" life, Mr. Futuro.

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Andy Futuro's avatar

Thank you 🙏

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Jeannine's avatar

You are very welcome!

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Miep's avatar

The Beautiful Country approves of this story, in hopes that it will help discourage all you pretentious liberal assholes from coming here to prance around taking selfies with our passed-out asses in the background, drunk on rat pancreas distillate.

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Andy Futuro's avatar

Now it's artisanal rat pancreas distillate.

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Miep's avatar

“Directly from our crawlspace to yours.”

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Andy Futuro's avatar

🤣

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Douglas McClenaghan's avatar

Hilariously prescient! Great piece!

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Andy Futuro's avatar

Thank you 🙏

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Caitriana NicNeacail's avatar

美国欢迎你! Nice one. It kinda gives me the shivers, because I’ve spent 10+ years living in China and my students in recent years often felt anxious about going to study abroad and this amps it up by a million. Also reminds me of the people who do “dark tourism” to places like North Korea.

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Andy Futuro's avatar

Thank you very much 🙏

You're the first person to get my little joke about 美国.

It's been 10+ years since I've been to China but it maintains a special place in my heart. All this jingoistic rhetoric in 美国 towards 中国 drives me nuts.

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Tom Schecter's avatar

Oh, Andrew. What would we do without you?

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Andy Futuro's avatar

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Lead a peaceful unperturbed life.

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Dahlia Daos's avatar

You really outdid yourself with this one. It was horrifying in all kinds of beautiful ways.

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Andy Futuro's avatar

Thank you very much 🙏

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The Black Knight's avatar

The most beautifulest country evar :D

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Andy Futuro's avatar

🙏

I love living in it.

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DWWakefield's avatar

Ahhh, so beautiful, the best beautiful, the biggest beautiful, no one has ever seen such beautifulness.......

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Andy Futuro's avatar

Yup.

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Theseus Smash's avatar

美国

Funny…

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Andy Futuro's avatar

🙏

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Andy Futuro's avatar

🤣🙏

So beautiful.

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