Scene: Our house, a few weeks ago, when the Call of Duty trailer came out.

Older son: Uh, dad, mom thinks this kind of video game is kind of violent—

Me: Son, you are going to go on secret, arguably-illegal missions for President Ronald Reagan and you are going to like it!
Son: You were just saying I’m spending too much time in front of screens—

Me: This is not a video game, this is accurate-enough history lesson teaching fundamental lessons about modern geopolitics!
Son: So a proper foreign policy response to a hostile, undemocratic left-wing Central America government-

Me: -is to secretly finance a right-wing militia to fight guerrilla war to destabilize the regime behind Congress’ back. C'mon, I’ve been telling you this since preschool.
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