Fallout Risk

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Remember Fallout Boy from The Simpsons? Well, kinda in the same zone.

"Fallout" is the kindly loving attribution that politicos had for nuclear radiation after a bomb was dropped. The few mile diameter of the blast itself was vaporized, but there was blow-over radiation for hundreds of miles...wherever the wind was blowin', a la Bob Dylan. So when some huge event happens, like a big blown deal...well, maybe it was that favored partner designation from YouTube that was supposed to "make" the new Mandy-the-Make-Up-Artist. But then YouTube was fully regulated by the government, so the virtual nuking of YouTube's freedom was suddenly vaporized. And even though Mandy did nothing wrong, because YouTube is now in disarray, Mandy has fallout risk from the YouTube mushroom cloud.

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