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''{{smallcaps|WARNING: The scope of this game is narrower than that of real life. We have attempted to include [[Arson Murder and Jaywalking|foul language, graphic violence, politics, religion, sexual references, adult situations, narcotics, prostitution, bodily functions and bad pickup lines]] , but Bay 12 Games recognizes that there might be omissions which will make some players uncomfortable. In light of these facts, use your discretion when making decisions about downloading LCS.''}}

''{{smallcaps|WARNING: The scope of this game is narrower than that of real life. We have attempted to include [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|foul language, graphic violence, politics, religion, sexual references, adult situations, narcotics, prostitution, bodily functions and bad pickup lines]] , but Bay 12 Games recognizes that there might be omissions which will make some players uncomfortable. In light of these facts, use your discretion when making decisions about downloading LCS.''}}

<ref>Although, considering just how outright 'horrible' those pickup lines and their responses are...</ref>

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* [[Animal Testing]]: The Cosmetics Lab and Genetics Lab have [[Everythings Better With Bunnies|fuzzy bunnies]] and [[Science Is Bad|genetic horrors]] for the [[Animal Wrongs Group|LCS]] to free if the laws are Conservative enough.

* [[Armor Is Useless]]: Averted - armor ''can'' degrade, though, so train your tailors well.

* [[Arson Murder and Jaywalking]]: "The defendant, Eric Read, is charged with 3 counts of treason, terrorism, 3 counts of kidnapping, 9 counts of aiding a prison escape, 82 counts of felony assault, 64 counts of murder, 3 counts of theft, 26 counts of breaking and entering, 28 counts of vandalism and disturbing the peace. How will you conduct the defense?"

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: "The defendant, Eric Read, is charged with 3 counts of treason, terrorism, 3 counts of kidnapping, 9 counts of aiding a prison escape, 82 counts of felony assault, 64 counts of murder, 3 counts of theft, 26 counts of breaking and entering, 28 counts of vandalism and disturbing the peace. How will you conduct the defense?"

** That's nothing. [http://i937.photobucket.com/albums/ad211/Leafsnail/SaveScummedWow.png Try 1980 counts of murder...]

** A number of forum members have been able to successfully get accused of every possible crime in the game, including counts of murder and treason in the thousands.

* [[A Team Firing]]: Inexperienced characters are notoriously inaccurate in combat, almost to the point of uselessness against skilled and/or armored opponents. However, this no longer applies once a character gets weapon training or [[Improbable Aiming Skills|general experience]].

* [[A-Team Firing]]: Inexperienced characters are notoriously inaccurate in combat, almost to the point of uselessness against skilled and/or armored opponents. However, this no longer applies once a character gets weapon training or [[Improbable Aiming Skills|general experience]].

** Of course, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbionese_Liberation_Army#Move_to_Los_Angeles_and_police_shootout there's a reason for that].

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]/[[Badass Bookworm]]: Leadership ability is tied to both the Juice level of a character and their Leadership and/or Seduction skill. The former grants [[Took a Level In Badass|substantial combat bonuses]] even if it was gained exclusively by e.g., computer hacking.

* [[Arbitrary Headcount Limit]]: Averted; the number of people a squad member can recruit is determined by their rank and certain skills, and the number of people the Squad can recruit total is technically infinite - recruiting people to recruit more people to recruit more people like some sort of guerrilla warfare pyramid scheme.

* [[Asskicking Equals Authority]]: More skilled characters are more likely to live long enough to accumulate Juice, which directly impacts how many recruits a character can have under them.

* [[Badass]]: [[Took a Level In Badass|With enough juice and practice]], [[Badass Normal|anyone]] can become skilled enough to [[One Man Army|mow down SWAT teams]]. Including [[Retired Badass|Retirees]] [[Never Mess With Granny|(Liberals also don't care about gender)]], [[Badass Preacher|Preachers or nuns]], [[Badass Teacher|Teachers]], and so on. [[Handicapped Badass|Even if, for example, they lose their legs, they get a wheelchair and go on regardless.]]

* [[Badass]]: [[Took a Level In Badass|With enough juice and practice]], [[Badass Normal|anyone]] can become skilled enough to [[One-Man Army|mow down SWAT teams]]. Including [[Retired Badass|Retirees]] [[Never Mess With Granny|(Liberals also don't care about gender)]], [[Badass Preacher|Preachers or nuns]], [[Badass Teacher|Teachers]], and so on. [[Handicapped Badass|Even if, for example, they lose their legs, they get a wheelchair and go on regardless.]]

** [[Badass Driver]]: Anyone with sufficiently good driving skill. With 5 and a sports car, you can outrun everything. Driving (like all skills) caps at 20.

* [[Batter Up]]: Baseball bats are one of the many weapons available.

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* [[Fire Breathing Weapon]]: The M2 flamethrower. Wielded by the Fireman.

* [[Freakier Than Fiction]]: It's inspired by a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbionese_Liberation_Army real organization] that actually existed. They didn't win, though.

* [[~~Godwins~~ Law]]: The CCS want to bring about a fascist state.

* [[Godwin's Law]]: The CCS want to bring about a fascist state.

* [[Good Old Fisticuffs]]: When fighting without weapons.

** [[Rapid Fire Fisticuffs]]: With a good Martial Arts skill, you can strike up to 5 times in one round.

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* [[Instant Win Condition]]: Averted and Inverted. The Elite Liberal Amendments are extremely helpful to the player, but don't instantly win the game as one might suspect. The one and only Arch-Conservative Amendment, on the other hand, reorganizes the United States of America into the Confederate States of America. Once this happens, all living LCS members go underground and you lose instantly.

* [[Interface Screw]]: A minor one. If free speech laws go arch-conservative, all swear words, pick-up lines and replies to successful ones are replaced by [words more appropriate for the public, written between brackets].

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: With sufficiently Liberal animal rights laws, it becomes socially acceptable to date and seduce anything and everything. [[But You Screw One Goat|Otherwise, you'll be in for a world of hurt.]]

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: With sufficiently Liberal animal rights laws, it becomes socially acceptable to date and seduce anything and everything. [[But You Screw One Goat!|Otherwise, you'll be in for a world of hurt.]]

* [[In the Future Humans Will Be One Race]]: Averted. Individual characters are not of a defined racial background, but civil rights remains an issue from the beginning of the game up through any possible future end date.

* [[Joke Item]]: Mithril Armor. The original developer, Tarn Adams, insisted that it was just as effective as in real life whenever asked about it. Which is to say that it's just spraypainted cardboard. It is the ''least'' useful clothing type in the game, having no disguise value and an armor rating of 0. To contrast, basic, everyday clothing has an armor rating of one.

* [[Judge Jury and Executioner]]: the Death Squads.

* [[Judge, Jury, and Executioner]]: the Death Squads.

* [[Katanas Are Just Better|Katanas Are Just]] [[Subverted Trope|About The Same As Western Swords, Actually]]: They are both [[Heroes Prefer Swords|the best melee weapons, though]].

* [[Knife Nut]]: Knives are one of the available weapons in LCS.

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* [[The Mole]]: Any liberal you recruit or conservative you kidnap and brainwash can be set to be a sleeper agent at their current jobs rather than joining the active LCS. This can provide various benefits depending on their job, such as tip offs on raids, drop offs of sensitive information, and maps of buildings, among other things.

* [[Molotov Cocktail]]: One of the available weapons.

* [[Moral Dissonance]]: Played for laughs. The [[Well Intentioned Extremist|LCS]] aims to establish a [[Utopia Justifies the Means|Liberal Paradise]] by murdering their political rivals with the guns they wish to ban, and firebombing Conservative media outlets to promote free speech.

* [[Moral Dissonance]]: Played for laughs. The [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|LCS]] aims to establish a [[Utopia Justifies the Means|Liberal Paradise]] by murdering their political rivals with the guns they wish to ban, and firebombing Conservative media outlets to promote free speech.

** Liberal guns using Liberal ammo applied Liberally is justified when used against Conservatives (it ''is'' possible to alienate neutrals by shooting a non-conservative).

** Additionally, getting gun law to L+ (maximum liberalism) doesn't ban guns outright, it just prohibits them from being carried or sold in public places.

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** One of the most effective ways to survive the game is to simply sleep with the ''entire justice system'' - boosting your seduction stat and hooking up with enough lawyers and judges virtually guarantees getting off lightly, even on charges of high treason and mass murder.

* [[Mugging the Monster]]: Some conservatives are member of the Conservative Crime Squad, and good with the guns they carry. And at C+ gun control laws, any random conservative can carry a 9 mm or .45 semi auto.

* [[My God What Have I Done]]: If a hostage dies during interrogation, the lead interrogator will lose Heart with a description of their reaction such as throwing up into a trash can. [[A Million Is a Statistic|For some reason]], [[Moral Dissonance|they don't seem to mind waltzing into a public place with automatic weapons and shooting every conservative in sight, though.]]

* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: If a hostage dies during interrogation, the lead interrogator will lose Heart with a description of their reaction such as throwing up into a trash can. [[A Million Is a Statistic|For some reason]], [[Moral Dissonance|they don't seem to mind waltzing into a public place with automatic weapons and shooting every conservative in sight, though.]]

* [[My Greatest Failure]]: If one of your subordinates dies, you lose juice. Extra [[What the Hell Hero]] points if they die in the death row: "If you can't protect your own people, who can you protect? X has failed the Liberal Crime Squad."

* [[My Greatest Failure]]: If one of your subordinates dies, you lose juice. Extra [[What the Hell, Hero?]] points if they die in the death row: "If you can't protect your own people, who can you protect? X has failed the Liberal Crime Squad."

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: The primary law enforcement agency in Nightmare Mode are called the 'Death Squads'. They are not very friendly people.

* [[Nice Job Breaking It Hero]]: The more you succeed in making gun control a reality, the harder it is to get weapons for your raids. Pawn shops will stop carrying certain weapons and jack up their prices on those that remain. Gang members will still sell you guns, but their prices go up exponentially as well.

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: The more you succeed in making gun control a reality, the harder it is to get weapons for your raids. Pawn shops will stop carrying certain weapons and jack up their prices on those that remain. Gang members will still sell you guns, but their prices go up exponentially as well.

** Also, making police laws elite liberal will cause them to be accompanied by moderate Police Negotiators, which makes the game much harder (because now, if you fight them, you'll risk alienating public opinion by injuring a moderate.)

* [[Not So Different]]: If the conservatives will win, they'll make an amendment to make the US conservative forever. But if the liberals win, they'll make an amendment to make sure the US will keep their ideology... forever...

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* [[The Uriah Gambit]]: One of the option for dealing with Conservatives enlightened too late. Selling brownies with Death Squads roaming the streets works good for this.

* [[Vendor Trash]]: A successful infiltration in the downtown apartments can give you 20 laptops, 10 cheap jewelry, 5 expensive jewelry... Which are good for nothing, but sell for a pretty good price.

* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: You can make the Liberal Crime Squad fight conservatism as violently as you want, from being a peaceful protest organization to full-on urban terrorists. The previously mentioned torture and brainwash minigame deserves a special mention though, since it allows you to do some ridiculously nasty things to people, such as beating them, starving them, [[Arson Murder and Jaywalking|and forcing them to watch]] ''[[Bible Black]]''.

* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: You can make the Liberal Crime Squad fight conservatism as violently as you want, from being a peaceful protest organization to full-on urban terrorists. The previously mentioned torture and brainwash minigame deserves a special mention though, since it allows you to do some ridiculously nasty things to people, such as beating them, starving them, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and forcing them to watch]] ''[[Bible Black]]''.

* [[Video Game Flamethrowers Suck]]: Oh sure, the M2 will make most Conservatives scatter, but it's next to useless for a few reasons. Even with Bunker Gear, you still get burned by it, and will every single turn because any attack, hit or miss, will set the square you are on on fire. Said fire also spreads to other squares, destroying the area you are in quickly. Finally, M2 Flamethrowers and their ammunition can only be gotten from the Firemen, who only appear at Arch-Conservative Free Speech and can generally be legislated away even without LCS action.

* [[Weapon for Intimidation]]: Weapons can be used to intimidate and abduct conservative, and help a lot for datenapping.

* [[We Interrupt This Program]]: You can sneak (or gun) your way to the AM Radio Station or Cable News Studio stage, and mount your own broadcast.

* [[What Do You Mean ~~Its~~ Not Heinous]]: [[Played for Laughs]] and [[Crapsack World]] points with Arch-conservative flag burning laws making burning the American flag legally equivalent to murdering a human being, filed under the crime of "Flag Murder".

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?]]: [[Played for Laughs]] and [[Crapsack World]] points with Arch-conservative flag burning laws making burning the American flag legally equivalent to murdering a human being, filed under the crime of "Flag Murder".

** You can even buy a flag for the sole purpose of burning it. Or just enjoying the little ACII stars-n'-stripes hanging over your safehouse menu.

** Taken to extremes in one nightmare mode [[Let's Play]] on the forums, in which the Squad deliberately provoked the SWAT teams by buying several hundred flags and burning them all.

* [[What the Hell Hero]]: if you leave one of your liberals to die in the death row, the game tells you: "If you can't protect your own people, who can you protect? X has failed the Liberal Crime Squad".

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: if you leave one of your liberals to die in the death row, the game tells you: "If you can't protect your own people, who can you protect? X has failed the Liberal Crime Squad".

* [[You Bastard]]: You excited that your squad is capable of surviving combat? Take the time to read some of the [[Nausea Fuel|combat descriptions]].

** Some of the things you can make 'liberated' child workers do, including:

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