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Pretty much every American knows how the Android Race ended up. It's awfully hard not to when your country lands on top. When half the globe hasn't even seen an android first-hand, you find yourself at a loss to explain all that has changed. You could say . . .
The introduction of commercial androids was akin to opening Pandora's Box. The country had just adjusted to the normalcy of AI, and now said AI can walk and talk. Everyone's picking sides, even when they've never seen an android in person. People who want them all eradicated from public life, people who think the things deserve to be citizens, or the corporate bootlickers that don't care about rising unemployment.
The devotion to figuring out the place of androids is near maddening. Some noisy group of activists... Android Liberation Network, was it? Constantly holding public protests and stopping jobs. Then there's that government-related group: The Android Control Something-or-Other. Everyone calls them the ASCA anyhow. All of it dominating the news.
Or just shake your head, because it doesn't matter. Androids didn't exist, now they do. Life goes on.