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Markets developed long before capitalism, and "capitalism" is not defined by the existence of market exchange or else nothing would have changed about political economy in the last 4000 years. If capitalism is the primacy of capital in society as its orienting mode of production, the material...

That's literally how capitalism developed starting with English enclosure laws. State intervention in the development of capitalism was a political affair of picking & choosing who gets a leg up in starting and operating new industries. First it was aristocrats trying to rationalize agriculture...

It's just as likely that those states would either go their own way or be incapable of reunifying the republic on each others' terms. The important thing we're getting at though is that those states existed. All the regional capitals mattered and they're, as far as we can tell, gone.

Most people in the wasteland didn't choose that though. Most people in the SoCal wasteland were part of an actually existing nationality.

Except you're not just siding with the Enclave "in fiction," you literally said that only the people you personally care about matter.

Except they're not living in absolute luxury, Galt's Gulch is a farming commune in the Rocky Mountains that's obscured by a cloaking device powered by an "infinite energy generator." A generator they don't use for anything other than the cloaking device. Conservapedia acknowledges that the Gulch...

It makes sense in terms of "the Germans failed, but we're built different though." National Socialism has never been tried in MY herrenvolk dictatorship.

The Brotherhood is an even bigger threat to Vault-Tec's interests and they're impossible to nuke. They're distributed across the continental US. The whole premise for the show is undermining itself. If you tug on a single plot thread the whole thing comes unraveled. Atlas Shrugged is...

You agree with the Enclave in explicitly Nazi terms.

CT smiling & nodding at this scene

Yes dude, you are literally endorsing the ideology of The Enclave.

Do you not understand how this is genocidal?

He knew that they weren't going to kill Lucy when they left the vault. They both got themselves exiled for violating the rules, making a mess, and burning a man's face off. They did everything wrong and he was going to let them die for his bullshit.

He is not "constantly" trying to be a hero, he only acts heroic to boost his own ego. Lucy had to talk him out of letting an entire community die just so he could use power armor. The guy is a nutcase and a sociopath, which is consistent with how Jonathan Nolan plays video games, apparently.

I'm not so sure Maximus believes in anything. While interrogated he says over and over again that he wants to hurt the people who hurt him, and if the Brotherhood will give him the power to do that then he's willing to do anything for the Brotherhood. Maximus doesn't feel any debt or loyalty to...

Is he actually ashamed or would he just rather live in a nice peaceful vault than be a goon of the Commonwealth?

He's actually not on an arc. Maximus is the same person at the end that he was at the beginning, which was confirmed with the reveal that Danse did the boot razor to himself. When the show gave the impression that Maximus did the boot razor, it made him seem morally compromised and driven to...

China launching first makes sense because they were losing the war. American leaders knew they were triggering the conditions for Mutually Assured Destruction, but they pushed for total victory anyway because they needed to control Asia's resources as well as the Americas. It's the one bit of...

Finn had a brain and was capable of holding his own against the galaxy's most dangerous people. The whole problem with Finn was that Disney pulled the chord on their original plans for the trilogy and he ended up with nothing to do. Maximus is just, plainly speaking, an imbecile. He's a...

Not sure when I'll get around to this now. This is a big investment of time and recent events in Gaza have got me all fucked up while I also have to catsit for my folks. I'd honestly rather play New Vegas for a bit instead of engaging with this nonsense. But believe me I'm not forgetting about this.