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Yeah the fallout universe is fucked up, it’s America nuked itself. There’s definitely irony in it. But it’s not anti-american in any sense, it’s a celebration of it, a celebration of the death cult that we though capitalism would bring us when the oil dries up. Mad max is a celebration of Australian culture is it not? And all of this is to not mention the gameplay, it’s just loot, shoot, level up stats, help npc or kill npc, game crashes, game is not optimised, download mods to fix game, download mods to make game different, and at that point you ain’t even playing fallout anymore. You want a game better than new vegas look no further than bioshock, or prey, or even half life. Open world games are overrated.
Don’t fucking compare banning guns to Rhodesia or Nazi Germany. They did not ban private gun ownership, in fact gun ownership is a symptom of capitalist society. Maybe Marx thought the need for the working class to arm itself was necessary but he also thought England, Germany, and France was where communism was gonna first emerge. I know this site can’t say it so I’ll say it, MARX WAS WRONG ABOUT GUNS. He got a lot of stuff right, but a single sentence about the workers not surrendering firearms should not be misinterpreted as a full endorsement of private gun ownership, if anything it promotes the creation of a communist militia to fight the private gun owners and the state that upholds their rights.
I think balkanization for the US would be good, I don’t think it would result in dozens of mini nazi germanies and south africas emerging. I think it would result in the south becoming a black majority state, I think it would result in indian territory gaining full autonomy, I think mexico would receive the land that was stolen from them historically, I think canada would balkanize along with the us and make the border mores porous, I think all that non inner continental territory we stole would all become independent and get a lot more money from china than it ever did from the usa, I think the threat of a second confederacy would be nonexistent thanks to blacks in the country not ever going to take that shit again. This isn’t optimism, I think it would still take a bloody war to create this, but the end result of banning guns might be this and I would take that and 100 wacos if it meant the destruction of the United States. Also Lee Carter is a red haired shit who has the political power of Bernie Sanders, fuck electorialism.
THE THING MARX GOT RIGHT WAS THE ABOLITION OF PRIVATE PROPERTY! you yourself said a gun is private property. I’m sure this site agrees that meat and cars should be banned, is that not idealism? I don’t think the state should give up it’s guns so long as the state is ran by the workers, to me that means military. Can you not understand that?
(real nice of you to edit your comment after I reply, still didn’t even edit out the part about private gun owners, I don’t hate you but fuck just think about what private property is please)
Personally I think the concept of property is fluid, it’s a social construct and there’s many different types of it. Private, public, personal, communal, single use, non physical, currency, rations, reparations, land, automobiles, taxes, ect. I don’t have the patience to list them all. I may just have to write a very poorly worded post about it later.
I think the original comment meant power as in political power, but you know it can have another meaning. Violence and coercion are tools used to increase production and a gun is one of those tools. A gun can also liberate when in the right hands, and it does that by the threat of killing. But what if the gun was not in the equation at all, what power would anyone have to coerce without a weapon? What authority would anyone have without guns?