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  • Yeah but…

    Anytime I have discussions about communism it’s always sort of the same thing…

    Yeah, well, no country gas ever done communism right, that’s why it has all failed, but REAL communism is awesome, you just have to do it such and so and it will be great!

    Well yeah, sure, but then can’t we say the same about capitalism?

    Well yeah, capitalism has caused suffering but thats ibly because no country has done it right. Real capitalism is awesome, you just have to do it such and so and it’ll be great!

    For my part, I think capitalism is the way, but different from what we do now. To clarify, I think we both want the same destination, just different routes.

    I want capitalism with a number of hard restrictions and restraint. At its core, capitalism is about freedom to trade. Unbound, this will lead to where we are now with monopolies and abuse coming out of the whazoo. Yet, capitalism’s power is that it can generate economic prosperity better than any other system.

    So how about this?

    We go for capitalism but:

    • companies cannot grow bigger than (pulling numbers out of butt) say 1000 employees. You reach that, you can’t hire anymore.

    • Companies cannot have a worth over a billion dollars. Any worth over that goes straight to taxes until that limit is reached

    • Any person cannot have a net worth of over 10 million dollars. Anything over that goes 100% to taxes

    • A billion dollar company therefore must have at least 100 shareholders

    With these rules ( and a few more) you’ll get rid of the too big to fail companies, you get rid of all the monopolies and powerful companies and powerful people. You get not one trillion dollar company, you get a million million dollar companies instead that compete with eachother

    Meanwhile Governments get enormous tax revenues which they can then spend on a ginormous socialist network. Free healthcare (including mental, Dental, eyes, everything), free education for all, free minimal food, free housing, free public transport, hell we could even do universal income.

    This is the other thing that ma y people kinda overlook: you need your system to generate enough “wealth” for everyone to be able to live and enjoy living. You need enough food, you need enough entertainment. The USSR, for example, wasn’t known for any of these things





  • I hate how the Internet has made all these arm chair idiots think that they are experts now on military strategy and weapons.

    But to answer your question:

    No, you do not use nukes. If you really need to get in, drop your bunker buster bombs five times more, you have the airspace as you claimed. Hell, drop twenty of em, still cheaper than a nuke but more importantly YOU WONT BE DROPPING NUKES

    What part of “nukes are different, nukes are the end” do you not understand?

    Once the first nuke drops, you can rest assured that the second will follow soon for -of which I’m sure will be explained as really really- good reasons and then the third will follow closely after because now we found another good reason…

    Nukes aren’t just extremely powerful, they’re also extremely devastating to the world and humanity for a long, long time.

    Once nukes start, humanity is done.

    You. Do. Not. Use. Nukes.



  • The USA, of course. Did I win anything?

    Anyways, now I’ll ask you a simple question

    What does that matter? That was some 80 years ago and no nukes have been blown up in a hostile avt ever since for very good reasons.

    The few times someone even thought a nuke was flying we got to one step distance from WWIII. Wasn’t it a Finish weather rocket launch that damn near caused Russia to end the world? And the time that some training data somehow got mixed up and they thought an invasion was imminent? It’s half a miracle we’re still here and alive.

    You set off a nuke in a hostile act and so many things happen. For one, you cheapened its use and I fucking guarantee you that after the first, the second one will follow shortly. Don’t worry about the fall out, these tactical nukes (I HATE that they had to give those a cool sounding name, especially with people like trump who salivate just over the name) are needed right?

    I mean, Iran almost has nukes right? Netanyahu said so, right? Oh wait, that was 10 years ago. And 8 years ago… And 5 years ago… and…

    You know, maybe Iran has nukes, maybe it doesn’t. At this point it doesn’t really matter anymore as we have religious doomsday wishers in the whitehouse led by a child who would love nothing better than to be the first president ever in the modern world to launch nukes. Iran is barely a threat on that chart, as evil as it’s regime is.

    Either way, that the US dropped nukes 80 years ago is not relevant here