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When I see a Yogthos post with more comments than up votes. Anyone notice the lib got tired of hopping between his 4 other accounts to upvote all his own comments about half way through his replies?

Interns have to get some OT to show their boss how good they are at licking boot. This pasty losers sitting in some shitty cubicle surrounded by a half dozen other losers all trying to one up each other.

I just block or leave instances that post rage content. There are several here that I blocked because it was just all the front page. I think to instances are dangerous anyway because infiltrators and such will spam that garbage to just keep any meaningful content from showing up and all they really do is put at risk the mental health of the community when it's ALL you see.

Other than that you just gotta not go looking for it.

This is pretty fucked up comrade.

Imagine defacing your own feces with that flag. Have you no respect?

Stop shedding skin cells everywhere.

Basically this. One of the only recourses they will have left to try to maintain power is a "we will end the world of you don't let us do what we want" button.

There’s absolutely never been and never will be a reason for a country to have so many nukes.

And yet they DID make that many. I'm not saying they should have, or that they shouldn't reduce those numbers now. A question was asked as to why do it. I gave a potential reason. The US is psychotic and genocidal.... and I'm sure making nukes is a profitable endeavor for many private contractors on some level.

You also have to consider the other points Parenti makes. Every time the US escalated and the USSR had to play catch up, it was a burn on valuable resources for the USSR. They employed everything they could think of to burn down the USSR, both militarily and economically. Making more, bigger, better nukes, had the bonus of doing both I would imagine. Not to mention you are bringing the logic, of caring about life in general, to an equation that involves the US oligarchy. These are people that only have one thing in sight, absolute domination and ownership. I have no doubt a decent number of them had/have the mindset of "if I can't have it no one will." In addition, I'm sure some private military contractors were making a lot of money off all the construction that goes into making nukes, bases, submarines, etc.

So make more bombs, spend more money for our military contractors, build more bunkers and submarines. Force our targets to have to burn more of their own resources. This is what I imagine their thoughts processes were back then. Idk about now. I haven't kept up with what we have been doing with the nuclear stock pile as of recent.

We can argue about why make so many and that it doesn't make sense but none of that really matters because they did it. I'm just trying to give a hypothesis of what the reasons may be.

It becomes a game of who can destroy all of their opponents missiles and still have enough of their own left to do genocide. The US would make more missiles to make sure that after their first strike, they not only would have enough to stop any feeble retaliation, but also to continue on with what they actually want to do which is wipe out the opponents population. In order to prevent them from doing this the USSR had to then increase their own stock with missiles that were good enough to threaten the US missiles. So the US would then build more and better missiles to overwhelm the soviet's missiles again. Like yellow Parenti said, it's not an arms race,it's one side trying to catch up so they don't get wiped out while the other side increases their stock in order to be able to wipe them out.

So it may only take X number of missiles to kill the enemy but it takes Y number of missiles to ensure the opponents missiles don't hit you then it becomes and equation of X - Y missiles to kill the enemy and not yourself. So every time the soviet's increased their own stock, Y goes up, so X has to go up to compensate. At least this is how I understand it

I have only played coop styled PVE multiplayer video games for years. Monster Hunter games are my favorite. Just dudes and dudettes slaying dragons. Most of the time vocal communication isn't necessary. Emojis and some signals at most. Most of the time when you are with people that know what they are doing you don't need anything. It makes playing with random online so much better. And there's not much animosity against other people. Like ok, sure, you can get a bad player here or there, and sometimes you might have to boot someone for being a little shit but generally speaking it's pretty smooth sailing.

When I play against people there's just so much extra stress. I just don't like that kind of fight. I like to work with people not fight against them. Even if it's team based pvp I don't like it. You are still fighting against other people and in the end that leave some people feeling shitty or angry at other people. I don't like that. Maybe it's part of why I took to communism so quickly and readily. It's not about competing against each other like shitty capitalism but working with each other to make things better. That just resonates with me in all things.

It's ok because it's not a real country anyway.

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