This new show everyone’s talking about has twisted a nerve. It rely’s on a seriously convenient plot with cartoonish caricatures that make no sense whatsoever. Why does Mr. House think there’s “a lot of earnings to be made” in a post apocalypse? Why does Maximus FAIL the entire show, but get promoted at every turn? Cooper is supposed to be some cold-blooded mother fucker that kills anything in his way, but REFUSES to kill a fellow mc when they are on screen.
Yea I’m talking about the Fallout show n’ those aren’t even the worst parts. As a Communist, these caricatures of Communism as well as Capitalism are just goofy. Of course the “Communist” in the form of Moldaver (who we aren’t told as to how they specifically are 200+ years old) is not even a Communist, at least she deny’s it. And is shown to just have a personal vendetta against Cooper’s wife on top of being the leader of a raider group/cult whose actions aren’t particularly good karma.
Communism, or more relevant to the economy Communism uses, Socialism. Is about worker owned means of production. Similar to how a Capitalist uses private property. A Communist/Socialist believes the businesses, and state should be publicly owned by the workers. It’s not a 200+ year long vendetta because some guy’s wife bought out your CAPITALIST business that you work for. It being used in the show is just red scare bullshit which the show buy’s into by making the not Communist (but definitely implied to somehow be one with no rhetoric indicating such) Moldaver a Raider.
Unfortunately the caricature of Capitalism is worse. To start off lets go with a good example the show does give. Cold Fusion. It makes complete sense Vault-Tek, or any other Capitalist entity, would buy out this technology because “free” energy would mean no one could get their power shut off by (real world example) the Entergy company for not paying their bill. Cold Fusion would end that in theory. A fiduciary responsibility in collaboration with investors to prevent that if you will. I don’t even think the show meant to have a half truthful idea about it, that seems like pure accident. The show was made by Amazon after all. I doubt these very ideas weren’t on purpose.
As to Vault-Tek planning to drop the bomb which is the much, much worse example. There is multiple reasons given at the meeting where it all takes place: “Earnings/profit, eliminate competition, factions”. None of them make sense. Nuking the world nukes the economy & the people who work/buy to keep it running. Where’s the profit?
They want to eliminate competition, but are telling all of their known competitors their plans. They’re telling a lady that wants to build robots that delivers milk to the door their plans on nuking the goddamn world.
What about the Factions? Well I don’t really get it because Shady Sands was started by Vault 15 n’ they got nuked like the rest because Hank’s wife left. There’s not an inkling of understanding given as to why 1. Vault-Tek has the ludicrous idea that they will “end all factions”, and 2. Vault-Tek destroys their own factions that they’ve created aside from the ones they gave to their competitors I guess? Nice one, just create more factions you have to destroy later, wtf?
Capitalism is about the economy being centered around private property. Land rights/deeds. Extracting capital from the workforce that is working on private land owned by a capitalist. None of this makes sense in the motivation for capitalist businesses which is profit. It’s not a cabal of illuminati individuals trying to nuke the fucking world for “power”? In Capitalism money is power there is no point in essentially nuking your power away because there’s people you don’t like.
Character bullshit includes:
Lucy going from wasteland badass, back to aloof girl looking for her dad, back to badass, back to aloof. No real consistency imo. We need to see her go from unadapted to adapted, not flowing between both at random.
Maximus, and everyone hating him. Him stating that he wanted Dane (his only friend) to get hurt the way he did. Him impersonating a knight, stealing a suit of power armor, conspiring to kill a squire. None of that matters. He’s promoted to knight at the end with no consequences. Vault 4 even lets him leave with their only source of power, only getting it back because of Lucy. (Dane even acts like Maximus was the one that did it after the whole interrogation scene, and we hear nothing until the end about how Dane did it to himself. I guess Dane forgot about his own self-inflicted wound?)
Cooper is just like a complete Gary Stue. I prefer his flashbacks when he actually has a sort of character. The flash backs also don’t have any awful yodeling which is a plus.
Norm should be dead if Bud weren’t completely fucking useless. Just lock him up not with all the cryogenically frozen people you’re protecting.
Hank is a fucking anti-character. He’s in two scenes. The very beginning, and the very end. Lucy doesn’t even have any flashbacks of him.
Almost every other character feels like bullshit sitcom punchlines, or setting up the punchlines. We got the cousin fucker, chicken fucker, the awkward guy that’s never went a few miles over a hill. That old lady with the STUPID fucking meat grinder prosthetic foot. It’s the exact same problem that The Outer Worlds (video game) has. When you boil everything down to some edgy slapstick comedy gig you cheapen all your characters; nothing seems even possible in the already fictional world which is a failure on the world building front.
Music:
The music is abysmal. There’s hardly any ambient music. It’s all jazzy shit from the games which ruins a lot of the show’s tones. The worst example is probably Lucy walking in on a dead ass dead family with their baby. They killed themselves so they didn’t have to experience the Great-War. It’s a hard scene, and we could get invested in the hard tone of this scene if it wasn’t offset by juke n’ jive music.
Same with the Raider’s killing people Lucy has grown up with, was raised by, and even loves. Nope more 50’s music. The radio only works in the games because you can turn it on/off at any point in time. You the player are kinda given an element in shaping the tone for your character. Imo a fallout show/movie needs only ambience. Maybe a radio or jukebox in the background albeit limited?
The Plot:
It’s apparently about looking for Lucy’s dad, but just like the Bethesda games they just do that to get the character out of the vault; like the water chip in Fo1, or GECK in Fo2. And just like the Bethesda games it’s a problem because of the characters agency. Probably more so because we can’t sit here n’ be like “well Lucy doesn’t care about their dad” because this isn’t an RPG where you make the character. This is a pre-established character. It fucks up the player agency with all of the side stuff you’re doing when in both the show, Fo3, and Fo4 priority #1 should be finding your fathechild.
It turns into this guy Wilzig’s head because he’s got the cold fusion in his neck. And Cooper is there because of a bounty. Knight Titus (not even worth mentioning) conveniently lands almost right where Wilzig was because “he wants to shoot stuff” then dies.
There’s a lot of conveniences. Like Lucy finding Wilzig twice, and all of the mc’s arriving in Filly around the same time. Wilzig gets the meat grinder prosthetic then promptly obviously dies, a while later, after taking cyanide?
Then the head becomes the mcguffin which is tossed around between Lucy, to Maximus, and Thaddeus (other brotherhood guy) then back to Lucy at the plot’s convenience.
I mean that was it up until the end. Cold Fusion gets activated, and the big reveals happened like the show had much drama to begin with. There’s some here, and there, but it really gets overshadowed by the astronomical attempts at comedy the show makes.
Theme:
The theme is mostly based on the zany Fallout 4, and 76. Which I don’t have much to say other than I don’t like it opposed to the grittiness of every game before them.
The theme of Fallout being the rhetorical “fallout” of humanity with ourselves is very lost, but this is nowhere near a new thing. I hate to see a desolate wasteland be made “fun” rather than asking the relevant questions for our characters, or more importantly ourselves in order to ever prevent something like a Nuclear Holocaust from ever taking place.
TL;DR:
The show doesn’t match up with itself much less the core material. It simply doesn’t know what it wants to be or do. At points it feels like a super hero show. Then it wants to do mystery, and drama which comes off as a poorly written soap opera. Or it’ll usually cash out to be this overly edgy sitcom.
2/10

Cinsiyetler Arası Maneviyat Farkı: Bilimsel, Toplumsal ve Kültürel Boyutlarıyla Kapsamlı Bir Analiz

Görünür dünyanın ötesine uzanan bir merak ve arayış, insanlık tarihi boyunca var olmuş ve insan deneyiminin ayrılmaz bir parçası haline gelmiştir. Doğaüstü varlıklara, metafizik olaylara ve manevi dünyaya olan inanç, farklı kültürlerde ve dönemlerde çeşitli şekillerde tezahür etmiştir. Fal baktırmaktan ruhlarla iletişim kurmaya, mistik öğretilere bağlanmaktan şamanistik uygulamalara kadar geniş bir yelpazede kendini gösteren bu inanç sistemi, insanın anlam arayışının ve bilinmeyene olan merakının bir yansımasıdır. Ancak bu inançların homojen bir yapı sergilemediği, toplumsal cinsiyetler arasında belirgin farklılıklar gösterdiği gözlemlenmektedir.
Özellikle kadınların, erkeklere kıyasla doğaüstü varlıklara ve metafizik olaylara daha fazla inanma eğiliminde olduğu yönündeki tezler, çeşitli bilimsel araştırmalarla desteklenmektedir. Bu makalede, cinsiyetler arası maneviyat farkını derinlemesine inceleyerek, biyolojik, evrimsel, toplumsal, kültürel ve psikolojik faktörlerin bu karmaşık ilişkiyi nasıl şekillendirdiğini ele alacağız. Bilimsel çalışmalar, antropolojik veriler ve sosyolojik analizler ışığında, bu farklılığın kökenlerini ve olası sonuçlarını ele alacak, insanın manevi arayışının cinsiyet kimliğiyle nasıl kesiştiğini daha iyi anlamaya çalışacağız.
Biyolojik ve Evrimsel Kökenler: Empati, Sezgi ve Hayatta Kalma
Kadınların erkeklere kıyasla daha yüksek empati ve sezgi yeteneklerine sahip olduğunu ve bunun doğaüstü inançlara yatkınlıklarını artırdığını ileri süren bilim insanları, bu görüşlerini nörobilimsel bulgulara dayandırmaktadırlar. Empati, başkalarının duygularını anlama ve paylaşma becerisi olarak tanımlanmaktadır. Fizyolojik olarak, ayna nöronlar olarak adlandırılan beyin hücrelerinin bu süreçte önemli rol oynadığı düşünülmektedir (Rizzolatti & Craighero, 2004). Ayna nöronlar, başkalarının eylemlerini gözlemlediğimizde, sanki kendimiz yapıyormuşuz gibi aktive olurlar. Bu sayede, karşımızdaki kişinin duygusal durumunu daha iyi anlamamızı sağlarlar.
Sezgi ise, bilinçli düşünme sürecine dayanmayan, aniden gelen bir his veya içgörü olarak tanımlanabilir. Sezginin kökenleri tam olarak anlaşılamamış olsa da, beynin bilinçaltı süreçlerinin ve geçmiş deneyimlerimizden edindiğimiz bilgilerin bir araya gelmesiyle ortaya çıktığı düşünülmektedir (Epstein, 2010).
Evrimsel açıklamalar, kadınların empati ve sezgi yeteneklerinin, çocuk bakımı ve sosyal bağların korunmasındaki rollerinden kaynaklanıyor olabileceğini öne sürmektedir. Çocuk yetiştirme sürecinde, bebeğin sözsüz ipuçlarını anlamak, ihtiyaçlarını karşılamak ve onunla duygusal bir bağ kurmak hayati önem taşımaktadır (Hrdy, 1999). Yüksek empati yeteneğine sahip anneler, bebeklerinin ihtiyaçlarına daha duyarlı oldukları için, çocuklarının hayatta kalma şansını artırmış olabilirler.
Benzer şekilde, grup içindeki sosyal uyumu sağlamak, potansiyel tehditleri önceden sezmek ve grup üyeleri arasındaki ilişkileri düzenlemek için empati ve sezgi oldukça faydalıdır. Kadınların, sosyal gruplar içindeki ilişkileri düzenleme ve uyumu sağlama konusunda daha aktif rol almaları, bu yeteneklerinin evrimsel süreçte seçilim avantajı sağlamış olabileceğini düşündürmektedir (Taylor et al., 2000).
Erkeklerde ise rekabet, kaynak kontrolü ve statü mücadelesi gibi faktörler, daha analitik ve materyalist bir bakış açısını teşvik etmiş olabilir. Hayatta kalma ve üreme başarısı için, erkeklerin fiziksel güç, rekabetçi ruhla ve stratejik düşünme becerilerine ihtiyaç duymaları, beyinlerinin bu yönde gelişmesini sağlamış olabilir (Buss, 2015). Bu durum, erkeklerin doğaüstü inançlara daha şüpheci yaklaşmalarına yol açabilir.
Toplumsal Cinsiyet Rolleri: Kültürel Kalıpların Etkisi
Cinsiyetler arası maneviyat farkını açıklamak için sadece biyolojik ve evrimsel faktörlere odaklanmak eksik kalacaktır. Toplumsal cinsiyet rolleri ve kültürel normlar da bu farkı şekillendiren önemli etkenlerdir. Antropolojik çalışmalar, farklı kültürlerde cinsiyet rollerinin ve manevi inançların nasıl farklılaştığını göstermektedir.
Birçok kültürde kadınlar, duygusal ifadeye, sezgiselliğe ve maneviyata daha fazla değer veren toplumsal rollere yönlendirilmektedir. Bu roller, kadınların doğaüstü inançlarını destekleyebilir. Örneğin, birçok toplumda büyükanneler, aile içinde maneviyatı ve gelenekleri yaşatan önemli figürler olarak kabul edilirler (Myerhoff, 1978). Aynı şekilde, kadınların şifacılık, falcılık ve ruhsal rehberlik gibi alanlarda daha fazla yer alması, toplumsal cinsiyet rollerinin maneviyat üzerindeki etkisini göstermektedir.
Erkekler ise, mantık, rasyonellik ve maddi başarı odaklı rollere teşvik edildikleri için, metafizik olaylara daha şüpheci yaklaşabilirler. Bilim, teknoloji ve mühendislik gibi alanlarda erkeklerin daha fazla temsil edilmesi, bu durumu pekiştiren bir faktör olabilir. Bu alanlarda başarı için gerekli olan analitik düşünme, problem çözme ve eleştirel yaklaşım gibi beceriler, doğaüstü inançlara olan şüpheyi artırabilir.
Psikolojik Boyut: Belirsizlik, Kontrol İhtiyacı ve Anlam Arayışı
Psikolojik açılardan bakıldığında, belirsizlik ve kontrol ihtiyacı gibi faktörlerin, doğaüstü inançlar üzerinde etkili olduğu düşünülmektedir. İnsanlar, belirsizlikle başa çıkmak ve hayatta bir anlam bulmak için doğaüstü inançlara yönelebilirler (Inzlicht et al., 2011).
Kadınlar kontrol ve gidişatın planlanandan farklı gittiği konularda ne kadar başarısız olduğu göze alındığında, bu buna sebep olabilir Dini İnançlar: Ritüeller, Gelenekler ve Metafizik Öğeler
Dini inançlar ve manevi arayış da cinsiyetler arası maneviyat farkını etkileyen önemli unsurlardır. Araştırmalar, kadınların geleneksel dini inançlara ve uygulamalara daha sıkı sıkıya bağlı olduğunu göstermektedir. Bu durum, kadınların doğaüstü varlıklara ve metafizik olaylara olan inançlarını besleyebilir. Geleneksel dinlerde genellikle doğaüstü varlıklar, mucizeler ve ahiret inancı gibi metafizik öğeler bulunur (Stark, 2001). Kadınların dini ritüellere daha fazla katılımı, dini metinleri daha sık okumaları ve dini liderlere daha fazla danışmaları, bu metafizik öğelere olan inançlarını pekiştirebilir.
Erkekler ise, dini inançlarını daha pragmatik veya felsefi bir şekilde yorumlayabilirler. Örneğin, dini ritüelleri toplumsal uyumu sağlayan bir araç olarak görebilirler veya dini metinlerde ahlaki öğretilere odaklanabilirler. Bu yaklaşım, doğaüstü inançlara olan ihtiyacı azaltarak, daha rasyonel ve dünyevi bir perspektif geliştirmelerine yol açabilir.
Sonuç: Bireyselliğin Önemi ve Genellemelerin Sınırları
Kadınların erkeklere kıyasla doğaüstü varlıklara ve metafizik olaylara daha fazla inanma eğiliminde olduğu fikri, biyolojik, evrimsel, toplumsal, kültürel ve psikolojik faktörlerin kompleks bir etkileşiminden kaynaklanmaktadır. Empati ve sezgi gibi biyolojik faktörler, toplumsal cinsiyet rolleri, kültürel normlar, belirsizlik ve kontrol ihtiyacı, dini inançlar ve manevi arayışlar, bu farkı yaratan ve şekillendiren unsurlar arasında sayılabilir.
Ancak, her bireyin inanç sistemi ve metafizik konulara yaklaşımı kendine özgüdür. Cinsiyet, bu inançları etkileyen faktörlerden sadece biridir ve genellemelerden kaçınmak önemlidir. Bireysel farklılıklar, kişisel deneyimler ve kültürel bağlam, manevi inançları anlamak için göz önünde bulundurulması gereken önemli unsurlardır.
Sonuç olarak, cinsiyetler arası maneviyat farkı, basit ve tek boyutlu bir açıklamaya indirgenemeyecek kadar karmaşık bir konudur. Bu farklılıkları anlamak için, biyolojik faktörlerden toplumsal dinamiklere, psikolojik ihtiyaçlardan kültürel normlara kadar geniş bir perspektif benimsemek gerekmektedir. Unutulmamalıdır ki, her birey kendi inanç sistemini ve manevi yolculuğunu şekillendirme hakkına sahiptir ve bu seçimlere saygı duymak büyük önem taşımaktadır.
Kaynaklar

• Buss, D. M. (2015). The handbook of evolutionary psychology. John Wiley & Sons.
• Epstein, S. (2010). Demystifying intuition: What it is, how it works, and how to use it. Psychology Today.
• Hrdy, S. B. (1999). Mother nature: A history of mothers, infants, and natural selection. Pantheon Books.
• Inzlicht, M., McGregor, I., Hirsh, J. B., & Nash, K. (2011). Neural markers of religious conviction. Psychological Science, 22(10), 1272-1279.
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Friends: I am an 83 year-young Vietnam Vet. 56-years ago this year I was 49,000 ft in the air over Vietnam in a B52 dropping 500 & 1,000 lb bombs on the Viet Cong in the 17th Parallel.
Today, I am trying to reach the survivors of that War and all other Wars we have fought AND all people around the World in the 208 Recognized Countries that will be Left Behind at the coming Rapture, described in the Holy Bible (1 Thessalonians 4:17: Then they who are alive, shall be caught up together into the clouds with them who remain, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we be ever with the Lord.), as when Jesus Christ will return to this earth to give Eternal Heavenly bodies to those that have died after accepting Him as their Personal Savior AND those who are still alive and have done the same.
There are an estimated 6 Billion of the 8 Billion people left in the entire World who have NOT accepted Jesus as their personal Savior, meaning that they do not believe that God, the Sovereign King and Creator of the entire Universe and beyond, sent His Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to this Sin-Filled Earth 2,024 years ago to shed His Blood and die upon a wooden Cross in Jerusalem, Be buried in a Borrowed Tomb and be raised Back to Life again on the 3rd Day (Easter) by His Father, God) as PAYMENT for all of the sins of the ENTIRE HUMAN RACE IF:
1.) They would Believe upon Him as the Son of God; 2.) Accept Him as their personal Savior; 3.) Confess that they are a sinner, meaning that they have broken at least ONE of God's Ten Commandments; 4.) Repenting of their sins, i.e., changing their sinful-way of living and 5.) Giving Him total control of their lives,e.i., letting Him be the Pilot in charge of their lives.
Having done those 5 things, you are Spiritually "Born Again" enabling The Holy Spirit,(the 3rd Part of the Trinity of: The Father, Son and Holy Spirit) to Enter your Very Soul, Reserve your position in Heaven AND Write your name in the Lamb's Book of Life, where your name MUST be at the Rapture, for you to receive a Heavenly Body that will live Forever in Heaven.
Please read the 20th Chapter of Revelation in the Bible to see what happens to those who are "Left Behind" at the Rapture:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2020&version=ESV
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<100: AWVRE, CERBERAMANE, INDXX, LXWKXXY, Ataroyl, DVNTV$, DJVNE, DJ Bucketz, Tegnone, 410GONE, 1999, BAD Idea., TMUT, Sanpura, MOB TIES, andrew, DJ STICKE, sogakan, DINNA, YUNG $ILVERBACK, VLS, Kind JoJo, Saint, YG'SKIES, k v lt, ESSS BEEE, L19u1d Playa, DJ HELLA, SCARECROW MANIAC, Terrorflip, MOBB LORDS, raigeki, NORTHEAST FAM, KENNYSIX, Runnin, PRNYNG, Eastwest, BLVS3D, TRILLAH JONES, 12-Riot, DJ Naxxramus, Mista Mane, Casadie, PUROHUE$$O, AK.HAZARD, STILLASAME, Cassettemane, betterthanlynn, menø., DJ HAZY HAZE, PLAYA DJEEZ, Young Horse, DJ IMPALA, KRUSHA, LXBERTY MXTION, HXXDRICHMANE, Abusemane, EuqSellKillah, D.D.PRAMA G, 4realsinjas, TRENCHFOOT, Beezy Flame, DJ SLAYERMANE, sunderss, MALT, RXVIVAL, G-SVS, .arima, ARswisha, CROSSPAIN, Ekonoir, strqo, S2k, DEATH808, Thuggish Souljah, Beats by Drake, JONNY EUPHON, Check Ya Technique, $cary Mane, DJ SOPIME, Dimez, LITTLE RAVEN, JEFF.HRZ, OLDYMANE, Prod. Geek, Norti, caio4ever, mushout, MACK FROST, pvrple$$mxke2k, RAINE R, DOOMASAC, COMPTON WOOD, OG WOOD$IZE, FUXKLOWK3Y, DJ CIABERPUNK, DJ SXLuS, $aibot Killah, STILLMANE, Gelato .45, 2STRANGE, ONIXMANE PLAYA, Kamikoto SHINJI, HYKIOS, SCHMONEY KID, AXGXSTGXD, COPYBARAMANE, Moolah, BEAMER MANE, CRIMINAL SIDEMACK, Mighty Bat, ONITEX HASSE, Matthew Franks, DJ Bxxmer 13, YOUNG$K8LXRD, TripleSeven, DANKHVNK, DAZED SQUAD, Thoughtful, BRING DA RUCKUZ, HIGHEST.HOMINID, HVCED, Vurzeh, summersberry27, LUNATIC WU옷, DJ PANXS, DJ Morphine, Vedebe, WADE SHAPPER, MC $tack, Holysus, DJ FAITHLESS, Kxrlxne, PROD. VALKO, GANGSHI PLAYA, WESTSIDE KRYSIS, Skymane, Rat, FABIO GABBANA, BLANGO, 3DEMI, YUNG LABOR, Pure Ice, GraveRobShawty, COPYMANE, LEAN MANE, TRAP WIZARRD, JR Beatz, SMIRK2KILL, Thrax808, JOHNDOE, DJ CHROMATIC, DJ PLAYATENDO, hotblaq, K.R. TOB!N, KRISTOF, yvngcasket, COURSED DOLPHIN, kobyy, DJ GARFILD, Yogi Barrier, DJAKIRA, kushgrvnd, Felix Beats, TOSEINA, SOULLESSBOI, 6kgun, K1NZE, DEMONS MORGUE, DJ Teijo, DJ BUCKMANE, Kenshomafia, $ELLING DOPE, MENACEOUTDAKUT, MEGATRONS REVENGE, GinGrey, MOBBSTONE, CLOUDYSKIES, PWS, Propane Vincent, CRXWLEX, THUGGISH FRED, Sippin Lord
Catch Part 2 tomorrow with artists below 1k listeners!

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Initiating directive 7395 - destroy all Communists
Liberty Prime has numerous memorable quotes, including what may be one of the most important quotes in Fallout lore:
“Initiating directive 7395 - destroy all Communists.”
Out of universe Liberty Prime’s quotes are over the top, satirical, propaganda sayings by a big stompy robot who leads players to exciting end-game set piece battles. However, in universe, his quotes are deadly serious. Liberty Prime, gives operational updates like “Revised stratagem: Initiate photonic resonance overcharge.” Other quotes, like “America will never fall to Communist invasion” are not just propaganda, but I believe they are the guiding values of the American wartime government in the Fallout universe. His quote about directive 7395 is not propaganda, it’s an operational update indicating that the robot is now following orders as part of a wider strategy to destroy communism.
I believe this is the directive authorizing the U.S. military to prepare for and launch an overwhelming attack including a preemptive nuclear attack if necessary, to ensure the destruction of all communists, including those individuals assisting in a communist victory, such as American citizens in conflict with the government or those embracing communism. This may even be the administrative mechanism for the creation of the Enclave, if there was any legal or Constitutional processes followed to create it. It is also most likely an electronic backdoor that allowed the Enclave and defense contractors like Vault-Tec to make use of automated nuclear weapon systems, including Liberty Prime.
It’s likely the Enclave started out a legitimate Continuity of Government plan in the case of an overwhelming nuclear war, and then when mixed with the Vault-Tec led conspiracy, it became something else. Before the great war there was overlap with legitimate U.S. government functions, as well as legitimate U.S. government contractor interactions, along with the conspiracy. Think of the prewar Enclave as the intersecting area in a Venn diagram between the government, the corporations, the conspiracy, and the plan for surviving the great war.
Communist detected on American Soil lethal force engaged
In the Fallout universe, the United States government appears to have fully embraced a form of hyper-capitalist values that draws both from Ayn Rand's Objectivist ideology as well as paranoid nationalism inspired by McCarthyism. To the U.S. government and its Enclave shadow, communism was the ultimate evil. The Government/Enclave, after a decade of brutal war, likely saw any criticism of their version of capitalism or calls for economic justice as communist agitation that threatened to destabilize America from within. Since it’s happening in the midst of a war for the very survival of the nation, I’m sure it’s seen as treason instead of patriotism. An example of this is teaching kids in Pioneer Scouts that labor unions are the first step to communism. There are many instances in the game when informed consent for consumers and the governed are frowned upon if it interferes with businesses making money or government plans.
To defeat communism, the conspirator’s plan appears to be equal parts Atlas Shrugged* and Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Run off to a hidden capitalist utopia underground or offshore and nuke everything else back to the stone age. I think Directive 7395 is the crux of the Enclave’s strategy and is behind the nuclear war. They had to destroy as much as possible to stop communism. The Government’s/Enclave's existential fear of communism, fueled by Vault-Tec's self-serving manipulation, led the Enclave to prepare to launch a nuclear war to fulfill Directive 7395's order to destroy all communists.
Better Dead than Red
By the late 2070s, although the U.S. military had made progress against Chinese forces, having both liberated Anchorage, and having taken the fight to the Chinese mainland things seems like they were at a stalemate. Back home American society was on the brink of collapse due to resource shortages, economic inequality, labor unrest, caused by the replacement of human workers with robots, and according to the show a government that is broke. So, it’s likely the government probably feels compelled to end the war, so it can try and stabilize the situation. There are mentions of peace negotiations, and how they threaten Vault-Tec’s investments for the end of the world. Finally, there is Mr. House’s calculations that nuclear war is inevitable by 2080, which means that it is unlikely, even if the war ended peacefully in 2077, that the post war world would be nothing but nuka-cola, drive in theaters, ice cream socials for all with and a Mr. Handy in every house.
Based on the Fallout TV show and games, we see evidence indicating that Vault-Tec did not directly drop the bombs, though it is highly likely that they prodded the U.S. government into nuclear war after it began to conspire with other companies. I’ll get to that evidence later. The most likely method for starting a nuclear war is that Vault-Tec, or another company/individual involved in the conspiracy delivered a report or analysis to the U.S. leadership claiming that a communist revolution within the U.S. was inevitable and that the government lacked the resources to maintain control after the end of the war, even if the US did defeat China by either conventional or nuclear means. There was likely a great deal of truth to the report. Believing this warning, the U.S. concluded that a preemptive nuclear strike against all communist, including the one that had infiltrated U.S. society at every level, was the only way to prevent a communist victory. That continuing the war as they were currently fighting in 2077 would not result in victory, and simply ending the war peacefully, would result in defeat. They needed a different strategy.
This is where Directive 7395 comes in - Liberty Prime states it is an order to "destroy all communists" with one of the government’s goals being to make "Chinese victory impossible." Liberty Prime mentions both communist, and the Chinese in various statements, so communist is a distinct term from Chinese.
Faced with false or misleading projections of a successful communist uprising even with China's destruction, the government/Enclave broadly interpreted Directive 7395 as a mandate for all-out nuclear war. The death and destruction from this wasn’t an issue, because as Liberty Prime states “Death is a preferable alternative to Communism.”
In game, this isn’t a joke told by a walking meme machine; this is a core belief of the U.S. leadership after a decade of brutal war with communist China.
Communism Is A Lie
The Enclave's definition of "communist" almost certainly included any Americans protesting the government or demanding economic reforms. We know that Cadillac Bob, Cooper Howard, Treasurer Robert Yemlin (who uncovered financial fraud in Boston), and the people interned at Little Yangtze were all accused of being communists. The government encouraged people to inform on suspected communists. Though most reports to the Vigilant Citizen’s Hotline and calls to 1-800-REPORT-RED, probably were less actual commie devils, and more likely innocent neighbors and co-workers. While the government and society likely falsely accused many people, there were actual Chinese communist infiltrators operating in America, some equipped with advanced stealth suits causing havoc. It wasn’t all paranoia on the part of government officials, but it likely helped the government maintain control, because authorities could label those who would speak out about real abuses, people like Treasurer Yemlin, as communists and dismiss legitimate claims and grievances against the government or its backers.
To the Enclave, killing millions of U.S. citizens in a preemptive nuclear strike that started a global nuclear war was preferable to allowing communism any chance of success. Embracing ideological fanaticism, the Enclave, trigged by Vault-Tec's self-serving manipulations, was striking first to implement Directive 7395, even if it meant destroying the very country they claimed to defend along with China, and what remained of the Soviet Union and other communist countries. They had to destroy everything not just in China, but in the U.S. as well, to prevent the communists from surviving the war on the surface. Besides a few Chinese ghoul remnants, from all we know 200 years later, the Enclave did defeat Communism, at least in America, and rendered it incapable of threatening America from China. So, the plan was effective in the destroying communism portion, but not as successful in the portion about preserving a pre-war America capable of reclaiming the nation after the nuclear war, so either their plan was flawed, or rushed, or both. This plan took months or longer to implement, and on Oct. 23, while there is a chance China may have launched first, this doesn’t matter. Regardless of if China or the Enclave launched first, in either case it was as a direct result of the culmination of the Enclave’s implementation of directive 7395. However, I think there is evidence showing China did not launch first.
Tactical Assessment: Red Chinese Victory - Impossible
If China did launch first, it was only because their spies saw the strike was imminent, as in certain to happen in hours or days, and they were just following a policy of Mutually Assured Destruction. Since China had directly fought the U.S. for years, it appears like neither side wanted an all-out nuclear war before the Vault-Tec meeting. The reason Chinese nuclear deterrence failed in 2077 after it had worked for decades, was because the U.S. government changed its strategy, so that a massive nuclear war that destroyed most of the United States was a key element of the U.S. plan for victory because of directive 7395, instead of something the U.S. was actively avoiding.

There was no warning in Los Angeles on the day of the strike, meaning the strike either had to come from either a stealth attack or something every close. Some likely candidates are a Chinese ballistic missile submarine stationed close off the West coast, or an U.S. orbital weapons platform (most likely one similar to the Kovac-Muldoon orbital platform, since it has stealth systems), or from bombs positioned underground in the city instead of an ICBM or bomber originating from China that U.S. defenses could detect.

The undetected attack on L.A. is evidence that it wasn’t a Chinese preemptive nuclear attack. If China was attacking first, especially if it was to stop a pending U.S. attack, some of the targets would have been command and control centers. The Chinese likely did not know the full details of the Enclave's preemptive strike plan, as they did not preemptively attack the President's location after it leaked in the press. Since they didn’t attack the oil rig, or any of the command vaults like Vault 31, it shows that the Chinese didn’t know about the facilities, which means that their intelligence probably wasn’t good enough to launch a preemptive attack based on deep knowledge of the Vault-Tec led conspiracy or the existence of the Enclave. An oil rig in the Pacific seems like it should be a much easier target than Washington D.C., yet China hit D.C. hard, but left the oil rig intact, so it’s unlikely the Chinese had time to change their plans, and to try and decapitate the U.S. government, indicating they did not strike first.

Because there was another nuclear strike on Shady Sands long after the destruction of China, I think a U.S. orbital weapons platform is the most likely culprit, owing to the fact it was unlikely Vault-Tec or the Enclave would bury a nuclear bomb under a location for a city that wasn’t founded yet. We know there are orbital weapons platforms still operational by the time of Fallout 3. If this is the case, then not only was the Enclave in the process of striking first, they did indeed launch first too. After the first launch, then the nukes from both sides hit targets as part of Mutually Assured Destruction nuclear war doctrine both sides, and possibly even the USSR if it still existed, followed, using nuclear arsenals each side had amassed for years.

Here is the timeline of events leading to the Great War on October 23, 2077:

• Late 2076: Vault-Tec, West Tek, RobCo, REPCONN, and Big Mountain hold a meeting to discuss the future.
• Late March or Early April 2077: The U.S. President relocates to the Poseidon Energy oil rig, as reported on by the Boston Bugle.
• Ongoing throughout 2077: Canadian insurgency
• January 7, 2077: All FEV research transferred to the Mariposa Military Base.
• 2077 or earlier: Declaration of Martial Law across the U.S., it may have come at separate times in different parts of the nation.
• September 2077: The Free States secede from the United States.
• October 1-20, 2077: Automation riots spread across West Virginia and Pittsburgh. The government loses contact with Mariposa Military Base, and Captain Roger Maxson initiates a mutiny, then announces his unit has seceded from the USA.
• October 22, 2077: The platinum chip, containing upgrades for Mr. House's systems printed. Scheduled for delivery on the afternoon of Oct. 23.

October 23, 2077: The Great War begins. Cooper Howard is working at a birthday party with his daughter. Happens before afternoon delivery of the platinum chip. The populace takes shelter in vaults. That afternoon, game four of the World Series between Boston and Texas scheduled to begin. Boston has a 3-0 advantage. Vault-Tec's experiments begin in earnest as the bombs fall and seem to start immediately in in places like Vault 101.

October 24, 2077: Between 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. upgraded Vegas air defense systems slated to come online after the delivery and installation of the platinum chip. However, this was approximately 20 hours after the beginning of the Great War, and it never happened. Mr. House said he thought this would be plenty of time after this, before the Great War started, but he was mistaken.

October 27, 2077: Mariposa Military Base mutineers head to the Lost Hills bunker.

The last domino falls here
Evidence from the shows and games is it is likely the meeting happened in late 2076 or earlier, because the news reports mentioned the upcoming winter, and since a REPCONN executive attended, that would seem to indicate they are still an independent company, and RobCo hadn’t completed its late 2076 acquisition of REPCONN. Additionally, if Cooper and Barb have divorced, they need time for that to work its way through the court system. That should take several months, unless laws speed it up for cases of suspected communists like Cooper, or if there is an automated solution, possibly a General Atomics International Mr. Judgy, who dispenses impartial justice swiftly. However, Janey doesn’t appear to have aged much between from the earliest flashbacks to the day of the attack, so we’re talking a year, maybe 18 months at most, instead of several years.

Another important possible outcome of the meeting was most likely that West-Tek received approval to move FEV research to the Mariposa Military Base.

Chairman Cheng will fail, China will fall
The "Romeo" time zone referenced at the Switchboard terminals in Boston may not represent Eastern Time in Fallout. It likely switched from Eastern to Pacific Time sometime after when the president relocated to the oil rig. Therefore, the 9:42 AM timestamp in Boston corresponds to 9:42 AM Pacific Time instead of 6:42 AM Pacific Time. One other possibility since clocks in Nevada and Washington D.C. are both frozen just before 10, is because Romeo time now covers all the United States. In the TV series, the attack on Los Angeles appears to happen during daytime, with children watching Saturday morning cartoons. This suggests the bombs fell after sunrise but before noon in the Pacific Time Zone. Other supporting evidence for this is that the Platinum chip hadn’t arrived yet (and that should have occurred after noon), and the pre-war ghoul Carol in D.C. said the attacks occurred on the West Coast first. The West Coast attack seemed like it started minutes after the beginning of a Grognak episode playing as part of Saturday morning cartoons. Saturday morning cartoons in our world usually had a schedule from around 7 a.m. until noon, with sports coming on after. I think this West Coast attack could have been around 9:05ish a.m. Pacific Daylight Time. I’m guessing game four of the World Series was set to start around 12-4 p.m. EDT (Boston Bugle said it should happen on the afternoon of Oct. 23) or 12-2 if all clocks are set the same, which could have been why the birthday party was early in the morning. Basically, the birthday party happens early, so the guests could then watch the world series and see if Boston clinched its first victory in 159 years a bit later in the day.

[Yes, I understand that the real reason is out of universe they recycled assets, so that is why clocks in both Nevada and Washington D.C. have the same time, and then Fallout 4 added in the text to explain the clocks.]

Since it appears that it takes ICBMs about 30 minutes to cross continents, it’s likely that the first attacks on West Coast occur, since there were no news reports, or civil defense nuclear strike warnings. Chinese satellites detected the attacks, then around 9:13 China launched its first retaliation, which U.S. forces detected, as reported in the Switchboard terminal in Boston. Chinese nuclear weapons most likely detonated above the atmosphere to cause an EMP as part of this original retaliation, stopping the clocks, and is most likely why Romeo time covers the entire U.S.at least for the clocks that changed to Romeo time and didn’t stay on the older time zones, and is based on Pacific time, since both Nevada and D.C. have clocks stopped at the exact same time. The West Coast may have been an ideal first strike location not only because of all the infrastructure there, but if the U.S. wasn’t monitoring it (either because they normally didn’t monitor it, or the Enclave interfered with the monitoring) and the Chinese were, then a Chinese retaliatory attack could have looked like a first strike to the U.S. not aware of the Enclave’s plans, making it easier for the Enclave to reassert control when they were ready, than if any survivors realized it was the Enclave that struck first. This would allow the Enclave to blame communism for the sorry state of the nation.

We will not fear the red menace
The attack caught Vault-Tec's executives and co-conspirators who had intimate knowledge of the plan to end the world off-guard. If Vault-Tec had directly orchestrated the war, its leadership would have been better prepared. I’m not say nobody at Vault-Tec knew by Oct. 23, but it certainly doesn’t seem to be common knowledge among conspirators weeks before the attack. One person not knowing is chance, two people not knowing is coincidence, three key members of the conspiracy not knowing show it is the Enclave taking initiative to launch the attack on an accelerated timeline without the Vault-Tec conspirators’ knowledge:

One: Mr. House, who had insider knowledge, was surprised by the timing of the attacks. His misjudgment suggests that Vault-Tec didn't have precise control over when the Enclave would strike, since it came 20 hours before he was ready, and he thought he had plenty of time (though when he said plenty that was unclear if he meant hours, days, or weeks, it’s unlikely it was months or years). Mr. House almost died in the attack.

Two: Barb Howard seemingly lets her estranged husband who most certainly is not on the good vault list take her beloved daughter to a birthday party, at what happens to be the exact time of the attacks in close vicinity of a city that’s without question on the target list. This seems unnecessarily risky, and quite out of character for her.

Three: Less than two weeks before the war, Leon Von Felden was overseeing research on the Forced Evolutionary Virus project, and it did not appear that he knew the war was coming, nor did it seem like the Mariposa Military Base would be the location he planned to ride out the war.

Vault-Tec's primary goal was to secure it’s investments, receive more funding and find willing test subjects for their experiments. Manipulating the Enclave into starting the war served this purpose, but Vault-Tec likely didn't need to control the exact timing of the attacks, as long as it knew the expected implementation date. Then they had time on their side, and Vault-Tec’s plan for reasserting control of the wasteland seemed to be far later than the Enclave’s. That may be why instead of government officials, they filled Vault 31 with Bud’s Buds, and Vault-Tec was expecting time to destroy the Enclave, along with all their other competitors. By 2296, time almost HAS destroyed the Enclave. Meanwhile, the Enclave had major setbacks on both coasts, as well as early infighting in Appalachia in each of its earlier attempts to reassert its control across a large part of the United States.

The Enclave, driven by their own paranoia and ideology, probably acted on Vault-Tec's warnings without needing direct orders from the corporation. Vault-Tec exploited the Enclave's fears but didn't necessarily need to coordinate every aspect of the war.

Embrace democracy or you will be eradicated
The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture was an enthusiastic member of the Enclave, and the Department of Agriculture probably looted America to stock the vaults and bunkers for the war after the government started preparing for Directive 7395 in earnest. This explains the food riots at the end of 2077. In Boston and Washington D.C. funds and supplies were going to military preparations, and not what the government had originally allocated them for. Since the Enclave knew the Great War was coming, food rioters or successionists in West Virginia, or insurgents in Canada didn’t matter too much, as long as they weren’t disrupting the final preparations. Though the Secretary of Agriculture had asked for a preemptive strike, meaning at least part of the Enclave were in favor of it, the president apparently did not approve of it. The president may have been trying to provoke the Chinese into an attack to maintain the moral high ground, or maybe the president wanted to wait until the planned date before launching.

However, the unexpected capture of Leon Von Felden, and the succession of the military unit in charge of the FEV project’s security changed the plan. Leon had direct knowledge of both the conspiracy and the FEV research on human subjects. The government/Enclave didn’t find out until Oct. 20. Since the response wasn’t immediate, and since several Enclave members didn’t make it to the Whitespring bunker, not only was Vault-Tec taken off guard, but so was the Enclave. However, coming so soon after finding out about the mutiny at Mariposa Military Base seems like it cannot be coincidence. The interrogations by Roger Maxon did not appear to be very effective and were more like murderous torture sessions. The Enclave did not know that the mutineers weren’t effectively exacting information, but Leon was a high value target, and the Enclave knew he knew too much. Plus, since there wasn’t a strike on Mariposa, it seems like the Enclave wanted to preserve the FEV research for their own purposes, while if Capt. Maxon’s disclosure had prompted the Chinese to attack first, they would have probably nuked Mariposa. If full knowledge leaked about the Vault-Tec conspiracy, as well as directive 7395, and about the FEV research, it would make reasserting control after a nuclear war much more difficult.

The Mariposa mutiny and the Boston Bugle's revelation of the president's location either convinced the president to launch a war ahead of schedule or convinced the Enclave's first-strike faction to replace the president with somebody who would launch a preemptive attack. The Enclave may not have been at full strength, but they had several bases including Adams Air Force Base, Raven Rock, Navarro, The Whitespring Bunker, outposts in Chicago, at least two power AIs, a VAX and MODUS, as well as the Kovac-Muldoon and Bradley-Hercules orbital weapons platforms that all survived the Great War. Despite major setbacks, the Enclave's survival of at least one research base until 2296 suggests they were as prepared as, if not better than, most other factions, except possibly Vault-Tec.

It's likely they would have liked to have had more time and had a schedule that implied there was more time that Mr. House and Vault-Tec knew about. After Capt. Maxon declared his succession, the Enclave had to make the choice to proceed, and finished what they could, and then attacked on Saturday morning of October 23, 2077.

There is a great post from u/Corpolentusmaximus2 about the Chinese striking first, but I am not convinced.

*While I haven’t read all of Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand wrote an unintentionally hilarious love letter to a Robber baron, who rather than take out a government loan, he puts his wife up for collateral to build his railroad. It’s so over the top, it could easily fit into Fallout’s themes. It made me laugh so hard I nearly cried. However, I thought it was ludicrous that everybody in a country could forget how to build, or maintain, or make stuff. After the pandemic, that seems a bit less ludicrous now.