I do wish there was a provision for “if it looks really cool we might allow it though” but that should be for all laws

Look, if Kamala was in charge this wouldn’t be happening, because you wouldn’t see it in the media so you wouldn’t care, and that’s what we mean by going to the left. Also some of the guards in our camps will be queer!

The hammer and sickle is the sign of the communist movement. I assume you mean to insinuate that the USSR was somehow fascist, but I must be misunderstanding you, nobody would be that ridiculously wrong on the internet. The USSR saved the world from fascism despite the best efforts from the capitalists in the west.

It must rule being a liberal. Just being able to say whatever, talk out your ass like you’re an expert on a subject you don’t even understand, be completely submerged in the capitalist cultural ooze and somehow think people who disagree with you don’t know shit.
I long for a world where I can be as blissfully ignorant as a communist as you can be currently as a liberal.

Liberal democracies use actual slave labour, not to mention the colonial horrors still being carried out - and I’m not going to waste my time trying to explain imperialism to you, because I know there’s a whole other thing we’d have to educate you on first.
The USSR had a lower recidivism rate, lower death rate and higher QoL for inmates in the gulag system from 1952 onwards than the US has in its current system to this day.
We are infinitely more surveilled than any communist scare-story. You only don’t notice political repression because you stay within what is acceptable. We coup, cheat elections, kidnap and kill to our hearts desire in the west - and not just brown people! We have black sites where police can take you, we have bullshit charges and violent cops.

But despite liberal democracy creating a violent all-surveilleing repressive police state dedicated to extracting wealth from the poor and giving it to the rich, it is somehow communism that is fascism. I assume this is because of “authoritarianism”? The idea that a state exerting power is bad in and of itself, no matter on behalf of whom and to what end said power is used, is fucking ridiculous. Cooked up by Hannah Arendt - an actual antisemite - in order to make Hitler an equal to Stalin. The concept is meaningless, any definition is either so broad as to encompass all states or so narrow as to just mean “enemy of the US”

Freedom News. Unbiased Reporters. Objective Reporting. Rational News. Moderate Informer.
Look at what capitalist “news” call themselves. For some reason communists still do not understand how people think about newspapers. You gotta name it something boring but authorative that implies “unbiased” reporting is a thing. “The informer”.

Having seen a documentary about the production the designers wanted the game to be about “letting go of Old World Blues”. All the factions cling to the past, to systems that led them to where they are today. I take it they were a bit better than regular US radlibs, which is why there isn’t any left-bashing, but they probably see communism as part of that old world blues too. It would also go against their goal if there was an obvious “good” ending.

That said it would have done wonders for the political awakening of a bunch of people if there was one. Or, at least, if it was made clear the courier was likewise constrained by their environment, so the reason a post-post-apocalyptic spartacist movement isn’t possible is because the courier and like individuals can’t think like that. The red scare has long tendrils.
Or at least a yes-man ending that wasn’t going all “great man” theory about the courier, where everything revolves around them and their presence.

Look the only critique I can leverage at new Vegas is that there isn’t a communist or anarchist ending where the courier unites the disparate communities and makes something that lasts until after the courier dies. I want to be the Stalin of the wasteland.

Edit: After getting the Lee Kuan Yew speeches on my Instagram reels I also realise Houses “give me 20 years” speech is taken from there. The people behind the game were very politically aware.
Also apparently fallout 1, 2 and new Vegas are based on a tabletop game the designers played? Arcade Gannon was Josh Sawyer’s character

Though, I don’t blame the writer.

I’m convinced they did it in purpose to highlight what a dumbass Caesar is. He verbatim says dialectics makes it inevitable that the NCR is destroyed by him, which is just so incredibly stupid. If you read enough of Hegel to write Caesar talking about Hegel as he does, then you’ve read enough to know that would be about the dumbest you could say.

Crowley managed to pull it off too

If I’m a sex wizard then I want to be remembered

I wish. He was apparently pretty good at stopping Alexei from dying from hemophilia, so he must have had something going.
I’d say he’s the real world Skarsnik

He did tell the doctors not to give Alexei aspirin, so he did stop that bleeding out a bunch

Sisyphus but it’s the laundy

This “250 year thing” makes me feel the same way as when I play new Vegas and Caesar say he will destroy the NCR because of dialectics. THATS NOT HOW IT WORKS YOU FUCK

The 250 year timeframe is made up and even if it wasn’t the US couldn’t realistically be described as an empire until some time in the 1900’s. Until then it was “just” a genocidal colonial power like the others. I guess you could make an argument that it became an empire around the time of Teddy or the monroe doctrine, but I wouldnt

I’ve just started stealing stuff. I finally own an espresso-maker

The Watchmen series was pretty good

I would imagine there are some written documents, not that that is what decides what territory belongs to whom, but still

No it’s a meme

Probably not half as exhausting as being as obtuse as you