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So the given examples tend to involve heavy critiques of nationalism and fascism but fascists think that shit’s cool. Liberty prime from fallout is a beloved meme for fascists but also is literally talking about how they’d rather be dead than communist in a post nuclear hellscape that once was the capital of a superpower at the end of a game where the plot revolves around getting access to clean water. Caesar from new vegas is a fascist depicted as a loser who couldn’t cut it in the new California republic so he turned to banditry and pretending to be a Roman, but he’s misogynistic and kills a bunch of people and that’s how fascists want to be seen.
For civ, it’s a game about colonialism, but also all sorts of cultures are treated as special and as having their own things of value.
Because they're morons, but we're just repeating ourselves
It’s not even idiocy it’s that that’s what they value. To them an uninhabitable wasteland filled with hierarchy is preferable to communism. Some weirdo misogynist crucifying his enemies is someone they actually think is more badass than a society of equals.
That’s honestly why in order to mock fascists in a way they don’t like you have to go low and weird. It’s not enough to call them evil, you have to call them the pathetic losers they are.