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lmao, clocking in for a shift at the "telling on yourself" factory.
It reminds me of the MCU version of the Flagsmashers just basically saying Thanos was right. If these comically evil villian masterplans arent supposed to be obviously incorrect then why did you not write the hero's responding to them??? Its such a self report to not have your heros oppose fascism on anything but the most tepid of moral grounds.
Very funny considering the backstory of the legion is that Caesar was a NCR flunkie who joined up with the social libertarians to "educate" (read colonize) the outskirts of the NCR. Then the narrative has us to believe that one dude just showed "backwards, savage" tribes how to make guns and then was treated like a god in only a couple of decades. Very much "white dude becomes god of the indian natives through his civilized science"
New Vegas very much has racist sci fi brainworms (shocking take, I know). The game would honestly be better if the whole roman empire larp faction didn't exist and it was just a nameless NCR equivalent faction we never get to see. The writers clearly had a better time writing about how liberal democracy is bad and racist than actually writing any compelling foil to it.
They also don't really present a realistic alternative, it feels like capitalist realism. The independent ending is always shown as chaos, there's no organized independence faction. No opportunity for a "vanguard" style party or liberation groups, just the equivalent of Doctors Without Borders. We're left to speculate, not actually build up a real ending of our own, or one that meaningfully contests the status quo (unless you count the Legion as "contesting the status quo," but that's just a fascist slave army).