I know the devs making stuff for fo76 are so tone deaf they need an interpreter at this point, but it’s so crazy I’m pasting what i said to someone else here:
conflating celebrating actual 4th of July with waving the fictional flag of fallout’s fictional version of America has always been YIKES. Branding stuff in the atomic shop with the 13 star commonwealth flag instead of just painting stuff red white and blue is a choice. ????
It’s a choice to glorify the fictional America that kidnapped protesters and sent them to be experimented on and then murdered, had checkpoints and raids to detain “communist spies” they sent to concentration camps, inflated prices to unsurvivable with the resource wars, invaded Mexico and “annexed” Canada (killing civilians), being corrupted and controlled by an oligarchy deep state fueled by fascism and eugenics…oh and then it got blown up.
It’s crazy propaganda works so well people are defending and celebrating patriotism for even a fictional version of America that is literally ment to be the worst version of itself. Fallout’s original cautionary tale about jingoism with satirical 1950s amaricana has become idealized. Again, I don’t care about the fictional fallout version of America, and I really don’t care about the 13 star flag. No one should. shoot giant crabs with a minigun instead.
