Democracy died in plain sight with the lights on.

  • fonix232@fedia.io
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    11 hours ago

    Fallout has always been a commentary about how unregulated capitalism is the ruin of everything. From the very first game.

    • Vault-Tec fleeced its customers and double dipped, selling already filled vaults to other corporations to run experiments in them
    • WestTek knowingly delivered faulty power armors to the US military, knowing full well that it would result in the deaths of US soldiers in a war which could end the existence of West-Tek itself, but they didn’t care, short term profits trumped long term existence.
    • Nuka-Cola literally contained isotopes of radioactive elements as a selling point… not to mention the excessive amount of sugar and caffeine (120% of daily recommended sugar intake per bottle)
    • may I remind everyone about the FEV? A literal miracle cure for all viral (bioweapon) infection, but that wasn’t enough, capitalists had to go further and think “but what if we used to mutate the entire population?”