Yeah but modern liberals and fascists have no idea how to confront open, vocally affiliated communism, it shuts down their brains because they’ve just used socialist and communist as insults for more than 30 years, not as a political reality to confront. They also see how characters will treat the main guy as goofy and naive when he says leftist things, so liberals will think the game itself is dismissing those leftist things. All the leftist characters are deeply flawed people in various ways, they’re corrupt or they’re personally racist or they get into petty disagreements.

it’s dogwhistling for us because we seem to be the only ones able to see through that. The game is still endorsing leftist movements despite the criticisms, the mocking irony, the kind of hopelessness some characters have.