...that seems especially timely because communists just tried to violently overthrow the US government oh wait...that was fascists? Okay.
"it's just frustrating as a politically centrist gamer to see a FLOOD of anti-fascist stuff out there and nothing about the evils of communism."
As a socialist progressive I find centrists extremely frustrating. Often more so than quote-unquote "conservatives" (increasingly a misnomer in the era of trumpism). There really is no such thing as too much anti-fascism.
With less snark: I don't worry about the kinds of idiots for whom communism has some kind of cache (I think my Zoomer chums on the Left call them "tankies"?). These people are idiots but they aren't the idiots that have been engaging in acts of stochastic terrorism motivated by the rhetoric of their toxic ideology.
I'm an American so that colors my perspective when I say that for everyone my age and older growing up in the United States, neither "fascism is bad" nor "Stalinism was bad" was exactly a "hot take". Both of these things were so glaringly obvious and fundamentally inarguable for most of my life that I never would have dreamed back in 2006 that in the 2010s/2020s being an antifascist would be some kind of a statement, and that I'd be making a statement that "fascism is bad, m'kay?". \
Then Charlottesville happened. Then the President's response to Charlottesville happened. American Communists have, as far as I know, killed no one in the last decade. That is not true of American fascists and their enablers in the establishment.
Mainstream society has always agreed on the rather obvious fact that unreformed Stalinist communism is REALLY REALLY BAD. But about five years ago as we entered the era of Drumpf and Drumpfism it seemed like millions and millions of Americans were starting to be much more accepting of openly fascistic ideas. Communism--not socialism, I mean full on Stalinist state-property fuck your civil liberties capital C COMMUNISM as it failed in the USSR and China--isn't any more popular in Western society now than it ever was. Socialism is more popula,r, and growing more popular by the day but as I am personally a socialist I obviously don't think that's a bad thing. It's fascism--cryptofascism, jingoism, palingenetic ultranationalism, ethnonationalism, Nazis by any other name--that has shown an ALARMING amount of mainstream appeal among so-called "conservatives" and an equally alarming amount of downplaying by political centrists.
Thank you for your comments, though. I appreciate the opportunity for civil political discourse, it's all too rare these days.