well, to be honest, the Author has a baffling idea of how space works or the logistics/time constraints on such things.
To be fair, I think you should also include cartel spending and manpower in the Mexico figures. Things could get messy sure, but if we're not fighting the cartels, the war would be a foreign policy fuckup on the level of Afghanistan before it even started; which of course I would not put past us.
Yes, the space travel in starship troopers isn't accurate to reality. It was sci-fi written in 1959. It's just a quirk of the setting you gotta accept.
it's not something i can really factor in since they're very unknown, but it doesn't make that much difference. i was just pointing out that if mexico wanted to start a hot war with the US, we would crush them. the cartels also don't really have the luxury of operating underground, because they have to grow large amounts of product in sunlight, meaning that all we have to do is drop deforestation agent and carpet bomb the cartel farms and their cash dries up almost instantly. it's the kind of threat that only exists because we've been so light-handed for decades about it, they truly believe that we CAN'T figure out where the grow ops are, that we CAN'T carpet bomb them back into the stone age. the truth is, it was too unpalatable for too long. my thoughts on this are, if we ever properly go to war with mexico, we begin in the north where it makes sense, and where the government ostensibly controls, while lighting the entire southern half up with bombings and strikes.
the Afghanis were religious extremists who had been fighting large foreign powers since the fucking 1800s
Only in California, where there were only about 100,000 Japanese who were sufficiently isolated to wrangle efficiently. In Hawaii where they made up a third of the population they were more or less allowed to roam freely (Granted, Hawaii itself was under martial law anyway). There are proportionally way more Mexicans in the US now scattered all over the country before we even start counting 'Hispanics' in general.
The whole thing runs on Hollywood logic, in the novel the bugs are an actual starfaring civilization with spaceships of their own and launch a raid on Buenos Aires. The false flag theory in the movie fits with it the idea of it being a satire but is basically headcanon because Verhoeven relied almost exclusively on aesthetics to sell it being a satire. It doesn't really show in the writing other than the Federation being retarded and throwing poorly armed meatwaves of infantry with no support at the bugs.
@Mister Fister got it right
I mean I factored in some sort of "warp drive" or FTL or w/e, but it was a damn rock, so if they used FTL on it, it would have been completely impossible to intercept and would have obliterated earth and likely caused a catastrophic physics event where a new blackhole was created on the spot the size of half our galaxy.
AFAIK they never promised to fix it, they literally ran on "hugs for criminals instead of bullets"
yup. and my plan remains. kill them. if they even so much as raise a hand in disagreement, shoot them in the head. decimate the population. make loyal hispanics do it. put the blood on their hands and force the camaraderie with white soldiers.
verhoven's aesthetics are on point. i'd love the starship troopers uniform. the robocop police uniforms look great too. i love the idea of the future having extra armor.
really, it's just because verhoven is style over substance, and heinlein wrote the book before humans were in space. it's just handwaved away in the book because neither author cared about the space travel aspect, only the satire for verhoven, and the message for heinlein.
they claimed those hugs WOULD fix it. mexicans who voted for shysterbaum got what they deserved, and will get several hundred degrees farenheit more if i have anything to say about it. i don't, but god i wish.
hence my belief that they will turn out to be paper tigers against a real beast.
correct in every way.
I like the HALO world theory where humans "rip" a hole through space time for their warp but the Covenant found a way to "slip" through spacetime
The fucked up part is that the only way for the bugs to have known that Earth was the human capitol and exactly where it was was if they also brainsucked the mormons. Which also means the bugs would've known that the human government told the mormons not to come, but they don't care.
Mexico is one of the best modern examples of Anarcho-Tyranny you can point to, its like the logical endpoint of how America is going in in like another 100 or so years, where criminals literally do whatever they want, and the citizens just get brutally mogged on by criminals and the Govt, endlessly squeezed harder by both.
Bro I would have dropped nukes on those spics already, Trump is barely putting his foot on the gas compared to what he could be doing. Go full Desert Storm. Let the commanders have all the options if they want them. Tear that place apart.
What's funny about people pointing out that a diaspora like the Somali one in MN exists to cleanly deliver blocks of votes to one party in elections is that when it comes to local stuff they become their own minefield; Frey won over Omar Fateh partially because Fateh couldn't harness that political bloc from the inside since, as an actual member, he was subject to tribal divisions and had Somalis voting against him for being the wrong kind of Somalian. Honestly, I wonder how connected Frey even is, if he were actually important in delivering corrupt kickbacks you'd think they wouldn't make him eat the bean slop and humiliate him constantly.
They used to pull this same shit about north korea during obama and even a little under trump term 1, news story about how their nuclear program was about to collapse or Kim was about to die (remember the same rumors about Putin)
"We are going to be nationalizing the AI companies to keep them out of China's hands. It's going to be a great nationalization. A huge and beautiful nationalization"
Might have been less sus to take the Suez canal.
genuinely if the screaming retard takes pictures i'll believe them over newsmedia every day of the week. i don't believe i'm immune to propaganda, i just require high-tier evidence for anything anyone wants me to believe that i can't personally verify.
it's gonna be yuge. you've never seen nationalization on a scale like this before. we're gonna call it PRESIDENT TRUMP CHIP FABRICATION COMPLEX. it'll be the biggest nationalization. the best. no one nationalizes america's defenses like i do.