- Joined
- Oct 12, 2019
My experience: I was on a discord with @6 ex-military (and socialist) persons. They all agreed on UBI, medicare for all, eliminating the electoral college, and every other californian catch-phrase. Weirdly, they fucking LOVED Starship Troopers With a PASSION.Well, the original novel is actually pretty fascist, just not in a deliberate way. Regardless, most people who say the movie is Nazi propaganda don't even know there is a book. They just see clips from the movie and think because it presents a comically militant society of jingoistic thugs then it endorses that kind of behavior. We aren't dealing with smart people here.
When I mentioned how the movie was actually highlighting the nonsense of an overreaching, authoritarian, industrial-military neofascist society - they lost their minds. I made my points about how miserable the characters were portrayed, and the personal tragedies that were glossed-over. I linked the RLM video for good measure... and I was labeled a Nazi-along with RLM.
Be careful linking RLM vids. Radical lefties (even those in the marines) will call you a nazi. Not even joking.