• nednobbins@lemm.ee
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    12 hours ago

    I get what you mean but Starship Troopers is a critique of war and militarized states.

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      10 hours ago

      My sibling in Kristallnacht, a militarized/police state is exactly what this is. This is war turned inward. This is what fascism looks like. This is fascism.

      They’re starting with (mostly non-European) immigrants and trans people, and so on.

      The Independent: Trump State Department official has repeatedly called for mass sterilization of ‘low-IQ trash’

      First they came for the Communists
      And I did not speak out
      Because I was not a Communist

      Then they came for the Socialists
      And I did not speak out
      Because I was not a Socialist

      Then they came for the trade unionists
      And I did not speak out
      Because I was not a trade unionist

      Then they came for the Jews
      And I did not speak out
      Because I was not a Jew

      Then they came for me
      And there was no one left
      To speak out for me

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        11 hours ago

        We might be talking about different things. I’m just saying that Starship Troopers is an anti-war film and most of the people who like it are fairly liberal.

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          11 hours ago

          Yes. My point was that the type of people who think it’s reasonable for troops to hide their identities are the same people for whom Verhoeven’s satirical fascism goes over their heads.