US Pol; Imperialism; Starship Troopers
Decided to watch Starship Troopers while I'm feeling bleh and
Within the first few minutes there's the fucking "Service guarantees citizenship"
and I'm just like...is the extreme parody fascist regime in fucking Starship Troopers less fascist than the US right now?
Starship Troopers concept
For folks unfamiliar:
When Verhoeven, who grew up in Nazi-occupied Netherlands, was asked "Why are you doing a right-wing fascist movie?"
Verhoeven replied, "If I tell the world that a right-wing, fascist way of doing things doesn't work, no one will listen to me. So I'm going to make a perfect fascist world: everyone is beautiful, everything is shiny, everything has big guns and fancy ships, but it's only good for killing fucking Bugs!"
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This take, that voting is a form of violence, is actually a pretty accurate reflection of electoral politics tbh 👀
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I forgot neil patrick fucking harris was in this lol
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NPH is a fucking newtype
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@yeenbean oh my GOD you're right holy fuck I never thought of that
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@Nine it's DISTRESSING right?
He even talks about his powers as a next step of human evolution and all
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@yeenbean sjbdhdhdjdk verhoven is a secret gundam fan maybe? ... Nah, can't be that. He'd have made a Char Aznable expy if he was.
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@yeenbean with the theme song and everything XD
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@Nine Starship Troopers remake where Char Aznable is a bug