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I’m doing MY part!
I’d like to know more.
Um … it involves giant man eating insects
But service guarantees citizenship
An actual improvement to current American policy!
This poorly done critique of fascism, loosely based on a book the director didn’t read, still had a less dystopic treatment of non-citizen volunteers!
Plus, I think America is willing to sacrifice Buenos Ares for the war effort.
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And now, class, a lesson on the importance of hyphens.
Giant man eating insects means a man who is quite large is eating insects.
Giant man-eating insects means insects which are both quite large and man-eating.
The More You Know.
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I don’t disagree, but this context is a bit weird given that starship troopers depicts a rosy vision of the future but with fascism.
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Sorry for the late reply. I admit I haven’t read the book and thus can’t comment on it, but the movie is a great commentary on fascism, because it surprises us by making us notice that “Wait a second, I’m rooting for the fascists. How did that happen?!”. The visual messaging is pretty clear with the giant eagles, Hugo Boss leather uniforms and overall militarlism and xenophobia, but it goes much deeper than that.
Everyone gets free healthcare and education, as long as you’re part of ‘us’ instead of ‘them’. We’re used to the fascism where ‘us’ is some ethnic or religious group of humans and ‘them’ is some different group of humans. In starship troopers however, the fascism gets to fly under the radar by making the entirety of humanity the in-group. The aliens don’t need to be dehumanized because they’re quite clearly not human. Yet they feel fear and are only reacting to the spread of humans into their neighbourhood, while humans are outright shouting for genocide. “The only good bug is a dead bug!”
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Wisecrack made a good breakdown of this a while back
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Oh, so now this is a novel idea? I tried to do a study on that and was thrown out of the waterpark alltogether for being a pervert and a creep… I was trying to save men with shower-science, you buffoons!
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yes please
This scene was a mainstay in 12 year old me’s spank bank
I crushed many out to memory recall of this scene when I was a kid
So who is she? Because she looks fun.
Dina Meyer. That’s a scene from Starship Troopers.
Happiness is when peepee hard
Yes
I desperately want to know more 🧠
Women: Men only think with their penises!
Me: Frankly, I find the idea of a penis that THINKS, offensive!
No.
Do the co-ed showers come with Dina Meyers?
*Coed, Naked DND?
