It was described as a fascist book, focusing on a militaristic society dedicated to combating aliens, which was later satirized in a movie adaptation.
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starship troopers is like a fascist book. Like it's, it's extremely fascist.
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It was described as a fascist book, focusing on a militaristic society dedicated to combating aliens, which was later satirized in a movie adaptation.
"
starship troopers is like a fascist book. Like it's, it's extremely fascist.
the military runs the state, which exists entirely to like service its ability to continue to do violence against these aliens.
Verhoeven heard that and was just like, well, that sounds fascist as hell. I'll guess I'll just make a fascist movie.
Episode: Part One: The Not-At-All-Sad History of Libertaria...
It was described as a fascist book, focusing on a militaristic state dedicated to violence against aliens, which was later satirized in a movie adaptation.
"
starship troopers is like a fascist book. Like it's, it's extremely fascist.
the military runs the state, which exists entirely to like service its ability to continue to do violence against these aliens.
Verhoeven heard that and was just like, well, that sounds fascist as hell. I'll guess I'll just make a fascist movie.
Episode: Part One: The Not-At-All-Sad History of Libertaria...
It was described as a fascist book, focusing on a military-run state, primarily serving violence against aliens, which was later satirised in a film adaptation.
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starship troopers is like a fascist book. Like it's, it's extremely fascist.
it's a, it's, and now I know there's talk of making like a, another adaptation without that satire.
the military runs the state, which exists entirely to like service its ability to continue to do violence against these aliens.
that as far as we know, had no role in provoking like a fight with humanity.
The book is mentioned in a positive light as a serious work that discusses the idea of citizenship and service. The book is mentioned in a discussion about a potential civil service corps for women.
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I actually really like the idea of a civil service corps going back to Starship Troopers, you know, everybody memes on the movie, but the book is serious.
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The book is mentioned in a positive light as a serious work that discusses the idea of citizenship and service. The book is mentioned in a discussion about a potential civil service corps for women.
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I actually really like the idea of a civil service corps going back to Starship Troopers, you know, everybody memes on the movie, but the book is serious.
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The book was mentioned in relation to the idea of service guaranteeing citizenship. The episode discusses whether or not this idea is a good one and how it's not necessarily restricted to military service.
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when service guarantees citizenship in Starship Troopers it could be like working at a library or something or it could be any kind of could be cleaning up garbage it could be cleaning up parks it'd be planting flowers so it's not all about the military that's why it worked hypothetically why it works
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This book and movie was cited as an example of service guaranteeing citizenship, which the podcast host believed could be a viable solution to the problem of disinterested voters. He proposed that in order to vote, individuals must provide some form of service to the community.
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There's the Starship Troopers thing, service guarantees citizenship, you familiar with that?
So it's a book, it's a movie and the idea is that in order to vote, you have to provide some service to the community.
So you're a civilian or a citizen and citizens get to vote. Civilians have all rights but don't vote. So then if you wanna gain the right to vote, you either like join the military or you do community service, you have to do some kind of service. To contribute.
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