Remember your training and you will survive

https://lemmy.world/post/3155693

Remember your training and you will survive - Lemmy.world

I am going to print this and plaster it at Walmart.
Why? This is a scene from a satirical movie parodying fascism
Not exactly. The government in starship troopers is nationalistic, but not fascist; it's a limited meritocratic democracy, people still have power but only those that earn the power (somewhat like the Roman Republic but that's a whole other story filled with socii and quasi-autonomy).
The Politics of Starship Troopers

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lmfao, how do you look at this and think: “liberal limited meritocratic democracy”

www.imdb.com/media/rm3136367104/tt0120201

they couldn’t have come close to a Nazi SS uniform other than actually putting a red band with a swastika on.

also as others said, Sargon of Akkad is a fascist cunt.

Starship Troopers (1997)

Neil Patrick Harris in Starship Troopers (1997)

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The government within the book and movie is within the limits of liberal theory, it is meritocratic as civilians must earn their citizenship and have a right to choose not to, and it is a limited democracy in the same vein; not all choose to partake.

The SS uniform is purely from the movie and is purposefully chosen. Sargon of Akkad makes his position pretty clear in the video linked, if you'd bother to watch it; "You love Starship Troopers because you think that when the fascists come, and you are called upon, you will pick up a rifle and do your duty like you know you should... Nowhere in the world at any point in history has man lived lives of such tranquility, abundance, and freedom than under a liberal democracy."

How you get fascist from those sentiments is beyond me.