Comment on ICE Supreme Commander spotted in Minneapolis

TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Starship Troopers was a warning.

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  • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The movie was. The book was sympathetic.

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    • FatCrab@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It really wasn’t. Heinlein did not write Starship Troopers as an aspirational piece of milscifi and, while he definitely had some questionable politics, my understanding is that he was effectively thinking aloud as he wrote the book.

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      • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It’s hard to tell where his beliefs end and pondering began honestly. I’ve read a few of his works and it is strongly bent toward the every man trope if I remember right. Of how an individual needs to be skilled in most areas, self actualizing, independent. Reads like a conservative libertarian view to me honestly. Add in Starship Troopers itself really plays that strong and talks about military might makes right, it’s hard not to see it as positive toward warfare.

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    • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Read a lot of Heinlein, but not that one. Are you sure it wasn’t satire?

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      • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It is a bit complicated. AH would have been a ww2 vet and I am not sure i would say is pro nazi, but he is rather right leaning and glorifying of war in his ways (he did miss out on combat and it seems to be resentful in a way).

        The book is not satirical.

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