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[–] [email protected] 152 points 2 days ago (81 children)

I read an interesting article about 40K Space Marines last year, the problem with them is that some people just don't get satire no matter how glaringly obvious it is

[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 days ago (26 children)

Starship Troopers is so badass!

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 days ago (24 children)

My dad legitimately thinks that's a great action movie. And to be fair, it is.

But he doesn't understand the deeper meanings.

More meat for the grinder is totally just a bad ass thing to say! Not at all like an orphan crushing machine, for sure.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Wut?! How can someone not understand Starship Troopers is satire? What about all of the propaganda cut ins?!

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago (2 children)

There really is no limit to how dense some dipshits can be. Hell, there are even fascist Star Trek fans, despite the show beating them over the head with stuff like this all the time!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago

"star trek went woke"

BITCH STAR TREK WAS WOKE FROM DAY ONE GET BENT

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Unfortunately that’s rather understandable. A largely ‘white’ and mostly male cast of mostly humans running around saving the day and ‘defeating/ enlightening’ backwards ‘alien’ cultures in what are basically military ships.

So if you ignore the messages and the actual stories being told and only look at the superficial stuff (as MAGA Morons are wont to do) it does, sadly, pass the facist vibe check.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

A lot of - I dare say most - people reach for fiction as a form of escapism, and they do need a suspense of disbelief to enjoy it. So if someone points out that in-fiction events are obvious caricatures of real ones, they don't like it because they don't want to see it, that's why they are there and not in the real world.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Honestly I don't know. Even when I point out super obvious ones, I'm "reaching to make a point"

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