Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "The Politics of Starship Troopers" video.

+cbpelto The vid claimed that the MOVIE was an attempt at parody. Your arguments seem to be trying to refute the notion, nowhere advanced, that the BOOK was a parody.
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@chaunceyhulbert7264 The nature of the movie producer's aim in making the movie REQUIRES an evaluation of the movie maker's characterization of the source material as fascist. The movie tries to be a satirical moral critique of the book. You can't evaluate that sort of thing without addressing the fairness and accuracy of the critique.
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@MotiveToKill "why do you think Fascist propaganda would have to be false? " 1. It follows from the fascist leaders not accepting honesty as a value in principle. Such people are not using words to converse, in the human sense, but to manipulate. Fascist propaganda, as described in the fascist's own works, would only be true incidentally (accidentally) , not in principle. 2. In historical fact, fascist propaganda was inaccurate, deceptive in effect and purpose. "In Fascist nations, showing the "horrors of war" and bodies wouldn't dissuade people, it would encourage them with a sense of revenge because of their love for the country and citizens." There are more effective ways of instilling sociopathy, and the fascists employed them. Sargon is not contrasting the Federation with your idealistic view of fascism, but with totalitarianism as it actually and invariably exists. Strict censorship is part of both the written theory and history of fascism, and if you don't know that, you don't understand fascism.
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@dimas3829 Where, in the establishment of the book's Republic, is the equivalent of the purge you mention? You claim that those purged were evil, but in such a consolidation by Stalinist types the criterion is "Are they competent or strong willed or charismatic or moral enough to effectively check or challenge my power?", and by no means actually "Are they a threat to the people or the principles of the revolution?". The essential problem with the Soviet system is that they explicitly rejected the moral glue that holds society together and had to substitute force. No system can function efficiently which has first rejected honesty as a principle, then punished it wherever it was found. It breaks down communication when words are not fundamentally conveying ideas but are merely a currency of mutual manipulation. That is far from the only problem with the system, but it is the most profound, and sufficient unto suicide.
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