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TEXinLA 19 points ago +19 / -0

Exactly. Some of the National Guard will remain in DC until Fall...

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B_Sack 7 points ago +7 / -0

Indefinitely.

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consumptiveballerina 4 points ago +4 / -0

Do we not have some NG brass with balls who will remind the tyrants that this is not the purpose of the NG?

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TEXinLA 3 points ago +3 / -0

Sure hope so. These folks didn't sign up for this.

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deleted 3 points ago +5 / -2
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magalove 13 points ago +13 / -0

Because they know they stole it....

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Stefenopolis 9 points ago +9 / -0

The “good guys” in that movie were representative of fascists and if you watch closely were actually the bad guys. They invaded the bug’s homeland and the bugs were just fighting back. Th bugs were metaphor for dehumanization etc. Starship Troopers is a very underrated movie. Made by the same guy that made the original RoboCop, which is excellent as well.

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Skogin 9 points ago +9 / -0

Heinlein is the author of the story. Too deep for the creators of the movie; They tried to make humans look bad and did the reverse.

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Stefenopolis 4 points ago +4 / -0

An interview with Verhoven indicated, to me, that he changed the source material to try to make a point about fascism. Don't get me wrong, Verhoven is a total libtard, but he's made some compelling sci-fi that gets overlooked as campy or whatever by people that don't look a little deeper. Talk to anyone with a below average IQ about RoboCop or Starship Troopers.

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becky21k1 4 points ago +4 / -0

Robocop is one of my favorite movies ever. The only detail it's off with is set in Detroit all the criminals should look like 80% of Detroit's population, but I figure if they went for that it never would have been made. But the satire, the action and the story all work great.

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CanHush 3 points ago +3 / -0

Verhoeven from an interview "I stopped after two chapters because it was so boring... It is really quite a bad book. I asked Ed Neumeier to tell me the story because I just couldn't read the thing. It's a very right-wing book. And with the movie we tried, and I think at least partially succeeded, in commenting on that at the same time."

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Skogin 1 point ago +1 / -0

Agreement!

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FireannDireach 4 points ago +4 / -0

How did you completely miss the part where the bugs bombed the earth, and took out Buenos Ares? Which led to the invasion of their planet?

It's just an overblown, camp take on the book, anyway. Which is far, far, far, better.

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UsedOnlyThrice 1 point ago +1 / -0

My favorite fantheory about the asteroid strike from back when reddit was a half-ass decent place to visit.

Basically either the bugs have FTL technology, or use light from great distances, or Carmen Ibanez (math genius) changed the ship's route to a ricochet course. All while conveniently taking out comms to report the event, and the military industrial complex used propaganda to justify war.

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RosettaStone [S] 2 points ago +2 / -0

You are correct about the movie. If you've ever seen the TV series "Above and Beyond" then you probably figured out that it was headed in the same direction (the humans were the real aggressors) when it got canceled.

But the meme is labeled, and the bug-faced Democrats are the bad guys! :-)

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consumptiveballerina 3 points ago +3 / -0

That was a great show.

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Slugbert 2 points ago +2 / -0

The book was much better than the movie. The movie was good, but it shouldn’t have been called Starship Troopers.

I highly recommend reading it.

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PepeAmericusMaximus 5 points ago +5 / -0

Because they DIDNT win the election, and THEY KNOW IT

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RosettaStone [S] 4 points ago +4 / -0

Even worse for them is... THEY KNOW THAT WE KNOW IT.

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jtt888 4 points ago +5 / -1

They literally can't stop themselves. For example, it's not enough for gays to not be persecuted, you have to legitimatize it by twisting marriage, give them kids to adopt, indoctrinate kids in school about how ok it is, encourage people including kids in mutilating their bodies to be trans, gradually accept sexualzing our kids and enabling pedophiles. This is just one example. Fill in the blanks with your own. Point is, the train rolls in one direction with these people and they intellectually and emotionally can't change the direction of the train because they are sitting on it, in all their anger and selfishness, and don't see or care about the blood on the tracks of what they run over.

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Tweedlethree 3 points ago +3 / -0

The quieter we are the more threatening we will appear.

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MegoThor 2 points ago +2 / -0

Kill it with fire.

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zerocooltx 2 points ago +2 / -0

It is going to come out that the election was stolen. It's a slow drip right now. They want to memory hole it, but thats' harder and harder to do the more audits that happen.

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kcb3rd 2 points ago +2 / -0

"acting strange" is putting it lightly.

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CommieCrats 2 points ago +2 / -0

IT'S A FRAUD!

F GRAPHS IN THE NETS!

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MentalyStable 2 points ago +2 / -0

I'm doing my part!