Fuck. You just made me spit out my beer. That's the funniest thing I've heard somebody say all week.
When you import the third world, you become the third world.
I wuv you, Bunhilde.
Archie Bunker from All in the Family.
It's one of my favorite sci-fi novels. I've read it several times over the years.
It was a budget issue. I've read articles that have stated that power armor wasn't included in the film because it would have made the movie too expensive to make.
We'll have our own rally, with blackjack and hookers!
In Starship Troopers, federal service is always voluntary and never compulsory. The logic behind this being that a society that can't depend upon volunteers for its own defense does not deserve to survive. If a person signs up for federal service, they can quit at any time. But if they quit before their term is up, they don't get the right to vote and they are never allowed to sign up for federal service again.
I love how Republican state legislatures in some states are realizing that it's time to take back public education from the radical left ideologues.
Verhoeven admits that he never even finished the book because he found it "depressing."
Johnny Rico's dad is a civilian, and he's a very successful businessman. The only difference between civilians and citizens is the right to vote. Although some occupations, like police officer, tend to favor hiring candidates who are citiizens.
The reason the book was called fascist by some people was because in order to become a citizen with the right to vote, a person must complete a term of federal service (which is often, but not always, military service). Heinlein was accused on basing this on Nazi Germany. But Heinlein himself says that he used Switzerland as inspiration.
Some of those people might also be stormfags who found their way here when Voat got shut down. They've also infested Gab.
What's funny is that in the book, the military is even more segregated by gender than our current military is. The mobile infantry is entirely male, while women tend to be naval officers. The explanation had something to do with women being better able to handle space flight. But the book was written in the 1950s so the science Heinlein used might be outdated.
Sargon of Akkad made a video a while back where he talks about how the Starship Troopers film was supposed to be a satire of fascism and militarism, but it unintentionally made those things look awesome instead.
I remember saying to my buddy back then "The future looks very bright: co-ed showers and everybody looks like a J Crew model."
The glowfags in particular are easy to spot. If you see a user angrily berating everyone else here for "doing nothing" but then they don't respond when you ask them what they're doing, they're probably a fed.
Bonus points if they yell about 1776 or the Tree of Liberty needing to be watered.
It was a very fun movie and a great source of memes. But I would like to see a Starship Troopers film that's more true to the book; with the Mobile Infantry fighting in powered armor suits.
The demoralization shills are pretty easy to spot. Any time there's a stickied thread about good news for our side, they flock to it to make pessimistic comments or claim that it doesn't matter. Many of them have either handshake or sleeper accounts, which distinguishes them from the blackpilled doomers who just want to drag everyone else down to their level of misery and despair.
That quote (originally said by an American Army officer in World War I) was also paraphrased in the 1982 Conan the Barbarian film.
You first.
Sneks. Why did it have to be sneks?
Yeah, and joyless puritans like yourself who scold other people for enjoying things you don't approve of are going to save this nation? Fucking LOL.
People like you make me want to watch an NBA game while drinking a 2 liter bottle of Coke just because I know it would piss you off.
Stop telling other people what they can and can't enjoy. The ideological purity police on this site are fucking cancer.
I'm definitely more of a fantasy reader than a sci-fi reader, but Starship Troopers and Dune are two sci-fi novels I've read multiple times.
I've read the Lord of the Ring trilogy many times, as well as the original Conan the Barbarian stories written by Robert E. Howard back in the 1930s.