Libs only hear tone is a perfect way to describe it.

"The usa and capitalism are the big Satan. Communism is good. This is the actual unironic core meaning of this piece of art."

"What did the director mean by this?"

Wouldn't do a damn bit of good. People were quoting Verhoeven explicitly saying what this movie was about to these fash, and the fash were just replying "well just because he made it doesn't mean he knows what it means."

I guess "death of the author" pleading has reached them, lmaoo.

The disco elysium people gave a shout out to marx in their award acceptance speech, it hasn't changed shit.

That wouldn't work. FYI fash are a bit more self aware then I think most of us realize, when they say shit like this they kinda know they're taking the piss, but they don't care. Fascism is a narcissistic ideology, they literally think reality warps around their mind, so it doesn't matter if God himself descended from the heavens to tell them they're wrong, if they want to be right they will be right.

It don't work. For example Frank Herbert at some point got annoyed by reception of especially "God Emperor" that he basically said straight what the message was and yet, 40 years later chuds are still wanking to the great (literal) gusano despot - which is especially fun in context of the tweet in OP since who is now identifying with a hideous murderous hive insect (Leto II considered himself a hive being - amalgam of all the personalities in him with what was the Leto himself only existing as an equilibrium between them).

Verhoeven also openly said his movie was satire but they still going too.

This is why I think people are wrong when they say that "Don't look up" is too heavy handed.

Feel like part of the theme was just how explicit you had to be for people to understand your metaphor. And even then you had a bunch of people saying it was about covid.

You need your main character to spend 2 minutes screaming at the camera about what the movie is saying to reach these people.

The director of squid game said that it was an allusion to capitalism but people still thought it was about communism

The only time that it bonks you over the head is when

Don't forget right at the end, when Niel Patrick Harris shows up in a full on SS outfit.

The press baselessly claims that the bugs somehow ‘launched’ meteors at the Earth, when the meteors could have easily just been natural disasters. On the other hand, we know for a fact that Earth has assaulted another planet.

Been a while since I watched the film but I recall one of the propaganda sequences talking up Earth's ring of fortifications around the moon. The clip even shows a shot from the space station blowing up a space rock.

The Arachnids are never shown with any FTL and their territory is shown as being clear across the galaxy from Earth. The clear implication is that Beunos Ares was an inside job.

Real US propaganda entirely passed those levels in 2022

Wait what is the chud take on clockwork orange?

If Johnny had just gone to Zegema Beach.

Klendathu drop was such obvious satire scene that probably the only people who could never get it are dudes raised on US movies about Vietnam and Market Garden Operation. Which is probably exactly what we are seeing.

IT'S NOT EVEN SUBTLE

I don't think it fails as a satire, I just don't think satire is an avenue to change. It can be entertaining, but it's not going to convince anyone of anything they didn't already know and the people who don't already know will miss the point.

I just rewatched that segment. It wasn’t a debate over having a war, but how the creatures were able to execute their military tactics so competently:

Federal scientists struggle to explain the intelligent military actions of the Arachnids.

Whether it was intentional or not, that paralleled how Fascism (like other ruling political theories) drew distinctions between ‘acceptable’ and ‘unacceptable’ dissent. For example:

Not all publications are formal organs of the Party, but unswerving obedience is a sine qua non for their existence. Certainly an occasional feeble and minor criticism is not considered incompatible with such fealty. But on all basic issues there can be only one language. In consequence, Italian newspapers have descended to a ridiculously phonographic level, monotonous and uniform.

It is similar to the situation in occupied Palestine: criticizing how the war is going is acceptable, but questioning its very necessity is not.

there is voting

Like in the Third Reich?

even non citizens like Rico’s parents are extremely well off.

Ditto. But seriously, that is part of the setting: it’s supposed to be a highly idealized, neofascist utopia, where there is little to no crime and traditional social evils such as racial discrimination and misogyny have been replaced with a speciesism towards fictional creatures.

Tell us again how the film is about fascism?

Listen to the DVD commentaries!

Consider for a moment that literal children are currently playing Helldivers 2 and then going on to imitate it and absorb it into their personalities.

90s/00s kids played with their Starship Troopers action figures and watched the Starship Troopers animated series on syndicated TV, and people wonder why Starship Troopers 1 is taken sincerely by many people. Surely being able to buy the action figures of the satirized characters does much to undermine the satire.

No please just one more anti facists satire please i promise please the facists are not gonna miss the point this time please

Chuds wouldn't associate with that one because it doesn't pass the test.

I guess, but does anyone in 2024 think about anything other than the Verhoeven movie when talking about Starship Troopers? The original tweet has a screen cap of that movie that is making fun of people like Auron.