I re watched SS troopers recently and it is just so blatant and in your face. Yes, we're all more media literate than we were in 1997 but goddamn, they're handing military rifles to kids and having the kids stomp the bugs.
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Doogie Howser wears an actual Nazi uniform for the back half of the film and they still didn't get it.
"Its afraid... Its afraid!"
Raucous cheering
Also chuds: Raucous cheering
I stumbled upon a reddit thread a while back and people were doubling down on it not being about fascism even when people linked an interview were the director said it was.
Never change, reddit
Reddit continues to not beat the allegations 
It's not even always a reading comprehension failure, sometimes they realize the real intent and just kind of do what they want with the material regardless. Authorial intent doesn't mean dick much of the time. Hell, when John Carpenter straight up said They Live wasn't about The Jews on Twitter a few years ago, his replies immediately ended up full of people who just kind of said it was anyways
Tell me that motherfuckers do not actually think They Live is about an antisemitic conspiracy.
Clearly it is about schniff id-eology 
I wouldn't go check the comment section on any clip from the movie on Youtube if I were you
Checking Youtube comments is a skill issue, I learned not to a decade ago 
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They literally think that everything bad about capitalism is the Jewish conspiracy and capitalism would work just fine otherwise because they see what's wrong and instead of looking into it they say 'the jews' and work back from there.
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yeah like, I see this attitude a lot from lefties with a flair for the arts, and I think it's incredibly useless because we're often doing the same thing with a lot of art, and it rocks. Interpretation is a tool which we can also wield.
putting on my woke makeup before work 
Same energy as Verhoeven being bowled over with surprise that people didn't understand the subtext that people being able to be nude coeds without lasciviousness going on meant everyone was Hitler
The importance of specific ideology to fascism is rly overstated
Couldn't understand what you were referring to so googled Verhoeven nude and discovered a reddit thread informing me that he filmed the shower scene in Starship Troopers while naked in order to get the actors to agree to being naked too
Now go read George Jackson's Blood In My Eye for a real trip
I'm not following the connection here either but I did look it up and it looks like a great read, so looking forward to starting it soon.
I think his analysis of fascism specifically is a lot more incisive than Verhoeven's. I have this problem of not being able to recommend things to people properly, because it feels like just restating the points made in a text, but in a lamer voice. 
The Destruction of Reason is also straight fire. I really don't think the psychological profiling or media analysis of fascist figures or media is helpful. It's obscuring the historical emergence and progression of fascism in its different forms.
Expand on that.
No matter how many epic dystopia simulators people make, the same thing will happen.
I've read your original comment like 6 times and it sounds like you're saying the most "in your face" clue that Starship was about fascism was that they were able to take coed showers without it being a big deal? But that doesn't make sense so I'm sure that's not it. But I can't figure out how to read it any other way
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I'll at least give them props for not re-using the same handful of "sJw" people in their thumbnail
Is it that much better if they're AI-generated? 🤔
well yeah, because the other option is real life women/lgbt people/POC/whatever being harassed. i'd much rather some photos get "stolen" by AI than start getting stalked by 4chan for being too visibly gay
Somehow that didn't enter my mind, d´oh
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It's so awful I didn't even realize it was a shitty LLM pic 
Apparently this is a character from Dead Rising 3, but I have seen other thumbnails with bizarre AI-generated monstrosities
Of all places i didn't expect a random throwback to 2007 french internet blogs here on hexbear. glad to see this guy (cerberusxt) is not a dipshit
Is that lady from the game
No, in the vague memory from my head, I believe that's a boss from Dead Rising 3, or something.
By what do overweight middle-aged moms have to do with anything 
My mom is woke for telling me to wash my ass
Woke
Tries to generate the most viscerally unsettling caricature of an "sjw" he can
Accidentally creates a parody of trad royalty
Seriously this person looks like a planetary governor from 40K
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Helldivers is a live-service lootshooter. It's as far away from art as you can get. It being "satire" is also a completely ridiculous statement, considering by the sheer nature of it being a live-service game, it's supposed to be as addictive and "satisfying" as possible. You can't make a satire of militarism and facism if your games entire "loop" revolves around mindless wave-shooting until you unlock the next "sick-ass gun".
Genuinely has some of if not the least shitty monetization the genre has to offer. Not even 60 bucks original price, you can earn the warbond "battle pass" analogues by just running around low difficulty missions to find little piles of the paid-for currency. Sweaty whales are complaining that they run out of stuff to grind for/flex with and ceo is just like "play another game till we have more content 🤷"
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