Child soldiers? Live and die for the empire, they’re doing their part :im-doing-my-part:
Needless violence for the sake of violence? Hell yeah brother that’s the good shit :le-pol-face:
it doesn’t work. Anyone with fascist potential will look at whatever “Genocide Bad Guy The Metaphor Is Literally Spelled Out For You Armada” and think they’re fucking sick. You’re giving the fascists material.
IMO, if you really want to satirize fascism, hit them where it hurts: they are fucking incompetent buffoons who act like they’re god’s chosen race because they have no positive qualities besides the promised intrinsic ones.
Not denying you point, but I think Starship Troopers was using the comic violence of fascism to parody liberalism
Nope. Parody of fascism. Verhoeven is a lib.
He accidentally made some good "moderate wing of fascism" propaganda then
Liv who lived under nazi occupation as a child and harbored a deep hatred for fascism.