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.
I wonder how the faschy types feel about the cartoon series... :thinky-felix:
Who cares what fascists think? If they like it it's either bad or they like it for the wrong reasons. They're wrong about pretty much everything all the time, don't spend time thinking about their opinions. Media plays a role but fascists would still be fascists if Fight Club or whatever never came out. Don't compromise your art for the sake of fascists. Just kill them for being fascists.
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Movies aren't gonna matter all that much in that regard.
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Id aim my ire at capeshit recruitment films and your average action flick over satire then. I guarantee Micheal Bay and Marvel has done thousands of times the damage something like Starship Troopers may have
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We wouldn't be having this conversation if it weren't for Starship Troopers actually. I found Chapo from a YouTube reclmmendation for a video where they discuss the movie and then I found the sub and came here. So I'm sorta in that net.
Me, sometimes. Kinda why I made the comment.
Well, cut it out. They think fascist things.
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Do what the Warhammer dudes did if you find yourself in a position where fascists are taking your satire wrong. Make it public that it isn't your intent and they're assholes and idiots for taking it that way. Compromising our art and our interpretation of art to work around fascists taking it as encouraging their ideology if that isn't the intent is appeasement. Intelligent and subtle satire is cool and good and i firmly believe it does its purpose often enough that the fee weirdos who take it literally are probably nlost anyway so it's worth it.