I love the movie for the movie. I love the book for a fuck load of reasons

Because obviously the movie was meant to make fascism look bad on every level, from poor leadership to "having nationalist veiws" as bad

Heinlein is one of my favorite writers. He actually introduced me to libertarianism with The Moon is a Harsh Mistress or There’s No Such Thing As a Free Lunch.

Well, actually if you look at it, it was anti-globalist. The world of starship troopers is united

So really, it's anti-globalist fascism

Still it was satire

I mean look at star wars right

Well yeah. Eventually the world will be one big country in like 300ish years.

They made the empire fashy as fuck

I have very different ideas on patriotism. I'm a patriot not from the point of view that my country is the greatest, but from the point of view that my country tries and can always do better

That's what we Americans do

The Empire still did nothing wrong. Fucking space ISIS out here plotting terrorist attacks in the name of a hokey religion.

@thatgoonsteve42 alderan was an inside job

Totally

Oh my gods

My political stance makes no fucking sense

I'm fairly right wing and a die hard constitutionalist

Same on most issues

If you wanna change that, cut out the fat. Trim it down so that it's basic and easy to understand. That's how the commies did it and look how easily they took control of like twenty countries in the course of a few decades

For me it's this

Don't fuck with people's rights, help people who are in need, and mind your business

Basically I agree with that for the most part

Yep.

I also have very different views about why guns need to be protected

For starters

gun control is racist

No shit Sherlock

star ship troopers wasnt fascism though

Finally someone who gets it! @thatgoonsteve42

in fascism no nation would show how a war was going bad

The NFA only came about because The Black Panthers we’re out here with MGs and shit

That was the Mulford Act. NFA was in the 30s

and people wouldn't own businesses

When it comes to guns. I think everyone should be legally required to own one and have training on how to use it. "A well armed society is a polite society"

#fortheeverlastinggloryoftheinfantry

That being said there's exceptions

its more like hyper libertariaism

Same thing @AKAlexei

you can ignore the government completely if so desired

and its almost frowned upon to join it