r/comics • u/Casual_Deviant Bummer Party • 23d ago

OC Fight Club

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u/CrazyGnomenclature Tiff & Eve 23d ago

What?! Next you're gonna tell me the PlayStation 2 tie-in game totally missed the point.

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u/foehammer111 23d ago

H-O-L-Y S-H-I-T!!!

Next you’re gonna tell me that giant robot space war anime actually has an anti-war message???

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u/Temporary-Employ-611 23d ago

I'm flabbergasted!!

Next you're gonna tell me Starship Troopers isnt about blind patriotism and nationalism?!!

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u/Zirofal 23d ago

What's next? Matrix being some weird pro trans movie?????

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u/Moe_Perry 23d ago

Meh. I’m not blaming anyone for not seeing a trans allegory in the Matrix, regardless of it’s creators intentions. The thing about the Plato’s Cave allegory is that it’s both super evocative and fully general. Literally any possible claim is justified if you accept a divine revelation, inaccessible to the normies.

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u/Subspace-Ansible 23d ago

I mean… Starship Troopers the book is about how blind patriotism and nationalism is good.

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u/Benegger85 23d ago

He never said it was good, it just was like that in the books.

It's more about the psychology of soldiers

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u/RuffneckDaA 23d ago

In the same way that 40k says those things are “good”. My take away with tropes like these tends to be that when extinction is on the menu, most things can be argued to be permissible, even if there are severe moral consequences.

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u/Moe_Perry 21d ago

You can turn any progressive opinion into a conservative one, by just amping up the fear. It’s why it’s so effective.

Can’t risk change to social norms when the Xenos are at the gates.