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Verhoeven said that this society always needs an enemy...


In some documentary of this movie, Verhoeven said that the society in this movie always needs an enemy... and that this movie is PC-cuck propaganda (not in those words, but he sugarcoated it).
I didn't notice that in this movie, did you? That they were having a bad time before the attack on their cities. I haven't seen this movie for a while though.

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The society is intensely militaristic, which implies an external threat, and if there isn't one it could be manufactured. It has often been a technique to ensure internal cohesion, and divert attention from the failings of your own rulers, and many societies in human history have resorted to the tactic. Some are doing it right now. Sometimes it backfires - a minister in Tsarist Russia thought war with Japan would take Russians' minds off internal strife, but when the war went badly Russia had the 1905 revolution.

"Chicken soup - with a *beep* straw."

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Bet he was fired. Out of a cannon.

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Except they looked to very affluent and with few socio economic issues

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I didn't notice that in this movie, did you?

The thing that destroyed Buenos Aires, was not the meteor that was advertised in the news.

A meteor is a rock from space, that burns completely in the Earth's atmosphere, giving a bright light as it burns.

Rico's father notices that "looks like rain, sure is dark".

A meteorite is a rock from space, that touches Earth's ground.

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My prediction would be even if they defeated the bugs and gained dominance the next enemy would be all the non citizens who never fought.

The space marines would want their rewards and would want anyone who wasn’t a part of it to be penalised.

The next military operation would be rounding up or fighting against non citizens.

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you are right. its a militaristic society full of soldiers. those who serve gain citizenship and advantages over the other non citizens. fascistic societies like these rely on a constant enemy. its show how the broadcast executions of criminals. theres always a threat, internal from social deviants, and externally from bugs.

this world was long conquered by the federation who has global fascist control

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thats pretty much what is happening now, biden is making the republicans the enemy and is trying to falsely imprison anyone that disagrees with their ideology.

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nice comment edit. what happened? afraid you are parroting nazi slogans?

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