• brown567@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Starship Troopers taught me one of the most important lessons I’ve ever learned: I am not immune to propaganda

    Definitely understood that it was satire, but the idea of unifying to fight against a common enemy hits me in ways that I need to understand and account for

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      22 hours ago

      the idea of unifying to fight against a common enemy hits me

      Organized cooperation is basically one of the human superpowers though, so it’s hard to hold that against you.

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        21 hours ago

        Yup! It just becomes a problem when the common enemy is another group of sapient beings (even worse when they’re humans) instead of things like climate change or starvation