• TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    You might be thinking of the movie series, not the novel. In the book humans were essentially fascist, you could alternatively label it as “democracy” managed by a military dictatorship.

    The bugs were not fascist, they were meant to represent communist China. Hienlien wrote starship trooper in a couple weeks, as a response to America announcing they were scaling back their nuclear arsenal.

    Also, I don’t think the book ever mentioned FTL.

    • ferret@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      I was speaking in reference to Helldivers 2, because the parent comment was talking about roleplaying and people don’t usually use that language around books or TV shows.

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        9 months ago

        Fwiw, I was indeed taking about Helldivers, though I was referring to the irl “roleplay” of it in memes and in social media, even in communities completely unrelated to the game, like this one.

        Same goes for those that take stuff like Fallout’s Brotherhood of Steel or Warhammer’s Imperium of Man too seriously. This stuff is better left in the context of the game. Bringing it into real life is sketchy at best.