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Which is seperate from the school shooting rate. Using the Reidman database you can see the spike starting in 2014.

Guns used to not be banned and there were a lot less school shootings. Every boomer and gen X you talk to will tell about when kids kept their rifles in the truck to go hunting after classes.

Hurricanes are known to travel in land and up North though. The fact a hurricane hit Tennessee isn’t odd. It was the strength and the length it lingered over the state that made it devastating.

The smarter citizens are patriotic enough to try ans stick through and fix the mess, while the stupid Americans are patriotic to the point of messing it up again.

The citizenship test is only in English, so anyone able to vote will be able to understand English.

So were they supposed to take the extra time to set up tents and stuff or hand out food as soon as they could, and should they not use the extra manpower from cops or should they just be understaffed and slow down giving out basic aid?

I just described money…

Maybe we should all specialize, and pay each other with our own goods, or better yet, a sort of representation of goods we all agree is valuable, so you can get one persons goods with anothers.

I bought all the rainbow six games in a bundle just to play Vegas, got to Vegas 2 maybe a year ago. I might get through the other 5 over the next 20 years.

I wonder why Sony wants Japan to have bigfoot, America to have Ya-Te-Veo, and Europe to have the shadow objects.

There doesn’t seem to be a reliable source one way or another. The South African reported he was denied a liscence because of the black ownership laws while Newsweek says there was never a public liscence application filed. It’s possible the royalities offer was given privately and rejected, this is most likely since Starlink does pay for liscenses based on service in other African countries.

Nationalism and militarism are not inherently fascist. A society can be nationalist and militarist and not be fascist.

Neither of which are inherently fascist.

“A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.”

• The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

I do not believe we know enough about the government or economy to call Starship Troopers fascism.

1. Centralization of authority under a dictator. In the books, we know very little about the Sky Marshal, in truth it isn’t revealed if they lead the civilian government at all, or if they’re just the equivalent of the highest ranking general. In the movies we do know the lead the civilian government and take a commander in chief role, but not enough about their powers to call them a dictator. Also, the incredibly high turnover rate I believe demonstrates it is not a dictatorship.

2. Capitalist economy under strict government controls. Again i think we do not know enough about the civilian economy to say. Though noncitizens participating and being wealthy might imply less control.

3. Violent suppression of the opposition. In the case of the Arachnids this is true, but internal opposition is never addressed. It appears that citizens and non citizens have some ability to oppose the ruling party. Voting rights are talked about in a way where people are optimistic they can make an impact for the better, implying some form of opposition. Also, we have no clue what the Arachnids were doing before the book or film. Contested space, where both parties are expanding, means conflict will arise. The Arachnids are also a credible threat, not a scapegoat.

4. Policy of belligerent nationalism and racism. True for the most part against Arachnids. I think the fascism argument cracks when you think further and realize the Arachnids cannot communicate at all to humans, we have 0 indicators at their intentions. The fact humanity is united and there seems to be no racism amongst humans towards each other is also not a hallmark of fascism.

The only real box i can think of is restrictive voting, but even then the path to voting rights is open to everyone. The only other definitive fascist thing is the speedy trial and execution in the movie, but that can be vague authoritarianism to future policing and evidence. We don’t get to know enough about the economics of ST to really say.

The issue is Starship Troopers is not fascist, it is more obvious in the book compared to the film. The society is described as multicultural and multiracial with only a very competitive merit based society. While “citizenship” is stuck behind service, it includes all kinds of service, and the army is required to take all people who wish to become no matter their physical state. Not being a citizen does not stop people from engaging in commerce or becoming wealthy or voicing your opinions on topics. Citizens really only get the opportunity to vote and preference in government jobs and programs.

Low bars for entry with high community trustworthiness, you can make a .ca account really easily and most lemmy users have a positive opinion of .ca and its users.

I believe the answer can be broken into three parts:

1. valid criticism, when a movie is genuinely bad and has a female lead, the valid criticisms of the film are overdhadowed by slop online articles criticizing fans for not supporting women and hating a female lead. Captain Marvel is a good example of this. The movie has genuine issues, and is not considered a good Marvel movie, but the overall online discussion focused around Marvel fans not supporting a female lead superhero movie, when Wonder Woman found success and Captain America: The Winter Soldier is arguably colead by Scarlett Johanson.

2. Pre box office reactions. Any movie which can be summed up as “X but with women” lands here. Same with any movie which intentionally admonishes the male audience and advertises itself as for women and only, then get mad men didn’t see the movie. Charlie’s Angels, Ghostbusters, and Captain Marvel fall into this category.

3. Genuine oddities and sexism. I believe this applies to the gaming industry more than the film indistry, but it can blead over. I believe the initial outrage over _The Marvels _ was this, but the movie ended up having major issues and went to category 1.

Call it a mother in law suite and the law gets iffy and whoever you need to convince in government to give you a permit is more likely to.

He is thinking of panhandlers, they sit on the side of the road with signs and often get aggressive with people. Same scam as the people with the squeegee bottle and the towel for your windshield. These people uaually aren’t homeless and are just scamming.