Starship Troopers Proves Leftist Ideology is Evil

Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] For leftists who are in the comments and want to argue against us, I'd really like you to describe within the context of the world one.

Genuinely negative or genuinely fascistic thing about the governing structure of the Star Trek movie world and I'm not even burdening you with the books in the movie as portrayed in the movie. What is evil about it? They have gender equality. They have ethnic equality. Anyone can vote. All they ask is that you undergo some sacrifice and you could say like, well, they talk about the failure of democracy.

Well, I'm sorry. Just as a passionate observer here. I would argue that most leftists would also argue democracy has failed. I want you to explain to me what's actually evil about this system. Not just the outfits, what's actually wrong with it? That people have pride in their country, and in their case, their country is humanity, because that's what it represents, because it is a one world government.

Do people have pride in humanity? Is that what makes it [00:01:00] evil? Like, is it that you need the government to actively undermine humanity? To actively be promoting things about how bad humans are all the time?

Because you grew up with that and you think that that's what a sane, normal government does? Because that's what your government's been doing since you started the school system trying to indoctrinate you into hating your own country? Into hating your own people? You define that as good? It's disgusting.

In the far left was telling the truth and gender and ethnic equality was what they were really fighting for. The Starship troopers universe would be a utopia to them. They show in their hatred of it, that they were never telling the truth, that what they really want It's not a world of equality, but a world where people like them no longer need to make sacrifices to get things in life. Or to exercise power over others.

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Malcolm Collins: Hello, Simone. So every one of our episodes starts with a little sound clip from one of our favorite movies, Starship Troopers. And it's a [00:02:00] really fascinating movie, especially in terms of how they've being talked about in the, in, in the public discourse today, because people are pointing out that it was made to lampoon.

And yet the leftists see it as being taken as like the the guard, like the, the honor guard, people like us, who they would consider fascists or something like that actually seeing a lot of great lessons from it, seeing a lot of great great ideas in it and they're like, look at how dumb they are believing that there are great ideas in a movie that was made to ridicule those ideas.

And this to me is a great instance of the left telling on itself because I think that Starship Troopers as a movie, and we're going to go into this, is one of the best condemnation of a leftist ideology I have ever seen. In that they thought that they were creating a movie that lampooned the ideas that were being brought up in it.

It really reminds me of a video we did on the Barbie [00:03:00] movie being one of the most anti woke movies I've ever seen. With examples in this being that when Ken comes to the human world, he keeps looking for patriarchy and can't find it. Like he finds women doctors, everything like that. The only place he's able to find evidence of a patriarchy is in a high school.

Library, not even a public library, what we are teaching our children is the only place the patriarchy exists. And then he enforces that within his world and we go into a bunch of other stuff, but I'm just saying, like, it is so obvious. There is almost no way to honestly watch the Barbie movie and take away anything but an incredibly base message.

I don't know, people

Simone Collins: take away what they want to take

Malcolm Collins: away. Well, no, but I, I mean, honestly, watch it, honestly, watch the way it's engaging with themes and the messages that is putting it across. And I think that this is the true with the Starship Troopers movie as well. So you have this guy Vanderhoeven, who, who started reading the book Starship Troopers, which is a great book.

[00:04:00] It's one of the considered like one of the best books in history for people who don't know. It's, it's one of, I think the only sci fi book allowed to be read within a U. S. military for a while. And it's on alternate governance. It's more of a book on governance philosophy, which you know we're nerds about because we wrote a book on governance philosophy.

But he started reading it and he didn't like it. He didn't like the ideas put across in it and he saw them as fascist in his mindset. And so when he was tasked with writing a movie about it, he wanted to lampoon these ideas. The problem was, is he also honestly conveyed them well enough that there is actually nothing evil.

About the government system that he portrays in this world. I mean, keep in mind, this is an elected government system. Anyone in the Starship Troopers universe can earn the right to vote. All you need to do is either engage in government service through You know, some sort of government activity or join the military.

There's, there's two [00:05:00] pathways. This is made clear in the book and they don't specifically change this in the movie. They don't say that there's not the other pathway. So we assume that it still happens because it follows broadly the same beats of the book. And if you're like disabled or mentally disabled, they find a way to allow you to still earn your vote.

You just have to earn it. Which is very different from a fascist state. No,

Simone Collins: and not just vote, like also the right to have kids,

Malcolm Collins: et cetera. Well, it gets easier. They say, they say you can still get the right to have kids if you're not a citizen, but you have to earn it. And then, so the, the point here being is that it is a government that asks things.

Of its citizens. And this is seen as holistically evil to the far left. So evil that they thought that's all they needed to do. To have that, and then the aesthetics of what they see as fascism, i. e. like long black coats. And now the government system being depicted in the movie is evil. Even though it's diverse, it's competent, it's [00:06:00] meritocratic they appear to have a free press system.

You see people disagreeing with government tactics within the, the state media. You see, Freedom of movement. So, a really interesting thing is, is leftists, when they watch this, they're like, humanity started the war. Do you remember how the war was started, Simone, by the way? Because it's conveyed in both the movie and the books.

Space Mormons. Space Mormons. But what did they do?

Simone Collins: They settled in a place that was Kind of off limits that they should yes, they

Malcolm Collins: disagree But the government was so not fascist not like evil military fascists that they were able to do this They were able to have ideas that went against the world government's ideas and act on those ideas.

The war was started because The world was a world in which freedom of speech, freedom of movement, and freedom of religion were allowed. That's why the war was started, and the buds having this ultra communist mindset couldn't understand [00:07:00] that this one faction of humanity was acting in a way that the rest of humanity didn't condone them.

And, and I, I've loved in leftist because the great thing about seeing leftist defendants is, is they're defending insects over humans saying that these insects are in the right and humans are in the wrong and they'll do things like one video I saw, which was insane is said that the the f