Not when one party is dead set against it and the other will only do so with loopholes the size of Ireland.
That’s what happens when the politicians who promise to rein in billionaires rely on legal bribes from billionaires to fund their election and re-election campaigns.
I can’t wait until you can block entire instances at a user level in the web interface because defederating from lemmygrad and hexbear takes care of 99% of the pro authoritarian shit.
I just don’t like Kbins interface tbh, I have an account there but it goes unused. Not saying it’s a worse platform or anything, just not my personal preference.
The irony here is that Starship Troopers is pretty damn fashy, and a lot of the manosphere leans in that direction as well. So it does ring true, in an odd way.
In the book, we have no reason to believe the war against the Psuedo-Arachnids is anything but defensive.
Heinlein was relatively fresh from the WW2 US Navy and definitely has this weird warrior-poet fixation on the ideal modern officer, and blathers on about it quite a bit, but that alone just makes him a militarist.
Where he goes off the rails is his concept of “service guarantees citizenship,” but unlike the movie it is very clear in the novel that “service” includes not just military personnel but civil service, teachers, fire fighters, etc, those who can broadly be said to contributing to the public good.
That’s pretty suspect, but not nearly as fascist as the movie makes it seem, especially with their hints that the destruction of Buenos Aires was a false flag. Verhoeven rather famously didn’t read the very short novel he based the movie on, which is why we don’t get Power Armored Shoulder Nuke Space Marines, the cheap illiterate coward.
So, in short, Heinlein was a militarist liberal, self described as a “radical liberal,” thus his generally positive take on libertarianism later in life. In other words, basically just a neoliberal ahead of his time.
Some might note that means you only have to cut him to find something else though.
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