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To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks and papers.
@Aevann can you
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As you know the book club is back. I already read the Metamorphosis a few months ago so I'll just check my notes for the single discussion thread.
I started reading "Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89" by Rodric Braithwaite (former Bong ambassador to Russia) which is about the Soviet-Afghan war 
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I just finished reading Starship Troopers
It was nowhere near as fascist as twitter led me to believe
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Heinlein wasn't a fascist. The Federation in ST is a weird militaristic-libertarian mix.
Yes, service guarantees citizenship, but there wasn't anything else there which resembles an authoritarian dictatorship.
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Their society is strictly less authoritarian than le wholesome countries with compulsory military service, but the "media literacy" crowd doesn't seem to cry about Switzerland being a fascist dystopia
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Yea I was making a joke about shitlibs crying about the movie and how it was based on a fascist book.
There was zero fascist themes in the book at all, and the social commentary (and dunking on communism) was pretty much the status quo for 1959.
I liked it
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That's mostly Paul Verhoeven's fault. He didn't read the book and wanted to make le brilliant and subtle Triumph of the Will parody.
So now Redditors go like "DID YOU KNOW STARSHIP TROOPERS IS ACTUALLY A SATIRE, CHUDS ARE SO DUMB SEEING THEMSELVES AS THE FEDERATION, DAE THEY'RE THE BAD GUYS AND BUGS ARE GOOD"
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I love that movie so much
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