r/scifi discussing the movie "Starship Troopers", wondering if it's really condemning fascism

Paul Verhoeven made movies where he shoved our stupid, tacky, murderous culture in our faces in nearly the most blunt and obvious way possible, and it's because he's entirely correct about us that we still have trouble getting it.

I would hate to be an artist and have my work be inadvertently inspiring to chuds

I know that [screenwriter] Ed Neumeier and I were aware of elements in American society that seemed to have the possibility of a certain fascism, but I did not believe myself that the United States would be able and willing to go in that direction."

Paul Verhoeven has said it over and fucking over. It's not up for debate. Fuck you Nazi shits and fuck Roland Barthes for making this sort of debate mainstream.