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Sacrist65
Mar 24, 2007
Frunnkiss
Starship Troopers the movie is the best possible rebuke to the ideas in Starship Troopers the book.

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Sacrist65
Mar 24, 2007
Frunnkiss

Kurzon posted:

Is this really the same issue? Let me explain.

In large-coalition regimes, otherwise known as democracies, the leaders are incentivized to deliver public rewards. Public rewards are things which are enjoyed by everyone, such as good roads, good public education, civil liberties, etc. Public rewards have the effect of making the economy grow. Democracies tend to be more prosperous than autocracies. Past a certain threshold, members of the coalition in a large-coalition system actually want bring in new members to the coalition, because will put even more pressure on the government to govern responsibly, further growing the economy. Although everyone gets a smaller fraction of the pie, the pie grows larger, so everyone actually ends up with more.
Do you think Native casinos could exist in that state? That they could become a large coalition system where the members actually want to be inclusive?

Republicans have been actively shrinking the percentage of people who can/will vote since the southern strategy and the survival of their belief system depends on it. They realized control of the judicial branch is more effective for their owners than growing their coalition.

Sacrist65
Mar 24, 2007
Frunnkiss
I love that the movie starts with little subversions to their society like Hannah Arendt's picture, while slowing making them more obvious ("Infantry made me the man I am today").

Finally screaming it in your face with Neil Patrick Harris in an SS uniform and make believe super powers.

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