Stupid inhuman pests that do nothing but reproduce, shit, and kill things around them

just grab the egg sacs and you can make them do your bidding, like help you storm into a high security prison

I hate palestinians so much

Never seen this comparison before in my life. I swear you guys go out of your way to find the most ridiculous shit to get mad about.

Why must people idolize the bugs in this strawman you all have? People who insist the Federation is evil generally do so based on the merits of the Federation, not the bugs. The bugs are easy to pity, they’re fighting to avoid inevitable extinction after all, but anyone who labels the bugs simply as “good” so the Federation must be “bad” obviously has a very reductive way of thinking and isn’t worth arguing with. This stupid pedantic argument you all seem so intent on having every time this movie is mentioned is so detrimental to actual relevant or thoughtful conversation it’s infuriating.

The book was better.

they’re fighting to avoid inevitable extinction

They are trillions of them, The Federation literally doesn't have the ammo.

the federation doesnt want the bugs exterminated, Sky Marshall Nethanjahu justifies staying in power because theres an eternal enemy to fight in the desert, gaining worthless ground in the process nobody will ever settle on.

Do the bugs know that? Do the federation soldiers? At the end of the movie of you asked anyone around about the Brain Bug and what it meant for the war I’ll bet they’ll tell you “it means complete elimination of the bug”. If you asked Federation leadership what all these people were dying for, you’d get the same answer. Whether or not they want to keep an enemy around forever (which is likely, true) is irrelevant, for everyone fighting the war it’s a war of extermination

Who needs ammo when you have nukes?

The bugs are NOT easy to pity. You have a very fucked up abnormal brain if you pity the bugs. You're a weirdo.

But anon is afraid

People who insist the Federation is evil generally do so based on the merits of the Federation, not the bugs.

Propaganda and militarism aren't inherently evil though- they're just tools used to rally a populace to combat opposition. In order to determine actual moral alignment, you're pretty dependent on the nature of the opposition said tools are being directed at. If it's directed at a bunch of hippy ET aliens, you might call that an evil governing body. If it's directed at a bunch of giant killer bugs that are doing nothing but shredding peopl en masse... well there really isn't a leg to stand on that such creatures aren't a threat to your populace and that you're evil to go after them.

That's kind of why this film is so retarded as a critique of fascism- yeah the Federation fucks up people's live and sure, Buenos Aires is probably an atomic bomb or something going off by accident that's being used as a cover to start the war- but when you see the bugs at no single point do you ever get an indication that these things would've left humanity alone had they in turn been left alone. Ffs, even when they're acting 'peaceful' bringing the captives to the big brain bug the thing immediately starts stabbing soldiers in the head and sucking brains out.

fictional scenario makes zionism palatable

utopian scifi makes zionism look functional

botting every social media makes zionism popular

you people have no substance.

FRANKLY I find the idea of a lib that thinks OFFENSIVE!

at no single point do you ever get an indication that these things would've left humanity alone

the bugs literally live on the other side of the galaxy on a bunch of desert planets.
there is no reason for humanity to go there and fight for these worthless rocks. as far as the movie shows there are no other aliens, so theres literally billions of other planets for humans to settle on.

bugs may be shredding kill bots at close range, but they pose zero threat for human civilization as a whole. the entire federation and military-industrial complex is a pointless scam to keep humanity oppressed against a bogus enemy

start shit

where? get the fuckin Mormons off their planet and there's no beef

It's about colonialism.

This new push to ruin any discussion of Starship Troopers, a very good movie, absolutely sucks.

new

lurk more

ya bugs have colonized way more planets and will literally kill humans on sight if they claim a territory

Did you forget Buenos Aires?

No, zionism is colonialism. I'm not having an AI conversation about the minutiae of the 1990s classic film, that doesn't interest me.

then stop responding faggot

also >obsessed with zionism. kek

This botted meme is all about zionism, a person only needs to read THIS THREAD to know that, let alone hundreds of others. I'll post wherever and however I please.

you guys

Kike shills?

baited hard, you just dont know when to quit

Baited to do what

its commonly accepted the bugs are palestinian coded. Andor did something similar recently too

keep doing it lol

it's been spammed for over 10 years. anyone who hasn't heard this fucking shill script before is deaf.

the bugs literally live on the other side of the galaxy on a bunch of desert planets.

Doesn't matter- if they exist, they travel between planets, and they have the numbers/killing capability to pose an actual threat to humanity, there will always be a nonzero chance of running into them (or vice versa) and becoming a problem

also love that we just sail past this kind of interaction anymore. You don't want to have an AI discussion of unimportant details? Then stop responding!

50,000 years from now they could be a threat to us!

FUCK! WE HAVE TO SEND MEATWAVES TO ATTACK RIGHT NOW!

50,000 years from now they could be a threat to us!

Yeah, if we got your headcanon scene it'd indicate the Federation are retards, but we didn't, so all we're left with is to what we definitively know about the bugs- that they do space travel, that they inhabit planets with an atmosphere similar to Earth's, & that they have the number/killing potential to be a problem to humanity. Which makes them a definite threat to humanity that the Federation isn't in the wrong to try and deal with.