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[–] 88 points 1 day ago (4 children)

He said in the past that the reason he didn't renew his contract with comedy central was because he would suggest something outrageous, and the next day all these republicans would be like "YEAH!!! LETS DO THAT!!! THAT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE!!!"

And no......it never did. The absurdity was the joke. The right took the joke, didn't get the joke, and ran with it as a serious idea that they liked. He said that he no longer wanted to be the guy who inspires stupidity.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Happen the same thing with Starship Troopers.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

    The author that wrote the book is genuinely a fascist and was pissed at the tone of the movie.

    edit: I was way off on this the author died before the movie came out

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  • [–] 29 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Robert A. Heinlein died 9 years before the movie released. He was many things, but fascist he was not.

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  • [–] 4 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

    It's very telling about the state of the internet that I'm genuinely happy about someone being honest about having been proven wrong.

    I love it and aspire to be like that when that happens too.

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  • [–] 5 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

    yeah. but how did you get to the point of calling the author fascist. that has to come from somewhere

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Do you have sources for this? I'd be interested in reading about that

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Reading several of his books, he believes in the everyday capable man of doing things and has a libertarian bent to him. That's from reading a lot of his work and finding similarities in it. I wouldn't say he was fascist but at that time he was probably vogue for the politics at the time.

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