This was the fundamental problem with True Blood. The show very explicitly used human-vampire marriage as. a parable for same-sex marriage, except that it also went out of its way to show that almost all vampires were evil creatures who really just wanted to eat peoplehttps://twitter.com/opinonhaver/status/1531784571053674496 …
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Same thing with Starship Troopers, which is widely celebrated as an anti-fascist satire but actually depicts the bugs as monsters who nuke a major human city
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I think Starship Troopers makes clear, subtly but it's there, that bugs were acting defensively because humans invaded their territory and also had a sentience that humans didn't allow for.
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I think I'm a Buenos Aires truther.https://twitter.com/BenBurgis/status/1532015422907760640 …
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Ben Burgis @BenBurgisReplying to @zackbeauchampAs I recall it wasn't nuked but a meteor hit it, allegedly somehow caused by the bugs? And we weren't given any reason as viewers to think they actually did cause it except that this was a claim made in ludicrously over-the-top fascist propaganda broadcasts.1 reply 0 retweets 11 likes
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Bush knocked over t̶h̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶w̶e̶r̶s̶ Buenos Aires.
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