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THEY DID IT, THEY DID THE MEME... wait did any one tell them the protagonists in starship troopers where the bad guys... I feel like that was important context that should have been picked up by watching the film... I feel like they thought they where watching the good guys...
The book is very different from the film, especially in tone. The film is pure satire, but the book was quite serious in its anticommunist themes, going so far as using the Arachnids as a metaphor for - specifically - Asian communists. Heinlein thought of Asian communists as virtually mindless, sacrificing themselves for the collective - like bugs.
I mean fair enough, I had heard that about the book, but I have never personaly read the book.
It is well written enough to be an uncomfortably good piece of fashy propaganda.