Casper Van Dien is loving the Starship Troopers renaissance but still finds it mind-boggling some take it at face value

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Casper Van Dien is loving the Starship Troopers renaissance but still finds it mind-boggling some take it at face value: 'My grandfather fought against the Nazis, and it's not a pro-war film—Everybody f***ing dies!'
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The propaganda films say that the bugs are attacking by flinging asteroids from the other side of the milky way, do you know how long that would take? Also we never see any bugs in space, just the plasma getting thrown, never see how they are supposedly throwing these asteroids.

What's your point? I'm not really sure why you sent this as a reply to me.

The point is that the footage we see is part of the in-universe propaganda, so we have no reason to assume it's true.

Once again proving that even fictional propaganda is highly effective.

There's also no presentation that it isn't true, and by whatever means, we do know for sure that the Bugs are attacking earth. Retaliation or not, so either way it's people stuck having to fight in order to save humanity.