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.
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.
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.
Happen the same thing with Starship Troopers.
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
Robert A. Heinlein died 9 years before the movie released. He was many things, but fascist he was not.
Yeah I was wrong.
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.
yeah. but how did you get to the point of calling the author fascist. that has to come from somewhere
I remember that going around the internet 5 years ago or so.
Dude invented powered armor 4 years before Iron Man ever showed up, and it didn’t even make it into the movie. He should be pissed
he was robbed. also he died years before the movie came out lol i’m an idiot
Do you have sources for this? I’d be interested in reading about that
I have no idea where I came up with that I was wrong.
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.
I think he just liked playing around with political ideas. His books don’t have much of an ideological through-line (is “women are hot” an ideology?).
He timed his contract expiration to match Letterman’s. He really wanted to take over the Late Show, a move that paid off.
Literally Poe’s Law in action, but applied to real life where the sarcasm is extremely apparent.
Do you have source for this?