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Nah you’re right tho. It’s also when people use idioms as logic. “time is money therefore money is time” type shit. straight up reality detachment

Not only is it childish, but Terry Pratchett said the same thing, but better.

"We should do thing from Starship Troopers because in the book it totally works!"

It works because Heinlein believed it would work, not because it would work that way in reality!

I knew a person that quoted that MiB line all the time and I always wanted to call them out on that

I'm sure everyone's encountered some variation 'socialism good, communism bad remember animal farm', heard that one at work last week but was on the phone and could't do anything but make a face. The poor Murkkkian countrymen wouldn't know communism from any other -ism if it clapped both cheeks and gave them a copy of Wage Labor and Capital.

I find it funny someone would turn to MiB for this instead of something like groupthink or any of the other social psych constructs that attempt to explain group behaviors. Literally a century of research into this kind of shit (not all of it is very useful)

I try to reach further for examples when I'm talking about stuff specifically so I don't just resort to "this is like blideo gaem" but sometimes it's hard lol

this is like that time morbius said "It's morbin time!" and morbed all over the place

p2: Ah but remember men in black? a person is reasonable, people are dumb panicky animals

And liberals will tell you with a straight face that they aren't propagandized.

Once had an argument with a guy who tried to demonstrate that communism is bad using the example of Lois Lowry's The Giver. When I pointed out the absurdity of trying to use a children's fiction book to prove your enemies wrong, he fixated on the "children's" part and started throwing out titles like 1984 and Atlas Shrugged.

-so you are a secret alien is what you are saying?