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Hot Take: I think a lot of the really bad "media illiterate" takes you see are totally willful and the person making them is, at least, subconsciously aware it's bullshit, but it's bullshit that reinforces their worldview so they'll spew it nonetheless. As such I don't think mandatory media literacy classes would have any effect on these dorks, you could explain this shit in painstaking detail to them, and then they'd turn around and keep posting their "hot takes".

We have mandatory literacy classes, that’s English class but some people are like “omg English class is so dumb! Sometimes a guy just writes a dumb story about turning into a big bug that doesn’t mean anything else!!!!!!”

For the longest time I totally misjudged van Dien. I saw that he was always thrilled to reprise the Rico character in whatever silly spinoffs and thought he was really in to it. I was very happy to find out I'd been totally wrong and unfair to the man.

I wish I liked Starship Troopers more than I actually do, because the idea is great but the execution could have been a lot better. and I like a lot of Verhoeven's movies

this Casper guy is way cooler than I would have guessed for a guy who looks like he belongs on a nazi propaganda poster - he was very well-cast in that film

Tarantino things it was groundbreaking to make a movie about giant bugs, SO MANY FEET 👄

I met Casper van Dien about 10 years ago at a convention. I paid to get DVDs signed but I was last in line so we talked a bit longer than usual. I offhandedly mentioned how I'm surprised some people don't understand SST is a parody and he agreed and said that he hears really ridiculous shit from people sometimes.

Good dude. I'm glad he enjoys the role he's most known for.

In 5th grade my music teacher read us the lyrics to Bon Dylan -Blowing in the Wind and told us how stupid they were. He took it very literally. Even in 5th grade I thought he was an idiot.

my dad told me that westerners don't understand Starship troopers years ago but I didn't think he was this right

Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation

Watch it, its a lot more on the nose with its criticisms than the first movie.

we need prision time for creators of misinformation*

here fixed it, dealing with the root cause and all.

Propaganda only works when you're not aware that it's working

It often works even when you are aware of it, but it reinforces your biases or makes apologetics for your privileged position in society.

Says the person who posts a screenshot of a headline ffs