Exactly the level of media literacy I’d expect from the writer of _Shadow of the Conqueror_

Oh my god does Shad seriously think Starship troopers is a serious film and not a satire? Edit: oh my god does he not realize HELLDIVERS is satire!?!?

He keeps saying that there were no bugs on the Mormon planet and yet the movie clearly states that the Mormans were warned and still settled a planet DEEP INSIDE the Arachnid territory. This guy can't even get basic facts right.

So basically if Shad played Helldivers he'd unironically buy the Super Earth propaganda

"Am I a radical for believing the earth is there for humanity's benefit?" Kinda yeah

7:45 Shad's take there is definitely a religious take: God created the Earth and all within it for mankind to use. They never seem to consider that gifts are to be taken care of. God may have provided what is needed, but that doesn't mean there's enough to take whatever you want

Dude talks about the mormon journey west like his family actually was part of it

"Why do so many people in the modern day hate humanity?" Proceeds to fully endorse AI for art. What a damn hypocrite, I want to hate him so badly, but that would only lower me to his level.

Shadiversity is someone who I've realized is incapable of seeing nuance in anything. You are either right or wrong, I think he literally thinks it's a battle of good (right) vs evil (left). He's literally said he doesn't see parties just woke and unwoke. And he's so afraid of being wrong he surrounds himself with an echochamber of yes men. He's so defensive because he thinks he's on the good side, so he can't be doing wrong.

on one side we've got a teeming horde of violent mindless drones with no agency bred and raised to kill and to be used as fodder, and on the other side is a bunch of bugs

I Feel like Shade would take every possible wrong message from everyone of Paul Verhoeven's films and he's the exact kind of person Paul had in mind when he made the quote, ""i want to make a movie so painfully obvious in its satire that everyone who understands it lives in perpetual psychological torment inflicted on them by all the people who don't" -Paul Verhoeven, 1996

How can Shad be so wrong on so many topics? It's honestly impressive.

Funny you mentioned that if the directpr himself told him it is fasvist satire he wouldn't believe him, because I saw that argument in Reddit (not Chad, obviously) some idiot was having the same take (StarshipTroopers is not satire, actually) and when someone told him the director himself has come out and said that the movie is indeed satire, the response was "he (the director) is wrong, he doesn't know what he's talking about and that's where we apply 'death of the author' "

Paul Verhoven on reading the book said "I stopped after two chapters because it was so boring ... it is really quite a bad book ... it's a very right-wing book." The mormons in the movie are not "just looking for a peaceful planet to colonize," either. The planet was in a quarantine zone, and they were aware of this. They are basically acting as West Bank settlers, trying to force the issue of settling the planet while it is in dispute.

The bugs represent how the fascist sees its enemies. The movie is from the view of the fascist. It's really not a hard concept to understand. I don't know how people miss it lol

"i want to make a movie so painfully obvious in its satire that everyone who understands it lives in perpetual psychological torment inflicted on them by all the people who don't" -paul verhoeven, 1996 (probably)

He keeps saying the planet wasnt occupied, but the movie very explicitly says the bugs were there first.

Shad complaining about virtue signaling is hilarious

Neil Patrick Harris dressed as an offbrand SS solider right if front of all their faces and it fly 1000 miles over their heads as all them drool over SS uniforms is hilarious.

I feel so sorry that Jazza has to be related to this... waste.

It's no wonder Shad is such a piss-poor writer. He's physically incapable of reading even basic subtext at even an elementary school level. Paul Verhoeven wasn't even being subtle!

Pretty sure having a livable climate is a benefit to mankind and maybe we should put effort into keeping it that way.

When people talk about Verhoeven not understanding the book. ...did *they* read the book? Heinlein likes to pretend he's the realist. He's got all these very authoritarian ideas. He knows that anyone who's actually studied those ideas and how they tend to play out when implemented has concluded they don't work. He's bitter about it. They're just a bunch of academics who don't understand how the real world works, he thinks. His ideas feel true to him, so a demonstration to the contrary must be somehow misguided. "The social scientists nearly brought civilization to it's knees," in his weird vision of the future. Total civilizational collapse brought on by people not hitting their kids enough, or something. Heinlein uses the book to go on about how he knows how the world *really* works. Authoritarianism is *actually* awesome. But Verhoeven's knowledge of how wrong Heinlein is didn't come out of a remote and academic study. Verhoeven grew up in Nazi occupied territory. Verhoeven really did see how the world really works. He saw authoritarianism up close and personal. Imagine how this dipshit who'd never actually seen authoritarianism, prattling on about how great it is, about how he's the only person who understands the real world and the necessity of authoritarianism, must have seemed to someone who actually lived it. Verhoeven understood the themes and morals of Starship Troopers quite well. Heinlein didn't, is all.

You're missing why he's REALLY mad... The Mormon colony on the restricted bug planet. 15:00. That's what he's talking about there.

Shad probably just saw the 3D animated show of Star Ship Troopers where they made the bugs the invading party. Shad's a baby, so that's the only one he could watch.

Facism is 100% aesthetics, they see that Casper Van Dean is hotter than a cgi bug monster and thus is the good guy.

Shad: "The bugs are just drones, they're not intelligent, its like killing animals" Also Shad: "The bugs are a consciously genocidal species that decided and enacted a meteor strike at a population centre so they're the bad guys" Pick EVERY position!! one of them is bound to be correct!!!

The bugs did nothing wrong. The Starship Troopers, however, did everything wrong.

Conservatives have an hard time with media literacy, and i’m not surprised about it after his take on HotD

The Rodger Young hit the asteroid and changed the trajectory. This way it hit Buenos Aires (plus the ads said before that, that the orbital defense is better than ever). That's for sure. - If Carmen wouldn't have changed course that wouldn't have happened. And the ships communication were down too. There's a tiny hint that it may have been Carl (Neil Patrick Harris) who did make Carmen course correct via telepathy. She says "You read my mind" when Zander brings her coffee. Maybe the military intelligence wasn't happy with their leadership or how society treated civilians quite well (Johnny's parents are rich), wanted more power etc ...the society is like a scifi version of Spartan culture too btw. The film is a 2 hours long mockery of militarism, love for it and fascism. Something I understood bc basically in 1998 when I watched it at the age of 18.

So I’m subscribed to Shad and used to watch his weapon videos. He hasn’t came into my feed in probably over a year or so. So you popping up ( which I’ve never seen you before) is awesome. I’m a leftist- humanist- atheists and glad I came across this.

I can watch you tear into Shadiversity all day.

Kyle Kallgreen did a good three part series on Startship Troopers a few years ago. He went into the both the book and the movie. It's admittedly long, but they were all I could think of while I was watching this

Shad truly takes an “m” out of the middle of “Mormon.”

As someone from Germany, I am shocked to see how blind Shad (and many other people in Australia, and the US) is to fascist propaganda. It's so blatantly obvious when you actually use your brain when consuming media. But these guys are so deeply anti-intellectual, only focused on their own enjoyment without a single thought about different perspectives, messages or themes.

Shad does a good job of reminding me why I left Mormonism.

Jesus wow, they're really like "People unironically side with the bugs in the movie, but they're okay with killing bugs in real life. Checkmate Atheists" The first point is already based entirely on a strawman. But even if we took this theoretical nonexistent person who is trying to "side" with the bugs, there's zero inherent dissonance with the idea of them being okay with killing bugs in real life. Even within the context of their own fake argument, the idea is that the bugs are meant to be a sentient emotive species that were colonized on. Even without comprehending the movie itself, the way he's presented the argument is clearly such that the bugs are meant to be a stand-in for various indigenous peoples who were invaded and had their land and resources stolen. Like oh my god it has nothing to do with the species on either side of the war. Learn what a god damn Metaphor is Shad!

if you ever want to deep dive on mormonism I can help you with that, as a former mormon.

I don't really see how bugs are the future of food when plants are right there. To respond to Shad's point about vegans killing more by eating exclusively plants, what does he think the animals are eating in order for them to be raised and eaten by us? This is a very common talking point even among people who aren't anti-vegan, it's literally like going down the dialogue tree because people are just repeating things they've heard without any critical thought beyond that. It's also not realistic to say we should all focus on being mindful and source meat from local farms, you can't feed everybody with that type of production. Most meat you consume is coming from a factory farm anyways, if local was the only way it would be an extreme luxury because it wouldn't be able to scale relative to human population. Idk why you can't just say "yeah it's just about taste" and stop pretending you care lmao.

Paul Verhoeven made a big parody out of Starship troopers. Even the choice of actors was serving that purpose, to parody society who believe pretty faces over anything else. To make humankind look like the good guys cause hey look at us, we have pretty folks here! That we are wearing Nazi inspired uniforms (even the SS logo's presented) doesn't matter, we see pretty folks so the whole movie we assume they are the good guys. The bugs are evil right? Even though all we see is Humans conquering the galaxy and building colonies left and right. We are doing what we Europeans did back then, claiming parts that aren't ours. The bugs just happen to fight back so our propaganda machine kicks, just like how we still do that these days with how the news is used to push for narratives the governments and other parties want us to have. The movie even has those bits included to show how it works, like having kids hold a real gun and stamping on bugs shouting "I'm doing my part!". Amazing how this "highly" intellectual being called Shad failed to see that and goes "But you keep saying humans are bad", YES WE ARE BAD, WE ARE THE REASON SO MANY ANIMALS NO LONGER EXCIST OR ARE ABOUT TO DIE CAUSE OF US KILLING THEM FOR TUSKS AND WHAT NOT, Jesus F'ing Christ Shad, wake up! I know you are religious so of course you don't live in the real world but one based on a fairy tale book, but in the real world, humans are a awful species. We kill anything and anyone we don't like or has something we want. We don't care about the long term effects as long as it gives us something right now, that is human kind, sorry you been sleeping and didn't realize, but anyone with half a brain and able to look out of their window knows how terrible human kind is.

Fun fact: The majority of methane generated by a cows' 4 stomachs passes to the atmosphere via its mouth.

Somewhere in an alternate universe, two dung beetles in gambesons are pointing out a bug torturing Rico is okay because they are obviously a hive mind, which they deduce through the introduction of NPH's character.

Man I was gonna make a joke about how the "find an empty planet" feels reminiscent of the republicans "we came to america and tamed the empty wilds where no one was living ha ha", but he just went all in on that rhetoric as well

Dude is just unironically out there saying ""yeah, it's okay to take the land from these savages that we deem to be beneath us."" Holy shit...

Fluffy spilled his grape juice on his costume, and his mom hasn’t made him a new one yet.

I see shad about to be eviscerated, I click. Simple formula.

Paul Verhoeven also directed Robocop, which is a great movie while also a great discussion of copaganda and why we shouldn't privatize law enforcement services. So yes, generally good shit, aside from lying to Sharon Stone while filming Basic Instinct.

I like the theory that Carmen changed the trajectory of the asteroid and it hit Buenos Aires

Skallagrim is the superior sword KZfaqr

Shad literally quotes a straight line from the film when he says that humans are at fault for intruding into the bug's territory and then immediately says that's not even what the movie is about. Might want to rewatch the film you are going to review on a video you are putting out, minimal effort stuff. also Shad neglects to mention the reason Starship Troopers is trending, it is because everyone is playing Helldivers 2 online with their buddies so the topic comes up, not the most profound or serous reason that has any effect, but it makes it look like he is not just bitching about gamers talking about random stuff cuz that does not sound self important

"Shad doesn't understand..." Of course he doesn't

As an ex-mormon from Europe who grew up outside of the American mormon sphere of influence, I have to wonder who the fuck Shad thinks is "we". "We were kicked out of Kirtland", "Missouri put an extermination order on us". I'm pretty sure Shad has never even been to the Salt Lake Valley or experienced American Mormons before. I really don't think Shad has the grounds to pull the "we" card. I doubt he has any kind of direct relation to the original Mormons, just like I didn't. But that's what Mormon indoctrination does to you. It makes you think you're persecuted despite having no experience with anything coming close to persecution. I can guarantee most American Mormons would not consider Shad to be part of their cultural in-group, simply because he's not from the USA. Edit: "We're good at fixing trash-holes." Nah bro, the entire state of Utah is screwed because of Mormon terraforming. The Great Salt Lake is disappearing at an ever-increasing rate because of Mormon industry and agriculture. Massive agricultural operations IN A DESERT. A DESERT. Where water is already a pretty important resource.

Somehow he gets denser and denser - soon he'll rip a Black Hole into Australia and accompany his god beyond space and time..

13:47 EXACTLY THE POINT... The bugs don't have ANY kind of tech, they have big bugs that shoot plasma farts, how did they chuck a FREAKING METEOR all the way to earth?

When i first saw Starship Troopers, i didnt realize it was a satire. I was about 13. Even then, i never gave it any kind of deep analysis and took it as just a dumb action movie.

The Starship Troopers movie is actually one of the least subtle movies ever. I was like 12 when I watched it the first time and I still realized that the humans are in the wrong....

‘We are the Kaiju of the bug world.’ Is probably the best possible take on humanity.

18:00 Kirtland Temple is like 15 miles from my house. All of the Midwest was a swamp, what a silly goose.

The right seems incapable understanding satire. Anyone remember when Sargon completely without any irony used "Service guarantees citizenship" for his failed political career?

I know this has nothing to do with most of the video, but Shad's comment about the vegans and soy and all that is honestly laughable because almost 80% of global soybean production is for livestock feed, with over 90% of USA soybean production going to livestock feed. One of those factoids I've learned because of all the anti vegan takes out there blaming vegans for things we're a tiny tiny fraction of.

If Shad had watched Red Letter Media he wouldn't be so wrong. He might also learn something about the basics of comedy.

The planet the mormons were on wasn't empty. The bugs were already there.

The bug planet is more than 70,000 light years from earth, making it mathematically impossible for the bugs to have sent the asteroid to earth. From what I heard the bugs did it in the books, but the director confirmed that the bug didn't do it in the movie.

You could have a playlist "Shadversity doesn't understand..."

The bugs didn't send the meteor that hit earth, earth did that to create a reason to destroy the bugs and take their planet for colonizing.

Don't show them Spec Ops: The Line. Their brains will explode.

I feel like it's really important to point out that Heinlein was not a fascist. His books explore all manner of governments and typically they involve characters who have bought into the system 100%. Like the libertarian "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" or the Marxist utopian "Stranger in a Strange Land", the characters in the story fully accept the system, but the reader is meant to think more deeply about it. As an example, in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" the main characters are working toward a revolution in which an AI is laying out the plan of action that they simply follow. Since it is successful and the characters end up achieving their goals, they are very happy with the outcome. But the reader is left to wonder about how many innocent people it cost to get there. In his lifetime, Heinlein identified strongly with the libertarian party. While that probably meant something different then it does today, it's probably the closest representation we have to what he actually believed.

I was going to make a snarky comment about how it might be easier to make content on subjects Shad actually understands, but then you wouldn't really be able to make much content from such a short list of topics.

I've found Starship Troopers and Warhammer 40k are both excellent vibe checks when it comes to sussing out people who are otherwise good at hiding there more evil political beliefs.

From Utah, so I’m around Mormons all the time. They love to think they were trailblazer, but they couldn’t be further from the truth. Their info about where to go mostly came from fur trappers that actually explored unknown territory.

We eat bugs all the time, but if some guy fellatios a shrimp cocktail it's just another tuesday for these people

11:42 Just for reference here is a time line of events in starship troopers. 1) human colonists move to a bug-occupied planet. 2) colonists get eaten by bugs. 3) an asteroid hits earth around Boenos-Aries. The government blames the attack on bugs. The question how bugs with limited interplanetary travel technology seemingly managed to hit earth with an FTL projectile - don't ask. Why did the rock land onto a city with majority population being happily not citizens and living life of opulence? Lucky coincidence... I mean tragic coincidence... 4) In resonce to the asteroid attack, a large scale gung-ho operation is carried out. Ends in bloodbath. Because the bugs whe were allegedly capable of FTL interplanetary warfare were not supposed to have anti-orbit capabilities. 5) Head of military resigns. 6) War moves from reckless assaults to actually strategic operation and that yields results. So yeah. The movie is firmly around the story of colonization, subjugation of local population, with a sprinkle of propaganda and cover-up.

As a Missouri resident, thank God that they were kicked out. 😂

For the Americans, its peak summer/autumn weather in Australia. Hottest part of the year which makes the chainmail tunic hoodies extra dumb and cringe.

Military industrial complex. If you don't have an enemy to fight, you create one.

"this bug is like a brainless drone" The bug is literally a BRAINbug and they confirm it's scared when they capture it.

Is that grey hair having green-screen like effect on camera, or is Shad's beard HELLA patchy and thin? Like, holy shit.

It’s always starship troopers. It’s ALWAYS starship troopers

There used to be a guy long ago who'd watch this movie and question why the walls of the colony didn't have some form of machicolations that would've enabled defenders to shoot the bugs directly below the walls without exposing themselves by leaning over the edge. I wonder what he's doing now.

Satire is so lost on Shad that he becomes unintentionally satirical himself.

Haha, you think the rich will eat bugs? No. That's gonna be the next big thing separating the classes. Those that can afford fancy meals, and those surviving off bugs genetically modifies to be more nutritious and delicious.

Remember his into the spider verse take.

I wish I could live in incompetency so comfortably like Shadiversity.

At the age of 13, I was able to understand there was a bigger joke going on by the propaganda alone. NPH's outfit at the end sealed the deal, I remember going "That's a full-on Nazi uniform" and my dad getting this little smirk as he said "It sure is, kid" and a moment later, both of us guffawing at the giant CENSORED bar after the hour and a half of gruesome violence.

For the record, Mormons actively study both the Old and New Testaments in addition to their additional texts.

The other thing is that things which evolved separately from life on Earth would necessarily have a separate genetic heritage and therefore could not possibly actually be bugs. That's just something the federation calls them in order to depersonalize their slaughter.

Shad is such a mess... he's very annoying for too many reasons for me to even count but dear god the way he misses the point of starship troopers. Plus, yes, if you land on a planet and just decide its gonna be yours and start killing shit you ARE in the wrong. Like??? Its not hard to see that. I live in my apartment, if someone just shoves themselves into my apartment and start taking my shit I would also respond with violence bc wtf!? Edit: That aside, I'd be up for bug food if presented right. Not corporate bug food, but like the way people have been making them like... is it egypt that has the honeyed locusts? I have the knowledge kicking around in my brain but its super early for me, basically if it was an option and it was appetizing I'm gonna try it. I like trying new foods anyways so sure why not.

Shad and the other skim milk guy keep saying no one was in utah. claiming it was empty. Last I checked Utah had a pretty big Native American Population, we learn about them a lot here. So to claim that no one was there is crazy. Not to mention the other settlers the Pioneers murdered because they wanted no one else to settle in that part of the nation because they wanted to make a new country there.

Holy Fucking God Christ. To think this man wrote a book.

Vocally, Shazz sounds like an offensive cartoon stereotype of Australians

Doesn't Michael Ironside say to his class basically might makes right? How do you hear that and think he's a good guy.

How can they understand subtext, when they don't even understand the text? Jeeesus.

In the movie, the rock that hits earth collides with the spaceship that some of the main characters are training on first. And if you know anything about the mechanics of objects in space, you know that means that rock wasn't heading for earth until that impact. The movie literally shows us that the idea that the rock came from the bugs is a cover-up for the fact that some human trainees did an oopsie with a massive death toll as a result.

"They're afraid. THERY'RE AFRAID!!" Refering to the "emotionless" drone.

24:10 I am not sure if this research was available at the time the movie was made (and it definitely was not available when the book was written) but I just can't help but put it here. Thinking about hive species (like ants or bees or termites) in terms of "1 queen controlling a lot of mindless drones" is actually wrong. The queen does not make all the decisions. Instead every "mindless drone" uses its own intelligence to assess the situation and make an intuitive decision that feels like the most beneficial to the hive. And this large amount of simple independent actors while very limited individually become capable of much more complex behaviours. The queen is the center of hive reproduction, not decision making. And people are now trying to study and utilize this approach in a field called "swarm algorithmic".

I wonder if they think Robocop is pro-police

There's a new type of rice processing that adds meat to the rice directly. Seems pretty weird, not sure what to think about yeet.

The meteor that the bugs "shot" at earth was definitely a false flag attack by the humans

Did Shad watch a different movie to the rest of us? I am genuinely concerned that this guy seems to have the opposite of media literacy.

There are over 16 million vacant homes in America. We have a caring problem not a lack of homes.