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====Neo-Nazis====
The film also ended up handing ammo to the second group of people, despite wearing its satirical intentions on its sleeve (if not the entire coat - this is Verhoeven we're talking about); it also manages to make the Federation look like a decent place to live with a functional government, because his satire usually consists of letting the people we're supposed to disagree with present their points into the camera without argument. The result is that [[/pol/|real-life fascists]] like to use it as a bad-faith example of how fascism isn't that bad, really. Is this Verhoeven's fault?

''Fuck'' no, they're fascists, and as such are categorically weasels that co-opt any angle they can get their hands on.

If anything could be blamed on the film and/or Verhoeven ''besides'' being too heavy-handed, it's that the satirical approach of "let the villains state what their motives are outright in a way that makes them sound patently bugfuck insane to any rational person" thus assumes a rational audience. Far from an argument for some baby-brained "satire requires clarity of purpose" bullshit, the conclusion is simply that most neo-Nazis and fascists [[/pol/|are not very smart]].