Saudi Arabia executes 81 human beings in one day.

[Rev. Rye]

They actually are. Heinlein was a crypto fascist. A sympathetic not completely terrible crypto fascist - but still. My favorite YA author (). I very recently re-read a compilation of his stories and commentary on his life. A fluffing commentary. I'm still comfortable and I think he would be comfortable -well delineated- with that appraisal. He really did think and write, with prescient knowledge of the inflection points for failure, that his Federation were the Good Guys. I agree. He was openly and defiantly unapologetic, in his life, in this regard....for what it's worth. He wrote and delivered speeches to that effect, with his own mouth.

His absolute best story, in my opinion, was about a boy and his dog, where his ideology was more easily and unobjectionably expressed - on Venus, iirc. Or, perhaps, in his Luna City thing. If I hadn't already made it super clear in my decade or so here that I'm a superfan....I'm a superfan. As such, this post can be disregarded as the compulsive rambling of a superfan.

I was specifically talking about the movie, not the novel. The movie (helmed by a man who spent much of his childhood in a country occupied by a certain regime that bore an alarming resemblance to the Federation) is an entirely different beast, one that specifically works under the assumption that the surface-level plot is just Federation propaganda with occasional glimpses at the shitty reality of Federation life occasionally coming through.

Also, it’s been donkeys since I read the original novel, but I don’t think the whole “murderer getting caught, tried, and executed in the span of less than a day” thing appeared in the book.