They really do look like ‘Starship Troopers-like ICE recruitment ads,’ as Universal Hub describes them. And now they’re coming down at Shopper’s World in Framingham. … They should come down, but not only because of the ICE angle. I’ve never liked the use of ‘homeland’ to describe America. It represents blood-and-soil pride in America, not love-of-ideals pride, as John McCain once famously put it. … And then there’s the Starship Trooper movie, which I happen to like, in a so-bad-it’s-good way. But have you ever read Robert Heinlein’s sci-fi book on which the movie is based? It’s a series of long political harangues surrounded by a thin sci-fi tale– and we’re talking hard-core militarist, right-wing harangues about the inferiority of democracies, etc.

Photo below of ICE recruitment ad via Samantha McGarry.