This is where your mover / thief comparison breaks down. Their intent is part of it, but your consent is more important. What sets them apart is that the mover was explicitly granted consent first. Recall should be opt-in only, always and forever, but MS describe it as opt-out.

I’ll argue with you and with them, you see if I don’t.

(I am genuinely boggled by how many people are basically going ‘everyone is too thick to get it except me and my clique’)

There’s some odd thinking here. ‘Wilful’, ‘perilously’, etc. The film isn’t going to make anyone fascist who wasn’t previously; nor does it support anyone trying to make it a fascist rallying cry. It’s a spotter’s guide to fascist bullshit.

It feels like there’s an odd imperative at play here to collapse all satire into success or failure based on how ridiculous the fascists in it look. But Starship Troopers is saying ‘the cruelty is the point’, long before that became MAGA credo. It spears fascism perfectly.

What is ‘a wilful perspective’ in this context?