Why the movie is actually the same message as the book on accident and doesn't actually portray fascism.

Everyone says it. It's a satire on fascism! Look we made NPH look like SS and we made the soldiers in Wermacht gray! They are fascists!.

Here's the thing. What do they PHYSICALLY do in the movie that's fascist? Not what they look like.What do our charecters or the federation itself do?

One of the first parts of the movie is a Mormon colony that against federation warnings is killed by bugs. It doesn't say they were exiled, it doesn't say they were kicked out. It doesn't say any of that. They CHOSE to start a colony there and the federation said you really shouldn't but let them. Wtf kind of dictatorship is that where Mormons are allowed to exist? Sounds like religious freedom to me. Also the federation doesn't immedtialey declare war or anything. They are holding off invading the bugs.why?

Despite ricos parents not being citizens they seem to be pretty wealthy. This shows even if you never become a citizen you can still live a normal life and get rich. Where as a fascist society if you aren't a party member it's pretty much impossible to rise up.

Not only is becoming a citizen an option, but you can quit at any time. Think a nazi or wermacht soldier could have quit at any time? None of ricos friends or himself are forced to sign up. Every single one does willingly before the war even starts! The bugs are a thing but it's not a war. They join up during peace time.

We see at bootcamp not only is the federation racially diverse but also completley coed where everyone's in the exact same showers so racism and sexism is cleary not a thing in this society.

Then we have the asteroid scene which many say " well Cleary that's a false flag!" HOWEVER the movie doesn't say that, doesn't even hint at that. It's just writing from someone who had no idea how impossible launching asteroids at planets would be. (And they'd need to have sent it like a million years earlier lol) But sci-fi movies do that all the time Where yeah it's bulshit but in that universe it isn't. Without a single line or hint it was a false flag this is just a thing that can be done which means yes the bugs did attack first and the war is justified.

Finally the most telling part of the entire movie that they aren't actually fascist is after the first wave suffers horrific losses THE LEADER OF THE FEDERATION RESIGNS IMMEDTIALEY. Wtf kind of fascist leader does that? Our own leaders don't even do that!

Even if you go by JUST the movie they seem to be a more free society than the U.S