"The humans were the good guys in Starship Troopers" + "Israel good" = "Israel is like the humans in Starship Troopers"

Huh, turns out two wrongs do make a right.

Ask him if he remembers how Doogie Howser was dressed at the end of the movie.

ask him if he understand, really understands, why dougie houser shows up wearing a full nazi uniform at the end

Sounds like one of those guys whose takeaway from American Psycho was that being obsessed with business cards sure is cool

Torn between acceptance that the Buenos Aires attack was obviously a false flag and my hatred of the perfidious bug.

tell him service guarantees citizenship and convince him to fly over there

however, put a gps chip in his fucking shoe or something and provide HAMAS with his location data

Send him the Red Letter Media Re:View of the movie

They explain this in detail in a way even morons can digest

take him to the vet and euthanize him

If he's really gung-ho about Starship Troopers, and with the Israeli troop buildup, how exactly the first invasion of Klendathu went?

Why was Humanity's military intelligence at the time of invasion caught so flat-footed, both during the Buenos Ares asteroid and the first Klendathu invasion, especially in light of the Israeli intelligence failure?

Would he accept being a sacrifice to learn about the bugs? If he does not, then he's just a civilian and not a citizen. Does he disapprove? "Well too bad. [Politicians and the military] have to make decisions that send hundreds of people like you to their deaths."

And, finally, military recruitment is down in the US. Why not join up? "We have the ships. We have the weapons. We need soldiers! They'll keep fighting, will you? Service guarantees citizenship!"

cue Klendathu Drop

Tell him that the Buenos Aires attack was obviously a false flag operation by the humans to declare war on the bugs. Show him this map and ask him how a bunch of bugs who don't even have basic vehicles let along spaceships was able to propel a giant rock halfway across the galaxy to precisely fit a major city and not just miss the solar system altogether. Not-so-subtly insinuate that only the most clueless rubes would fall for this in-universe bullshit and that said clueless rubes who totally bought an in-universe narrative that's even implausible by WH40k standards are even more clueless about the complexity that is real life which does not benefit from a film director hitting said clueless rubes repeatedly over the head with the themes of the movie. Do all this in the most smug voice imaginable.

Start calling him Goebbels

Tell him it's not professional to talk about politics at work.

Then steal his spark plug wires on the way home.

There's no convincing homie at this point.

Really trying my brain of how to tell this moron to get stuffed without you losing your job.

if he called brown people the bugs it sounds like what you should tell him is "HR wants to talk to you"

Lol this is one of those "my red is your blue" moments, because I also think the vibe is reminiscent of Starship Troopers but guys like him will never understand why

"If you think the curtains are blue now, wait until you see which primary color they are when we're done with this conversation!"

I don't think it'll help this guy, but when more reasonable people talk about Starship Troopers I like to bring up Norman Spinrad's novel The Iron Dream. Its a meta fiction story in which an alternate history Adolph Hitler immigrated to America and became a science fiction illustrator and then author. He wrote the post-apocalyptic novel Lords of the Swastika where, to us anyway, the evil aliens are obviously just a stand in for jews and the freedom fighters are clearly nazis. It was hugely popular and people loved quoting it and wearing the uniforms at conventions.

Spinrad never comes out and says he's referencing Heinlein but its pretty clear that was the intent. I think this dude would benefit from reading it but he doesn't sound that self aware.

What he said was spoken in the break room; I was considering recording it if he repeats himself but I don't know if I want to get into some kind of legal slapfight (which I wouldn't necessarily win; administration isn't exactly comrades here) when I have a foot out the door.

Considering that I live in California, I could be pedantic and tell him that it is like he lived continents away from the Buenos Aires attack in the movie and was still screaming for blood as if he was personally aggrieved by the attack instead of just craving blood and waiting for a justification. That was my running idea.

free klendathu

recite the shahada to him

Tell him the director grew up in Nazi occupied Netherlands and that he has directly stated that everything in the movie is a parody meant to show that the humans are fascist bad guys, like I'm pretty sure it's on the DVD commentary

Tell him to eat a Glock? Idk