Listen up apes, it's time for professor BriBri's literature class.
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That "there's barely any world building" absolutely slays me. I think this must be what doing all your "reading" through audiobooks does to you, Wu is completely incapable of noticing anything in a text that isn't bluntly hammered home in the most obvious way possible.
One scene that always sticks with me from Starship Troopers is where the Juan and co. have a liberty and they go to Seattle where they're jumped by some merchant marines, who are civilians and sore about it. The civilians get the shit kicked out of them and are unconscious and bleeding on the pavement when the police arrive. The police then encourage the strangers in uniform who have just beaten up half a dozen locals to press charges without any investigation and it is hinted that a civilian assaulting a citizen is a more serious class of crime than a common assault. No world building indeed.
Starship Troopers does very much describe a fascist society, one so over the top that it has inspired a debate as to whether it's a work of satire rather than just a polemic by an old and crotchety author who was mad at the kids on his lawn.
Wu is an idiot who can't read but, hey, at least she's learned how to spell Heinlein at last.