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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Oct 2014
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      10. HYDRA created in 1965 at post-Cuban Missile Crisis part of Cold War when there was increasing reluctance to have Soviet villains.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Oct 2014
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      11. Like SPECTRE in James Bond books, HYDRA had advantage of being amorphous global terrorist group, a site of free-floating anxiety

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Oct 2014
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      12. Another advantage of HYDRA is that helps engineer ret-com narratives to unify Capt. America's checkered career.

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Oct 2014
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      13. With HYDRA older Capt. America stories can be recast to show he's always been fighting the same enemy.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Oct 2014
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      14. Interesting thing with Winter Solider is the eternal enemy HYDRA encompasses not just Nazis & USSR but also military industrial complex.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Oct 2014
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      15. Winter Solider specifically mentions real-life "Paperclip" program whereby CIA recruited Nazi scientists. That's how HYDRA survived.

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Oct 2014
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      16. The ultimate effect of HYDRA is to more Captain America from history and push narrative into Gnostic mythology.

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Oct 2014
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      17. In universe of Capt. America, there's eternal war between the hidden forces of darkness and the (often equally hidden) children of light

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Oct 2014
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      18. Maybe I betray my bias and training as a historian, but this glib move from history to myth is troubling.

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Oct 2014
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      19. As I said, in terms of first movie, Nazis aren't ultimate evil but just pawns of the true bad guys, HYDRA.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Oct 2014

      20. So violence & criminality conducted in War on Terror not traceable to American democracy but due to insidious infiltration of HYDRA

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 Oct 2014
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          21. Message of Winter Soldier: if we can just get rid of HYDRA, military-industrial complex (Fury, Captain America) can be trusted again

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        3. Jennifer Udden‏ @suddenlyjen 18 Oct 2014
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          @HeerJeet this is so fascinating- I love that movie and hadn't considered this angle before.

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        1. Sean T. Collins‏Verified account @theseantcollins 18 Oct 2014
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          @HeerJeet This also happens on Homeland now. Wedding party blown up due to bad intel fed by duplicitous source on the other side.

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        1. whatsupp‏ @E_B___ 18 Oct 2014
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          @HeerJeet that kind of conspiracy theory - crafting helps some sleep a little better at night.

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        1. M. Kei (he/him) WEAR A MASK‏ @kujakupoet 18 Oct 2014
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          @HeerJeet It's simple. If there is somebody else to blame, it's not your fault and you don't have to change what you're doing.

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        1. Mike Healey‏ @Panglossus 18 Oct 2014
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          @HeerJeet So much easier to blame external enemy than confront laziness + apathy of ourselves, the enablers. #Pogo

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        1. Dan‏ @Nimzowiccan 18 Oct 2014
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          @heerjeet This is frequent across the Marvel movies. It's never a bad system, only ever One (or more, sometimes) Bad Apple.

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        1. Dan‏ @Nimzowiccan 18 Oct 2014
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          @heerjeet The Iron Mans are especially egregious with this, where if you get rid of the Bad Apples then weapons dealing is good and just.

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        1. Cameron Hilton‏ @cameron_hilton 18 Oct 2014
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          @HeerJeet I think this undersells the critique in play. US national security apparatus is literally run by Nazis.

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