Never met any openly CIA personnel but Agent Ross seemed like a pretty evocative look at a certain archetype of intel person found all over the military-industrial complex but no less so at the CIA Smart, but not the right kind/level of smart to actually make the world betterhttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1302716654439157760 …
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Every intelligence institution is built atop the military-industrial complex, which is itself necessarily powered by a crude, volatile goulash of exploited marginalized social rejects and frothing, twisted American Imperalism True Believers (who are p much dangerous human orcs)
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You can't run any of these institutions without incorporating SOME enlisted or prior-enlisted-track personnel into your command structure. You can't have an agency made up of JUST the nifty crème de la crème guys with college degrees because most of those people go elsewhere
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So a guy like Agent Ross—who is, at his core, just an over-the-hill Air Force officer who got put out to pasture—is extremely realistic Because to be an officer, especially in the modern Air Force, you've gotta be the sensible adult in a room full of children (even as a pilot)
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As cool and secret-squirrel as Ross seems in the movie, the fact is that in this guy's past he's had to listen to one of his exhausted NCOs tell him the reason the aircraft failed inspections is because one of the maintainers was distraught over the death of his D&D character
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And all that NCO wants to do is hand out the necessary ass-kickings so that he can go home and gamble with some of the dipshits from Logistics But he's gotta stand there and get whipped by Ross who is probably at that point five to eight years younger than him
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Yep It's a very "eye of the storm" kind of thing I had my commander—an older, barrel-chested, kinda frat looking guy—casually ask me what my plans for the weekend were I replied "uh, probably Pokémon" And that guy's reaction was very Agent Rosshttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1302737208563191808 …
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Because you're the leader, right, and you're also approaching or in your forties You can't just show CONTEMPT for your airman, right, this is, to some extent, a child you've adopted, a foundling you've taken in But also this creature is a wretched and pathetic disgrace
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Worth noting that when we're first introduced to Agent Ross in Civil War his job appears to be the government liaison overseeing Sokovia Accords enforcement and riding herd on the Avengers Who are this exaggerated archetype of fucked up broken people with very important jobs
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It used to be Hawkeye's job to be Team Dad and try to keep everyone's personality conflicts in check for the sake of the mission Like his wife said in Age of Ultron
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"To see you fighting alongside these... heroes, these gods" "You're worried they don't need me?" "I'm worried that they do"
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