Yeah, I mean... they're both doing "My ideology justifies my personal ambitions," when it comes to it. Killmonger primarily cares about other Black people (and Wakanda ignoring them) insofar as they're projections of the same happening to HIM.
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Replying to @the_moviebob @arthur_affect and
One of the many ways the film signposts the fact that Killmonger is not a good guy is that he doesn't care about Wakanda at all. It's a means to an end to him, and despite claiming its throne he has no interest in protecting it. That's what the Nakia/Okoye argument is about.
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Replying to @NussbaumAbigail @the_moviebob and
He only even calls it the "Wakandan Empire" out of convenience, it's obviously really going to be a clean-slate situation where he builds a new civilization from scratch, the Empire of N'Jadaku -- really, to give it its most honest name, the Killmonger Empire
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NussbaumAbigail and
And honestly, yeah, that is more than a little resonant for real-life revolutionaries who ended up torching the civilizations they claimed to be liberating (sorry tankies)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NussbaumAbigail and
You're invoking real world parallels while arguing that CIA intervention in an election process doesn't count because technically he only shot down some planes.
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Replying to @SnowmanMcK @NussbaumAbigail and
It's not "CIA intervention", he makes no effort to contact his superiors at any point, he's straight up taking orders from T'Challa and Shuri
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NussbaumAbigail and
That doesn't make it not CIA intervention.
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Replying to @SnowmanMcK @arthur_affect and
Like, you are aware that the CIA typically uses bullshit euphemisms like 'observers' and 'advisers' to describe the people they send in to coup non sympathetic leaders?
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Replying to @SnowmanMcK @NussbaumAbigail and
Yeah so how is Killmonger not the CIA intervention
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NussbaumAbigail and
because his actions aren't in service of the status quo and global US hegemony, while Ross' are.
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The Killmonger coup is a coup to overthrow the existing Wakandan government and erase its constitutional order and install a ruler who is a US citizen and military officer, who explicitly intends to rule based on Western principles
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NussbaumAbigail and
holy shit lol. He's arming oppressed black people and upending the current status quo. Do you think the US is a beneficiary of the current status quo? If not, show your working.
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Replying to @SnowmanMcK @NussbaumAbigail and
I'm using your same logic that the fact that someone is a CIA employee means they "are the CIA" for all intents and purposes, which is ridiculous
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