My advice to people is never to join the military, even when the country doesn't have a proudly white nationalist Commander-in-Chief, even if it's for a POG MOS, even if the nation's not at war, even if it's just to be a weekend warrior It will perpetually socially unmoor you
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Like yes there are a lot of very good leftist/intersectional appeals to not in the military and I endorse them all! But I don't think any such appeal will scare someone so straight as the simple fact that a dark day WILL come, when everyone they know is a service member or vet
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A day will come, when you are vulnerable, and broken, and in need of support, and *everyone* you can reach out to is a fucking hardass who takes pride in how much of a callous, pigheaded piece of shit they are. Because those are your people. Those are the clan you've joined
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And this world doesn't give you mulligans. Not really. You can reject those people, yeah. But you can't exchange them for anyone else. The window will have closed. You can have *these* fascist motherfuckers, or you can live a life of noble asceticism in the gutters of society.
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You know how superheroes, like Green Lantern are War Machine are ex-military? I always thought it would be interesting to have a military superhero that utterly hates the military that made them.
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The funny thing is Captain Marvel comes very close to straight up having this message but it gets kind of buried in the Girl Power thing it's mixed up with and disguised as
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Like look everyone brings up that final scene with Jude Law trying to berate her and get his hooks back into her and she just shuts him up by blasting him And they say it's about sexism, and patriarchy, and mansplaining And sure, it's about those things, but not ONLY those
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Like of course these are gendered roles Carol and Yon-Rogg are playing here but they're not *only* gendered It's not just patriarchy, it's *paternalism* It's how men treat women, but also how elders treat juniors, parents treat children, the elite treat the poor
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And it's *built into the military mindset*, and it would be just as relevant regardless of the genders of the NCO and the grunt here The whole idea of the military -- the basic theme of pro-military movies -- is that you, as you are, by yourself, are not good enough
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You have to be "broken down to be built back up" You need *discipline*, you need *training* You need to be integrated into a team, you need to learn to take orders and follow a chain of command You need to shave your head and wear a uniform and pass inspection every day
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Pro-military movies are about how this process is necessary, it's healthy, it's a painful but beautiful thing, it's how you fulfill your potential and become your true self and not the lazy slob you were Brie Larson shooting Jude Law in the face is a flat rejection of this
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"FUCK you I don't need to change a GODDAMN THING I'm fine EXACTLY the way I am, the sloppy emotional undisciplined way I do things is perfectly okay I'm better than fine, I'm better than okay, I'M BETTER THAN YOU I WAS BORN AWESOME"
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Heck, in the film we had already had the scene where it turns out she was always able to stand back up, and it was the (alien) military conditioning that held her back.
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