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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Replying to @Nymphomachy
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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Replying to @IKacprzak @Nymphomachy
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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Frankly I think the USAF got completely duped or bet on the audience having no thematic understanding, because the Kree military plainly stands in for the USAF for most of the plot and is plainly bad (the real USAF only exists as dupes of the Kree, and as canonically sexist)
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The actual Air Force does absolutely nothing positive in this movie except put Carol in a position to get chosen by the Tesseract And they do that unwillingly and by accident The good guy of this movie was an alien spy who was outright conning and stealing from them
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It always weirds me out when leftists are like "this movie is MILITARY GIRL POWER, it's glorifying and covering up how the military bombs civilians" Actual movie, first scene, barely concealed villain: "ok military, here are several refugee camps. Wipe them out, no survivors"
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
I think neither certain leftists nor the Air Force could conceive of Disney actually making a film that was anti-military so they... Just don't notice
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