"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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The idea that her powers are a result of training and discipline and it's something the military "invested" in her and she owes them service in return for that gift? A fucking lie "I could ALWAYS do this I was ALWAYS awesome It's my fucking BLOOD, it's MY BIRTHRIGHT"
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"My power is MINE, it's PART OF ME, and I can use it or not use it ANY FUCKING WAY I WANT I don't owe anyone jack shit, I don't have to be loyal to any-fucking-one but myself and my own conscience Anyone who doesn't like it can eat a faceful of plasma"
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This is, of course, not a wholly unproblematic message In fact it's the core thing Ayn Rand was about But, after all, themes are about overall emotional feelings, not developed political platforms That teenage anti-authority rage? Those teenagers DO HAVE A POINT
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"In fact it's the core thing Ayn Rand was about" Well except that Carol was largely using her powers for others, not self interest. So it's more following the Spider-Man way.
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Spider-Man started as an Objectivist, Steve Ditko was a hardcore Randite
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ErrantNerd and
And even though Ditko's politics were shit, I still think he did have a point there The military teaches you that even to *have a sense of right and wrong* is something they need to beat into you That civilians are all selfish bastards, the military teaches you honor and duty
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Only through the experience of war can you learn true courage, true loyalty and friendship, true sacrifice and altruism, etc. etc. It's all BS As an institution and as individuals they're as selfish motherfuckers as anybody else
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ErrantNerd and
As important a part of Carol's apotheosis as "I was MORE powerful before you conscripted me, I was MORE knowledgeable before your brainwashing made me ignorant" is "I was a BETTER PERSON before I joined your army"
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"When I stumbled into your hands as an amnesiac nobody I already knew more about right and wrong than your whole shitty corrupt civilization Everything you've tried to teach me, all that spirituality and wisdom, has been one giant fucking lie to justify the unjustifiable"
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"You know who the worst fascist in this fucking fascist institution is? Is the chaplain That time spent in communion and prayer with the Supreme Intelligence was never meant to hone my sense of virtue but to overwhelm and suppress it I didn't need to learn anything from you"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ErrantNerd and
"Those childish, immature, ignorant temper tantrums you tried to train me out of? WERE THE TRUTH When I expressed my naive, petulant, bratty half-cocked opinion that this war felt bad and should just stop? I WAS ALWAYS FUCKING RIGHT"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ErrantNerd and
Yon-Rogg is the scolding centrist liberal yelling at an antifa teenager "There's a whole system here, a tradition, a community and civilization, a continuity going back for generations, a consensus based on due process that underlies our whole identity as a people"
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