In the Captain America movie, the United States actually is actively at war, with an enemy who is unambiguously evil, and it is unambiguously the duty of everyone who can to participate in the US war effort to stop the Nazis, however flawed the Army may be
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KirifudaRed and
This is... totally a thing, this is exactly why the DoD's attempt at influencing media through gaming led to that huge wave of FPSes that took place in WWII, it was "the good war" where the full mobilization of the war machine gets celebrated culturally as purely heroic
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KirifudaRed and
Like, Steve Rogers specifically says he joined the Army because he "doesn't like bullies", and in the world of this movie everyone just knows that the Axis are the bullies and the Allies anti-bullies
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KirifudaRed and
Carol Danvers by contrast never once mentions the Persian Gulf War or the Kosovo intervention as something positive that she felt the desire to participate in She joined the Air Force because they had the cool planes, that's it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KirifudaRed and
She shows absolutely no disappointment or betrayal that Dr. Lawson was an agent of a foreign power (and an alien being) who didn't give two shits about the interests of the US government -- she almost seems to welcome the news
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Replying to @AlexJThomas @KirifudaRed and
It involves the actual Air Force as little as possible in order to get their funding -- at least to me, it came off as literally like having a movie where they eat at Burger King all the time just to get money from Burger King but otherwise Burger King plays no role in the plot
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexJThomas and
And maybe that's still going too far ethically Like if you think Burger King is an evil company and getting more people to eat there is fundamentally unacceptable then yeah sure it's still crossing the line But from my POV it was almost robbing the USAF
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexJThomas and
I mean, POV is one thing, the USAF having billions of dollars to waste in putting recruitment ads for a military - a very different entity to BURGER KING - is exactly a loss for them, but if it makes you personally feel better by speculating cost/benefit then go ahead I guess?
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Well, the most obvious comparison, Captain America: the First Avenger, does not have any USAF stuff at all (it takes place before its creation) but takes place completely within the US Army, which isn't actually any better
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexJThomas and
And, as I pointed out, is far, far more aggressive about saying that it was not only an acceptable but *required* moral choice for Steve to join the Army and that the US Army is an unambiguous force for good against evils that can't be stopped any other way
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