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
They could have in fact involved the USAF in a way that actually said something positive about the USAF's "mission" and they never ever did Carol is purely a test pilot for Dr. Lawson's weird alien shit She never flies a rescue plane to save heroic soldiers from Baghdad etc.
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexJThomas and
You know what It was Dr. Lawson's alien pilot shit. So are we saying Carol worked...for...NASA? Without actually saying that. Cuz that would def work in the MCU.
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Replying to @twofingers87 @AlexJThomas and
The traditional way to become an astronaut through the "pilot track" (which was really the only track in the good ol' days before the Space Shuttle) was through the military, as an Air Force or Navy test pilot NASA itself is civilian but the pilots all came from the military
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Replying to @arthur_affect @twofingers87 and
This is an awkward fact for space geeks but the space program has always been joined at the hip with the military-industrial complex If your goal in life specifically is to be an astronaut your best bet to this day is still military service
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Replying to @arthur_affect @twofingers87 and
And a lot of people, like Carol, joined for that reason -- "They're the ones who have the planes" (Neil Armstrong famously said something similar)
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I'm not saying it's a morally defensible choice and that you're not materially advancing US imperialism by doing so But Carol's attitude is absolutely realistic and reflects a very common character type *Especially* a woman in the '80s knowing she couldn't fly in actual combat
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