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
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 @arthur_affect and
Saying 'wow this is what really was happening!' instead of 'maybe carol should have worked for nasa, this is a part where the movie fails' is amazing for folks who don't want to criticse it's use as a military recruitment tool.
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No that's what I'm saying, realistically Carol could not have worked for NASA unless she went through pilot training in the Navy or Air Force first, and it's quite likely if her goal was to be an astronaut with NASA she would join the Air Force for that reason
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KirifudaRed and
Actually. I think this was a plot point in AoS season five. There was a woman who was trying to get like Carol and got exposed to Hydra instead. So you may be right about your thesis.
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