Walker shouldn't be trying to *deny* his privileged, officer experience as a soldier, he should be owning it, accepting his privileged status & better education and using it for good to help those w/o. It's a sort of false populism American conservative elites just fuckin' LOVE.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and
But his bosses want him to be a Steve They Can Control, and part of that whole mythos is that Steve was a Little Guy. He wasn't an elite with a true respect for the value of power and his obligations to the downtrodden. And Walker *should be*, but gets told he's a Little Guy.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @loudpenitent and
I think the guy making the speech introducing him is supposed to be the Secretary of Defense but for the new part they're keeping the current President and Cabinet mysteriously offscreen
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
Exactly. This is the Captain America that literally reports to the US Govt
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Replying to @mssilverstein @jmarquiso and
I think this is an in joke in the comics. Steve is allowed to conduct military operations at the level of a General at least. John probably retained his original rank.
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Well no, Steve's original job as Captain America was just a dog-and-pony show, but as part of that dog-and-pony show they did give him a legitimate field commission as a captain
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