WINTER SOLDIER'S weak 'critique' of the surveillance state is the same as most liberal Hollywood action movies: a few bad apples go rogue.
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Replying to @saladinahmed
WINTER SOLDIER's cheap fantasy: the horrible things our govt. is ACTUALLY DOING IN THE REAL WORLD are in fact the work of...SECRET NAZIS!
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Replying to @saladinahmed
@saladinahmed an allegorical reading is that post WWII the us govt low-key absorbed elements of nazism (rocket science, propaganda)1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @0alexander
@0alexander@saladinahmed Also Operation Paperclip really happened and we really did absorb actual secret Nazis1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect
@arthur_affect@0alexander Common knowledge we recruited Nazi scientists. But blaming past 70 years of US-fed horror on them is a cheap out.2 replies 1 retweet 6 likes -
Replying to @saladinahmed
@saladinahmed@0alexander Sure. But the only literal Nazi was the computer guy. A pawn, not a leader1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @arthur_affect
@arthur_affect@0alexander he's explicitly presented as the philosophical inspiration for the entire movement...3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @saladinahmed
@saladinahmed@0alexander In his human form in First Avenger he wasn't a leader either, he was the scraping flunky2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect
@saladinahmed@0alexander The inspirational leader of the Nazi version of HYDRA is Red Skull, who's dead1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect
@arthur_affect@saladinahmed@0alexander to me, Zola seemed more devoted to mad science and control-for-control's-sake than Nazi ideology5 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@blakestacey @saladinahmed @0alexander I mean it's a valid crit. The biggest prob is Natasha justifying the Avengers still existing
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