• zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      4 years ago

      Because they’re fucking bootlickers.

      It's Capeshit. They're all bootlickers.

      Falcon was an antifaschist in other Cap stories, and he was great there.

      Falcon was just another guy fighting Red Skull, a character that very deliberately existed to blur the line between Nazis and Communists as a generic "Foreign Man Bad".

      Multiracial neoliberal hegemony is not an admirable goal because neoliberal hegemony is not an admirable goal.

      Falcon is the personification of the old 👏 More 👏 POC 👏 Drone 👏 Operators 👏 meme. He's neoliberal now. He's been neoliberal for over two decades. And his introduction as New Captain America was explicitly about Owning The Chuds in a way that granted a pass to American imperialism while pretending at Antifacism.

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          4 years ago

          Also I was talking about the comics.

          The comics and the movies have been echoing one another for decades. "Marvel Unlimited" was explicitly created to facilitate this.

          Red Skull definitely sounds like a “communazi” name, but everything about his portrayal is fascist.

          https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Albert_Malik_(Earth-616)

            • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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              4 years ago

              In an issue that comes out at the tail end of the Cold War.

              Weird how we have a Soviet Red Skull character from roughly the beginning of the Cold War to its end.

                • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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                  4 years ago

                  The two Skulls

                  They made a second Soviet Skull and ran it for thirty five years during the thick of the Cold War.

                  This Malik guy is written like an afterthought.

                  A thirty five year long afterthought.

                  There are franchises with shorter print runs.

    • maxwellhill [doe/deer]
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      4 years ago

      I would rather have the people ruling us look like me TBH. At least then I would have preferential treatment that white people do.