https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1389405692885352448

Putting aside that Jason Bourne is fictional, this false display of manliness reminds me of how my dad always said he couldn't take the Bourne movies seriously because Matt Damon looks like an honour roll student.

Also, the CIA was never scary because the individual agents are badasses, the individual agents have always been Ivy league educated preppy rich kids, who weren't the ones that would inherit their parents' companies. Like the CIA is scary for its institutional power, not because all the guys played rugby at Princeton for one semester. As dumb as that ad was, that Latina woman could probably take on most CIA employees from the 1970s in a fight. Like guaranteed most CIA employees have never physically overpowered a person they didn't drug.

  • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    I thought it was the State Department, or was that just in the books/am I conflating him with a different book from the same author?

    All I clearly remember from the books is that he was a polyglot academic who joined a US military death squad in Vietnam after his Vietnamese family was slaughtered by an unidentified plane (implied to be American), and then somehow wound up as a test subject for US intelligence mind control or some shit until they confused him with someone else from the death squad and tried to kill him, only for them to get a redemption arc in the end and become his handlers again?

    In retrospect it's not a very coherent or morally consistent plot, but considering it came from the same author that wrote "wot if a US congressman did blackface to defuse the Iran Embassy Hostage Crisis?" and "wot if China did a false flag on Hong Kong to justify invading Taiwan somehow?" (that was another Jason Bourne book), that's not very surprising.