you can argue with people on here who don't think the marvel movies are us military propaganda. you can log onto tumblr and debate people who think CAPTAIN AMERICA is a neutral action film where a poor catholic kid in 20th century america wants to be in the army soo bad but he doesn't meet the physical standards so he undergoes a top secret experiment to make him a "super soldier" who becomes a propaganda piece for the us military (like them carting him around and displaying him for the masses to build patriotism and boost morale is a plot point in the first movie) and fights the nazi enemy (no mention of their actual atrocities, it's because they experimented on american soldiers. yes the americans did that too) & then gets out of the ice and immediately starts working for what is essentially the cia. they think the iron man movie where tech genius billionaire (!) tony stark is kidnapped by a terrorist group (led by a man with an islamic name, dresses like a middle eastern resistance group) while demonstrating THE MISSILE HE BUILT FOR THE US MILITARY who after escaping ceases his weapons production because he was kidnapped & his friend died, not because he was BUILDING MISSILES to MURDER THE US' FOREIGN ENEMIES. even putting the contents of the movies aside, people will straightfaced say the franchise that pentagon reviews the scripts of to ensure "unfavourable portrayals of the us military are avoided", the franchise that collaborates with the us department of defense, the franchise that is allowed access to american military bases in exchange for writing about the army in a positive light, is a neutral one with no suspicious political motivation. like omg these movies said americans = good, non-americans = bad, west asians & russians = not people, and supposed politically educated tumblr users EAT IT UP. maybe jf you could engage with a film's themes beyond drawing two white guys kissing but... alas