#that belief is exactly what the evil orgs of the franchise had played on to get away with institutional evil

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#it's so quaint to me that ppl think the accords mean all those countries will come to just and safe decisions#and that america won't just continue to be the bully in the room making everyone else do what they want#LOLOL just adorable!#and this insistence that steve represents what america is:#no. that's what you're ASSUMING cuz you saw the spangly colours on hs outfit & turned your brain off#what he ACTUALLY represents is telling america off when it does wrong by setting a better example#(ie. dismantling its intelligence apparatus because it's corrupt and fascistic)#steve is the most anti american imperialism but ppl are too dense to see through a costume#for them aesthetics = ethics#so whereas tony is the poster child for americans going abroad unsanctioned to blow shit up#(complete with cool rock soundtrack!!)#the fact that he wears band t-shirts means HE must be rebel right??#until the lemurian star steve's foreign missions are all above-board US sanction (none of this unilateral interventionism ppl hallucinate)#and then post-hydra are chasing after hydra... cleaning up america's imperialist mess#(which none of these self-identified responsible nations in the accords are bothering to do??)#also ppls arguments about the accords always conveniently ignore the ALIENS COMING OUT OF THE SKY#and the fact that we SAW what global decision-making looked like and it was a nuke dropping on manhattan#the whole of civil war's script is a fucking mess tbh via amarriagetrueminds

groovycrusadeperson:

Yes the guy called Captain America has political implications. He’s supposed to represent certain universal values and is deliberately and consistently set up in opposition to the United States of America which has always tried to claim some kind of monopoly over those values…

In Civil War, Steve’s the one claiming a monopoly over “certain universal values”. He’s the one making unilateral decisions to employ lethal force to uphold his understanding of those values. Joe Russo has explicitly called this a kind of imperalism. 

You may disagree on the semantics. But whatever you choose to call it, Steve’s unaccountable use of power to intervene with lethal force on foreign soil is explicitly intended to parallel the actions of unaccountable state superpowers.