• ProfessionalSlacker
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      3 years ago

      It is, but I'd argue that the movie directly refutes that point. Once they have a clearer idea of who's Hydra and who's Shield, Nick Fury is laying out a plan about how to salvage the system and Captain America stares him down, makes the point that they were only able to infiltrate because the system is rotten to the core, and says "it all goes." Sure, it's not like they have him blowing up the Pentagon, they play it a bit more coy by using Shield as a stand-in for the MIC so they don't alienate the general public, but it directly shoots down the idea that the machinery of empire just needs to be put in more delicate hands.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      3 years ago

      If you can call half of SHIELD, which is a stand in for the entire alphabet soup, being avowed literal Nazis "bad apples"

    • ProfessorAdonisCnut [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Infiltrated, but only in the sense that it was a result of doing paperclip and letting the explicit nazi ideology intermingle with the power structure of a budding MIC and intelligence agency