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Now that is a Marvel movie I'd watch (infosec.pub)
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The USA lost the Vietnam War

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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 37 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Captain America every time the USA starts a new fucking war under barking-mad bigots:

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 28 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Bonus:

[–] JetpackJackson@feddit.org 4 points 34 minutes ago (1 children)

Fucking based

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 minutes ago* (last edited 19 minutes ago)

And it's SO, SO much worse now. Which Marvel superheroes would stand against the current US government if they existed in the real world, I wonder? I'd like to think most of them would.

[–] U7826391786239@piefed.zip 18 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

captain taliban?

captain measles?

captain hormuz?

[–] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Captain strict diet?

[–] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 11 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Captain metric system?

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Captain World Map?

[–] Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 hour ago

Captain Covid has a nice ring to it

[–] iamericandre@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago

Captain drugs

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 34 minutes ago

Even when the war happened before I was born it doesn't feel like "history" to me. Maybe because of all the movies that revolve around it.

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 hours ago

Captain Taliban too

[–] pomfegranate@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

Captain Vietnam aka Anh Hung