I have so much to say about Falcon and Winter Soldier lol

Surface level I'm enjoying it, it's an MCU product, it's fine

What bothers me though, and this goes for a lot of Marvel stuff, is the way it tries to get brownie points for being critical of unfair systems while also declaring those systems are also Permanent Truths

In general, it really really bothers me that in all the MCU stuff leading up to Thanos and now post-Thanos in WandaVision and now FatWS, the Good Guys have never once made a strong, accurate case that Thanos was WRONG

Thanos' whole deal was that there wasn't enough to go around. That overpopulation & limited resources are a Universal Truth, and only he was brave enough to do something about it and "solve the problem" in the fairest way possible, indiscriminately cutting the population in half

And while the Avengers and the rest of the Good Guys were horrified by how cold and ruthless his solution was, never once, that I can recall (correct me if I'm wrong) has the franchise countered his core claim. Because we are NOT overpopulated and there IS enough to go around

So now in FatWS we have the Flag Smashers, these catch-all terrorists-with-hearts-of-gold who are the standin for the very concept of refugees/immigrants, who thanks to the Thanos Snap were given Work and Shelter and Purpose that they didn't have before it happened

And now that all the people are back, they're back to being displaced, society is back to square one with the supposed limited places and jobs and food and medicine and gee golly gosh that's just how things are dontcha know

It's really really bothering me that basically the entire premise of the post-Thanos MCU is that Thanos was actually right, but he just went about addressing this "problem" the wrong way. "Thanos was right" is basically a meme if you know what shitty places to look in

There are enough empty houses in the US to house all the homeless. There is enough money sitting around in rich people's bank accounts hiding from taxation to solve poverty. Inequality, greed, is a choice, it is not some kind of ugly truth that the adults in the room can see.

Sam experiences it too in the first episode when he's denied a bank loan. The excuse the bank guy gives him is that "now that all the people are back there just isn't enough to go around, times are tight you see" and it just feels like a really shitty excuse

I'm glad that the show is touching on the racial element of the discrimination, but the underlying assumption that there truly *isn't* enough to go around is just such fucking capitalist bullshit and the MCU is basically reinforcing the idea