It's not fun in 2024 because, thanks to the internet, we now have mountains of evidence at our fingertips to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt what they really are and always have been - ie, what the leftists have been trying to tell us since forever.
I generally agree with your post, but I'd say one correction is in order here.
Remember Stan Lee was in the military when it was
antifascistpretending to be antifascist in order to wage war on colonialist rivals.
The US military has never been antifascist.
gives an escape to readers to fantasize about themselves as the hero?
Your "escapist" fantasy is to be rich, dress up in tacticool BDSM-gear and be allowed to beat up working class people?
Yes, comic books are propaganda, and the super-creep variety has always had the smell of Objectivism to it.
It's certainly worked on you.
and Batman is a fascist by then.
I'd say that Batman is fundamentally fascist. He wages war on the working class so that crime can be preserved as an activity reserved for the class Bruce Wayne represents - the capitalist one.
They won't.
It's like MLK said - the white liberal will always prefer "a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice."
That's the whole reason they didn't bat an eyelid when Neo-Nazis and KKK-boys were marching under open police protection back in 2016 but collectively lost their shit when antifa showed up to physically confront them.
Are people ready to admit that characters like Tony Stark and Bruce Wayne has always served to propagandize the idea of "genius millionaire/billlionaire" capitalists despite the fact that no such thing has ever existed in reality?
And that this propaganda is partly the reason why parasitic fraudster racketeers like Musk, Gates and Bezos gets to get away with their gargantuan crimes against humanity?
No?
Oh, so it turns out that "genius billionaires" only exist in comic books?
Nobody could have seen that one coming!
The people who are willing to recognize it for what it is have already done so.
Shrapnel-creating explosives is used for open ground. In closed-in terrain, blast explosives is always going to be more effective. That's why the infamous "potato masher" grenade of the Germans was blast-only - it's far more effective at killing people inside trenches and bunkers. The US used the WW1-vintage Mk.3 grenade for that same purpose up until very recently.
It can happen, but not at the rate you see in movies. Explosions in real life is far, far more brutal than they are in the movies. Blast waves can liqefy bone - something the writers of zombie media never seem to understand.
Fair enough, but they can expect nothing but rapidly dimunishing returns with this kind of chicanery.
The South African regime slamming the window down on Biden's (and it's collaborator elements in South Africa) fingers at the ICJ was essentially payback for the psyop the US tried to run here back in 2022 with the whole "Lady R" thing.
I do not agree that this will all lead "to a society where it is increasingly difficult to ascertain truth from fiction and muddling the geopolitical sphere.”
I'd say it's going to do the exact opposite, ie leading to a society that is more clued up about the shitfuckery of governments that is unprecedented in history.
I don’t like agreeing with the Iranian government.
I don't like agreeing with Hamas, either. But if the rest of the world isn't interested in lifting a finger against this genocidal excuse for a state, I guess that's just the way it's going to have to be.
The international court of justice
We don't need a pack of overpaid bureucrats with fancy titles to tell us whether a genocide is occuring or not. It's a fucking genocide. Plain and simple.
Nah, I don't really think I want to play a Nazi simulator. Besides, there's already something akin to that out there. It's Call Of Duty.
Oh, it's going to stick to you and every other liberal. And we'll be here to make sure you never forget it.
Zionism has antisemitic roots. So I guess we shouldn't be surprised.
where you play the bad guys
So we get to play as HP Lovecraft?
was also a lot cheaper
That's what they told me when I was a kid - and now I live in a country where 20% of the population can't even afford milk. So I have to ask - cheaper for whom?
been due to plastic subsidies or something equally evil
Don't know, but it sure did allow the big supermarket chains to monopolize the dairy supply business.
How is your genocide coming along?
Three billionaires are dominating the political party funding scene in South Africa. Top political parties in the country have all been given money by the same three people. Patrice Motsepe, Martin Moshal, and the Oppenheimer Family are the top donors. South Africa's top political parties may d...
Spoiler alert - it was Israel. But you knew that already, didn't you?
The Government™ has made an ad about the existential threat that AI poses to humanity, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative
A shocking new video has emerged of a Democratic Alliance Member of Parliament appearing to spew hate speech.
A shocking new video has emerged of a Democratic Alliance Member of Parliament Renaldo Gouws appearing to spew hate speech.
edit: Holy shit... Lemmy needs to fix their mark-up when it comes to titles - it almost literally looked like it was actively trying to spell out the k-word.
Will the general election on 29 May 2024 be 'historic'?
A recently released document from the FBI indicates anti-fascists are as violent as those who would overthrow the U.S. government
A recently released Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) document titled “Domestic Terrorism Symbols Guide”* links common protest symbols to “terrorism” — another marker in a common theme of conflating militant protest for social justice with deadly terrorist violence within the United States. Groups like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Brennan Center have raised warnings about such documents, citing inadequate protections for people’s constitutional rights.
X the Wixard's response to a video by Morning Shot, where they suggest that South Africa should break apart.
Here’s a laundry list of the kinds of places Israel has bombed over the last decade - just to put the recent tidal wave of propaganda efforts in regards to Israel's actions into perspective.