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 ~~antifascist~~ pretending 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.
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.