Holy shit, but crypto-fascists are coming out of the woodwork to defend their right-wing, Objectivist power fantasies.
If you are so desperate to cling onto your favorite capitalist-parasite-by-day, fascist-vigilante-at-night wish-fulfillment fantasy who am I to stop you?
Often they’re upset about how things are and feel like killing a bunch of people will change things.
Just like Batman, eh?
In real life wanting change isn’t bad. But using violence
So as long as your desire for change doesn't actually threaten the people at the top, it's all okay?
That is literally what the people creating this kind of propaganda wants you to believe.
Are you sure you’re not being reactionary?
Yes.
It’s attacking the people that watch these movies…
No, it doesn't. It literally just demonstrates how we are swamped by this pro-status quo propaganda. That is most definitely not what an "elitist anti-working class" narrative looks like at all. If you want to see what an "elitist anti-working class" narrative looks like, go watch any Batman movie.
Yes it is, despite all the nay-sayers on here. The super-creep genre has always been reactionary and protective of the status quo.
That’s the joke/point in many comics and comic book movies, too.
No, it isn't.
What the cartoonist is very accurately depicting is the super-creep genre's typical practice of painting subversive ideas as inherently dangerous.
Well intentioned extremist
Funny, that's how people who want change is portrayed by liberal media in real life, too.
I wonder if it's a coincidence?
The United States and the UK successfully blocked attempts to outlaw all use of incendiary weapons
That's because incendiary weapons are great for exterminating villages full of poor people in the colonized world - ie, the kind of wars the US and UK prefer to wage.
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