It is… if you don’t have the time or energy to do all that fact-checking because you have to work yourself to the bone just to afford rent.

Yes. An unpaid one.

If you bought a Tesla you are not “progressive” in any way whatsoever.

They say “anyone can become president”,

Anyone that believes that probably also believes that a glass slipper can magically turn you into royalty.

There is no such thing as “blind” justice. What they mean with “blind justice” isn’t justice at all, but rather a blind application of and obedience to law - which liberalism have always (and utterly falsely) conflated with “justice.”

It’s an ideal in that people should be working towards taking control of the state apparatus

People are ALREADY in control of the state apparatus. What we have is, by now, the very predictable result.

The american legal system isn’t about justice

None of them are. They are all about maintaning the status quo and nothing else.

It’s an unreachable ideal to be continuously worked towards.

No it isn’t. It’s a pretense that the class who controls the violent apparatus of the state is impartial. It’s propaganda and nothing else.

That’s the ideal, it’s supposed to be aspirational.

It was never an ideal. It was little more than a marketing gimmick.

Oh look… a white supremacist desperately trying to “whatabout” more than a hundred years of US terrorism.

It’s a phrase that could only have been invented in the USA. So yeah… pretty damn terrifying.

A piece of canvas with some pigment on it isn’t valuable just because a bunch of rich people and their scummy “art dealers” says it is.

I think protesters have a lot more avenue’s to gain attention AND actually target something related to climate change.

You mean… apart from targeting the stuff capitalists put a lot of monetary value on? You know… the same capitalist parasites that caused climate change?

But as someone who deeply appreciates art

Fuck art.

That is one hell of an incoherent logical leap.

places a set value on something that many see as sacred; something that shouldn’t have monetary value.

I’d say it’s the other way around - because it’s labor that is (mostly) being performed by women (or stigmatized as something “only women do”) it’s considered to be of no value whatsoever. How many women do you know that performs work such as housekeeping, child-rearing and/or marital sex essentially at own cost because this type of labor carries no monetary exchange value in our society?

I’d say sex work falls into that category - but it gets stigmatized because sex work can actually allow women to escape such labor and not be locked into literally playing housewife to the capitalist mode of production (ie, wiping a company man’s arrse so that he can concentrate on making capitalists richer).

And if people are just having sex with a fun of it then it’s not sex work either,

No, labor stays labor no matter the reason it is performed - people perform labor when they doodle or blow their noses… it doesn’t stop being labor just because they’re not doing it in exchange for something tangible.

With sex it is the same - nobody engages in it for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

Probably.

It’s not there yet… but it’s making progress.

Uhhh… nope. The term “slut” has never been considered acceptable in any way or shape where I come from.

And if you are dumb enough to use the term “bukkake” to any health worker in any setting they’d either think you mad or call security on you… and rightfully so.

I would like you to explain how Captain America and Superman are reactionary.

I mean… c’mon. Captain America is low-hanging fruit - the correlation between Captain America and actual US behavior in the world essentially writes itself.

Superman is a far more sophisticated representation of US-style liberalism - but, just like liberalism itself, that doesn’t make Super Cheese any less of a reactionary.

However… we can talk about the individual politics of these characters all day long - and we’d be missing the entire point of the metaphor in it’s entirety.

The problem with the “super hero” genre is not the individual politics of the characters concerned - it’s with how they normalize and justify the concentration of power in the hands of these exalted individuals.

In other words - the problem is fundamental.

He doesn’t understand the core themes of superheroes,

I think he understand them perfectly, because…

Zack Snyder is an Objectivist