“Conservatives” are liberals, Clyde - they’re simply liberals that are further along the “lib-to-fash-pipeline” than you are.

So no… you didn’t fix squat.

Go ahead, liberal… block me.

That won’t change the fact that the liberal fairy tales you’ve been feeding yourself is coming apart at the seams.

Do you think zombies imply racism?

Lol! I guess you haven’t realized why the majority of protagonists in the “zombie apocalypse” genre are always paragons of middle-class WASP-ness?

As for tribals; surprise!

Sure, Clyde… I guess the reservations exist purely because their inhabitants like the view, correct?

The narrative structuring around ghouls generally paints them as being unjustly denigrated… but still an undeniable “other” that diverges from the “norm” (ie, whiteness) - exactly the way liberal ideology has always excused white supremacism.

FTFY.

Oh look… a liberal that refuses to see white supremacism when it’s literally on a screen a few inches from their face.

Yawn.

Wo did you think the (so-called) “ghouls” really are a stand-in for? Who did you think the (so-called) “tribals” are a stand-in for?

The Fallout series. The worldbuilding is so sloppy and lazy that it grates pretty much from the get-go… and that’s without even mentioning the white supremacist subtext it’s all drenched in.

Capitalists serve customers hoard wealth through reckless profiteering irregardless of the costs to the rest of human society and do not operate in a vacuum.

FTFY. I do agree with your last part, though. The political racketeer establishments that enable them and the fascist security institutions that protect them are equally as culpable as they are.

But they are not the ones causing climate change

The owners of google are capitalists. They are as responsible for climate change as any other capitalist.

Are we talking about the Taliban that ruled over a country that was invaded by the US simply because they were “looking for some guy” (a guy the Taliban actually offered to deliver to them beforehand) that they eventually found in Pakistan? The Taliban that also made the US run out of Afghanistan with their tails between their legs after leaving a cardboard cutout of a military there to fix the mess that the US caused?

That Taliban?

Yeah… I can see why USians would be so upset about that.

a very valuable window of opportunity…

Because that turned out so well during the Cold War.

…or it’s just that requiring co-operative society for our survival wired us to pick up on very subtle facial and figurative signals and signs when it comes to human behavior and anything “off” about it sticks out like a sore and creepy thumb.

The wealthy have been quietly waging class war on the rest of us for decades centuries.

FTFY.

The issue is military and police tend to side with fascists,

While police will always side with fascists - it’s a purely fascist institution, after all - there is some caveats when it comes to the military, and, surprisingly, the prospects of the US military simply joining with fascists does not look promising for them. The problem is that the military-industrial complex has it’s bread buttered on both sides by the liberal status quo - it simply has nothing to gain from a fascist regime in any way whatsoever.

The bad news is, of course, is that they might not actually need the military if they just plan on doing it through lawfare as they are currently doing it.

Something tells me Welsh politics is going to get a lot more dog whistle-ey.

Maoist rocket says, “Fuck your imperialist and capitalist clamps” and commits revolutionary suicide.

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

It’s all liberal media, Clyde.

Liberalism is the status quo… that’s the media you’ve been watching all this time, and that includes all the (so-called) “conservative” media, too.

but student terrorist movements were largely left behind in the 70s

The left has never left the use of force in the past - it is as available to us today, and as thoroughly justified, as it was in the 70’s… 1570s, 1870s or 2070s.

The willingness to use force doesn’t distinguish between a left and a (supposed) “far left” - the left is not a mirror of the right, and there is no leftist equivalent to a far right (which is purely distinguished by it’s proximity to, willingness to control and/or operate the state machinery of violence).

It’s not about spots on a silly “political compass” infographic and never has been.

By American standards, the Stop Cop City people are a ‘far left’ group;

That’s not “far left.” That’s just plain old bog-standard left - whether in the US or anywhere else.

action against Stop Cop City has been pretty brutal.

Again… just common-or-garden variety treatment the left has always received from the forces of the status quo - nothing “far left” about it.

There’s no such thing as a “far left” - and it’s critical that we push back on these kinds of propagandistic framing devices liberals love to use to demonize the left and provide cover for the right. I don’t think leftists realize how powerful and dangerous this basic type of propaganda can be.

If Batman was real today, he’d be Donald Trump.

That’s what these (alleged) “super heroes” really are… idealized, ubermensch-esque metaphors for the actual power wielded by the rich and privileged.

In fact, I’d say that Batman is the ultimate Objectivist wet dream - he perfectly personifies the fascist (as Batman) and the capitalist (as Bruce Wayne) in one person. Even Ayn Rand’s creepazoid ancap sugar-daddy “heroes” didn’t manage that.