I’m confused about baseball, basketball, and computers. Also not sure about coffee vs soda.
They seem to understand republicans far more than democracts, other than what they call the party.
For those interested in the etymology of the party names at the top:
The democrat side uses the characters “the people”, “lord”, and “party”. My interpretation is “the people are in charge party”, which makes sense because democracy is “the rule of the people”.
The republican side uses the characters “share”, “peace”, and “party”. To me, this one doesn’t have an interpretation that obviously links to republicanism.
Yeah, no. Republicans and sharing are two words that won’t fit into the same sentence
Share what you have and make Peace with The Party. 🫵
I like that they think the business professionals just spend the day eating KFC in their pickup truck while listening to Morgan Wallen.
Although the catcher with a handgun is somewhat correct.
Looks like the batter got hit in the balls…
Very accurate.
Yeah you can just slide CNN over in that other column now.
And Apple
And the Tesla
And take the NYT there too
And every other media outlet
Yep move all the mainstream media out of that left column.
besides the point it’s weird how I recognize seeing this Image before AI, but I still did a double check.
They forgot the fascism and guns on the red side. Maybe they are all inside the church.
As Jesus intended
* Jesus in this comment is American Jesus only. Any resemblance to other incarnations of Jesus are entirely coincidental and should not be inferred.
Hahaha I’m curious about the reasoning behind the HP and mac being red/blue
I feel like this is because Japanese tourists hit up Hawaii and the west cost a lot. Affluent areas and the west coast tech scene are littered with Macs. And those areas are also pretty blue.
HP, I think, just represents using a generic PC. The stereotype is that liberals use Macs
Hm. I would have thought libs would be all in Linux, which is mainly PC focused.
If you think that, you live in a bubble. Go to an anti-Trump protest and ask what desktop operating system they use. Your answers will be “Windows is gross, ew, I use a Mac”, “Whatever my job gives me, I haven’t used a personal laptop in years”, and “What’s an operating system?”
Haha that’s fair.
The creative industry has a history of using Mac
what are the people at the top supposedly doing?
Agreeing/coming to an agreement, versus the “left” side constantly arguing.
Japan et al is a very societally conservative country and considers the typical right-wing mob/sheep mentality preferable to the left’s constant debates.
Japan et al is a very societally conservative country and considers the typical right-wing mob/sheep mentality preferable to the left’s constant debates.
Eh… Kind of? In my experience most people under 40 in Japan are completely apolitical. Like to the point where they wouldn’t really understand the difference between the left and right.
They have some of the worst voting turnout in the world, and the older class typically makes all the decisions in regards to government.
They are socially conservative, but mostly because the younger generations are completely disconnected from politics.
That’s how the west got where it is now. The majority no giving a shit opens the door for the minority/nutters to do what they want.
Being “apolitical” means you support the current system/party. If you didn’t you’d be political.
But they gave us the good sushi tho
Have you tried Japanese fried chicken? It’s incredible.
Also their omelettes and pancakes.
But not their cheese. Fuck Japan’s terrible cheese.
This doesn’t even make sense. What makes Basketball inherently democratic/liberal? What makes Baseball republican/conservative?
Apple is aligned with Trump thanks to Tim Cook, NYT writes with a conservative slant, HP is shit-tier hardware, but WhyTF is it red? Why list it at all?
This feels like something thrown together by someone who spent and entire weekend learning about US political culture from memes, and I’m 50% certain this was drawn by AI.
Apple is aligned with Trump thanks to Tim Cook
The infographic is explaining broad cultural differences. If you think many people in liberal america are changing their laptops because of Tim Cook, you are out of touch.
NYT writes with a conservative slant
Again, this is about broad cultural trends. I know one of lemmy’s favorite catchphrases is “America has a center right party and a far right party” - and I’m not saying that isn’t true. But the people in these parties and the people occupying their associated social demographics see large differences between each other, which is what this infographic is about. American liberals, by and large, respect the NYT. They might disagree with its slant in one way or another, but if a god-and-guns conservative starts criticizing it over thanksgiving dinner, they will defend it tooth and nail. Meanwhile, American leftists are not represented in this infographic because they make up an incredibly small portion of the population, and are largely culturally irrelivant outside a few isolated and insular pockets.
HP is shit-tier hardware, but WhyTF is it red?
It is a stand-in for non-Mac PCs in general. They probably felt they had to pick a brand to counter “Mac”, and HP only has 2 letters and so fit in the infographic better.
What makes Basketball inherently democratic/liberal? What makes Baseball republican/conservative?
I agree this is their weakest comparison. I assume they were going with basketball=black people, baseball=apple pie. A more apt comparison, imo, would be conservatives watching sports while liberals watch TED Talks or something.
What makes Basketball inherently democratic/liberal? What makes Baseball republican/conservative?
Maybe the artist considered basketball “liberal” because many of the best players are Black, and the game is often played by kids in cities. I think better choices for a conservative sport would be American football or NASCAR.
This is all just a guess.
Most city schools don’t have room for a baseball field, but everyone’s got a basketball hoop. And idiots love to rally around baseball as the red blooded american sport, never mind that half the MLB is latino.
HP is BUSINESS, while Apple is CREATIVE. The greatest of political divides. /s
This picture is at least 15 years old, I remember it making the rounds during uhh, I want to say Obama’s first term.
So it’s stupid AND outdated, thanks for letting me know.
I knew I had good reason to hate HP laptops.
Hell, facism is the least of all reasons to hate HP laptops
It’s PC vs MAC. The war rages on.
please stop using the word “PC”, it makes no sense. Any computer can be personal, and I’d argue some windows computers are less “personal” than macs in terms of moddability and ownership
The source, 2024 apparently:
https://www.nikkei.com/telling/DGXZTS00011190R00C24A7000000/
Translation:
https://translate.kagi.com/www.nikkei.com/telling/DGXZTS00011190R00C24A7000000?ref=frankandsense.io
Yes, that Nikkei, like the stock exchange:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nikkei
Though it does feel like one of those “listicle” chum articles. The image feels a bit AI generated, whether it actually is or isn’t.
Disney version of 1992, I see.
Church and truck are way, way too small to provide adequate compensation for the red guys….ego.
