• @[email protected]
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    It’s more or less accurate, except at the top where the red team guy is respecting a woman.

    • @[email protected]
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      That image seemed more like “traditional role models, clothes and heterosexual white couples” to me

        • @[email protected]
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          Its Japanese though and I think that that IS their traditional housewife outfit.

          Same for blonder, I mean they obviously k ow what blonde is but that’s probably plenty blonde to be very blonde to them.

      • @[email protected]
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        42 months ago

        Women being owned, yeah, that tracks. But a woman owning another woman, much less being allowed to own any property. Don’t be silly.

    • @[email protected]
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      Clearly the republican picture is attempting to depict the marriage photo of Hank and Peggy Hill.

    • @[email protected]
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      122 months ago

      I read that as “Left is in constant debate with itself” vs. “Right shakes hands and gets down to business”*

      *^^horrible ^^horrible ^^business

  • Nate Cox
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    CNN? The channel that recently spent hours dissecting every stutter and stumble Biden made and just plain refused to talk about the vicious lies and ad hom attacks Trump spent the entire debate spewing, and just didn’t find it worth mentioning how he avoided answering several super important questions? That’s who they think the left gets news from?

    Like, at least put the NPR on there lol.

      • rand_alpha19
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        Yeah, it’s hard to explain in the US and Canada, where there are only two major parties, that they don’t represent two ends of a political spectrum. They’re just two dominant parties that have different ideas; on a lot of things, they even agree and don’t hide it.

        I wish we, as kids in society, had learned more about specific right-wing and left-wing policies in history and civics so that this distinction could be made more clear. Or at least that we were taught what liberalism is and what neoliberalism is and how they’re different.

        But we didn’t and weren’t, so when people think “liberal” they think “left,” and we’re all worse off for it.

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          But we didn’t and weren’t

          Deliberately of course, precisely to maintain ignorance, and keep the Overton window firmly on the right…

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          so when people think “liberal” they think “left”

          Ouch.

          I guess both have crazy US-only meanings, because well, “liberal” is the core of the right-wing idea.

          • rand_alpha19
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            Yes, that’s exactly what I mean. It’s nuts that a word means something totally different in one specific area of the world because it’s politically convenient to ignore what it actually means.

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          The only left US-politician in the last 200 years is Bernie Sanders. The rest of the democrats are just on the “left” side from every GOP statement. Which doesn’t make the democrats left.

          • @[email protected]
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            132 months ago

            You say shit like that and expected to be taken seriously? Even if you were conceptually correct, Eugene Debs is right there. Educate yourself, son.

      • Nate Cox
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        22 months ago

        You may want to familiarize yourself with the term “colloquialism”.

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          That doesn’t magically make democrats “the left” (E: and therefore doesn’t explain why they wouldn’t be fans of CNN, being centrists, at best) lmao

    • @[email protected]
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      Their change has been fairly recent. They have a right winger running the show now and he wants to court more Republicans.

      He was even quoted as saying (paraphrasing) “fox news has a good model to emulate, all opinion shows surrounding an actual news show.”

      /Vomit

        • @[email protected]
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          That’s not what they mean, they already are separated they just act like they’re news and have the little “opinion” thing on the bottom of the screen for legal purposes.

          What CNN seems to be saying is they want more opinion shows than actual news. When your show is classified as opinion you can lie as much as you want as long as it’s not slandering a corporation that will sue you (dominion and fox)

    • Drusas
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      That’s where they think Democrats get their news from. Notice the donkey.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      No older males on the right? This graphic is “woke”, cancel it, demonize the Japanese, deport them.

    • @[email protected]
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      It appears that they are doing business things so I don’t think that matters.

      The women in blue also look much younger.

  • @[email protected]
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    352 months ago

    To me, the least accurate part is picking baseball to represent the right. I would’ve gone with wrestling, NASCAR, or maybe even football.

    (I know the Japanese play baseball themselves… maybe it has a right-wing connotation there that’s influencing the choice?)

    • @[email protected]
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      One of the first words Japanese language learning resources teach you is the word for baseball. It’s 野球 yakyuu (“field ball”) btw

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        22 months ago

        棒球 (bàngqiú) in Chinese. Sort of means “stick/bat ball”, but also maybe “awesome ball”.

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      22 months ago

      Japan has one of the more popular gridiron football scenes outside of the US. They also have one of the biggest wrestling & motorsports scenes. That said, I wouldn’t be calling any sport really political on one side or the other but a general working-class pasttime.

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    • @[email protected]
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      The handshake is a ruse. He’s exploiting her. She’s probably got a startup and he’s providing some kind of building blocks she needs and she’s paying out the nose because she needs his shit. He’s probably hitting on her with cheap jewelry.

  • AFK BRB Chocolate
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    312 months ago

    Don’t think I believe the apple vs windows thing, but the rest looks about right.

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      I believe it. And it seems more of an Apple vs PC representation in the image.

      • AFK BRB Chocolate
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        22 months ago

        How is apple vs PC different from apple vs windows?

        What makes you believe more Democrats are apple users?

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          How is apple vs PC different from apple vs windows?

          Oh man. Well, first of all, you’re about to be accosted by a hundred GNU/Linux users.

          Secondly Windows is an OS, while PC is generally a hardware spec. Plus the PC on the right shows HP, which is not Windows, but rather a PC manufacturer.

          What makes you believe more Democrats are apple users?

          The whole thing is a generalization. I am generalizing based on personal observations.

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              Everywhere is more PC than Mac, by a lot. But chart shows if they only had Mac users in Texas voting, it goes deep blue. PC voters only is more split and favors Trump.

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                22 months ago

                Hmm, okay. Maybe I’m being dense, but how does that tell us where one platform or the other has more liberal or conservative users?

                • @[email protected]
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                  You’re not being dense I promise, it’s a pretty useless data point. My understanding is not many people responding to the poll using a Mac chose Trump, thus it must be the liberal’s choice platform.

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        82 months ago

        That’s what the company contributions look like, not what the user base is. That’s like saying it’s mostly conservatives who drive Teslas because Tesla contributes to Republicans.

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    I’m Japanese and I can tell you they have no idea. The comic just makes no sense to me because of that. Most can’t even tell the difference between the two parties. They can’t even tell the difference between political left and right.

    Pacifists fear Trump. Nationalists think Trump is a savior. That’s all. They are both conservatives, by the way.

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    serious question: what are the two Dems at the top doing? Is he refusing to shake her hand? Was he going in for a hug?