Japan is trying to catch up to AmeriKKKa for the title of redditor republic it seems
EDIT: okay maybe theyre onto something
in so far as the dominant political parties in the US have positioned themselves as part of a discrete set of consumer choices that white people make and confuse with "having an identity", it's pretty spot on.
kind of like how little kids can identify corporate logos, this is taking it a step further and having an "outsider" identify the demographic for our consumer identities by splitting them along party affiliation.
I mean, the white lady in a ball cap being a Democrat is kinda strange, but I sorta know what they mean too.
in so far as the dominant political parties in the US have positioned themselves as part of a discrete set of consumer choices that white people make and confuse with “having an identity”, it’s pretty spot on.
People with capitalism brain cannot work through base-superstructure issues of sociology in their understanding of culture, especially because their understanding of culture often comes from high culture which in history was essentially the preferences of the ruling classes.
This is a perfect continuation for them into the liberal era because it's a sign of liberal progress. Where once Kings told you what food was good, capitalist oligarchs give you the choice to decide what food you think is good, based on what choices they feel like you should have.
i think thats fair maybe the japanese political commentators are less cringe than i thought
They nailed most of the stereotypes but are Apple and HP really considered partisan by anyone?
apple: smart, creative class, upwardly mobile, affluent, NPR
HP: poor, rust belt, shouting about the propane bill, Luke Bryant, ketchup sandwiches, applying to job at Walmart, "you're not my real dad"
I feel like Dell is more the PC brand for boomers who just want a machine to send emails and post racist facebook memes.
I bet half those people are still rocking their old cow colored Gateways.
Honestly, Apple I think is definitely associated with "coastal elites" but I think they just put HP because it's not like there's an immediately obvious chud tech company. I'd like to think HP = Israel = chud is why they did it but that's probably not the real reason.
Apple is definitely NPR coded. I guess HP is just a non-Apple manufacturer although I think Dell is probably better as a generic non-Apple company.
Holy shit that Democratic basketball player is dunking into a net that is 12 stories up.
I'd like to see a Republican pull that off.
Lol, no blue state is building commie blocks, the most popular brand of electric car is build by a fucking fascist, and most baseball fans these days are nerdy ass white dudes who live major cities. Football really should have been the sport on the red side since that is more dominated by CHUDs.
but ... isn't the whole point of this cartoon that there's really no difference at all? am i just readin what i want into it?
It's meant to depict City vs Suburb. Most cities are dominated by Democrat voters even in red states. Republicans hate cities. Republicans constantly make up conspiracy theories that cities are full of crime and undocumented immigrants. That's why Trump always rants about "Democrat-run cities".
(American) football and golf are way more culturally chud coded than baseball imo
Also I'm pretty sure the batter is supposed to be Shohei Ohtani but on the Angels to keep the red/blue color coding make sense still lol which makes me wonder how old this is
I guess they used baseball because baseball is pretty popular in Japan while nobody outside the US gives a shit about CTEball and golf is more rich coded.
I was gonna say (and did), baseball has become pretty hipster. I'm from Baltimore and if you go to an O's game half the people there are like breaded dudes with full sleeve tattoos who look like they just came from an Fleet Foxes concert.
Baseball has the oldest and whitest fan base of the major sports quite easily unless things have changed drastically and very recently
the democrat pride parade having zero non-white people is disturbingly accurate
I remember hearing a speaker talk about the cultural divide a few years ago. Apparently game of thrones was super lib team and the walking dead was super conservative team. For whatever reason that one I found very fascinating.
Walking Dead was libertarian utopia. "There are no laws or society today hold me back. I can be the hero by doing what everyone else is too scared to do"
Game of Thrones was a slow meditation on the nature of power and politics that turned into lots of girlbossing.
I always interpreted it as literally the exact same shit with a different coat of paint, the only differences between them literally are just the aesthetics.
The apartment block vs idyllic single family home and white picket fence reminded me of this city-builder game I played ages ago, Black & White 2 where you played as god and constructed a city for your little guys to live in and got good and evil points for your actions. Building multi-story apartment buildings in close proximity to other structures earned Evil Points and building spread-out suburbs where everyone had a lawn earned you Good Points. If you earned enough Evil Points your city would begin to look more and more hellish and dilapidated.
The only replacement I would make is to swap out baseball with USian football (ie handegg
). USians looove their concussion sports.I have a feeling that it's because of the Kendal Jenner Pepsi Ad. Ironically Coca-Cola in Georgia and Pepsi is in NY.
my god, pure ideology
