Tbf dems are more likely to be vegetarian/vegan, and more likely to be health conscious types that get grilled chicken salads and shit. At least I should say those definitely aren't things I associate with republicans (the diets I associate with them are carnivore and keto) but with democrat voters.
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.
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)
Coke started in Georgia, is huge across the south. Has marketed itself as like a family friendly or wholesome nostalgia brand for a long time. Which plays really well with the old white people.
Yes and those people who go to KFC are less likely to be Republicans which is what this graphic is breaking down.
Brands do demographic surveys all the time. Chick-fil-A is the top fried chicken place for self-identified Republicans. And also happens to serve coke products exclusively.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I think it’s more literal and low level than “more or less formal”. It’s more like “democrats use this body language and republicans use that body language”.
haha, that's exactly the guy's posture. But yes, it's probably just meant as more casual hand gestures vs formal body language. I was just overthinking it
Because coke put out an internal training video that they outsourced production on, where someone mentioned "try to be less white" and I had to hear about it more than once on our way to grandma's funeral. Now they drink Pepsi while complaining about cancel culture.
Democrat's View of the World = A globe with USA shown divided between Red and Blue and the rest of the world in various pastels. There are a few black skull spots labeled 'Terrorism.'
GOP View of the World = Same globe, except there are only two colors. The USA Red States and everything else is 'Terrorism.'
Source? I live in Japan and haven't seen this (not surprising given I rarely read papers here), but would love context. Not seeing any in at least the first page of replies
Looks like it's from Nikkei. Doesn't seem to be a great article, which is pretty much what you'd expect if you ever see the coverage of US politics on TV here as well.
I'm not sure why would anyone on less extreme right support multibillion corporation like crApple. But it seems to align with what I heard about americans.
It's more or less accurate, except at the top where the red team guy is respecting a woman.
That image seemed more like "traditional role models, clothes and heterosexual white couples" to me
The woman’s hair should be blonder, and she should be wearing more of a tradwife dress.
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.
Doesn’t make user criitz wrong.
I assumed he was buying a different woman from her
Women being owned, yeah, that tracks. But a woman owning another woman, much less being allowed to own any property. Don't be silly.
The leopards will come for her face eventually
Clearly the republican picture is attempting to depict the marriage photo of Hank and Peggy Hill.
I read that as "Left is in constant debate with itself" vs. "Right shakes hands and gets down to business"*
*^^horrible ^^horrible ^^business
Y'all better move fried chicken back over that line right fuckin now.
Trade for Starbucks
"Dems get Black people but not fried chicken" is certainly a take
Tbf dems are more likely to be vegetarian/vegan, and more likely to be health conscious types that get grilled chicken salads and shit. At least I should say those definitely aren't things I associate with republicans (the diets I associate with them are carnivore and keto) but with democrat voters.
Context?
Embrace your inner fascist and cross the line yourself to get the chicken you deserve
You may have one piece
Adorable how little that truck is
Japanese artist: "I drew it as large and obnoxious as possible!"
Westerners: "it's adorable that you think that"
What an adorably truck-kun you have!
They kept the buildings and truck in proportion. Everything else, including the tesla were just enlarged to be visible.
Your mistake is thinking democrats are "the left" lol
Deliberately of course, precisely to maintain ignorance, and keep the Overton window firmly on the right..
Ouch.
I guess both have crazy US-only meanings, because well, "liberal" is the core of the right-wing idea.
All such descriptors are relative; by definition, the Democratic Party is "left."
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.
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.
Who said I expected to be taken seriously?
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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
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
But that is a good model. Separate the opinion shows from the news shows.
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)
That's where they think Democrats get their news from. Notice the donkey.
How did they not put any guns?
would be controversial to portray guns in a casual context
Tell that to a Republican
They can't hear you over the sounds of gun shots
That girl in the red dress needs to be about 15 years younger
No older males on the right? This graphic is "woke", cancel it, demonize the Japanese, deport them.
Wtf why do the republicans get the fried chicken???
Ha ha. Eat it, libs!
Wait not like that!
Or Pepsi and baseball? It should be the NFL and Coke instead of those two.
Why should they get coke?
Coke started in Georgia, is huge across the south. Has marketed itself as like a family friendly or wholesome nostalgia brand for a long time. Which plays really well with the old white people.
So we'll in fact, there are swap meets and clubs for collecting Coke memorabilia. https://www.cocacolaclub.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=534374&module_id=394442
I've run across these meets/conventions while traveling for work. All the attendees are boomers.
They also have their history with Nazis, so it doubly fits.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fanta-soda-origins-nazi-germany
I'm just going to assume they mean the powdered variety
Yes and those people who go to KFC are less likely to be Republicans which is what this graphic is breaking down.
Brands do demographic surveys all the time. Chick-fil-A is the top fried chicken place for self-identified Republicans. And also happens to serve coke products exclusively.
Asia is full of KFCs with Pepsi fountains
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?)
One of the first words Japanese language learning resources teach you is the word for baseball. It's 野球 yakyuu ("field ball") btw
棒球 (bàngqiú) in Chinese. Sort of means "stick/bat ball", but also maybe "awesome ball".
Yeah that was a bit weird.
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.
Definitely NASCAR.
Apple? Plz. We buy PCs and load on Linux.
Nah that’s the communists
Dem by Apple, Leftists put linux on potatoes
You make it sound like leftists are belarusians.
See! Red! Wait, that's communism.
A Republican man respecting a woman? Unrealistic.
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.
Don't think I believe the apple vs windows thing, but the rest looks about right.
I believe it. And it seems more of an Apple vs PC representation in the image.
How is apple vs PC different from apple vs windows?
What makes you believe more Democrats are apple users?
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.
The whole thing is a generalization. I am generalizing based on personal observations.
EXCUSE ME? I run Arch thank you very much. 😡
https://www.axios.com/2017/12/15/sorry-mac-windows-loving-trump-voters-swayed-election-1513303324
I'm not understanding the charts. Is Texas more PC or Mac?
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.
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?
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.
Would you like a nice MINT?
What about now?
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.
Politics as consumerism. They got us dead to rights.
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?
I think it's supposed to be clothing and talking style is more casual on left and more formal on right.
I think it’s more literal and low level than “more or less formal”. It’s more like “democrats use this body language and republicans use that body language”.
hand gestures while discussing
Maybe? ¯\_(ツ)_¯
haha, that's exactly the guy's posture. But yes, it's probably just meant as more casual hand gestures vs formal body language. I was just overthinking it
it is. trust me.
It should definitely be beer instead of Pepsi on the red side.
I guess it's a compliment that they put Japanese food on the blue side? Although they love fried chicken at Christmas.
Reds are always fighting soft drink regulation though
Good.
Been saying forever "keep the government out of my bedroom," hate that I now have to add "and fridge."
I just want gay married weed farmers to be able to drink Coke while they defend their farms with ar15s.
Then why not Coca-Cola? It fits the color schemes.
Because coke put out an internal training video that they outsourced production on, where someone mentioned "try to be less white" and I had to hear about it more than once on our way to grandma's funeral. Now they drink Pepsi while complaining about cancel culture.
Huh, this kinda thing happens so often it seems I missed this one.
Americans known in Japan... for nigiri??
Sushi is quite popular in the US, so probably.
I'd assume American rolls would be instead of the nigiri and plain rolls as depicted
Right side should include rolls that have been fried multiple times and soaked in 4+ different sauces
I call this my twix sushi. It’s a deep fried twix, but we cut it into pieces and give you chopsticks to eat it with.
I saw this cartoon a while back.
Democrat's View of the World = A globe with USA shown divided between Red and Blue and the rest of the world in various pastels. There are a few black skull spots labeled 'Terrorism.'
GOP View of the World = Same globe, except there are only two colors. The USA Red States and everything else is 'Terrorism.'
At first, I thought the catcher was a guy crouched with a gun and was shooting the batter in the ass.
Tesla goes on the other side actually tbh tbh
I see it as a generic electric car.
Fair - the shape is definitely Tesla tho and it would be entirely reasonable to have that association.
I hate the Apple association, but everything else feels pretty valid.
Weird how they pose Pride as opposite Church...
Well, we all know the gay agenda wants to make church illegal, so…
/s
Not illegal, just a place where they can groom young children for sex.
Oh wait, no, that's still churches.
Hiphop, sushi, KFC, Apple products, trucks, and starbucks? Pretty sure the line is actually blurred there.
Quit waffling and pick a side you coward
lol.
But I lovey waffles!
Fried chicken is definitely more Democrat.
Source? I live in Japan and haven't seen this (not surprising given I rarely read papers here), but would love context. Not seeing any in at least the first page of replies
Looks like it's from Nikkei. Doesn't seem to be a great article, which is pretty much what you'd expect if you ever see the coverage of US politics on TV here as well.
https://www.nikkei.com/telling/DGXZTS00011190R00C24A7000000/
ed: oh, the caption under the graphic says "Source: Created from public opinion polls such as YouGov and Gallup." (出所:ユーガブ、ギャラップなどの世論調査から作成)
Yep, that seems to be it. Interesting, if a bit simplified, explanation in the article of US politics for a Japanese audience.
Well, I'm glad we cleared that up.
They even got Chuck Norris's political affiliation correct. Not that it's a hard guess.
Where's the education part?
Are you asking the US or Japan?
It's right there, on both sides, given placement in the graphic that matches the importance each party places on it.
A dirt road, a cold beer
Blue jeans, a red pickup
I wish it was this peaceful
I'm a bit bummed to discover the text just reads:
"Democratic Party" and "Republican Party".
I guess I really am a centrist.
The batter got shot in the hip!
I like how direct eye contact is such a huge cultural difference that they put it in twice, at the top
Nailed it.
What happens if I'm an American and not really in either group?
Also, I look forward to this meme format's career with great interest
I'm not sure why would anyone on less extreme right support multibillion corporation like crApple. But it seems to align with what I heard about americans.
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Hey, chief. Let's talk, why not!
At first, I thought the apartment buildings were stacks of pizza boxes.