It's more or less accurate, except at the top where the red team guy is respecting a woman.
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.
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.
Your mistake is thinking democrats are "the left" lol
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.
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
That's where they think Democrats get their news from. Notice the donkey.
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.
It appears that they are doing business things so I don't think that matters.
The women in blue also look much younger.
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.
It's not even a windows thing, it's specifically HP...which makes even less sense LMAO
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.
Apple? Nah fuck no lol
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”.
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
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.'
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.
At first, I thought the catcher was a guy crouched with a gun and was shooting the batter in the ass.
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
Ugh, if only.
Not illegal, just a place where they can groom young children for sex.
Oh wait, no, that's still churches.
Well, I'm glad we cleared that up.
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.
A dirt road, a cold beer
Blue jeans, a red pickup
I wish it was this peaceful
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.
I'm a bit bummed to discover the text just reads:
"Democratic Party" and "Republican Party".
I guess I really am a centrist.
I like how direct eye contact is such a huge cultural difference that they put it in twice, at the top
The batter got shot in the hip!
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.
