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

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"

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.

Kaiju basketball when

tbf he's also like 110ft tall

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

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".

Chuds are also not reading WSJ, should just be AI Facebook slop

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.

my god, pure ideology

Maybe it’s more regional, but every Republican I know in real life with a notable soda preference makes Coke a central part of their identity. Pepsi was the liberal yankee cosmopolitan soda in my household growing up.

I have a feeling that it's because of the Kendal Jenner Pepsi Ad. Ironically Coca-Cola in Georgia and Pepsi is in NY.

It’s even the wrong color and coke is the correct color.