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    It’s more or less accurate, except at the top where the red team guy is respecting a woman.

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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.

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

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

      *^^horrible ^^horrible ^^business

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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.

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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.

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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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        All such descriptors are relative; by definition, the Democratic Party is “left.”

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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.

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            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.

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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

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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

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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)

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

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

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    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?)

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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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      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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      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.

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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?