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This doesn’t even make sense. What makes Basketball inherently democratic/liberal? What makes Baseball republican/conservative?
Apple is aligned with Trump thanks to Tim Cook, NYT writes with a conservative slant, HP is shit-tier hardware, but WhyTF is it red? Why list it at all?
This feels like something thrown together by someone who spent and entire weekend learning about US political culture from memes, and I’m 50% certain this was drawn by AI.
HP is BUSINESS, while Apple is CREATIVE. The greatest of political divides. /s
This picture is at least 15 years old, I remember it making the rounds during uhh, I want to say Obama's first term.
To be fair around 15 years ago that Windows vs Mac division would've been fairly accurate. Hip young people use Mac while fiscally-focused business people run Windows
So it’s stupid AND outdated, thanks for letting me know.
It is 100% AI, so I wouldn't think too deep on any of the choices depicted. Look at the apartment building.
The infographic is explaining broad cultural differences. If you think many people in liberal america are changing their laptops because of Tim Cook, you are out of touch.
Again, this is about broad cultural trends. I know one of lemmy's favorite catchphrases is "America has a center right party and a far right party" - and I'm not saying that isn't true. But the people in these parties and the people occupying their associated social demographics see large differences between each other, which is what this infographic is about. American liberals, by and large, respect the NYT. They might disagree with its slant in one way or another, but if a god-and-guns conservative starts criticizing it over thanksgiving dinner, they will defend it tooth and nail. Meanwhile, American leftists are not represented in this infographic because they make up an incredibly small portion of the population, and are largely culturally irrelivant outside a few isolated and insular pockets.
It is a stand-in for non-Mac PCs in general. They probably felt they had to pick a brand to counter "Mac", and HP only has 2 letters and so fit in the infographic better.
I agree this is their weakest comparison. I assume they were going with basketball=black people, baseball=apple pie. A more apt comparison, imo, would be conservatives watching sports while liberals watch TED Talks or something.
Maybe the artist considered basketball “liberal” because many of the best players are Black, and the game is often played by kids in cities. I think better choices for a conservative sport would be American football or NASCAR.
This is all just a guess.
Most city schools don't have room for a baseball field, but everyone's got a basketball hoop. And idiots love to rally around baseball as the red blooded american sport, never mind that half the MLB is latino.
Hell I have a basketball hoop in my driveway that came with my house! Have I ever used it? Nope! Not my thing, but if I had someone over who wanted to play basketball or my kids decided they really wanted to play it, I've already got a full size hoop just gotta pop over to the store and get a basketball
I think it's more that baseball has slowly become an 'elite' sport, and republicans (who have their cultural image shaped by elites) want to be elite. Rich kids can definitely still pursue baseball as an alternative to polo. Meanwhile, basketball is still viewed as a sport where you can go to that basketball hoop at the park, work your way up from a kid through school trying hard, and make it (even if basketball players now have the same 'academy' style training facilities that they came from just like baseball has had for a few decades). I have at least one acquaintance who did the whole 'traveling high school team' thing for basketball now.
The image still in people's head though, is of charles barkley and (shit I can't remember his name) the other houston rocket guy who played at their local community center before playing for the rockets. The center still had their pictures and stories up on the wall when I was last in houston. It still feels like people come from that path. Contrast that with my acquaintance from high school who eventually played pro baseball where it was more something along the lines of: moved to a high school with an elite, known team; went to a baseball trainer after school; played in the amateur, organized leagues outside of school; had parents arrange meetings with scouts, coaches at colleges, and toured each program; played in college; kept going to a trainer during college; then finally went to amateur/pro baseball.
I came here to comment that this looks like AI and don't want to be repetitive but I would reckon this is 100% AI.