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This was super fun to browse! I am a bit curious about the amount of politically progressive stickers however. Like, is sticker-ing your laptop just more of a
by joshdavham 11mo ago
This was super fun to browse!
I am a bit curious about the amount of politically progressive stickers however. Like, is sticker-ing your laptop just more of a 'progressive' thing to do? Do political conservatives not sticker their laptops in the same way that they generally do with their bumper stickers?
- SchemaLoad 11mo agoI think there's just a link between sticking stickers on things and being somewhat expressive, artistic, willing to stand out. While leaving the laptop blank is more likely someone more dry, reserved, etc. There's also a link between stickers and graffiti culture which I wouldn't describe as progressive but more just unconventional/rebellious.
- viraptor 11mo agoI've never seen a conservative sticker on a laptop before. Then again, stickers, tags, etc. are more of an anti establishment thing. Those things don't mesh well with conservative views.
- garciansmith 11mo agoIn general I agree, left-leaning ones are way more common. Maybe you are correct regarding the reasons. But I've definitely seen conservative ones too, with libertarian ones being more common among those (e.g., saw a number of "Who is John Galt?" stickers some years ago).
- JoshTriplett 11mo ago"Libertarian" and "Conservative" are not inherently linked, even though sadly they're often associated. There are many left-libertarians.
- rchaud 11mo agoWasn't long ago that opposition to fascism was the conservative position. Why is a sticker expressing the same considered "progressive"?
- viraptor 11mo agoWhy indeed? Why is this something people now have to care about again? https://www.realtimefascism.com/ https://www.realtimefascism.com/
- jdiff 11mo agoBecause of that keyword, "was." The conservative stance has shifted to become more aligned with fascism.
- tbrownaw 11mo agoSemantic drift.
- bad_username 11mo agoHasn't the establishment been non-conservatuve at least half of the time for the past 20 years?
- viraptor 11mo agoIn which countries? Most have major parties that are conservative and conservative-light.
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- rsynnott 11mo agoAs they mentioned, though, right-wing bumper stickers absolutely are a thing in some places.
- rsynnott 11mo agoI've occasionally seen right-libertarian ones (I think historically this has been the most common form of right-wing-ism in hacker-y spaces).
- cubefox 11mo agoI believe bumper stickers are only really a thing in the US.
- joshdavham 11mo agoPolitical bumper stickers are also a thing up here in Canada, but probably like 1-5% as common. I'm often shocked to see how common they are when I'm down in the US. Like I find it weird that so many people are eager to passive agressively advertise their political views to the public (and usually the more polarizing views). The most common sticker we've got is the infamous "F--- Trudeau" sticker. And I'm even seeing fewer of those these days since he's no longer PM.
- userbinator 11mo agoWe like to exercise the 1st Amendment.
- PetitPrince 11mo agoI think the only stickers I saw on cars in France and Switzerland are the "baby one board" and "<stick figures of the members of a family>".
- blueflow 11mo agoIts signalling. Instead of stickers on their laptop, conservatives have crosses (the thing jesus got nailed on) on their neck and cars.
- joshdavham 11mo agoThat's an interesting point, but I've never really seen the cross as a conservative symbol. I probably know about as many progressive christians as I do conservative ones (mind you I'm not in the US).
- rsynnott 11mo agoThe US also has progressive Christians, but they're usually less... performative about the Christianity than the right wing ones are.
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- egypturnash 11mo agoFrom the top post on the creator's Mastodon account (see the 'socials' link on the site): "I’ve had a long-standing love of stickers on laptops. I know a lot of you do too! So I built a site to highlight them. At Hope next week I’ll take as many pics (with permission) of the best stickered laptops I can find and post them. It’s always sad when a laptop gets upgraded, the old one tossed, and that sticker canvas is lost. I’m trying to preserve it. Please submit pics of your laptops so I can “seed the tip jar,” as it were." I'm sure there's people out there with laptops blaring their right-wing opinions but I doubt many of them were at a hacker con like HOPE.
- add-sub-mul-div 11mo agoSometime around 2015 American political conservatism abandoned a substantive policy identity for demagoguery and nihilism, and while electorally successful to an extent, it's socially unpopular among the general population that's of working/laptop-using age.
- swah 11mo agoI guess it makes you more fireable...
- fourside 11mo agoDo you have examples? If anything there have been cases of left aligned activist employees being fired from companies like Google not too long ago. Or cases like Basecamp where they asked people to avoid politics at work or leave the company.
- hnfong 11mo agoGoogle (sorry) for "James Damore".
- vineyardmike 11mo agoWell he wrote a memo saying the women at Google were "neurotic" and that's why women biologically are predisposed to not be software engineers. If that's conservative ideology, then I guess it is fair to say such ideology might not be appropriate for a workplace. In reality, he just said stupid stuff to be provocative, and tried to post-hoc justify it as vilifying conservatives instead.
- eggsandbeer 11mo ago[dead]
- generalizations 11mo agoA rule of thumb among your friends: those who don’t talk politics are the conservative ones. Similarly, I’d wager most of the examples here without overtly progressive stickers are conservative.
- brewdad 11mo agoDepends on where you live. Around me the conservatives are more than willing to offer their political opinions even when the context doesn't fit. Progressive/Liberal folks tend to be less vocal because we already know where we stand with each other and don't want to invite the loudmouth to go off.
- sandspar 11mo agoEvery American conservative knows the feeling of being at work and your liberal coworkers, not knowing you're conservative, start going on a rant about how terrible Republicans are and how stupid they are and how they all deserve jail etc. In America today, liberals feel very comfortable speaking about their views in public. Conservatives don't.
- rc5150 11mo ago[flagged]
- sandspar 11mo agoThank you for proving my point.
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- tomhow 11mo agoPlease don't use epithets or attack other users for any reason on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're hoping for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- rc5150 11mo agoI'm sorry, what's the offending article here, calling them an American Conservative or a Christo-fascist?
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- brewdad 11mo agoPolitical conservatives run a huge American flag off the back of their pickup. Same motivations. Different venue.
- GaryBluto 11mo agoI'd suggest political conservatives are more likely to enjoy an undecorated laptop. There are a few Libertarian ones though.