Laptops with Stickers

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?

I 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.

I'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.

I believe bumper stickers are only really a thing in the US.

In 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).

Wasn't long ago that opposition to fascism was the conservative position. Why is a sticker expressing the same considered "progressive"?

Why indeed? Why is this something people now have to care about again? https://www.realtimefascism.com/

Its signalling. Instead of stickers on their laptop, conservatives have crosses (the thing jesus got nailed on) on their neck and cars.

From 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.

Sometime 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.

I guess it makes you more fireable...

Because of that keyword, "was." The conservative stance has shifted to become more aligned with fascism.

"Libertarian" and "Conservative" are not inherently linked, even though sadly they're often associated. There are many left-libertarians.

Do 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.

Political 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.

That'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).

Hasn't the establishment been non-conservatuve at least half of the time for the past 20 years?

A 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.

Every 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.

In which countries? Most have major parties that are conservative and conservative-light.

Google (sorry) for "James Damore".

Political conservatives run a huge American flag off the back of their pickup. Same motivations. Different venue.

Depends 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.

"liberals feel very comfortable speaking about their views in public. Conservatives don't."

Maybe conservative folks aren't comfortable speaking about their views in public because they know the Christo-fascist undertones of their core values are abrasive to non conservatives?

Thank you for proving my point.

We like to exercise the 1st Amendment.

Semantic drift.

I'd suggest political conservatives are more likely to enjoy an undecorated laptop. There are a few Libertarian ones though.

Well 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.

I 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>".

As they mentioned, though, right-wing bumper stickers absolutely are a thing in some places.

I've occasionally seen right-libertarian ones (I think historically this has been the most common form of right-wing-ism in hacker-y spaces).

The US also has progressive Christians, but they're usually less... performative about the Christianity than the right wing ones are.

In case it's not obvious to you, who is presumably an American conservative: Christo-Fascism is not something to be proud of. At all.