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          That light was burnt out and up someones ass by the time I was born. I never once seen us not intentionally fuck everything up as much as humanly possible.

          The stuff my parents and grandparents were proud of is dead and desiccated and we are trapped in the meat husk.

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        My completely subjective and not at all data driven experience of how many I feel I heard this year as opposed to previous years is at least the same. Possibly more. Though I live in a fairly conservative area.

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          Same in the Bay Area in California, too. Maybe people are in denial, maybe they just like an excuse to shoot off fireworks, maybe both.

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      Interesting how, aside from Isreal, the rest of the countries that now have a more favourable view of the US (India, Nigeria and South-Africa) have an English speaking population because of colonialism. Maybe the propaganda reached them better? Doesn’t hold up for Canada, Australia & New Zealand though.

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        Kenya is also an ex-British colony with a small minority of L1 English speakers and a substantial presence of L2 English speakers, so I don’t know if language can explain it so easily

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          so I don’t know if language can explain it so easily

          Couldn’t be a single explanation, and quite likely language isn’t the main one indeed. Turkey doesn’t have many English speakers as well.

          But i do think it matters whether a people is able to consume news from the source because of the language they speak. In Europe for example, where in the east there is quite some (L2) Russian speakers opposed to western european countries, that makes it easier for Russia to spread a favourable view.

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            there are a different type of conservatism. Nigeria has Christian fundamentalist conservatism so they love Trump’s anti-gay and anti-abortion government. India is hyper pro-capitalist so they love billionaires owning everything. South America is pro-apartheid and they mostly love Elon Musk.

            Japan is conservative in a social sense that doesn’t include religion. they don’t mesh with trump’s America. Poland should love Trump, so not sure what’s happening there other than they’re concerned about his pro-Russia stance. that said the polish government doesn’t seem popular with its people so maybe it is a case of them having a conservative government but not a conservative population.

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              Nigeria has Christian fundamentalist conservatism so they love Trump’s anti-gay and anti-abortion government. India is hyper pro-capitalist so they love billionaires owning everything.

              These first two sound totally more believable than my theory about language, but

              South America is pro-apartheid and they mostly love Elon Musk.

              Assuming you meant South Africa, you totally lost me here. The major major majority of people in South Africa are black, they are not pro-apartheid. Neither is the biggest political party, which you might know because it was the the party of Nelson Mandela (that dude that fought apartheid his entire life). I don’t think there is any country so not fond of Musk as South Africa (aside from a very small percentage that might totally love him). Although it likely isn’t totally unrelated that Musk is from SA.

              Poland should love Trump

              They might have if Trump wasn’t so supportive of their previous occupier, the hate against Russia in former Sovjet states runs deep.

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                Fair enough. yeah my south African one was a guess that there might be a large population of conservative holdouts but I’m afraid I don’t know much about the country in recent years.

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        The same CambridgeAnalytica/facebook/murdoch pithing machine that ate the red states is already in all those countries and growing quickly.

        We should have learned our lessons about media literacy but we did not.

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        All but 1 of them are run by fascist dictatorships, some in all but name. Nigeria is the exception, but they’re overrun with evangelicals, and will move in that direction soon.

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      That one I can understand, since the US is normalizing relations with Syria now that they’re in Turkey’s sphere. India I’m not too surprised by either in the context of their fighting with Pakistan. Wondering why Nigeria’s view has improved, though.

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    I guess Germany was only so low before already because it probably was declining since 2016. Most Germans recognise a facist when they see one.

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    No Denmark (or the classic “No Data” Greenland)? Especially after those annexation remarks?

    No surprise for Canada after the 51st state rhetoric, and both Canada and Mexico are watching our shared neighbour march into fascism, it is looking really bad from here.

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    Based Sweden. Kenya is oddly supportive, even now. Australia has always hated us more than the average, it seems. Well, they were proven right.

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      i’m surprised we were that high to begin with, and that we’ve dropped so low
      i don’t see people constantly hating on america, nor did i see people talk particularly highly about it in the past, all i see is politicians being a constant level of placatingly neutral

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        When I was growing up, I lived in Germany for 10 years as my dad was a civilian employee of the Army. Back then I missed being home, but now that the US has fully shit the bed I’m glad I was able to experience the perspective of being outside the US. It’s so huge and has had so much influence for so long that it’s easy to think of it as the center of the universe when you’re living here. I know better. And now I wish I had the means to be outside of it again and stay there.

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            I would say, once America as a whole decided it was going to forgive and rehabilitate the evil of the Bush admin, getting worse was inevitable.

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          Nah, nah man you gotta get into the 1990s. Gulf War I. Gee Atche Dubz. No bullshit WMD fear mongering, no fake testimony from Colin Powell just good ol’ steamrolling all media outlets and marching on in there because oil.

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              Oh it was great, you had one side going “No blood for oil!” and the other side going “USA! USA!” and all kinds of predictable pre-social-media-hellscape bullshit.

              Of course the new war smell wore off quickly and Bush the First didn’t even get a second term out of it.

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    As an American feeling like I’m drowning in malignant insanity and stupidity, I know which 5 countries I’m avoiding.

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    Those are way higher numbers than I would expect for any county.

    I’m not just shitting on US, just in general I think those are high numbers of opinionated people - the methodology prob excludes or doesn’t offer neural views, just a positive or negative look … as two options total, not as a range of how much one views a country positively or negatively. For example, a country that a lot of people see barely favourably would still score high?