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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago

Barely breaking 50% on your self selected popularity data

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago (7 children)

lol using the 35 country median of 31% negative because the average is 35% negative

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I asked my friends if I was a cool dude and the majority said I was screm-cool

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Rare outcome, most friend groups would be like "nah dude you're the worst get lost" and then you'd all laugh and chug another beer or whatever it is neurotypical people do when they hang out

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

We knock back brewskis and talk about woodworking and Cindy Crawford

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I believe the NTs are hanging out at a pastel pink coloured restaurant with very rounded edges drinking malt milkshakes, smoking Lucky Strike asbestos filter cigarettes and listening to radio plays with your chums.

The bad boy of the group wears a black leather jacket.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lol they picked Israel, Turkey, and Tunisia as their representative sample of the middle east. First, one of these things is not like the others. Second, I can only imagine how fucking funny it would look if they actually had a representative sample of Arabic/Islamic countries.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

I wonder how it would look like if say, Iraq and Syria were on that list

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago

I remember once reading that Jordan’s approval rate of the USA in 2003 was 1%

Also “Four of five Palestinians disapproved of American leadership, by far the worst perception of the United States globally”

We’re based, westerners aren’t

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Oh look the sub that tries to greenwash the realities of climate change so they can have brunch isn't in tune with reality nowai

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The sub is the equivalent of a child hiding under a blanket so the monster doesn't get you.

Except the monsters are real and aren't deterred by blankets, it just hasn't reached you yet.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Its worse than the council in mass effect denying the reapers exist despite seeing saren in the flesh attack the citadel. It will hit the global south horribly and they'll still be in their bubble of "heres how investor's can still win"

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

Based Tunisia.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Same FuckyWucky. Same.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Australians are 60/40? That's hard to believe lmao

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Aussies are mad that Americans are more racist than they are.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

I mean there's that, but also it's well known to Australians that their government has sold them out to be a client state of the US. On trade, allowing American military bases on the continent, and more.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We are a US puppet state that constantly tanks our economy to please our American overlords. Some people pick up on that, despite the constant right wing propaganda shoveled down our throats.

Others hate the US because like most Anglo countries, we compare our how hideously incompetent government and cruel, callous society to them. It's a societal get out of self improvement free card. "We might not be perfect, but at least we aren't as bad as America!"

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nah there's a lot of hatred for the US in all the other anglophone nations.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

If they hate the americans so much then they shouldn't have outsourced their foreign policy to them

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

the number #1 freest bestest richest most democratic amazing melting pot country is cherry-picked to be "generally favorable" at best... how telling

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Source missing from that post, but it's from the Pew Research Center.

I couldn't find any justification for their picking those countries (maybe they're the only countries that let the Pew Research Center establish any presence). And their methodology seems to suffer similar biases these kinds of wide opinion polls typically do (e.g. if you don't answer the phone or agree to talk to weird strangers you're not counted), which typically skew towards older conservatives who are sitting at home. Sample sizes also leave a lot to be desired.

Not to say this data is entirely inaccurate, but as with like 90% of these studies, they leave so much statistically uncertain that it's borderline meaningless.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Luna oi! (Vietnamese youtuber) did a video on a ""statistic"" by the Pew Research Center saying something like "95% of Vietnamese like capitalism!"

obviously misinformation, but she went ahead and translated the original Vietnamese question in English as something like "do you think the Doi Moi reforms were beneficial to Vietnam?". which like jfc of course they were lol

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I don't have the energy for this now. Just know it fucking sucks, plenty of people for some reason still believe in the American dream. And don't get me started on the boomers, of god the fucking boomers. All of the dickride the US and everything American like their life depends on it, and every single time I have to give those delusional idiots a reality check only for them to ignore it anyway ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

I hate it here.

Also, do not ever summon the hexbear skinwalker account. That's very dangerous, you could've died.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If I had to guess, "Ronald Reagan destroyed the Soviet Union and is therefore a hero" type of brainworms

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes. We have streets named after him.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What's surprising? Poland's national and foundational myths since 1990 are basically "le ontologically evil Ruzzians have oppressed my poor nation for all of human history and they're worse than the Nazis, thank god (literally) that we saved ourselves from thay by joining the liberal west".

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So much so, that when walking with one aqueintance and stumbling upon a little free library to find a children's book for learning Russian I was shocked to my core.

Oh cute, that's pretty nice. Could use it, if it were in better condition.

"Why would you like to know the language of the enemy?"

I was stumped. What the fuck does one say in this situation?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

That's fucking sad... But yeah, I can honestly imagine some relatives of mine having the same reaction if I wanted to learn Arabic (I'm Spanish). Our revisionist foundational myth of Reconquista is extremely deeply rooted in society and it's very islamophobic and eurocentrist

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's weird even if you buy into that propaganda, because learning the language of the enemy was always important.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

That was my response then, I asked her "What, and German wasn't useful in 1942?"

I don't remember the conversation past that point. Must've dozed off after the initial shock.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Yeah Polish culture is like the forefront of NAFOism

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Correct, except it goes back not 30 but 1000 years into the past (with some changes who is the big western brother usually).

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

now lets see the methodology.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

It is me, Tunisia

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The only americans who deserve to feel optimism are the ones eagerly anticipating its downfall. amerikkka

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Rare Turkish W

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Did they only call people who speak English in South America?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Don't know about other South American countries, but Colombia (and Colombians) has always been very eager to lick the boot of the US. It's no surprise it's one of the only countries in the continent to never have had an openly left wing president or policies until Petro in 2020. Hating the US is something mostly leftists do, and because of the civil war, being a full-on leftist is a bad look for most Colombians.

There's a Colombian comedian who says that Colombians hate being Colombian, and always aspire to be of some other nationality, but it varies which one by class: High-class Colombians aspire to be and act like they're European, Middle class Colombians aspire to be American, and very poor Colombians aspire to be Mexican. It feels really true that a lot of people fall into the trap of wanting shit just because it's from the US, and thinking anything that's not popular there is therefore bad, like cars or phones.

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