lol using the 35 country median of 31% negative because the average is 35% negative
It makes sense in cases where a single billionaire throws out the average income in an area, not, say, to disregard a country of people who were invaded by the US or it's proxy for a chart on "global" opinions.
They're just using the preferable data. They'd use the average if it was better.
Outlires? like those whacky pesky australians lol, you can account for outlires without resorting to this lazy, cheap cherry picking. Gotta delude yourself to remain optimistic I guess.
I asked my friends if I was a cool dude and the majority said I was
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
We knock back brewskis and talk about woodworking and Cindy Crawford
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.
Before we rumble with another crew, we practice our song and dance number with snapping fingers. As a NT, I can confirm this is what we do when you guys aren't looking.
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.
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
Oh look the sub that tries to greenwash the realities of climate change so they can have brunch isn't in tune with reality
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.
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"
The sub name itself is pathetic. It's pathetic enough being a r*dditor. But it's extra pathetic to join a sub called "Optimists unite!" as if you're part of some superhero team. I can only assume their sole form of media consumption is Marvel movies and Marvel mobile games.
I'm sad about that tbh, Poland has so much potential, it's produced some of my favourite artistic expressions in the form of music through bands like Riverside or Coma. I hope things will eventually change
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.
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!"
Can that be a thing whenever chuds in politics propose anything remotely fashy? In any non-US Anglo country, just call them ‘Americans’.
Some TERF is running their mouth in the UK about how trans people are bad? Just exclaim “what are we a bunch of yanks?” instantly destroyed.
Sadly, it's usually used in the opposite way, the TERF will go "at least we're not as bad as the yanks" to justify their own shitty behaviour.
Nah there's a lot of hatred for the US in all the other anglophone nations.
yeah but it's not rooted in some principled stand, it's because we're the funhouse mirror that lets other genocidal settler colonies (or the genocidal mothership herself) off the hook for as long as we're around. "oh no, the mean americans are making me do a genocide again, oh no"
death to america by all means but let's not pretend most of the australians marking "disapprove" didn't do so because the nasty seppos with the school shootings make them feel better about their own settler violence
We generally don't like Americans as a group, but will bend over backwards to say how our individual yankee mate from uni is actually a decent person if you get used to them. It's more from a sense of cultural inadequacy than actually having any cogent objections to the American empire (for the average person it's posited that America may be a big bully but they're our big bully against the inscrutable *rientals)
A lot of Australians "patriots" oppose the yankification of Australia
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.
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
the number #1 freest bestest richest most democratic amazing melting pot country is cherry-picked to be "generally favorable" at best... how telling
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.
If I had to guess, "Ronald Reagan destroyed the Soviet Union and is therefore a hero" type of brainworms
Friendship ended with Poland
Now Lithuania is my favourite half of the Poland-Lithuania Commonwealth
Do they...do they know Americans have mostly given up on the American Dream? Like zoomers will call themselves "doomers" for a reason.
No they don't, they live stuck in the 80s and 90s. They're really weird.
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".
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?
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
It's weird even if you buy into that propaganda, because learning the language of the enemy was always important.
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.
Correct, except it goes back not 30 but 1000 years into the past (with some changes who is the big western brother usually).
I mean, I'd bet it wasn't the case (from the point of view of state propaganda) 50 years ago during communist Poland. Btw mate I see you around here plenty and I always appreciate your input, I hope you don't mind me saying things about Poland. I also wanted to ask you if you know the band Riverside, or the song by Coma called something like "zaprszepaszone sily vielkey army swietich znakow" or something like that, some of my favourite music ever
Yes, there was pause for socialism from that idiocy. Socialist PM Cyrankiewicz even said something like iirc "Poland was historically always hostile to Russia and dependent on Germany. And if socialism will be destroyed, soon after it will be back like this".
No, i don't know neither Riverside nor Coma
if only life was that simple