Do Americans really know how much the world hates us?

61 points by D-R-AZ 2 hours ago on reddit | 24 comments

[OP] D-R-AZ | 2 hours ago

Excerpt:

... “net perception” of the U.S. around the world has fallen by an astonishing 38 percentage points in the last two years, from a plus-22 rating to minus-16.

Chuhaimaster | 2 hours ago

It’s funny how when you start stabbing allies in the back and telling the world to fuck off, they start hating you.

vismundcygnus34 | 2 hours ago

What media would let us know?

FoxyInTheSnow | an hour ago

steauengeglase | 13 minutes ago

Salon has been 31 years of:

-Articles from the Postmodernism Generator. [Working for them was basically free drugs when MDMA was hot.]
-The tragedy of the Southernization of America.
-"We mourn the death of another New Left icon."
-Reminding Americans that they don't know how much the world hates them.

CarpeNivem | 59 minutes ago

Our own media shows clips of Trump talking all the time. So does Twitter. And especially Truth Social. No one is hiding him.

Just watch Trump be Trump and realize, of course everyone hates that. It's detestable behavior. Who wouldn't hate that? Ya know, aside from a plurality of American voters, of course, but they're well aware the rest of the country hates them, and revel in it. Surely they know the rest of the world, in addition to the rest of the country, also hates them. And surely, they revel in that too.

R3miel7 | 2 hours ago

No matter how much the world hates Americans, Americans will hate Americans more

Born_Barnacle7793 | an hour ago

The world ends us somewhere between Branson and Terra Haute for most Americans.

Kaelin | an hour ago

Most Americans don’t think about “the world” at all.

baskaat | 55 minutes ago

Sadly, you are correct.

Emperormike1st | 43 minutes ago

Honestly, no, I don't know. However, I can imagine because I know just how much I hate us.

ARocketToMars | 41 minutes ago

Of course not lol, the average American still thinks 9/11 happened because "terrorists hate our freedom" rather than it being predictable blowback from decades of attrocities. Even today, the average American who does recognize the world hates us probably assumes its because of Trump and not due to said attrocities (as shown by the milquetoast analysis in the article)

The extent that Americans are sheltered from what our government does overseas represents one of the most successful propaganda campaigns to ever exist.

Vegetable_Quote_4807 | 33 minutes ago

Yep. Just about as much as intelligent Americans hate this regime.

thinkB4WeSpeak | 46 minutes ago

Stop vacationing here then, for real. Force the US to have an economic squeeze. Same with tech companies and products.

wanderinggoat | 20 minutes ago

That over estimates how many people are tourists going to America and also makes in easier for Americans to be ignorant about the rest of the world. Which leads to silly attitudes like "they hate us because they are jealous of our freedom"

Bodoblock | 16 minutes ago

Our economy isn't very tourism dependent. It would hurt if there were larger scale boycotts of American products but our tech products, in particular, genuinely are best-in-class with few replacements at an enterprise scale.

Europe's tech sector is weak. China's is growing but not yet fully internationalized. It's not very feasible to go cold turkey on the US and our goods. Though they admittedly could be trying harder.

CaliJudoJitsu | an hour ago

Classic Reddit post right here.

IpeeInclosets | 2 hours ago

America ain't living rent free in starving and oppressed peoples minds.

I'm  Amero-centric as much as the next neocon, but this is kinda ridiculous

nuckle | an hour ago

We know.

It's funny the rest of the world thinks we sit around crying all day because England hates us. We don't give a fuck.

NegotiationOne7880 | an hour ago

When you need us we will not be there for you. Witness Iran. Your “president” is a psycho who only knows how to take and destroy things and while the world is moving on he is obsessed with replicating Nazi Germany. And I can’t imagine how those numb nuts who still support him are such masochists that they enjoy getting f*cked up the ass as long as others suffer more. America this is who you are and you can all just get stuffed.

liquorandacid | 44 minutes ago

It's interesting to me when people talk about Americans this way, as if the country is a monolith. When you say "you can all just get stuffed," are you also talking about the marginalized and terrorized Americans who have fought and scraped for generations to achieve their rights and are now actively targeted by the state and its rabid minority of supporters? Black Americans, queer Americans, Native Americans, Mexican Americans, the list goes on? Yeah, the bullshit in the white house is a facet of the country's identity. It's rot. But it isn't all there is.

Idc