I don’t know about Bush, but the people who voted for Trump decidedly did not do well enough with Obama. Radical wealth redistribution is necessary to fix American society and Obama was not that.

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That’s true, but also not relevant.

I mean most of their immediate neighbors do hate them for the most part (Pakistan being a notable exception), and other than Russia and North Korea don’t really have allies, but they do have cordial relationships with quite a few countries. More importantly though, their non-flashy foreign policy also doesn’t make enemies. America’s escapades in the Middle East and South America have earned them worldwide scathing hatred China could never match.

And when it comes to Taiwan I’d say it is flashy.

There’s certainly a lot of saber rattling, but with very little action to back it up.

I mean the pyramids were wholly improductive multi-decade undertakings, so that’s not making the point you think it’s making.

Not only would China fare even better, I suspect that it’d be much harder to say that America’s reputation is falling apart, because it’d be clear that most (or at least a good chunk) of the world hates America no matter who is in charge. I find it weird that articles like these try to paint a global narrative using data only from countries that were favored by past admins, and which would therefore be most likely to negatively react to Trump’s isolationist agenda.

Noble gases go from 0 to 100 real quick.

Away from China’s what? China being basically an information blackhole and their foreign policy not being very flashy means there’s usually little to pay attention to in the first place.

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In its latest survey of 24 countries,

Holy Eurocentrism batman.

So that would be the lower limit.

Why would it be the limit? Couldn’t you keep stuffing more and more energy and get a bigger black hole? Also would such a blackhole move at the speed of light?

Thr court has no obligation to delay unless they really believe the genocide is fine

He’s been using every trick in the book, and some not in the book, to delay his trial, but yeah it boils down to this. A lot of how he’s been able to get this far hinges on the courts and Knesset recognizing the so-called security needs of Israel.

I’m honestly torn between whether I want to see Netanyahu behind bars for the rest of his life or right where he is destroying Israel from the inside.

Obligatory this is not medical advice, but what happens if you “say,” for example, “eat shit, Sarah, I don’t care about you”?

It has nothing to do with bigotry and everything to do with unaccountable authority.

I mean, they’re two sides of the same coin. Authority capitalizes on bigotry (and division, more broadly) to avoid accountability.

But I’m charmed by how they describe Japan as a nation where omnipresent surveillance is still not considered normal. This wasn’t the case with the EU 5 or 10 years ago.

Fair enough.

I mean, one look at Japanese work culture should be all demonstration you need for that.

The only reason Japan isn’t in the same boat as America and Europe (yet, far-right parties are slowly rising in popularity) is that they never got on the immigration train, so their population is mostly homogenous and there are few things for bigots to complain about. Of course, this came with a price; the dismal state of Japan’s industry, academia and economy compared to other first-world countries is at least partially due to their rejection of immigrants. Of course, they can’t keep this up forever, which is why they’ve been recently allowing more immigrants in, fueling the rise of the far-right. Unless they can change rapidly, what Japan is “enjoying” now is the calm before the storm. “Still has something appearing to be a democracy” is how the EU was described five years ago.

And that’s pretty cool, seems like a culture best suited for modern challenges.

I mean, looking at the Lost Decades it seems to be quite the opposite. Sometimes it helps to take things slow, but other times you really have to think “come on get on with the times already”.

In that case anime is your best friend. Well, and any other Japanese video content. Even with subtitles it helps your ears get used to the language.

Small tip: でも can only be used to start a sentence; for connecting two halves of a sentence you should use けど or が depending on formality level.

China is the answer. Nobody does anything about North Korea for the same reason China doesn’t invade Taiwan.