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      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

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        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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          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.

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    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.

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    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

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      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.

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        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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      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.

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    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.

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      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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        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.

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      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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        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.

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          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.

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      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)

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

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      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.

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      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”.

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        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?

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          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

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            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.

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          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

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            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