Donald Trump had to have cheated the election.

Post Reply New Topic

Hmmm, does most of the world really blame ALL Americans, or is it widely recognized that Americans are divided?

I don't really know. I don't hang out on social media a lot, nor do I consistently keep up with all international news, but I do know I've seen quite a few articles on British and Canadian websites that did talk about how divided Americans are. Dunno how representative those articles are of the beliefs, of most people in those countries, about Americans.

I guess I spend too much time reading comments on websites like Reddit and Quora that are openly hostile towards anything uncritical of Americans or anything critical of China, Islamic Extremism, or Marxism.

It's also all I ever see in the comments section of many news articles like The New York Times.

At the very least it would be worth reminding yourself that comment sections are likely to attract the people who are most vocal about a topic, and that the most vocal aren't always the most informed or the best capable of understanding and expressing nuances of a topic.

If you want to see Reddit hate on Marxism, bring it up in r/conservative, but bear in mind most of the criticism will be uninformed and utterly devoid of nuance because being vocal and being informed aren't always the same. Different sections of Reddit form different echo chambers but the echo chamber effect is real across all of Reddit.

Likewise, there's loads of valid criticisms of the US, but you'll also encounter a lot of uninformed and devoid of nuance criticisms of the US if you're reading the comments below a news article or just skimming social media.

I have to completely avoid all conservative comments now to preserve what is left of my sanity. I find conservatives to be very mean and cruel and nasty all the time and always angry at everything. The media is pretty bad now in the USA and its very hard to avoid bad news. I try to avoid Reddit now as its become a cesspool.

Btw, didnt the US also get dragged into World War 2 by the Allies even though the majority of Americans at that time didnt want to be involved in that war until Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese?

Oh and there's plenty of mean and nasty comments coming from the left too. Believe me.

Maybe I'll make a hobby of saving screenshots of some of the ones I find and posting them.