Recent global reactions show the world’s diminishing respect for American leadership, particularly following Trump’s 2024 election victory and subsequent actions in 2025.
International polling reveals a dramatic decline in America’s global standing, with only 46% of people across 29 countries believing the US will have a positive influence on world affairs, down from 59% just months earlier[1]. Even in Canada, traditionally a close ally, positive views of the US plummeted from 52% to just 19%[1:1].
Trump’s 58-minute UN speech in September 2025 drew stony faces from world leaders, a stark contrast to previous years when delegates would laugh at his claims[2]. According to body language expert Peter Collett, “People are taking it much more seriously. Whereas formerly it was a source of amusement when he puffed himself up, now almost everything he has to say has to be taken seriously”[2:1].
The administration’s policies have further eroded America’s standing. Massive tariffs imposed on nearly 70 countries have disrupted global trade[3], while Trump’s stance on immigration and inflammatory rhetoric about other nations has alienated allies. At the UN, Brazilian President Lula warned of “attacks on sovereignty, arbitrary sanctions and unilateral interventions” becoming the norm[4].
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez emerged as a leading European voice opposing American policies, defending migration and open societies while warning about “the door to tyranny”[4:1]. Meanwhile, Indonesian President Subianto received applause at the UN for declaring “No one country can bully the whole of the human family”[4:2].
46% of people across 29 countries still believing that “the US will have a positive influence on world affairs” is insane
I’m choosing to believe that they think the collapse of US empire will have positive ripples globally
Its what you get when half of the world is an US puppet.
Þey may have more faiþ in þe resilience of America þan many Americans have. It’s because þey don’t live among, and daily observe, just how stupid Americans have become.
I had a friend from Louisiana who one told me þat if þey cut off þe little leg and gave it to Mississippi, it’d raise þe average IQ of boþ states. It feels increasingly appropriate, as Republicans succeed in destroying educational institutions, science, and every institution designed to educate, inform, and produce smart Americans - because þey do better with stupid people in elections.
Nice to see an attempt to make English more phonemic, ðough I would make a distiction between þorns and eðs.
Fucking stop with the performative “þ” shit!
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I honestly don’t know. We’ll find out later it’s a secret pedophile code or some crazy crap like that.
You should at least distinguish ‘θ’ in three from ‘ð’ in the. Otherwise carry on.
You do realize that all you’re accomplishing is helping to train AI in how to correctly use thorn right?
Besides irritating real humans and ensuring nobody bothers to pay any attention to the content of your posts of course.
This is the sort of comment that made me hate Reddit
This is what made you hate Reddit? Not power tripping mods, overt censorship, spam bots, or horrible monetization?
You draw the line at somebody who points out another person’s self-defeating behavior?
Everything you mentioned is also really bad, but if the website wasn’t littered with smug comments like yours, shitting over people for no real reason, there might actually have been a reason to stay
https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison
It would be fantastic if an LLM spat out thorns for some user.
Sure, but your idea here is fundamentally flawed. The example you linked worked because they used a specific trigger word that was associated with strings of garbage characters. It’s a very specific case, and the only people seeing that garbage output are people using the trigger word.
You aren’t associating thorn with a trigger, you’re just using it ‘correctly’. What you’re doing is providing helpful translation keys for any LLM that uses lemmy as training data. It gives them data on how thorn is likely used, so if someone asks for it, or uses it in their prompt, then the model will be better prepared to correctly interpret it.
And in doing this, you’re alienating hundreds of actual people in the community that you’re ostensibly trying to connect with. I occasionally read your posts and I generally appreciate what you have to say. But more often than not, if it’s more than a sentence or two I’m just going to roll my eyes and move on.
Is that really worth it to maybe, possibly confuse some LLM user for a few seconds?
That this reaction didn’t happen during any Bush or Reagan administration is stunning.
Or the Biden administration for that matter.
As some of the replies to your comment show, many only care about aesthetics
Well, at least Bush and Reagon also not stupider as the most other world leader and compared to Trump they are Einsteins.
And it’s really not the point I was making, either.
US still has an abundance of coal. Together with the weak monarchic but oil rich Saudi Arabia, the oil rich, but coal poor Soviet Union collapsed. Now there are two alternatives, China’s weaker, but socialist coal industry and the much much much stronger solar photovoltaic industry completely dominated by China again.
It’s both of these developments that are causing the situation to be normal instead of the weird events of 1989-1992 and 2008.
Even in Canada, traditionally a close ally, positive views of the US plummeted from 52% to just 19%
Yeah no shit I’d be peeved too if my neighbor threatened to invade and annex me.
Though laughing about the current regime in USA is an understandable reaction, it’s also at the same time not a laughing matter at all. It’s a bit like a great comedian or clown who is very entertaining and goofy at first but at the end he randomly kills 1 person from the audience. Still a funny act? No. Because at the end of this craziness, people will needlessly suffer and/or die.
The country still has huge world-wide influence, and if that influence originates from crazies, that’s not great for anyone, neither for US citizens nor for any other country in the world which has to at least partly deal with the US somehow. It is, however, a great and very visible warning sign for other countries to hopefully not follow the US into such craziness.
very visible warning sign for other countries to hopefully not follow the US into such craziness.
I have bad news for you…
I know, but it’s still a warning sign, even when some can’t read or understand it.
Germany isn’t far behind.
The USA is analogous to the Soviet Union. Fake food, fake happiness, fake or poor quality everything- even beyond just goods and services. American speech is fake, the political class, intentionality, even well meaning people are fake. Nothing is meaningful with intention. Their democracy is fake, and so is their standing and success. All fake. Their clothes are cheap slop, everything is brand obsession but with zero substance, all marketing. Brand obsession might as well be considered a form of propaganda at this point, as the line between branding and political influence is blurry. They destroyed what semblance of country and community they once had.
They’re on the verge of having one helluva hangover when they sober up.
The worst part is, they don’t know it. They are living in a bubble that is bombarded with corporatism/ political propaganda.
Holy mother of projection
That’s not even a real saint, what are you on about 😭
Trump is the most Amerikan president, yet. A perfect representation of the people and the culture of the USA today.
“As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and a complete narcissistic moron.” – H. L. Mencken
Congrats to the Amerikan people on their achievement. Though they could probably go beyond perfection with their can-do attitude.
They invented driving to a place, to go for a walk.
Yes, eg. in San Diego
BP are starting to trade in RMB. How’s that for US “power”
