Comment by _carbyau_
17 hours ago
On the one hand the comment was highly emotive and out of line.
But the basic point does stand that the US has not done itself many favours in worldwide relations recently.
Think of all of the people worldwide associating "US war with Iran" and their personal living cost inflation.
With a large population the US surely has many nice/intelligent/courageous/competent people.
Not very many of them are visibly meaningfully active to the rest of the world however.
There have been some pretty large protests and such, but US citizens were definitely not prepared for what happened to them in 2024. The US government has operated for our lifetimes on voluntary norms that were casually accepted as if they were law. People still haven't figured out how to effectively deal with a bad actor that has the full power of the executive and no restraint. Aside from yelling, nobody knows what to do other than wait for the next election.