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Pew Sept 15: it's the

artappraiser — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 01:46:27 +0000

In reply to ‘I Feel Sorry for Americans’: A Baffled World Watches the U.S.

Pew Sept 15: it's the handling of covid, stupids--

U.S. Image Plummets Internationally as Most Say Country Has Handled Coronavirus Badly

Ratings for Trump remain poor

BY RICHARD WIKE, JANELL FETTEROLF AND MARA MORDECAI

Since Donald Trump took office as president, the image of the United States has suffered across many regions of the globe. As a new 13-nation Pew Research Center survey illustrates, America’s reputation has declined further over the past year among many key allies and partners. In several countries, the share of the public with a favorable view of the U.S. is as low as it has been at any point since the Center began polling on this topic nearly two decades ago [....]

Sometimes not worth the extra

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 26 Sep 2020 06:58:46 +0000

In reply to yeah sorry I made a mess

Sometimes not worth the extra time - normally you post better organized than me.
Doesn't matter, just tips in case you didn't know.
(I deleted the extra 2 from you & me on Belarus yesterday because it was already a mess, hard to read - that's mostly what I care about)

yeah sorry I made a mess

artappraiser — Sat, 26 Sep 2020 05:53:45 +0000

In reply to On threads you can click

yeah sorry I made a mess there, I do know most of the stuff you suggest, don't know what I did this time to cause all the hierarchical copying, maybe just spaced out.

On threads you can click

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 26 Sep 2020 05:42:00 +0000

In reply to Mexico, perhaps more than any

On threads you can click/highlight #2 to then get embed cod for 1&2, click 4 to embed 3&4, etc. Saves the repeats.

Also, if you want to change the lede in the Dagblog In the News, typed in the 1st 14 chars or so in the 1st embed lede - that'll get overwritten in what appears in the actual story (the script imports all these stories from Twitter as soon as you click "Post", but the lede to the right takes the first part from the initial posting before imports)

Mexico, perhaps more than any

artappraiser — Sat, 26 Sep 2020 03:25:44 +0000

In reply to ‘I Feel Sorry for Americans’: A Baffled World Watches the U.S.

Mexico, perhaps more than any other country, has been the target of President Trump’s ire. Now, people there are feeling a new emotion that has overtaken their anger and bewilderment at his insults: sympathy. https://t.co/xInLNzFSSE pic.twitter.com/9wSXX3AuM6
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 25, 2020

A similar sentiment prevails in Canada, where two out of three Canadians live within about 60 miles of the American border. https://t.co/xInLNzFSSE pic.twitter.com/WrVORnHahc
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 25, 2020

There’s also a sense around the globe that Americans are getting a glimpse of the troubles people living in fragile democracies endure. https://t.co/xInLNzFSSE pic.twitter.com/6bCnWc4z4w
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 25, 2020

The diminution of the U.S. global image began before the pandemic. Now, though, its reputation seems to be in free-fall.

“The most powerful country in the world," one person said, "all of a sudden looks vulnerable."

Read more. https://t.co/xInLNzFSSE
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 25, 2020