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Well, the same frailties and socio-biological forces exist on all sides of the ocean. We are all lulled into entrenchments in defensive comfort, as are Americans. Right now, America is projecting an erratic personality and a chaotic power hunger. This makes people feel fear and disgust. While it is indeed a nation of many states, and of many people of many creeds, from the outside world it operates as a singular power, all in the hands of an unpredictable egotist.

america wants to conquer one of its closest allies again in canada, so the petty responses are well deserved.

also greenland, the next door over, and EU member

It is a stronger rage than you allude to. The world is smoldering in a rage at American hubris exemplified by Trump and his sycophants. One cannot literally insult and attack the entire world on the declining phase of having been the most dominant visible global power for several generations and then leverage this hatred away as a negotiating tactic. The world outside any nation is a vast non-homogenous place one can hardly generalize about, yet there is a palpable frustration the world over with cantankerous American obstructionism and hubris, as exemplified by Trump. We never once said thank you to the nations we dragged over into Afghanistan, or sorry for imperialisticly and illegally invading Iraq, and now we have a president who not only takes this all for granted, but expects the entire world to kiss his feet like imperial subjects.

Absolutely no human, let alone nations full of them, will thank you for humiliation and attempting to grind them into the dust. This is not a negotiation tactic you can walk back.

The world is most certainly not taking advantage of a naive USA. Most of the world alleges the opposite FWIW

It's not just Trump, a lot of people voted for him despite all that was known about him and his plans. A lot of politicians still support him and help him drive his insane agenda. So yes, I think blaming the US as a whole is not unfair. And it's not like people outside can target Trump specifically anyway.

The damage is large inside the US, but all this crazy stuff hurts everyone around the globe economically. And even that pales compared to the threats that e.g. Canada received with the 51st state bullshit.

To be fair, that's standard treatment that has been unilaterally pushed by the US to other nations; their geopolitics can be a bit like Mean Girls:

- "That country is NOT allowing our companies to exploit their citizens? Nobody give them any food until they kill-off their leader."

I grew up in country whose neighbour country speeks the same language, but has roughly 10 times the population.

What people in big countries do not realize is just how much their internal affairs radiate outwards. And this creates an atmosphere of:

  small: "I know everything about you"
  big: "I don't even know who you are" 
 

When the big one, now on top of overlooking you actively gives you shit for not being a good neighbour (despite feeling to have been at the short end of the stick for decades), you will have a rally around the flag effect of gargantuan proportions.

I have learned over the years that the US is a huge, diverse and multi-layered phenomenom, so it deserves some nuance. But as an European I feel Trump and his minions giving us shit for e.g. US car manufacturers doing nothing to try to appeal to the European market (except for rebranding asian cars and whatever the fuck the PT cruiser was meant to be) is really a bit rich.

Most Europeans always felt their political leadership relied too much on the US, not because we extracted value from that, but because it was comfy to not have to think for yourself. They even tried to paper over the abuse of trust that came to light in the Snowden revalations (How would the US have reacted if the Germans had hacked the phone of the POTUS?).

Now with an openly hostile and erratic US president (EU offered a 0-tarrif deal to Trump before he introduced "retaliatory" ones) people feel less inclined to talk good about an already asymmetrical relationship.

Trump doesn't want partners, he wants vassal states. And if you really want those you either have to (A) use miltary force or (B) give them some psychological fig leaf they can use to convince themselves they are not indeed vassals.

Trump took the open secret of the fig leaf away and mocked Europe for accepting it in the first place. And the European population feels their trust is breached.

I don't say I like it to be that way or that the feelings are 100% justified, but that is the cause of the sentiment.

You may be right but it did not align with my experience as an Indian applying for a German, French and Swiss visa.

I'm originally not from a rich country.

Before I became a Swedish citizen I never had a bad experience traveling back into Schengen, border agents were always cordial even on the instances where they were stern and serious. Even had nice interactions sometimes, at Schiphol with Dutch agents once they were quite funny, and light-hearted.

Every single time I traveled into the USA I experienced CBP agents being rude and suspicious, treating people like cattle on immigration lines, being talked down when being questioned, etc. The experience applying for my B1/B2 was also really annoying, not a great one being interviewed and grilled by a consul.

It's definitely different to go through USA's borders than most other places I traveled to.

I did it in different European countries.

In all cases it was a good experience. The process was more or less straightforward, and I was treated with respect (and in some cases kindness) by the public servants I dealt with.

Not once I was treated like I was an unwelcome guest.

Was show shocked/disappointed when I went to China. It was such a more welcoming experience every time I have come back to the USA. I expected China to be the one that felt more authoritarian. Coming back from the border with Canada after camping it was known that if you simply annoyed border patrol they would make you unpack all of your camping gear and waste 3-4 hours (I'm talking about known among young families with kids that just want to go camping).

From my experience as an American I have never had the kind of hostility, the power trip, the 'why are you worthy to be here' that I receive coming home be experienced in any other nation.

Nationally, there are less than 10% of incarcerated people in private prisons. This number starts to vary widely from state to state though, with some states having more than 50% and some having 0%.

Well, it will definitely benefit the people listed in the article and their friends at contractor companies. As for economic or moral aspects - those in power to not give a flying fcuk, it seems.

Then why do you not have a full open-order policy? It will definitely grow the nominal size of the economy

Can you see how this comes across as double speak?

Let's hope they don't get with I.G. Farben for their 'expertise'.

I'm not joking at this point.

Even in your own country you’re viewed the same way, it’s just that your database entry has higher privileges. I mean this universally, no particular country in mind.

Well, although this particular quote is from a book from 2010, Terry Pratchett had been writing about these kinds of problems for decades at that point too, so that fits. For example, in Reaper Man from 1991 shopping malls were invasive parasitical life-forms from another universe.

It's also the topic that has the least literacy and understanding or even coherent debate.

Most developed nations are going to have to choose the lesser of several "evils" very soon and there's almost no serious discussion of what the options actually are.

Wow! Thank you for sharing this! I probably never would have heard of it otherwise, having had to focus so much of my energies on America lately.

The need that immigrant labour is filling is the need for businesses to pay labour less. Without it wages would rise and the labour market would benefit (at the expense of business). I think the reason we’re seeing so much anger by voters is we’re running our economy to benefit business at the expense of labour, which is why we’re seeing such a strong reaction against immigration by a large portion of the working class. It’s misplaced anger, but Capitalism is our religion and like Christianity it’s been deemed beyond criticism.

Yeah, like Biden open-border policy to let in millions of illegals that received SSN based on an App Login, without any vetting, sure is what USA needs.

Grandma's generation was the same one that filled in their community pool with concrete rather than share it with black kids.

Grandma's generation shut down schools, clubs, community events, parks, etc, rather than share those things with black kids.

"Cut your nose to spite the brown kids" has kind of been their consistent position their entire lives.

"Someone is stealing my job" always works, even when the second most pressing issue is "nobody wants to work (this underpaid menial job) anymore".

We're finally getting an answer to "how could such a thing happen". The answer is pretty simple: We think of history distinctly different than current events, ourselves as more enlightened and of our peers as more capable of calling it. And besides, it'd be really inconvenient if we actually had fascism, so why not ignore it until it's on the news or something.