[gchokov]

The world is slowly moving away from the US. It's interesting because this administration main goal was to MAGA.. but it happened quite the opposite thing. It turns out, the world doesn't need much of the US products and services.

[GJim]

Here is some hard data to back that up; the Country Perceptions Index.

https://www.niradata.com/country-perceptions

[Imustaskforhelp]

This was interesting but it seems that it requires me to access to properly see the data of all countries (which requires me to contact them basically and perhaps be a business, not sure)

I would find it interesting if you can share with me hopefully a less restrictive chart than this. The data does seem interesting to me.

[GJim]

Here you go.

https://www.niradata.com/global-country-perceptions-2026

(From the above, following the link to free sample for USA data is very revealing. )

[Imustaskforhelp]

Thanks the data is interesting.

The net perception of US among its top trading partners being all negative seems a clear indicator.

Sad that niradata has paywalled rest of the data because I was interested in the rabbit hole of comparing different countries. From the data:

Across the 84 countries that evaluated the United States, 22 had a net positive perception, while 62 had a net negative perception. The average net perception of the United States is negative (-16), ranking #128 out of 132 countries.

[tialaramex]

The key word is "again". This was a nostalgia play, America was a big deal fifty years ago, therefore just wind back to fifty years ago and we're "Great Again".

This play seems insane because Time's Arrow points only one way, but it succeeded (in the sense that people supported it) because it's predicated on Facts Aren't True. It doesn't matter that Time's Arrow points future-ward, that's just a Fact not a Truth so we can just disagree.

Facts Aren't True can actually work for stuff where all you're doing is messing with people. Your Courts are just people and they can reject observable reality and substitute your own Truth with the Kavanaugh Stop, a week in jail becomes "brief" and your skin colour becomes "reasonable suspicion" for example. Your executives can pay themselves huge bonuses for imaginary success while concretely the company fails and eventually collapses. Stock markets can soar as the real economy they're "reflecting" buckles and fails.

"Facts Aren't True" is a stupid choice because unlike the people, Mother Nature doesn't give a shit about your Truth. So America won't actually become Great Again, but it is able to delude itself about this at a cost to its standing in the world and to its own future.

[MagicMoonlight]

What are you talking about? The US is something like 70% of global company value. The whole world revolves around it.

[GJim]

Your comment can be summed up by appearing to know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.