Poll of the Day > it must suck to have the whole world hate your entire existence

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Are you talking about Mr. President?
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I don't think there's ever been a single human alive who's been hated by EVERYONE.
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I wouldn't know.

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EclairReturns posted...

Are you talking about Mr. President?

He's only hated by half the world, not the whole world.

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I'm a cis-gendered straight white male, ama

ComradeSeraphim posted...

He's only hated by half the world, not the whole world.

way more than half the world hates that fucker

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DDirtyDastard posted...

I'm a cis-gendered straight white male, ama

whats it like to be a cissy

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

I don't think there's ever been a single human alive who's been hated by EVERYONE.

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Mead posted...

way more than half the world hates that fucker

Most of the world is relatively apathetic about that fucker.

Ironically, the real hate for him mostly just comes from the US (and to a lesser extent, North America in general and the UK). His impact really isn't as strong globally as you'd think based on people screaming about him on Twitter.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Most of the world is relatively apathetic about that fucker.

Ironically, the real hate for him mostly just comes from the US (and to a lesser extent, North America in general and the UK). His impact really isn't as strong globally as you'd think based on people screaming about him on Twitter.

prove your words

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

I don't think there's ever been a single human alive who's been hated by EVERYONE.

Not even Hitler, and he's probably as close as you can get to a universally hated guy. Apparently in addition to some dictators, racists, and eugenicists liking him, he supposedly has a following in Thailand for some bizarre reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_imagery_in_Thailand

Granted, if more people knew Heliy, I'm sure he'd be pretty hated =p He does a lot of obnoxious shit, after all, like making this topic.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Most of the world is relatively apathetic about that fucker.

Ironically, the real hate for him mostly just comes from the US (and to a lesser extent, North America in general and the UK). His impact really isn't as strong globally as you'd think based on people screaming about him on Twitter.

Also this. Biased parties try to gin up the appearance of international opinion on presidents to advance their narrative. While America's president is generally going to be the best-known world leader, the average person in their own country isn't huge on their politics let alone another country's.

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this isn't the harry potter board, oops

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Actually Dolores Umbridge immediately came to mind.

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even castro wasn't universally hated, biden didn't.
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keyblader1985 posted...

Actually Dolores Umbridge immediately came to mind.

I think that character is so easy to hate simply because there are so many people like that irl

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keyblader1985 posted...

Actually Dolores Umbridge immediately came to mind.

It's canon that she spends the rest of her life in Azkaban. My headcanon is that every time she's up for parole, Harry comes to the hearing, and when it's denied, just smirks at her as she's led off.

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Mead posted...

prove your words

Prove yours? After all, it's easier to prove a positive than a negative. And you're effectively arguing that billions of people from every region in the entire world have actively voiced a negative opinion on the subject. So evidence should apparently be easy for you to provide?

But answer me sincerely - do you really think the average poor person in China or India gives a single solitary fuck what he says or thinks? Sure, their governments might, but the majority of the people aren't going to care unless he does something that specifically affects them in a direct and meaningful way. And people in more rural or less technological areas (as well as places where information is more directly controlled or restricted) aren't really going to have the information to form an opinion about him.

Mexico and Canada have strong opinions because they're the most influenced by US policy. Europe tends to have opinions because Europe has opinions about everything. Most of the rest of the world... not so much. There've been polls that imply Eastern Europe tends to be relatively neutral to outright positive towards him, and Asian countries outside of China tend to be fairly high (at one point, he had higher approval ratings in Japan than he did in the US, something skirting towards 80% approval).

And in at least some polls that measure disapproval rather than asking people if they specifically approve of someone (which is a more accurate measure of what we're talking about here anyway), he's never really been as bad as the Internet would lead you to believe (even in the US, he barely breaks more than 50% negative most of the time, and his global numbers tend to hover closer to 40%).

The problem is, the only opinions people in the US tend to pay attention to are ones from Canada and Western Europe. And those are the places where people are most vociferously negative. Doubly so if you're only hearing those opinions from people on the Internet, where most public social messaging sites tend to skew strongly left regardless.

Like it or not, the entire world isn't united by hatred for the orange goblin. And believing that everyone hates him is why people got blindsided the LAST time he got elected... and may provide an incredibly rude awakening for a lot of people in a few months when he might be able to manage getting elected again.

It's easy to go "Oh, everyone intelligent who's paying attention hates him, and anyone who supports him is an idiot", but that doesn't really SOLVE anything. That sort of complacency is what makes things like this possible in the first place.
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DiScOrD tHe LuNaTiC posted...

It's canon that she spends the rest of her life in Azkaban. My headcanon is that every time she's up for parole, Harry comes to the hearing, and when it's denied, just smirks at her as she's led off.

It's also implied canon that she was repeatedly gang-raped by centaurs. So, you know, prison might be the least of her concerns.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

It's also implied canon that she was repeatedly gang-raped by centaurs. So, you know, prison might be the least of her concerns.

I mean, you guys are making me think about reading the rest of the harry potter books now. I guess it got more adult later on lolz. Waaaay more interesting now.

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Zeus posted...

Not even Hitler, and he's probably as close as you can get to a universally hated guy. Apparently in addition to some dictators, racists, and eugenicists liking him, he supposedly has a following in Thailand for some bizarre reason.

The Roman Catholic Church also liked him for quite some time before the relationship fell apart.

The only data I could find said in January (aka before his horrible covid response) that 64% of the world had no confidence in him, while 29% had confidence in him and that favorable opinions towards the US are down from when Obama was in office but still slightly above 50%.

Not exactly sure of the criteria or accuracy of that data but it's all I found. Anecdotally, when I talk to anyone online in games thats not from the US, they either hate trump or think he is hilariously incompetent and they wonder what is wrong with us for voting him into office. That's obviously almost entirely from english speaking people though and the sample size is too small.

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Prove yours? After all, it's easier to prove a positive than a negative. And you're effectively arguing that billions of people from every region in the entire world have actively voiced a negative opinion on the subject. So evidence should apparently be easy for you to provide?

But answer me sincerely - do you really think the average poor person in China or India gives a single solitary fuck what he says or thinks? Sure, their governments might, but the majority of the people aren't going to care unless he does something that specifically affects them in a direct and meaningful way. And people in more rural or less technological areas (as well as places where information is more directly controlled or restricted) aren't really going to have the information to form an opinion about him.

Mexico and Canada have strong opinions because they're the most influenced by US policy. Europe tends to have opinions because Europe has opinions about everything. Most of the rest of the world... not so much. There've been polls that imply Eastern Europe tends to be relatively neutral to outright positive towards him, and Asian countries outside of China tend to be fairly high (at one point, he had higher approval ratings in Japan than he did in the US, something skirting towards 80% approval).

And in at least some polls that measure disapproval rather than asking people if they specifically approve of someone (which is a more accurate measure of what we're talking about here anyway), he's never really been as bad as the Internet would lead you to believe (even in the US, he barely breaks more than 50% negative most of the time, and his global numbers tend to hover closer to 40%).

The problem is, the only opinions people in the US tend to pay attention to are ones from Canada and Western Europe. And those are the places where people are most vociferously negative. Doubly so if you're only hearing those opinions from people on the Internet, where most public social messaging sites tend to skew strongly left regardless.

Like it or not, the entire world isn't united by hatred for the orange goblin. And believing that everyone hates him is why people got blindsided the LAST time he got elected... and may provide an incredibly rude awakening for a lot of people in a few months when he might be able to manage getting elected again.

It's easy to go "Oh, everyone intelligent who's paying attention hates him, and anyone who supports him is an idiot", but that doesn't really SOLVE anything. That sort of complacency is what makes things like this possible in the first place.

now THIS is a PO post

you make a lot of good points

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i meant to post this on the harry potter board stop

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wait which harry potter character is the topic about

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ParanoidObsessive posted...

It's also implied canon that she was repeatedly gang-raped by centaurs. So, you know, prison might be the least of her concerns.

Maybe if you have a dark mind.
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Revelation34 posted...

Maybe if you have a dark mind.

i mean she probably enjoyed it tbh

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I transform hate into love.

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Hard to hate someone you never met. I heard saddam hussein was almost a father figure to those who imprisoned where they no his actions but the man they met dont seem the same

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Trump pardoned Susan B Anthony - women most affected?

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Lokarin posted...

Trump pardoned Susan B Anthony - women most affected?

It's a pattern. Every time something comes out which makes him look bad, he says something outrageous (well, more outrageous than usual) on Twitter, or does something showy but ultimately meaningless (like this) to drown out the thing he doesn't like.

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Lokarin posted...

Trump pardoned Susan B Anthony - women most affected?

The dude teased it like he was pardoning some controversial figure like assange or something. Nope just a lady who's been dead for over a century lol. Pathetic pandering. Quit trying to impress sjws, trump. They're going to hate you no matter what

Revelation34 posted...

Maybe if you have a dark mind.

nah, it's pretty heavily implied.

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helIy posted...

nah, it's pretty heavily implied.

Nah.
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Mead posted...

now THIS is a PO post

you make a lot of good points

I pass the baton of long posts on to PO at this point, I have lost my ability to fill a page with interesting information, but PO is doing the good work. Carry on my friend.

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wolfy42 posted...

I pass the baton of long posts on to PO at this point, I have lost my ability to fill a page with interesting information, but PO is doing the good work. Carry on my friend.

Huh? PO posts have been making massive posts forever, this ain't new.

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