Oh no, are profits in danger? Finally something the DNC can actually be bothered to care about.
Leopards ate my face!
Oh no, anyway…
The authors are conflating two issues. They mention the reduced tourism, but that is not about being anti-American. People are reasonably scared of getting locked up; why would anyone risk visiting the U.S. if they had another decent option (like, for example, any country that isn’t at war right now)? … And this is a totally different issue from boycotting American manufacturers. It’s about personal safety.
At the same time, the anti-American sentiment goes hand-in-hand with tariffs. If the U.S. charges tariffs on the EU, for example, people who work sales in the EU will be hurt by the loss of customers. And then when the EU issues counter-tariffs, US goods become too expensive to buy… And this is all about basic economics, not about feelings.
And then, finally, there are feelings. Many people think that Trump (who is in the Epstein Files) is an evil POS. And most large American corporations supported his rise to power and are currently licking his boots. Supporting that evil man is itself an evil act, many people would say.
Anyway, these are three different overlapping issues, and Newsweek should have good enough writers to describe the situation with greater precision. But if you bring in the non-emotional arguments, that makes the U.S. companies look like big jerks, right, so of course the magazine couldn’t be bothered with that kind of analysis. Better to describe the broader international community as moody or some shit like that. Meh.
Very good points. Remember that Newsweek is a jerk US company that supported Trump and is currently licking his boots. Corporate media has very skilled writers who are doing everything they can to normalize what is going on now.
Anti-american sentiment is largely justified. There’s concentration camps and masked men kidnapping people off the street. People are proudly wearing the maga-hat symbols of trumpism.
I hope all these fuckers running the companies get the day they voted for.
The absolute worst day.
This country sucks. Hopefully it splits up soon.
Sucks to be a company who supported Trump and the GOP.
i’m joining the war on rising anti-american sentiment on the side of rising anti-american sentiment
Canada here. In our house we’re still not buying anything American because their president threatened to invade and annex our country, and the government have yet to walk it back or even apologize. And even if the president of America did back off and say sorry, he’s a rapist and a pedophile so he can still go fuck himself.
I don’t think the powers-that-be in the US realize quite how much damage they’ve done to international relations lately. This isn’t the sort of thing they can just say sorry for and expect to go back to normal once Trump is dead and everyone is pretending they didn’t enable him for the last decade.
People don’t remember tariffs from 9 years ago. People will never remember what’s important.
Please keep it up. It’s the only kind of support we deserve right now.
The issue is legitimately that they’re all a bunch of massively racist fucks and were told for over a decade how the world saw us as a laughing stock (because we had a black man as president), despite being ridiculously popular on the world stage, and so they think just by having a rich white asshole suddenly we’re respected again, even though he’s truly the biggest laughing stock ever.
As an American, good. We have too many chuckle-fucks here who live in their own bubbles, thinking America can do whatever the fuck it wants without consequence, like we’re not all a part of the same global stage. We deserve every ounce of criticism we’re getting.
And it’s working! It’s so funny to see companies like McDonalds advertise with: “Your burger is produced in Europe” or the like. At least they seem to acknowledge that they are biting off one of the hands that feed them, good.
I’m becoming anti-American, and I’m American. I totally understand why the rest of the world hates us. I don’t blame them at all.
You and me and a legion of other American citizens.
Gee I wonder where that could’ve stemmed from?
I’m american and am so fucking ashamed of this place right now. Hoping for aliens to come down --since they always land in the US-- and just start blasting…
If I was an alien I would stay the fuck out of America, lol.
This is proof that individuals do have power. Together we have a voice. Keep speaking.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
These stupid cunts didn’t realize he was unpopular when they were doing photo ops during the campaign? Let them suffer.
As an American I say fuck’em. I have hated on America since Reagan.
