I saw a study that claimed almost 55% of Australians dislike the us and only 15% support them. I was wondering if this was true and if so is there any particular reason why?

Asking redditors how they feel about the US?

I'm not mad at the US, I'm just disappointed

You sound like one of the reasons we don't really like the USA. Don't take this the wrong way, it's not like we really care, but you sound like an idiot to anyone in a first world country.

The entire globe thinks the U.S. is a joke. Because it is. I live in Colorado at the moment and laugh my butt off at the stupidity of this country every day

Guns. And the total chaos that is Trump. We can't seem to understand how millions can believe the crap that he says and not see what a terrible,lying, hypocrite he is. It is like the world is watching on in disbelief at a country that was once so respected, and then to allow one clown to ruin hundreds of years of an envied global reputation.

Trump is absolutely new to American politics. Off the top of my head, he's the first criminal president. He absolutely doesn't represent conservative politics as they were understood even 20 years ago. What are you on about? You don't even understand your own country.

America has NEVER had a populist president before

Comment chains are good and you should go and read some

This is a crazy story with a lot of twists and turns that starts in New York in the late 1950s

Our story starts with a lawyer named Burt Pugach becoming infatuated with a girl named Linda Riss. He takes her on dates, buys her fancy gifts , and gives her rides to work every morning. And this courtship works, and Linda and Burt start dating.

All goes well for about a year, until Burt drops news no gf wants to hear -- Burt is already married, and has a kid. Linda is pissed, but Burt tells her he's in the process of getting a divorce. Linda still is not happy. But Burt doesn't give up, and shows up at her house with divorce papers in hand to show he's serious. The problem? The divorce papers are FAKE.

Understandably, this is the last straw for Linda. It's bad enough to have a secret wife, but fake divorce papers? She breaks it off, and soon starts dating a new man, Larry Schwartz. After just a few months of courtship, they get engaged. Burt is not giving up, he sends letters and flowers and gifts and asks her friends to pass along messages. When that doesn't work he starts threatening her, throwing rocks at her window, tells her he'll have people kill her. As you might expect, this doesn't work either.

Furious at Linda, Burt hires 3 guys to go to Linda's house, ring her doorbell, and throw lye in her face. She's rushed to the hospital and spends 3 months there receiving surgeries and other medical care for the caustic burns caused by the lye. Ultimately, she is left totally blind in one eye and partially blind in the other eye.

Even worse, shortly after this, Larry and Linda call off their engagement, either because they fear Burt or because Larry doesn't want to deal with a blind wife. A few months later, the police track down Burt's hitmen, who immediately rat out Burt. Burt gets sentenced to 15 years in jail.

This is where a lot of these stories would end. But Burt is still madly in love with Linda and starts writing her love letters from prison, speaking fondly to her. And Linda, she's broke, living alone in Manhattan, she's lonely, so she starts writing him back and they become pen pals. And when Burt finds out about her financial struggles, he starts sending her money he's been getting from doing paralegal work in jail. This arrangement continues for 14 years, and eventually Burt gets out. And when he gets out, they start dating again!

Burt is kind of a celebrity for his criminal act and gets invited onto TV to do an interview, where he pulls out a ring, turns to the camera, and proposes to Linda on TV. And she says yes, and they get married just 8 months after Burt gets out of prison. They co-write a book cashing in on the drama called "A Very Different Love Story"

At some point over the next 20 years, Burt starts cheating on Linda with multiple women. In 1997 point one of his mistresses comes forward and claims that Burt has started harassing her and threatening her with violence, just like what happened with Linda. Unlike Linda, this mistress takes Burt to court. And poor Linda, she appears as a character witness in the trial for Burt! And Burt beats most of the charges.

Linda dies in 2013 of heart failure at 75. But the drama still isn't over! Burt must have felt some remorse for what he did for Linda, because he wrote his will to leave most of his $15 million inheritance to a foundation for the visually impaired he set up in her honor, with some longtime friends also getting some. But when Burt died in 2020, his updated will left most of his money to his caretaker Shamin Frawley, and nothing for the foundation. Shamin is accused of coercing him into changing his will after he had a stroke, and withholding food and medicine until he died. But that's still working its way through the court system.

Sorry not sorry, but it's the truth. I have been in the dating scene in and out for the last 14 years and starting to realize men have become super weird and creepy these last 23 years ( post covid depression maybe?) with lot of them trying to groom young women and becoming more misogynist with lot of them straight saying dtf and unmatching if I refuse ( at least before they used to TRY by messaging/going out to dates).

Y'all really need therapy because that ain't normal and need to lower your expectations/learn how to socialize.

Men are getting weird

!football

!eurochads

Don't know what to do with hedgehogs, so I left him a piece of sausage near the burrow. Now, half a day later, it is gone

Trump’s birthday party invite appears to have leaked pic.twitter.com/t5Ls0KwSv3

— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) June 14, 2024

https://twitter.com/cptHamburger/status/1801832041610129714

Father murders the mother in front of a 7 y/o girl and then commits suicide. I'll be pretty easy on this one since the gravity of the situation. What was my immediate thoughts? No ‘thats fricked' doesn't count but was a thought.

https://www.edsupportforum.com/threads/recovery-destroyed-my-body-my-life-is-finished-tw-suicidal.4548034/

Hello :)

I'm not new to EDSF - for years, I have viewed the site, reading posts for advice and support - but I have never posted. To be honest, sharing my ED journey is embarrassing.

I live in England, in the countryside, with my mum and dad. Before I struggled with my mental health, I was a high-achiever and a perfectionist. I attended a selective all-girls school, played musical instruments, acted, participated in orchestras, volunteered and was in the top team for every sport. I worked 24/7; education was my life. I had ambitions and aspirations. I was determined and resilient to reach them. Typical story - a perfectionist struggles with mental health… My life began to fall apart in 2021. First, I developed anxiety, then, OCD and depression and lastly, my ED.

I have Binge Eating Disorder. I will not lie, writing that is humiliating and mortifying. I am so ashamed. Pre-ED, I was naturally underweight and had no interest in food - I ate healthily, skipped meals and hated junk food. In 2022, I had urges to eat food I did not want, then eating when I was anxious/stressed/depressed became a habit. The binges started small and grew. I gained a lot of weight and felt suicidal because of my body. I began therapy to recover from Binge Eating Disorder. I learnt to control myself around food 60% of the time, the other 40%, I binged. Thankfully, I over-exercised, so I managed to lose weight. I was proud of my body and the happiest I'd ever been in my life. I was confident, determined and 1000x better than the ‘normal' me. Then, my life began to fall apart again. Long-story-short, I was incorrectly diagnosed with Anorexia (I binged weekly on 10,000+ calories and had binge urges everyday) and forced into recovery. A lot happened. It was traumatic and the medical professionals and CAMHS were AWFUL. They made me gain weight without providing any therapy or even advice/support. CAMHS think eating disorders are weight disorders and do not care about what you are struggling with mentally. They encouraged me to binge (I had BED!) and told me to eat junk food. I lost my willpower and control over food that I had learnt in BED therapy, I lost my motivation and I began binging more. Now, I binge every single day, all day. I do nothing else. I have at least 5,000 calories each day, up to 25,000. I have gained 5st in less than 3 months. I can't exercise, I can barely walk up the stairs, my mum helps me to shower, I look disgusting and unrecognisable, I'm uncomfortable 24/7 and I pray each night that I won't wake up the next day. I attempted suicide because I hate this body. My body is ruined - my teeth, hair, skin etc, everything is ruined. I'm having private therapy to help my Binge Eating Disorder but it's not working. Anorexia recovery and all the people who forced me to gain weight have destroyed my willpower/determination and now, I have zero control over food.

I want my body back. I wish I had hidden my weight from everyone or faked weight gain and recovery. Now, I'm just waiting for my life to end.

!chuds

Popular Japanese rock-pop band Mrs. Green Apple removed the music video for its new song, “Columbus,” from YouTube on Thursday, following claims of racism and ignorance leveled at the clip from users of social media. The video was online for less than a day.

“Columbus” found the three members of the group dressing up as famous individuals from throughout history, including the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, encountering characters resembling apes. Mrs. Green Apple then educates and seemingly controls the ape-like men, having them pull the trio around in carts and saluting them.

“Columbus” the song came out at midnight on Wednesday, with the video arriving later that night. Criticism came quickly. Users sounded off in the clip's comments section and on social platform X, decrying the video as ignorant and bordering on racist.

The main problem appeared to be how this portrayal of Columbus, traditionally viewed as the navigator who discovered North America but who also brutalized indigenous communities of the continent, was grossly inaccurate. Others noted how the treatment of the apemen resembled colonization, and played into racist stereotypes.

Others went further, questioning whether the apemen characters were meant to be the “primitive” communities of other lands.

Around 3 p.m. on Thursday, Mrs. Green Apple removed the clip for “Columbus” from YouTube. The band posted a statement on its official website shortly after, apologizing for the video and explaining that its original intent was to present historical figures having a “fun house party.”

The planning director for the “Columbus” video was Mrs. Green Apple vocalist Motoki Ohmori. The song and video were part of The Coca-Cola Co.'s “Coke Studio” music initiative, which finds famous artists creating original songs and videos, often featuring Coke products in prime spots.

Mrs. Green Apple formed in 2013 and in recent years has become one of the biggest J-pop acts around. The trio consists of Ohmori, guitarist Hiroto Wakai and keyboardist Ryoka Fujisawa. They have sold out stadiums nationwide and appeared on NHK's year-end “Kohaku Uta Gassen” music extravaganza, and the group has provided the theme songs to multiple popular anime series. The group's song “Lilac” is currently the No. 1 song on Japanese streaming charts.

Mrs. Green Apple has expressed interest in taking its music overseas, and to that end the band established a company called Project-MGA in conjunction with Universal Music Group with the intent of expanding its activities to the rest of the world.

They realise what they're saying right?

Right?

Link to thread REEE THIS IS RUSSIAS FAULT edition

"Why are they hecking voting against my their interests???"

"I can't believe my people are voting in this Nazi scum again."

This cute twinks posts in /r/196, I can bet my entire coke stash on him neither being working class or ever identifying as German irl. Neighbor who is your people, child molesters????

"Umm sweaty... This is illegal and like you are r-slurred if you don't vote like Plebbit..."

"Wage suppression, union breaking? Supply and demand? No, illegal immigration is actually in the interest of the Slavshits working in VW factories, the hecking share holders are just greedy."

"Ummm I'm German and I'm tanned and people hate me checkmate???"

Yeah I'm sure it's cause you got the mayoest of tans Snowroach.

RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA

RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA

RUSSSSIAAAAAAAAAAAA

"Kinda thinking that attack (Mannheim) was planned by russia now."

What are Redditors gonna do when all of a sudden the US and Russia vanish into nothingness? Blame China of course.

Bait idea: Make a post saying you run fans and filters all day, but you can no longer afford your electric bill so you're going to keep yourself safe. And everyone else in the sub should too.

Fr though, the first part could be funny. They're all leftoids who probably think climate change will kill us all in 2 weeks.