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Country Perception Score (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 16 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Russia isn't last. Color me surprized. Would've thought that magnitude of assholery (millions of victims) gets some recognition from anyone with a sense of self preservation.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 hours ago

    The BRIC nations have been subject to sustained negative press in the western world. The English colonial history and everything that flowed from it should place the anglophone world at the bottom of this list but only America seems to be significantly weighed by their recent hegemonic ambitions. People have short memories and don't read history.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    I think at least some of it is based on what people expect vs. what the country actually does. Israel talks about freedom and democracy, then kills Palestinians for sport. Russia's lies are so obvious that it's not like they're even trying to be deceptive.

    So, Israel is worse than people thought it was, whereas Russia's exactly as bad as people expected.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 hours ago

    There's also recency bias. Most people these days have no clear concept how bad things like the Holodomor actually were but they do have an idea of how bad it is in Gaza right now.

    Then there's the fact that some of Russia's worst actions were actually perpetrated by the USSR so you could argue it was a different country and that they've changed like Germany argues it did. Of course the USSR was run bv Russia and there's a long list of post-Soviet Russian behavior that suggests they didn't change all that much. But, weak as it is, that argument can be made.

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