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Or, replace the chain link fence with a dodgy internet stream of the game. It's unjust that some people don't get to see the game, and other people who paid for a ticket do.

(only partially joking)

It's also useful to ask "if you don't support DEI, is it diversity, equity or inclusion you have an issue with?"

Should certain people or certain kinds of people be excluded? Is that why inclusion is bad?

What's bad about equity? Should things be inequitable? Should certain people get preferential treatment? If so, which people and why?

Or, is it diversity that's the problem? Is uniformness important? Is it so important that it's reasonable to exclude people who don't come from the right backgrounds or don't look a certain way?

What kind of engineering work? That's a really broad category.

Like, are we talking aerospace engineering? Software engineering? Systems engineering?

I don't think the interviews angle means anything. Just because he was able to convince a journalist he knew the right words doesn't mean that he was actually contributing to the actual engineering of the rockets. If he spent 20 hours a week in engineering meetings, he might have absorbed enough to talk intelligently about it.

I also wouldn't give much credit to employees saying that he did engineering work. This is the same guy who bought the title of "founder" when he bought Tesla, and loves using NDAs to muzzle people.

I'm not saying I have doubts about his actual engineering because I think he's an asshole so he must be an idiot. I'm saying it because I've never heard him say anything technical that wasn't basically Star Trek technobabble, and at the same time I have seen him do a lot of shady things to make it seem like he's more involved than he is.

It's not really a small point though. It's a huge signal about how serious these people are.

Like, if a scientific paper has the text "as an AI language model" in it, you can be sure that there's no point in reading the paper deeply. Similarly, tariffs on uninhabited islands tells you that there's no "5d chess" being played here, these people are absolute morons.

I don't think I'm the confused one here, to be honest with you, as shown by the other answers and upvotes in this thread

Yes, other people were confused. That doesn't mean that you're not confused.

The question is clearly asking if Americans are aware that they're now a rogue state, and I answered appropriately.

No, what you answered was "How do Americans feel about being a rogue state?" That's a completely different question, even though it's the one most people answered.

I fully understand and acknowledge that we're seen as a rogue state externally

The question was whether Americans in general understood and acknowledged that. I would say no, because most Americans don't follow foreign news sources. People who are getting their news from Fox News, OANN and Newsmax are probably not aware of that. Instead, they probably think the US is even more respected than ever.

How can you be this confused?

You're basically proving the point of this meme.

The question is basically "Are Americans aware of how the world perceives them?"

Possible answers to that question are: "Yes, I read DW news in English, and BBC news too. I'm aware of how the world perceives the US." Or "No, I can imagine how the world must view the US, but I only read US news so I can only guess."

Are people in the US

Yes, go on...

aware that they are now definitely a rogue state

The question isn't your awareness of what the government is doing. It's your awareness of how the US is perceived by the rest of the world. A rogue state is "a nation that is considered very dangerous to other nations". To answer that question, you have to reference other nations views on the US.

Do you think they would have prosecuted if it had been a low level employee doing the same thing? Running their own private email server, doing government business on that server?

I think they would have, that's why I think it's important to note that they chose not to prosecute her despite it being something that would have been prosecuted for other less powerful people.

Was it as big a deal as the GOP made of it? No. But, it's still a rule that everybody else has to follow or they get charged.

Saying what is inevitable? That other countries will consider the US a rogue state?

You're one of the few people who actually understood the question. As a result, you're one of the few who actually got the right answer.

Doubt it.

What non-American news sources do you read? Do you really think that more than 50% of the US actually consults non-American news sources?

It figures it takes someone calling themselves "CanadaPlus" to actually see the actual question and answer it.

Everyone else is answering about how aware Americans are about what's happening, but the question was about whether Americans were aware of how the world perceived the US. The answer, of course, is "no, Americans have no idea because Americans consume almost no non-American media".