• GBU_28
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        1 year ago

        Insane comment.

        America has big issues but to compare it’s magnitude of issues, and quantity population affected is a slap in the face to those experiencing life in a real “third world” country.

        • sheogorath@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          TBH, I’m currently staying in a third world country and I feel safer here than in US. YMMV, there’s a lot of third world country as the main definition of third world country is a country that’s not aligned to any political bloc in the Cold War, the West being First World and the Soviet bloc being Second World, hence nations not being aligned to any of those bloc is a Third World.

          • GBU_28
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            1 year ago

            That’s why I put third world in quotes.

            What people here are describing is places with massive government unrest, or massive poverty, etc.

            I know it’s edgy to say “oh are you talking about America” but that’s just not the case

        • Aux@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          That’s typical first world problem - oh no, can’t buy a new iPhone this year, I’m so poor…

      • xX_fnord_Xx@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I recall a time in my youth when a young American could work full time and afford an apartment without splitting it with three roommates.

    • Crass Spektakel@lemmy.world
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      The Second World would have been the soviet block. There is no second world today. The third world though is real. By definition the US will be always first world as the first world is defined as the pro-wester with heavy industry. No matter how people live in this world.

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        I don’t think very many people use those definitions for first/ second/ third world anymore. The colloquial definitions of “first world = rich second world = not so rich but not so poor and third world = poor” are more useful anyway due to as you say the Soviet Union not existing anymore so nobody can align with it.

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          1 year ago

          Yeah, back in the cold war that was actually the common perception anyway even while it was initially meant differently. So no harm done using this easy adaption.

    • TheInsane42@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      At least it’s no democracy. (being forced between 2 evils sponsored by companies is no democracy)

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      1 year ago

      Third world was based on who participated in WW2, third world not taking part

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      1 year ago

      Why could the US be categorized as being part of the CCCP/CCP/Warsaw Pact?

      Or do we not know what the three worlds are?

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        In the original usage, those would have been part of the “second world”. The “third world” was mostly what is now called “the global south”.

        • lud
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          And a few other countries here and there that were neutral, like Switzerland, Sweden, and Finland.