USA is a third world country with a Gucci belt.
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SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 months ago
The US is regressing more and more. I refuse to call it a first world country at this point.
P1nkman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
With fake timbs
Microw@lemm.ee 2 months ago
“First world” etc are political terms relating to Cold War allegiance.
What you mean is “developed country” and there are good arguments that the US has never fully fitted that label. You’d have people coming from “developing countries” to the US and realize that infrastructure and social security there is way worse than in their home country.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Yeah, exactly. First world was allied with the US. Second world was allied with the soviets. Third world was basically everyone else, and was largely considered irrelevant to the Cold War. That’s why “third world” became a signifier of undeveloped countries; If a country wasn’t part of the Cold War, it was likely because they didn’t have enough developed resources or manpower to be considered a war asset. If they were developed enough to contribute, one of the two sides would have already been working on recruiting them to the war.
minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes but the “American Dream” was never that. It was always to get richer than everyone else and so I can just say fuck 'em to the plight of the rest. Or in alternative terms, it only concerns me when it actually directly affects me.
I believe the results of the last election and the ensuing “executive orders” actions are direct proof of that. Also it was proof of the large stupidity of the masses, something the Covid years exposed, but was directly proved in the election results. It was just a matter of time before a high level professional conman was so brazen about it.