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Talk2DaHand
06/21/22 12:19:31 PM
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https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1539255249566945281?t=XD-E-mw-j_Pk6ttDYrmP6A&s=19

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AzNDarkSamurai
06/21/22 12:23:47 PM
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I have been saying this for a long time already.

We have a lack of safety nets, most Americans are one serious medical problem away from ruining their life financially, salaries have not kept up with inflation, you have to pay a lot of money to get an education, and the wealthy are the only ones that get richer.

How is this any different than India or Philippines?

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Medussa
06/21/22 12:25:57 PM
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we really need to retire that phrase. it stopped meaning anything 30 years ago, and wasn't all that useful even during the cold war.

"shithole" is much more evocative of the state of things.

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TheLiarParadox
06/21/22 12:28:50 PM
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As long as Little Lucifer's School of Sin can get public funding, I'm cool with this.

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Kingbuffet
06/21/22 12:30:12 PM
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Because we let radicals hold so much power when they actually represent a small percent of the population, ofc China is going to be the next world Super Power from now on

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sauceje
06/21/22 12:30:53 PM
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TheLiarParadox posted...
As long as Little Lucifer's School of Sin can get public funding, I'm cool with this.
It would be a violation of the First Amendment to prevent them from getting funding

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radical rhino
06/21/22 12:30:54 PM
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Mark Joseph Stern doesnt have a clue what hes talking about.

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Talk2DaHand
06/22/22 8:52:33 AM
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https://twitter.com/ifudontlike2bad/status/1538971555014840326?t=4gr-DxJaIwzzbgM7Wo3KSA&s=19

Exhibit B

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LongJohnSilvers
06/22/22 8:58:16 AM
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Well we know what to tag TC as now

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Talk2DaHand
06/22/22 9:00:03 AM
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LongJohnSilvers posted...
Well we know what to tag TC as now


Master of the Universe?

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Poorly
06/22/22 9:03:58 AM
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Talk2DaHand posted...
Master of the Universe?
T 800

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Kloe_Rinz
06/22/22 9:05:43 AM
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Medussa posted...
we really need to retire that phrase. it stopped meaning anything 30 years ago, and wasn't all that useful even during the cold war.

"shithole" is much more evocative of the state of things.
no need to retire it. it had meaning during the war, and after the war it has a different meaning (to 99% of people, I only see people on CE deny it maybe because they're american)
although shithole is fine too
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tripleh213
06/22/22 9:31:18 AM
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Its getting there though really fast.

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SuperShake666
06/22/22 9:33:09 AM
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We live in Gilead.

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Talk2DaHand
06/22/22 10:09:52 AM
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https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1539538684214620160?t=miSSqkjDJl98RPnV0E3faA&s=19

USA is a third world country

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voldothegr8
06/22/22 10:10:40 AM
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Shitty as this is, go visit a real third world country then come back and try to say America is third world.

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Talk2DaHand
06/22/22 10:12:00 AM
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voldothegr8 posted...
Shitty as this is, go visit a real third world country then come back and try to say America is third world.

Been to plenty of them, and to real first world like Finland, Japan, Singapore, and others. USA is not first world.

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voldothegr8
06/22/22 10:13:39 AM
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Talk2DaHand posted...


Been to plenty of them, and to real first world like Finland, Japan, Singapore, and others. USA is not first world.

Sure

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modena
06/22/22 10:14:34 AM
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voldothegr8 posted...
Shitty as this is, go visit a real third world country then come back and try to say America is third world.
Why I don't bother when these topics get made every week. Nobody that has ever seen Haiti will call the US 3rd world.

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gunplagirl
06/22/22 10:16:47 AM
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If you removed the top 1% of the country we'd not be a first world nation. And don't forget that the UN got people kicked out in like 2017 when they studied living conditions in the US and said that in the South they had found living conditions seen nowhere in the rest of the first world. Wealth inequality at these extremes are proof that we aren't a developed nation.

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Talk2DaHand
06/22/22 10:21:04 AM
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modena posted...
Why I don't bother when these topics get made every week. Nobody that has ever seen Haiti will call the US 3rd world.

Haiti is the way it is because of French and American exploitative policies. USA is so third world, they created the rest of the third world. Yikes

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gunplagirl
06/22/22 10:23:22 AM
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Talk2DaHand posted...
Haiti is the way it is because of French and American exploitative policies. USA is so third world, they created the rest of the third world. Yikes
This, we also sanctioned them when they did try to rebuild after we fucked the place up worse. It's all just plain vile.

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modena
06/22/22 10:36:39 AM
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I knew that too.

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Medussa
06/22/22 10:39:16 AM
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the actual definitions don't have anything to do with wealth, or freedoms, or anything like that. The First World was the United States and her allies during the Cold War. The Second World was the Soviet Union and her allies during the Cold War. The Third World was, originally, everyone else. eventually the Third World became everyone else that the two superpowers deemed worthy of exploiting, and the Fourth World was everyone else that weren't.

The terms you want are "Developed" and "Developing", and maybe "Failed" and "Failing"

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itachi15243
06/22/22 10:39:36 AM
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Maybe a second world country.

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L_Ratio_Cope
06/22/22 10:40:38 AM
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Either best third world country or worst first world country. Take your pick. Comparing to other countries defeats the point.
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Kloe_Rinz
06/22/22 10:40:39 AM
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Medussa posted...
the actual definitions don't have anything to do with wealth, or freedoms, or anything like that. The First World was the United States and her allies during the Cold War. The Second World was the Soviet Union and her allies during the Cold War. The Third World was, originally, everyone else. eventually the Third World became everyone else that the two superpowers deemed worthy of exploiting, and the Fourth World was everyone else that weren't.

The terms you want are "Developed" and "Developing", and maybe "Failed" and "Failing"
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Talk2DaHand
06/22/22 11:33:05 AM
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Language evolves, definitions change. USA is third world. Deal with it

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LongJohnSilvers
06/22/22 1:25:15 PM
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Talk2DaHand posted...
Been to plenty of them, and to real first world like Finland, Japan, Singapore, and others. USA is not first world.
You know what all of those countries have in common?

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Background_Guy
06/22/22 1:26:51 PM
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modena posted...
Why I don't bother when these topics get made every week. Nobody that has ever seen Haiti will call the US 3rd world.
You have to realize most people here on CE are both very privileged and very averse to going outside
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VitalGetPrank
06/22/22 1:30:46 PM
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We're not far off from what I view as Taliban rule. Being sentenced to death for a medical procedure (especially when that medical procedure would save your life) is pretty damn disgusting

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LongJohnSilvers
06/22/22 1:35:17 PM
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VitalGetPrank posted...
We're not far off from what I view as Taliban rule
This forum needs to be shut down

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Background_Guy
06/22/22 1:47:37 PM
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LongJohnSilvers posted...
This forum needs to be shut down
But then they might have to touch grass
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Talk2DaHand
06/22/22 3:07:53 PM
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/1/0/AAN3wfAADXs2.jpg

Seattle, USA (third world country)

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The Wheelman1
06/22/22 3:13:07 PM
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The poor will be poorer and the rich will be richer. It's terrible.

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Vicious_Dios
06/22/22 3:40:34 PM
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Sorry to burst your bubble, tc, but it's not. It doesn't matter how many times you post declarating that you think it is.

You're allowed to be wrong.

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Talk2DaHand
06/22/22 3:41:25 PM
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Vicious_Dios posted...
Sorry to burst your bubble, tc, but it's not. It doesn't matter how many times you post declarating that you think it is.

You're allowed to be wrong.

Third world citizen in denial. Sad

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Kloe_Rinz
06/22/22 3:58:59 PM
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Are you doing this on purpose? Why use the old definition nobody except you has used since WW2?
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averagejoel
06/22/22 4:08:31 PM
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Kloe_Rinz posted...
Are you doing this on purpose? Why use the old definition nobody except you has used since WW2?
because it's the actual definition. there are better terms to describe what TC is getting at, as outlined in post 25

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Kloe_Rinz
06/22/22 4:10:08 PM
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averagejoel posted...
because it's the actual definition. there are better terms to describe what TC is getting at, as outlined in post 25

Kloe_Rinz posted...
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Astardes
06/22/22 4:14:16 PM
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People who call the USA a third world country need to be dropped into Haiti for a week

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Axiom
06/22/22 4:20:04 PM
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There are third world countries that make better decisions than the US
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On_The_Edge
06/22/22 4:22:12 PM
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why's the whole world want to come here then?
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Kloe_Rinz
06/22/22 4:22:51 PM
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On_The_Edge posted...
why's the whole world want to come here then?
Not the whole world, just the places that are even worse off
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Proto_Spark
06/22/22 4:28:25 PM
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Aren't there some poorer areas in like Louisiana and Kentucky etc... like the poor poor areas of the country that actually are considered equivalent to third world countries?
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Kloe_Rinz
06/22/22 4:29:00 PM
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Proto_Spark posted...
Aren't there some poorer areas in like Louisiana and Kentucky etc... like the poor poor areas of the country that actually are considered equivalent to third world countries?
Yeah, typically the Bible Belt regions
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Nerevar791
06/22/22 4:31:12 PM
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Framing it this way is problematic for the same reason calling right-wing christofascist extremism "sharia" is. It obfuscates the very real and specific problems with America and its current situation.

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