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US entering the "third world country"-club. Congratulations.
Bro, the US has been a 3rd world country masquerading as a 1st world country a lot longer than Trump. The US propaganda machine is top tier, fooling American citizens that theyre greatest enemy is each other, as well as promoting individualism at the cost of the individual.
Richest nation on earth yet the majority are 1 health emergency away from bankruptcy, to people skipping doctor visits due to how expensive our Healthcare is while the rest of the world gets to enjoy free healthcare. Wake the fuck up, "entering" like thanks for the depressing ass chuckle this morning.
There are almost 800,000 homeless in the US, you could have an entire city of just homeless people. US is already a 3rd world country. Has been for a long time now. ICE won’t even round them up cause even ICE doesn’t want to deal with them incarcerated.
US has less homeless per capita than Sweden, Germany, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, France, the UK. And others. You understand the US has 340+ million people right?
It’s also the richest country in the world with the biggest economy yet it has almost 1,000,000 homeless. Enough to populate a good sized city. That’s some cope.
Oh that's right, America bad, I almost forgot.
The richest country on earth with the largest military, both by a large margin, should be able to have solved problems other countries haven't.
Then again those clowns voted in a failed gameshow host with incontinence and dementia TWICE to their country’s highest office. He demo’d their White House and commits crimes on a daily basis and yet - tens of millions love him. So yeah:
Not to be that guy, but the first, second, third world naming scheme stems from racism and isn't based on any real statistics.
It's actually from the Cold War.
1st world = USA, NATO, and their allies. 2nd world = USSR, the Eastern Bloc and their allies (the 2nd world doesn't really exist anymore). 3rd world = anyone not in the 1st or 2nd categories.
You are right though it's not about any real statistics. It's about political alignment.
Yep, right, which kind of also inherently excludes most non-white countries from the top two tiers.
Whether it was intentional or not, it definitely didn't help the image of non-white countries.