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minus-squareMadison420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·20 days agoAfghanistan isn’t a third world country it’s second world being a Russian puppet after invasion for some time. I don’t think people even know what it means anymore they just assume it means underdeveloped which simply isn’t true.
minus-squarepiccolo@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·20 days agoUS is definitely a 3rd world country. But if we want to use the original meaning, its a 2nd world.
minus-squareMadison420@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·20 days agoNo the original meaning is us and us allies first world, Russia and Russian allies 2nd world, unaffiliated countries are third world. This is what I mean by people don’t understand it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World
Afghanistan isn’t a third world country it’s second world being a Russian puppet after invasion for some time.
I don’t think people even know what it means anymore they just assume it means underdeveloped which simply isn’t true.
US is definitely a 3rd world country. But if we want to use the original meaning, its a 2nd world.
No the original meaning is us and us allies first world, Russia and Russian allies 2nd world, unaffiliated countries are third world.
This is what I mean by people don’t understand it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_World
That’s the joke.
Hilarious.