Current Events > Why isnt the US considered a third world country at this point?

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Chicken
11/11/21 10:53:19 PM
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I would say it more than meets all of the criteria.

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Lordgold666
11/11/21 10:56:01 PM
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Lol

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monkmith
11/11/21 10:56:41 PM
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we make third world countries. you keep bitching and we'll make yours one...

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Atralis
11/11/21 10:56:45 PM
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Because statistically we have much higher median incomes and general living standards than any country that is even borderline considered to be undeveloped or third world and you would know that if you actually made the effort to google "third world country" once ever in your entire life and actually understand the words in the top 5 results.
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Chicken
11/11/21 10:59:55 PM
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Atralis posted...
Because statistically we have much higher median incomes and general living standards than any country that is even borderline considered to be undeveloped or third world and you would know that if you actually made the effort to google "third world country" once ever in your entire life and actually understand the words in the top 5 results.
a good chunk of the US doesn't even have access to clean tap water lol

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Atralis
11/11/21 11:02:05 PM
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Chicken posted...
a good chunk of the US doesn't even have access to clean tap water lol

Since I'm going to assume you are not at the point where you could understand percentages I'll put it this way.

A much gooder bigger chunk of people in third world countries don't have access to clean tap water and that makes them generally live less longer. You understand?
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Medussa
11/11/21 11:02:06 PM
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because the definition of "first world" is the United States and her allies during the US/USSR cold war.

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Esrac
11/11/21 11:03:00 PM
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Chicken posted...
a good chunk of the US doesn't even have access to clean tap water lol

Well, first of all, you should specify what you mean by "a good chunk".
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Atralis
11/11/21 11:03:55 PM
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Esrac posted...
Well, first of all, you should specify what you mean by "a good chunk".

Its like. A big chunk. Like you know like flint like.... you know. Like yeah. You know........... ugh.... its a lot.
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Chicken
11/11/21 11:04:19 PM
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Esrac posted...
Well, first of all, you should specify what you mean by "a good chunk".
millions of people...?

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furb
11/11/21 11:06:29 PM
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TLDR World references are not analogous to development and are antiquated terms

Third world is an antiquated term anyway. Its meaning is more specifically referring to countries that were not aligned with the Western hegemony or the Eastetn Bloc in the Cold War.

In field the terms are least developed, developing, developed, and most developed.

You can reference the HDI index for scores in development. US is high on it. The issue with the US is the GINI coefficient which is broadly a measure of wealth disparities.

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Atralis
11/11/21 11:07:35 PM
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Chicken posted...
millions of people...?

Whoa thats a big number. Millions of people. I can't even imagine a number that big let alone the number that I'm assuming is even bigger than is the number of people that live in the US or the % of this imaginary number that the former is to the latter or what that ultimately would mean in terms of health effects and life expectancies.

So yeah. Whoa. Third world country yo. Whoa.
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Chicken
11/11/21 11:09:29 PM
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Atralis posted...
Whoa thats a big number. Millions of people. I can't even imagine a number that big let alone the number that I'm assuming is even bigger than is the number of people that live in the US or the % of this imaginary number that the former is to the latter or what that ultimately would mean in terms of health effects and life expectancies.

So yeah. Whoa. Third world country yo. Whoa.
Did you have a stroke there?

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Atralis
11/11/21 11:12:30 PM
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Chicken posted...
Did you have a stroke there?


You live in one of the wealthiest countries in the world in 2021 that has relatively high life expectancies where poor people eat more calories on average than the rich because food is so plentiful and where over a million people cross thousands of miles just to get to and you ask the question "is this like a third world country or something" because you've never actually in your entire life done the research to realize that the US actually is dramatically wealthier and has better living standards than the actual poor countries on this planet.

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Chicken
11/11/21 11:14:05 PM
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Atralis posted...
You live in one of the wealthiest countries in the world in 2021 that has relatively high life expectancies where poor people eat more calories on average than the rich because food is so plentiful and where over a million people cross thousands of miles just to get to and you ask the question "is this like a third world country or something" because you've never actually in your entire life done the research to realize that the US actually is dramatically wealthier and has better living standards than the actual poor countries on this planet.
D-do you need an ambulance...?

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Duncanwii
11/11/21 11:16:41 PM
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Chicken posted...

D-do you need an ambulance...?

Hes right and you're wrong. Get over it.
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Rayman2943
11/11/21 11:18:12 PM
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american chauvinists are so easy to troll
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Atralis
11/11/21 11:18:28 PM
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Chicken posted...
D-do you need an ambulance...?


No the US is not a third world country dude. Actually read about why it isn't rather than asking such a ridiculous question.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developed_country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country

I mean jesus the third world term by definition excludes the US because it dates back to the cold war and was just meant to refer to countries that weren't part of the alliance of the US (first world) or the Soviets (second world).

You would know all this if you actually bothered to learn it at any point in your already long life based on the age of your account. Does information just not stick in your brain or have you actually never had the curiousity to learn any of this information?

Your account is 15 years old which I'm going to assume means you are 30 or near to it and you have never bothered to learn much of anything in your entire life. I weep for humanity because I know you are probably above average in intelligence because you are smart enough to have finally arrived at the poitn where you are asking this question.

But I know that nothing of this is actually going to stick in your brain and a day from now if I asked you to define "third world country" you wouldn't be able to say something intelligent. This is something that you will never know. You are genetically incapable of actually having this information stick in your brain.
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Rayman2943
11/11/21 11:19:22 PM
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I wonder how sad of a person atralis is irl.

All that time in the military wasted.
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Kolibri X
11/11/21 11:19:28 PM
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Just give Biden a few more years.

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Ving_Rhames
11/11/21 11:21:56 PM
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We won't actually fit third world until around 2060-70.

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Itachi157
11/11/21 11:25:31 PM
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Because it's objectively a highly developed country?
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Itachi157
11/11/21 11:26:19 PM
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Medussa posted...
because the definition of "first world" is the United States and her allies during the US/USSR cold war.

An outdated definition, but irrelevant since the US isn't third world by that or the modern definition.
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Rayman2943
11/11/21 11:28:54 PM
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Atralis posted...
I'm as sad as a person that spent about two years of their live in Afghanistan and Iraq deployed in the US Army that knows the average person in military intelligence in the US Army deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq couldn't point to either country on a map and couldn't tell you the difference between Sunni and Shia and was making life and death decisions in wars in both those countries.
No. I've seen the posts you made about nuking countries. You are upset because you lost. Not because you care.

Us military got their asses whooped.
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Prismsblade
11/11/21 11:28:56 PM
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Not sure what TC was trying to accomplish with such a topic. But they've successfully trolled us at the least.

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Naysaspace
11/11/21 11:29:43 PM
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you shouldn't even be saying 3rd world country. If you do, it just goes to show how out-of-touch you are on the issue at large, and the concept in general. It shows that you haven't really learned a damn thing in about 10 years on the issue.

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Atralis
11/11/21 11:30:09 PM
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Rayman2943 posted...
No. I've seen the posts you made about nuking countries. You are upset because you lost. Not because you care.

Us military got their asses whooped.

Are the people of Afghanistan better off now that the Taliban won and we are gone? Have you ever met an Afghan?
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Rayman2943
11/11/21 11:30:54 PM
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Atralis posted...
Are the people of Afghanistan better off now that the Taliban won and we are gone?
You don't actually care. That's not why we were there.

You lost. Get over it.
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Atralis
11/11/21 11:31:55 PM
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Rayman2943 posted...
You don't actually care. That's not why we were there.

You lost. Get over it.

I've met Afghans and considered them friends and I have no idea what happened to them or their families. You are some man child around the world that is playing cheerleader for the other team because yo "imperialism bad".
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Rayman2943
11/11/21 11:34:00 PM
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Atralis posted...
I've met Afghans and considered them friends and I have no idea what happened to them or their families. You are some man child around the world that is playing cheerleader for the other team because yo "imperialism bad".
You have "black friends"

I am not cheering for the taliban. Just pointing out you got your ass whooped and need to deal with it.
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Astardes
11/11/21 11:34:40 PM
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We say third world country with a Gucci belt as a joke

Anyone who says the US is a third world country wouldn't last 1 week in an actual third world country

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Atralis
11/11/21 11:35:18 PM
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Rayman2943 posted...
You have "black friends"

I am not cheering for the taliban. Just pointing out you got your ass whooped and need to deal with it.

We didn't get our asses whooped we got bored. Afghanistan fell to the Taliban not because the US ran out of money or troops but because we, as a country, got bored of it.

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Rayman2943
11/11/21 11:36:28 PM
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Atralis posted...
We didn't get our asses whooped we got bored. Afghanistan fell to the Taliban not because the US ran out of money or troops but because we, as a country, got bored of it.
War is a game for you people. I know. Hence why its something the higher ups do for fun.
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Atralis
11/11/21 11:38:07 PM
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Rayman2943 posted...
War is a game for you people. I know. Hence why its something the higher ups do for fun.

It disgusts me to see people like you who ranted for years about how we should end the 'forever war' and then woop wooping and celebrating the fucking Taliban taking over Afghansitan because you see it as some sort of victory for.... what? Theocracy? Despair? Destruction? Terrorism? Why are you happy about this result?
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thronedfire2
11/11/21 11:38:52 PM
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Rayman2943 posted...
You don't actually care. That's not why we were there.

You lost. Get over it.

we definitely didnt lose lmao. It was a draw. If we really wanted to we could turn every city and town in the country into a parking lot in one day without nukes

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Scully87
11/11/21 11:38:56 PM
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Medussa posted...
because the definition of "first world" is the United States and her allies during the US/USSR cold war.


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Rayman2943
11/11/21 11:39:11 PM
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Atralis posted...
It disgusts me to see people like you who ranted for years about how we should end the 'forever war' and then woop wooping and celebrating the fucking Taliban taking over Afghansitan because you see it as some sort of victory for.... what? Theocracy? Despair? Destruction? Terrorism? Why are you happy about this result?
You don't care. I've seen the posts you've made about nuking countries lol.

What you are upset about is that the US military was embarrassed.

You don't actually care about the people of Afghanistan. Its your ego that hurts.

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Rayman2943
11/11/21 11:39:32 PM
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thronedfire2 posted...
we definitely didnt lose lmao. It was a draw. If we really wanted to we could turn every city and town in the country into a parking lot in one day without nukes

Ah yes. Here you come proving my very point.
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thronedfire2
11/11/21 11:40:32 PM
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Rayman2943 posted...
Ah yes. Here you come proving my very point.

what point was that exactly

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Atralis
11/11/21 11:40:57 PM
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Rayman2943 posted...
You don't care. I've seen the posts you've made about nuking countries lol.

What you are upset about is that the US military was embarrassed.

You don't actually care about the people of Afghanistan. Its your ego that hurts.

You've dodged this question multiple times.

Are you glad that the Taliban retook Afghanistan? Do you think that is a good result? Mr 14 karma throwaway account. No more just spurting out the same drool of "you don't actually care about the people". Tell us what you think should have happened there if not this apocalyptic disaster that has and is continuing to unfold in the country with millions of people on the brink of starvation in a country with a bunch of barely literate terrorists running the show.
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Rayman2943
11/11/21 11:41:28 PM
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thronedfire2 posted...
what point was that exactly
We lost m8. The Afghanistan war was a loss on the US part. You compensate for this by implying we can genocide Afghanistan.

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Rayman2943
11/11/21 11:41:57 PM
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Atralis posted...
You've dodged this question multiple times.

Are you glad that the Taliban retook Afghanistan? Do you think that is a good result?
No. Just that this was inevitable. Because the US military is incompetent. I've read the Afghan papers.
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thronedfire2
11/11/21 11:42:24 PM
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Rayman2943 posted...
We lost m8. The Afghanistan war was a loss on the US part. You compensate for this by implying we can genocide Afghanistan.

because it was never a win/lose situation to begin with. It was an occupation that was either going to end at some point or continue forever

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ModLogic
11/11/21 11:42:49 PM
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yikes the war criminal supporters are really exposing themselves itt

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dioxxys
11/11/21 11:42:51 PM
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Atralis posted...
Since I'm going to assume you are not at the point where you could understand percentages I'll put it this way:

A much badder bigger chunk of people in third world countries don't have access to clean tap water and that makes them generally live less longer. You understand?
Omg lmao pwnd
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iPhone_7
11/11/21 11:43:11 PM
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Lots of people trying to get into this 3rd world country.

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Atralis
11/11/21 11:44:12 PM
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Rayman2943 posted...
No. Just that this was inevitable. Because the US military is incompetent. I've read the Afghan papers.


In the time that we had more than 5,000 troops out of the 2 million in our military in the country they didn't capture a single city or even a district center (which in some cases is no more than a small town) and hold it. Nothing about them taking over was inevitable unless you spout some nonsense like "we had to end the forever war".
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Rayman2943
11/11/21 11:44:58 PM
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Atralis posted...
In the time that we had more than 5,000 troops out of the 2 million in our military in the country they didn't capture a single city or even a district center and hold it. Nothing about them taking over was inevitable unless you spout some sense like "we had to end the forever war".
Lmao stop lying. I've read the Afghanistan papers. None of your superiors even had a plan.
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Atralis
11/11/21 11:47:21 PM
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Rayman2943 posted...
Lmao stop lying. I've read the Afghanistan papers. None of your superiors even had a plan.

Name the provincial capitols that the Taliban had the day Joe Biden became president. Here I'll do it for you:

It was hard to remember all those places but I managed it. Whew.
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