Do We Live in a Third World Country? - First World Edition

[OrionBalls]

A man today swore we do, because we temporarily ran out out of deli turkey and Mtn Dew due to distribution backups.

 

[Smug Chuckler]

It is when BLM riots.

 

[Lone MacReady]

When you don't even have elections the populace can believe in, you're pretty banana republic tier. Giving your factories to other nations, allowing Levites to co-opt your monetary system, importing antithetical unassimilating troglodyte tribes into your lands to rape and replace you... seems quite 3rd world to me, or at the very least, getting there quickly.

 

[trevshoms]

He's right

 

[Billy Beer]

Yes you do. But you're easily distracted by a wave of the flag and patriotism, so that you believe that you live in the best country on Earth. You get fucked by corporations more than any other free nation and your government is a dictatorship (put itself in power through nefarious means)

 

[Kurgan]

It always has been since immigration standards were lowered.

 

[OfficerBagget]

You can jack off all day in the shower and eat hot pockets while calling the president a turd eater on twitter. All while carrying a heavily modified S&W 9mm by your side just in case any spics or niggos slip in through your window.


3rd world country you're too busy trying not to go hungry so you can't jack off in the shower...

 

[Don Yagon]

I live in Russia, so yes.

 

[NekoRightsActivist]

ok doomers.

 

[Klaptrap]

I once read that "America is a first world country with a third world country inside it."

 

[Marcus Zuttenheim]

If we don't do something soon about the New World Order led by George Soros, then for now yes.

 

[BobbyBriggs69420]

3rd world means idly standing by uninterested while communism advances so yes

 

[OrionBalls]

My general response had I not been his purveyor, would have been that the ass has potable well water, plenty of food (that isn't this specific deli turkey and mtn dew), and electricity available at all times of day, so he doesn't live in a third world country. But then, I'm a stupid person. I guess you all proved me ignorant of the world.

 

[Evan_Wynn_D]

So you want to know if America is a third world country? Then you must read this essay by Richard Wills. “In the next century, Americans will be able to survive anywhere on the earth as long as they can avoid nuclear war,” wrote Wills in 1960. How’s that for a prophecy?

Wills had it all wrong. It was the 1980s before America fell so far behind that its economy was less than half the size of that of many developed countries. Wills’ words also helped to pave the way for America’s present disaster. He said it like it was fact. He said it as though it was true. But it wasn’t true. Wills’ “future world,” the one in which “Americans will be able to survive anywhere on the earth,” is a place of poverty. In 1980, it included more than a third of all people in the world living in countries as poor as or poorer than that of the poorest countries in 1960. Yet in the 1960s, Wills wrote this article with a straight face. With his straight face, Wills said that “poverty” was just a thing that only poor people had to deal with. Wills was so convinced that America was different from countries like Vietnam and India and Pakistan and Ghana, that he said that Americans “are not really a poor people.”

The problem for the people in the “low-income countries” was that they were “poor in spirit.” “The American people are not a poor people,” wrote Wills in 1960. “They are not poor in spirit. The spirit of man is not crushed by the weight of material want. What the poor in the world lack is not food, or clothing, or shelter or land. What the poor lack is understanding.”

 

[AbyssGazer]

Considering I can spend all day shitposting and jacking off and still not starve, no. At least not materially.

 

[Cool Username]

I once read that "America is a first world country with a third world country inside it."

I actually heard a similar quote, "United States is a country with a first-world economy and a third-world society".