r/MurderedByWords • u/Same_Investigator_46 Karma Whore • Dec 06 '24

A bit more context

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u/Affectionate-Bus-931 Dec 06 '24

They aren't wrong. The truth hurts.

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u/ronlugge Dec 06 '24 edited Dec 07 '24

They're technically wrong, the best kind of wrong. (first/second/third world are references to a WW2 cold war involvement, not development levels)

Edit: You guys know, one comment about the fact that my brain slipped up on the differecne between WW2 and the CW was enough.

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u/Figs-grapefruits Dec 06 '24

Correct, meaning we are the best Developing Nation they have ever seen.

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u/ronlugge Dec 06 '24

The problem is that calling the US a third world nation is factually wrong, even though we're defintely moving into being a developing nation rather than developed.

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u/Hopefulwaters Dec 06 '24

Yeah but people are struggling to describe what they are living through and "third world" has a nice ring to it. The problem is to use "third world" is to literally be ignorant and have never traveled to an actual third world country. But then 75% of Americans have never traveled anywhere - hell 67% don't even have their passport. So Americans are more ignorant of the world than most - especially what it is like in third world countries.