mekka okereke Aug 25, 2023

US friends:

I don't want to hear any of you ever say that African countries have corrupt elections again.

Ever!

You hear me? That's over for y'all now.

And this dude is still the GOP front runner! By a long shot! Like, it's not even close! A lot of y'all are like "This is fine!"

And I don't want to hear "Oh no! We're like a 3rd world country now!" That's that mess I often hear after the US has acted exactly like the US. We're not "like a 3rd world country." We're like ourselves.

Show threadAntipope SuperstarAug 25, 2023
@mekkaokereke the us will be a third world country if it convicts trump and locks away the key like happened to fujimori
Show threadmybarkingdogsAug 25, 2023
@julieofthespirits @mekkaokereke honestly the whole "third world country" stuff is so racist, and sickening anyway. Like, honestly, I'd feel much better about myself if I was from somewhere that wasn't the US empire :P but then I just don't like being part of what destroyed the real world for money and power, so what do I know.
Show threadOblomov
@mybarkingdogs @julieofthespirits @mekkaokereke and it's interesting because the original meaning of the concept had nothing to do with socioeconomic or industrial situation, it was just a matter of alignment (USA, Soviet, independent)
Aug 25, 2023 at 9:24amWeb
Show threadPassengerAug 25, 2023

@oblomov @mybarkingdogs @julieofthespirits @mekkaokereke

It got really weird for some of us. For example, South Africa was western-aligned, but we mostly didn't get called a first-world nation.

In the late 1990s / early 2000s, there was a move to repurpose the term "second-world" to describe intermediate-status countries, what we would nowadays call BRICS.

This means that South Africa has been called first-, second- and third-world.

Show threadAntipope SuperstarAug 25, 2023
@passenger @oblomov @mybarkingdogs @mekkaokereke also I'm sure there was some old apartheid era politician who remembered the old meaning of second world going I toooooold you Mandela would bring communism