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Why is the US not considered a third world country?
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this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2024
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It's mostly the stable government, infrastructure, currency and tech.
Pretty much why I've been calling the US a 3rd world country for years.
Your"IMO" aren't opinions; those are the facts, jack
IMO, no country that primarily uses toilet paper instead of a bidet is 1st world.
Another Lemmy "hot take"
My guess is Lemmy skews young.
so many of these revelations and showerthoughts are pretty banal coming of age stuff.
The country most famous for the bidet trend is France and currently swimming in the Seine is still looking impossible. If my infrastructure is so shitty and 3rd world here at least my lakes, rivers and water ways are all clean enough for me to use.
Every country has its problems, but calling the US 3rd world is just your brain being full of straight negative propaganda. Simultaneously not every French River is unusable or every country filled with Bidets an actual mark of their progress. Go experience a country first before just talking shit.
Also, stable government?? Literally our biggest problem is that our government has been so stable that it has changed for 240 years.
The US has the clean water act - correct.
"at least my lakes, rivers and water ways are all clean enough for me to use". - very, very wrong.
Many of your waterways are so polluted that they regularly catch fire and are linked to higher cancer rates
Then there's "The country most famous for the bidet trend is France and currently swimming in the Seine is still looking impossible",
which, if we
ignore Japan
pretend fecal matter is only unsanitary if you clean yourself with water(incorrect)
and follow your implication that because bidets were popularized in one country, part of a single river in their country is historically dangerously polluted(incorrect),
makes as much sense as
"The country most famous for TP is the US and currently the Mississippi, Ohio River and Savannah are and will be polluted for decades to come, plus the Cuyahoga river and also US drinking water catches on fire sometimes."
How about
"If my infrastructure is so shitty"
No "ifs" about it, American infrastructure is crumbling. Your power grids regularly fail and are vulnerable because of their age, your bridges are collapsing, people can't easily travel the country because of undeveloped mass transit, your health care system has failed its population, and you can't house or feed even your veterans, let alone large parts of your population.
Those are all direct evidence of a critical failure in US infrastructure.
"Also, stable government??" Putting aside that your standard for stability is
"our government has been so stable that it has changed for 240 years."(I have no idea what you're going for here),
Your corrupt presidents, senators, congressmen, governors and citizens regularly cry out for secession and civil war, regularly attempt to defraud your electoral system and literally attempted a violent coup to overthrow your governmental seat of power just three years ago.
Trump, liable for rape and treason, constitutionally prohibited from running for president, might be re-elected, despite his admiration for and aspiration to emulate authoritarian regimes(and so many other faults).
Not the picture of stability. The picture of instability, in fact.
FYI, "second world" means communist -- or more specifically, Warsaw Pact. Only delusional MAGAs would call the US that.
The US is a 3rd world country.
Okaymatewanker, luxury smearing is still smearing.
Yyyuck
Bidets are truly the line between civilization and barbarism
Done with my business!
Should I use my own hand covered by a strip of absorbent tissue paper to smear waste over my skin?
Or wash it away with water without touching my waste with my hand?
What a dilemma.