Halsey says the US is a 3rd world country and is rightfully mocked on twitter

[ohmylol]

Singer Halsey decided to make a thread about US injustices but she had the incredible idea of comparing the US with 3rd world countries:

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[trendsnational]

The US is a developed country with cracks opened.

[fuckinmagnets]

Just say the US is a failed state or something.

Third world has always been a meaningless term when describing a country's economic status, right? I thought it was used to describe countries that were part of the NAM/non-aligned movement during the Cold War? Meaning countries like Switzerland were technically third world. It's just that a majority of non-aligned countries were seen as poorer, so it ended up being used to describe developing nations in general.

[tragedyofempty]

you are exactly right. they are countries who did NOT choose a side between the US and the USSR

[lysblack]

EXACTLY, THANK YOU!

[ohmylol]

gringos, i ask you, please don't say that bullshit, someone also replied with "The US isn't a 3rd world country, is a dictatorship" and i was like, you don't know what that is either, read something, my god.

[triviagogo29]

lol nothing bothers me more when gringos say the US is a "dictatorship". as someone from a country that actually had a (US-funded) military dictatorship, it pisses me off so much. I mean, yeah, US democracy is flawed as fuck and is easily corrupted by money and propaganda but that's not what a dictatorship is and, on different levels, those are issues that aren't US exclusive.

I remember a few years ago Chelsea Handler was tweeting the military needed to overthrow Trump and I was in total disbelief with what she was suggesting. to make things worse, that was back when she was successfully branding herself as this woke #Resistance queen and had a lot of viral tweets and yet... there was no pushback for what she way saying.

[ohmylol]

Exactly! like they really haven't lived a dictatorship and it's fucked up considering how many US backed dictatorships there has been in latam and well, everywhere lmao.

[picturemegone]

Chelsea Handler was tweeting the military needed to overthrow Trump.................She's a moron omg

[misscrystal25]

"I only meant to educate my US followers"

With what fucking authority do you have the audacity to think you can educate people about what a third world country is?

[pwrpuffgrl]

She's ~studying law rme

[hypermuseic9]

that was the part that really had me rolling my eyes, like celebrities are so dumb

[triviagogo29]

From the little I am seeing, her intention wasn't bad but the use of "third world country" is nagl in general.

And I mean, what is a "third world country" after all? I am from Brazil, which is an industrialized country with a lot of rich people and a huge middle class who also has a lot of poverty and inequality. I guess it technically it was considered a "third world country" but it seems like outdated as fuck and doesn't really describe the actual kind of inequality it exists there.

Plus, we have universal healthcare and no one is in debt because they had cancer and our best universities are free so I guess that's what she was trying to get at when she says the US can be worse than the so-called "development world". But sis, are you really the best messenger if your gonna use this type of definition? Hmmm

[ohmylol]

No, her intention wasn't bad but it's insulting to people from actual 3rd world countries, especially in the despective way they use and it's clear they truly don't know what's to live in one.

[pwrpuffgrl]

It's a term I don't agree with because of what you said.

There are no actual measure points to say a country is 1st world or 3rd world, what defines the terms and based on what. But the thing is that it's used to describe a "poor" country, (whatever that means: wealth, law, cost of living, security, education, etc) usually in a pejorative way, like they're uneducated hence their political problems.