The caning of Sumner. I know of that even as a EU citizen. But which only strengthens the point- the Republicans are reactionary to the point of reintroducing barbaric practices of the 18th hundreds.
Can some one fact check my random knowledge dumpster of a brain?
I feel like at some point I heard or read that “third world” referred to countries who did not take a side during the cold war. Is this accurate?
Technically the term third world has nothing to do with the developmental status of a country, but it happened to take on this second meaning because lower GDP countries tended to stay out of the conflict? The West and their friends were “first world” and Soviets and their comrades were “second world”?
It’s basically a bullshit term and shouldn’t be used, I only did for comedic and or rhetorical effect. But it has no academic use, if we let it rest at that. It’s little more than economic racism.
And the US takes another step towards devolving into an African third world nation…
Don’t put down African nations like we don’t have the CIA to keep things that way.
I know, I know. The simile gave a bad taste in my mouth, but it was only rhetorical. The point, I mean, not the taste.
and Idiocracy
Americans have been fighting each other in the Senate since the beginning. People used to cane each other in Congress.
The caning of Sumner. I know of that even as a EU citizen. But which only strengthens the point- the Republicans are reactionary to the point of reintroducing barbaric practices of the 18th hundreds.
Can some one fact check my random knowledge dumpster of a brain?
I feel like at some point I heard or read that “third world” referred to countries who did not take a side during the cold war. Is this accurate?
Technically the term third world has nothing to do with the developmental status of a country, but it happened to take on this second meaning because lower GDP countries tended to stay out of the conflict? The West and their friends were “first world” and Soviets and their comrades were “second world”?
It’s basically a bullshit term and shouldn’t be used, I only did for comedic and or rhetorical effect. But it has no academic use, if we let it rest at that. It’s little more than economic racism.