Jesus America is a third world country.
No. The US is very much a first world country. It’s literally the definition. It is the US.
And this is what a capitalist country does. This is what first world countries look like.
Nah. The Scandinavian countries are what I consider true first world.
Help us out: what do you think “First World,” “Second World,” and “Third World” actually mean? The terms referred to cold war political alignment: the U.S.-led bloc, the Soviet-led bloc, and countries aligned with neither. It was not a tidy ranking from rich and civilized to poor and backward.
I agree with you and you are correct but this is linguistic prescriptivism, which is one of the things the what is a woman crowd cling to
but the other people using third wold country to mean allows sex abuse makes my skin crawl
Examine your preconceived ideas, before they examine you
I did not mean third world to mean that, but rather in the colloquial sense of how much a country takes care of its people.
Understood that so many on this platform strictly care about historical definitions and prescriptive language policing though
Being more concerned with the words used than the intended meaning is an internetism that harms us all. I’m guilty of this too…
It’s tricky though, because words have meaning- and that meaning really depends on context. Not just the context in which it’s spoken, but also the context is the one speaking it. And often people online who think they’re arguing are really just misunderstanding each other’s definitions.
You’re absolutely right. In this instance I mistakenly thought it was obvious for most that I did not mean im the strict literal definition. Oh well, no big deal
Yes those were the original definitions but colloquial usage has shifted from the original meaning. Although these days the preferred terminology is developed/developing/under developed.
I mean it in the colloquial sense based on how well taken care of the people are. No I am not writing a dissertation. This is a discussion on a message board where people may use hyperbole to make their opinion clear
First world is not a state of a country, it’s a label the US and Europe created after WWII for themselves.
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has always been.
Jesus America is a
third world countrybackwards shithole filled with evil fucktards.FTFY
No, they aren’t and that is the sad thing. They could be a great country. They choose this instead.
Fucking Hell americans. Why are you like this?
I’m convinced they put something in the water and/or air and/or food to make some of us greedy self centered seething pieces of shit. Unfortunately those are the people in power.
We let McConnell pack the courts with fascists for decades, now the chickens come home to roost.
But have you tried blaming Europe?
when you see people argue that trans women should be in men’s prisons, understand that this is what they argue in favor of.
And they think it’s part of it. They assume everyone who goes to prison deserves everything they get.
The cruelty is the point.
2017 study by the Sylvia Rivera Law Project found that 75% of trans women respondents in New York state prisons were subjected to sexual violence by a correctional officer
Holy fuck
Jesus Fucking Christ.
I feel sick. :(
That’s insane. I don’t have it in me right now to look further into this. I’m sure there are plenty of testimonies and accounts that are terrible and difficult to read. I just can’t. The spectre of that being part of the deal for our incarcerated sisters makes me fear prison even more.
Rape is practically universal in US prisons. The problem is vastly underreported, we’ll never know the true extent of it. It’s not just inmates (of all kinds), the guards revel in it.
… and we have more prisoners than any other country, there are millions of inmates.
Of course, we could make the guards wear cameras with every room being monitored, but I guess why bother? We’re not going to charge them anyway.
Our entire culture is one of raping. We rape the land, our neighboring countries, the oceans, the financial system, and each other in every way conceivable.
sodomy in US prisons is a JOKE to Americans.
ever hear one of them say: ‘dont drop the soap’ like its something to laugh about?
Propagated as a scare tactic to keep men subservient to law enforcement
Been to jail. Dropping soap is a real thing when theres also dudes who will try to get new people locked in their personal cell during shift change for an hour.
Its my fault for coming to lemmy hoping for some mindless escapism. I get gut punched each time I open my feed. My understanding of the world shows me a bleaker, more disgusting image every time. I appreciate you sharing this and opening my eyes, thanks.
For you it’s mindless scrolling. For us it’s daily life. Help us.
You either gotta use an app/front-end with filters, or accept having your mind expanded, be it for good or ill (or both, since one can lead to the other).
I prefer the second option 99/100, but I do have an app that’s heavily filtered for when I just can’t bear the ugliness of the world for a few hours.
Knowing the truth is important. So is staying strong enough to fight. Part of staying strong enough to fight is tending to your emotional well-being.
Please take breaks when you need. Friendship and sunsets and butterflies still exist. Use them as often as you can🫂
Go to imgur, 9gag, krazframe, 4chan, memify, etc
Lemmy is like reddit- an unhealthy mix of trolls and legit discussions
Every conservative you have ever met supports this. Every single one.
Also keep in mind: trans women are toys in prison. They want to keep them in longer, they give them sex offender charges for resisting (the trans sexual predator claim comes from this partly, other than that is that many trans women turn to prostitution to survive, which is a sex offence)
On top of that, BOP policy is to cut off hormones and do conversion torture. So they toss you in a cell to be raped like a woman, while trying to torture you into not being one.
Cutting of hormones is worse than simply forcing a detransition. Suddenly stopping produces effects similar to menopause until her natural testosterone return to typical male levels. Depending on what other procedures she has had done, a transwomen without artificial hormones may never return to healthy hormone levels for either gender.
I just want to puke
That was one of the hardest reads for such a relatively short article with not too many unfamiliar words. Fucking hell. Every American should read it.
they can’t 😭
Given infinite opportunity for good, and we chose… violence.
since when are prisons “good”?
Learn to read
To quote Mama Ru, “Reading is, what?”
then let’s abolish
We’ve always chosen violence. For centuries.
So make a change
wait until folks comprehend who has the highest incarcerated population on this planet.
I always like to point out that it’s just the highest reported incarcerated population on the planet. There’s countries way bigger than America that don’t have as much freedom of information, like we’re reading right now.
Anything’s possible when you make shit up
