IMO, The US has crumbling infrastructure, corrupt government, dangerous cities, and a lot of homelessness, among so many other problems. Hell, millions of people in the US don’t even have power right now.

What’s the difference?

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
    1114·
    2 years ago

    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.

      • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
        9·
        2 years ago

        My guess is Lemmy skews young.

        so many of these revelations and showerthoughts are pretty banal coming of age stuff.

    • mean_bean279@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      2 years ago

      Pretty much why I’ve been calling the US a 2nd world country for years.

      FYI, “second world” means communist – or more specifically, Warsaw Pact. Only delusional MAGAs would call the US that.

      • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
        21·
        2 years ago

        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.