Unruffled [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.comM to Fediverse vs Disinformation@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 1 year agoIs it just me, or is there a distinct lack of subtlety in right wing propaganda campaigns recently?hexbear.netimagemessage-square99linkfedilinkarrow-up1684arrow-down17cross-posted to: chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
arrow-up1677arrow-down1imageIs it just me, or is there a distinct lack of subtlety in right wing propaganda campaigns recently?hexbear.netUnruffled [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.comM to Fediverse vs Disinformation@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square99linkfedilinkcross-posted to: chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
minus-squarethisbenzingringlinkfedilinkarrow-up56·1 year agoi bet none of them would answer the same way if you asked them what a 3rd world country is
minus-squarecmbabul@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up67·1 year agoNo chance that more than a fourth of them realize it’s from the Cold War and originally mean nations that were neither in the sphere of Soviet or American interest. They just think it means poor country with brown people
minus-squareLodespawn@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·1 year agoThe Soviets, eastern Europeans, CHYNA, Cuba and North Korea are 2nd world. Odd that they would omit those countries from their rhetoric …
minus-squareZorque@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoWell, as the Warsaw pact doesn’t exist anymore, there are no second world countries.
minus-squareLodespawn@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoThe countries still exist … in one form or another
minus-squareZorque@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·1 year agoBut the alliances don’t, which is where the term came from. If you’re going to get pedantic about it, it’s odd to be so selective.
minus-squareLodespawn@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·1 year agoYeah, I’m the one being pedantic, gas light much?
minus-squareteamevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year agoI thought it just meant no nuclear weapons
minus-squareSomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoI believe that would exclude Canada, Aus, and NZ which are pretty firmly considered first world.
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minus-squarelumpenproletariat@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 year agoSecond World was the Soviets. 3rd world was India and other non-aligned.
minus-squareshawn1122@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoI wonder who came up with this nomenclature. Certainly wouldn’t be the ones who chose to call themselves ‘first world’ right? Glad to see its no longer taken seriously in any sort of academic or intellectual context.
i bet none of them would answer the same way if you asked them what a 3rd world country is
No chance that more than a fourth of them realize it’s from the Cold War and originally mean nations that were neither in the sphere of Soviet or American interest. They just think it means poor country with brown people
The Soviets, eastern Europeans, CHYNA, Cuba and North Korea are 2nd world. Odd that they would omit those countries from their rhetoric …
Well, as the Warsaw pact doesn’t exist anymore, there are no second world countries.
The countries still exist … in one form or another
But the alliances don’t, which is where the term came from. If you’re going to get pedantic about it, it’s odd to be so selective.
Yeah, I’m the one being pedantic, gas light much?
I thought it just meant no nuclear weapons
I believe that would exclude Canada, Aus, and NZ which are pretty firmly considered first world.
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Second World was the Soviets. 3rd world was India and other non-aligned.
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I wonder who came up with this nomenclature. Certainly wouldn’t be the ones who chose to call themselves ‘first world’ right?
Glad to see its no longer taken seriously in any sort of academic or intellectual context.
Kind of the point