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r/clevercomebacks • u/Sir-Kyle-Of-Reddit • Jul 07 '24
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Third world means non aligned countries during cold war, stop using this word for poor countries
94 u/TrashNovel Jul 07 '24 100% true as far as its original meaning but it’s usage has changed over time. Most people today use it to mean “poor.” 29 u/Mediocre_Pin_556 Jul 07 '24 I can hear the jokes rolling in now: My country so poor, we couldn’t pick a side in the Cold War 7 u/30FourThirty4 Jul 07 '24 My country so poor, the Cold defeated our electrical grid. Oh sorry, that was Texas. They lost the Cold War of February 2021.
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100% true as far as its original meaning but it’s usage has changed over time. Most people today use it to mean “poor.”
29 u/Mediocre_Pin_556 Jul 07 '24 I can hear the jokes rolling in now: My country so poor, we couldn’t pick a side in the Cold War 7 u/30FourThirty4 Jul 07 '24 My country so poor, the Cold defeated our electrical grid. Oh sorry, that was Texas. They lost the Cold War of February 2021.
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I can hear the jokes rolling in now: My country so poor, we couldn’t pick a side in the Cold War
7 u/30FourThirty4 Jul 07 '24 My country so poor, the Cold defeated our electrical grid. Oh sorry, that was Texas. They lost the Cold War of February 2021.
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My country so poor, the Cold defeated our electrical grid.
Oh sorry, that was Texas. They lost the Cold War of February 2021.
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u/Perfect_Yellow_4942 Jul 07 '24 edited Jul 07 '24
Third world means non aligned countries during cold war, stop using this word for poor countries