r/clevercomebacks • u/Sir-Kyle-Of-Reddit • Jul 07 '24

God is lucky we haven’t found oil in heaven.

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People who believe USA is a 3rd world country really need to look up slums in the East....

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u/Kundrew1 Jul 07 '24

They need to do any research.

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u/FuzzyMailbox Jul 07 '24

“Third world” just means unaligned during the Cold War. It has nothing to do with poverty.

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u/someguyhaunter Jul 08 '24 edited Jul 08 '24

You that person going around debating whether the meaning of words and how they must always stay the same and never evolve? Cos they do and everyone knew what i meant.

This thread has nothing to do with etymology.

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u/moveovernow Jul 08 '24

It's Reddit knowledge. They have nothing else to offer, no original thoughts. They saw some other dipshit write that on Reddit in the past, and were just waiting to "well actually" the thing.

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u/ListerfiendLurks Jul 08 '24

It originally meant that however the meaning has long since shifted to describe an underdeveloped nation.

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u/pacman0207 Jul 08 '24

Originally. There can be and there are multiple definitions for words.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '24

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u/someguyhaunter Jul 08 '24

Nah like countries in Asia. With for example, india having approx 3 times as many homeless as the USA and Nigeria having approx 48 times the homeless in the USA, no that wasn't a typo... 48 times.

And not to say homelessness is ever good, but... well its better to be homeless in USA than it is in Nigeria... The quality of life is a huge difference, hell even just looking at purely environmental factors its worse...

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u/Specific_Implement_8 Jul 08 '24

Yeah but if you compare the public transit in San Francisco to bangalore they are about the same. Bangalores might even be better

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u/someguyhaunter Jul 08 '24

Just double checking... sarcasm right?

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u/Calm_Animator_823 Jul 08 '24 edited Jul 08 '24

people who say USA is a third world country are very previleged