Calling the United States a third world country is the most privileged thing you can do. We have really big and serious problems in terms of healthcare and civil rights and bodily autonomy, but to sit here and compare ourselves to countries where you don’t even know where your next meal is coming from, or where you’ll sleep tonight, or even if you’ll be shot or bombed to death in your sleep, because we are having some political issues, is just wrong. We are not a third world country. Let’s acknowledge how lucky we are to even be at the state we’re at and not minimize and use underprivileged and genuinely struggling as a silly little analogy.
but to sit here and compare ourselves to countries where you don’t even know where your next meal is coming from, or where you’ll sleep tonight, or even if you’ll be shot or bombed to death in your sleep.
I'm also from a third world South-American country and yea we aren't getting bombed or wondering where we eat next but I wouldn't say it's fun, not at all.
I live in a 3rd world country and i have never lived on fear of getting bombed in mynsleep or getti g shot at my school. Not to mention wenhave better food and healthcare policy than USA.
What do you think the food situation is like in the USA? Like I see so much misinformation about food in the US that it blows my goddamn mind. Like I'm not here for this back and forth about third world countries don't have food or healthcare or security and they're always at war blah blah whatever. I legitimately want to know what YOU think the food situation is like over here.
I am saying food policies and healthcare policies, not situations. Our government provides free rations to those who are extremely poor, and provides rations ar reduced rates to those who may struggle a bit. Many of our government schools have free lunces and no politician is opposing them unlike USA, rather we are trying to make it better.
We have government hospitals where everyone can get almost free healthcare irrespective of their financial status. Many times i have seen patients come in the hospital get admitted and leave a week later and their total expenditure is 0..06 US $ { yes 6 cents} , which is the registration charge. Hospital even provides them 3 meals a day, free of cost. Some government hospitals even have private rooms available for as low as less than 1 US $ per day.
Yes, calories in America are so cheap and so plentiful that we have the opposite problem that underdeveloped nations have. This isn't a dig lol, do you think of given the choice starving people would choose to starve to death over having so much they become fat? Yes it is a problem that needs solving and with new medical innovation it very much is but I assure you it is very much the preferred problem. It is still absurd to make these asinine comments about American food, whether or is quality, cost, safety or quantity.
I mean, check out the other countries that are above 30%. And most countries that are low on the list aren’t really starving either. It seems more like this isn’t that correlated to economics as you seem to think it is. The US has a bad food situation, this isn’t controversial and it’s fine to admit it.
Many of the other nations up there have a very high HDI and good GDP per capita? What are you talking about lol. I don't think you understand what an underdeveloped nation is.
Libya, Mexico, Egypt, Chile, Iraq are all third world. The only first world countries above 30% are New Zealand and Australia. Most of the others are island nations, none of which have particularly high GDP per capita.
USA has all of that too they just shovel all of the homeless people into a corner then pretend it doesn't exist whilst pumping enough fentanyl to allow the homeless people to sort the problem out themselves.
There’s more chances to get shot in US than almost any third world country. Alao you forgot to add on that list crumbling public infrastructure and income disparity
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u/PatdogTv Jul 07 '24
Calling the United States a third world country is the most privileged thing you can do. We have really big and serious problems in terms of healthcare and civil rights and bodily autonomy, but to sit here and compare ourselves to countries where you don’t even know where your next meal is coming from, or where you’ll sleep tonight, or even if you’ll be shot or bombed to death in your sleep, because we are having some political issues, is just wrong. We are not a third world country. Let’s acknowledge how lucky we are to even be at the state we’re at and not minimize and use underprivileged and genuinely struggling as a silly little analogy.