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?

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    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.

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        My guess is Lemmy skews young.

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

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      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.

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      I resent this, as Brit. Toilet paper itself is perfectly fine - it’s those people that have to wipe their own arse that are heathen.

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      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.