Unruffled [they/them]@lemmy.dbzer0.comM to Fediverse vs Disinformation@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 1 month agoIs it just me, or is there a distinct lack of subtlety in right wing propaganda campaigns recently?hexbear.netimagemessage-square101linkfedilinkarrow-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 month agomessage-square101linkfedilinkcross-posted to: chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
minus-squarecmbabul@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up67·1 month 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 month 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 month agoWell, as the Warsaw pact doesn’t exist anymore, there are no second world countries.
minus-squareLodespawn@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoThe countries still exist … in one form or another
minus-squareZorque@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·1 month 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 month agoYeah, I’m the one being pedantic, gas light much?
minus-squareteamevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·1 month agoI thought it just meant no nuclear weapons
minus-squareSomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 month agoI believe that would exclude Canada, Aus, and NZ which are pretty firmly considered first world.
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minus-squareDeceptichum@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 month agoSecond World was the Soviets. 3rd world was India and other non-aligned.
minus-squareshawn1122@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month 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.
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.