• Lodespawn@aussie.zone
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    4 days ago

    The Soviets, eastern Europeans, CHYNA, Cuba and North Korea are 2nd world. Odd that they would omit those countries from their rhetoric …

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      4 days ago

      Well, as the Warsaw pact doesn’t exist anymore, there are no second world countries.

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          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.