• Limonene@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      32
      ·
      2 months ago

      I feel like the US is more like a Second World country. By “Second World”, I mean the countries that are more aligned to Russia than to NATO. That description now fits the US, unfortunately.

    • rayyy@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      2 months ago

      A country that has no national healthcare, a life-style of economic struggle and a dictator for a leader? Hmmmm.

  • theprogressivist @lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    103
    ·
    2 months ago

    Republican Representative Brandon Gill has told New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani to “go back to the Third World” in response to a video of him eating with his hands.

    I guess this asshole has never eaten a burger, chicken, hot dog etc. Fucking racist piece of shit.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      2 months ago

      In Russia it was impolite, actually, to eat chicken not with your hands. Can’t say why, maybe it’s the possibility of bones splitting and flying away, and maybe it’s that some of the meat remains on the bones, so some visible food gets thrown out. As a kid I would sometimes get looks (making my hands oiled and dirty I don’t like, being autistic and just because it’s inconvenient).

      In any case I’m not sure someone’s eating habits affect their politics, unless demonstrating lack of basic hygiene or involving cannibalism.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    34
    ·
    2 months ago

    What is this high school?

    American government sounds more and more like the varsity sports team of America High

  • thatradomguy@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    28
    ·
    2 months ago

    Oh, I’m sorry. Which country is it again that can’t do UHC but can spend billions on blowing up rockets while people starve and or can’t find homes/shelter in this same “first world country”?

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      2 months ago

      Is it India? Because that’s where Gill’s father in law, political commentator and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza is from. Maybe the D’Souzas can leave and take Gill with them.

  • Karrion409@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    27
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    2 months ago

    Words cannot describe the hate I have for the entire American establishment with the exception of Bernie, Zohran, and AOC.

  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    20
    ·
    2 months ago

    Yeah if he doesn’t win the election after these attacks then the US has passed the point of no return. If even New Yorkers are too stupid to fall for this smear campaign then the US can’t be saved.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    19
    ·
    2 months ago

    Gill married Danielle D’Souza, the daughter of conservative political commentator Dinesh D’Souza, in 2017. They have two children and live in Flower Mound, Texas.

    So Gill’s father and wife are okay but a foreigner with differing political opinions is crossing the line?

  • crusa187@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    19
    ·
    2 months ago

    Blatant racism aside, look around at the devastation wrought by repugnantcon policies buddy. Zohran is already in a 3rd world shithole, and he has the audacity to try to make it somewhat more tolerable for those in his city.

    • Ech@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      edit-2
      2 months ago

      The term is pretty racist itself, since it was created to refer to tertiary countryies in the Cold War, but soon came to simultaneously suggest those countries were lesser. Calling a failing state “3rd world” just further perpetuates that.

      • shawn1122@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        2 months ago

        The majority of those countries were robbed by first world countries for centuries so anyone using the phrase without any moral reflection is intentionally not looking at the whole picture.

  • acargitz@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    19
    ·
    edit-2
    2 months ago

    With the whole Glastonbury kerfuffle I’ve come to know more about this band called Bob Vylan. They have this lovely song, and it goes ike this:

    I heard you want your country back
    Shut the fuck up
    I heard you want your country back
    Uh-uh, you can't have that
    The only place I know
    Stolen right under my nose
    By ignorant scum
    Tryna lay claim to a land that ain't theirs anyway
    Wait - what did you say?
    I heard you want your country back
    Ha! Shut the fuck up
    I heard you want your country back
    Uh-uh, you can't have that
    I heard you want your country back
    Ha! Shut the fuck up
    I heard you want your country back
    Well shit, me too
    
  • Pacattack57@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    2 months ago

    Ask a MAGAt to name a third world country. Instead of naming one they will name the country of the race they hate the most.

  • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    2 months ago

    Who? Man nobody has heard of desperate for warmth of spotlight.

    Didnt they have the same reaction when somebody ate a cheese steak with a knife and fork? The things they fixate on…

    Maybe if we keep squawking about a bunch of dumb shit, nobody will notice how many rural Americans are about to be fucked 6 ways from Sunday by this big beautiful bill. Then we can spin it as this guy eating with his hands made you lose your healthcare.

  • ShittDickk@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    2 months ago

    Go back to the third world where you’ll have healthcare, and food is cheap, and many services are provided by the government. Go back to where medicine can be bought without 4 doctors turning their medi-square tip screen around, where self made men can become something without the financial backing of a sexual terrorist. Go back to a land of opportunity, of potential, of downtrodden poor people in need of a voice. Go back and help them rise to the top.

    We’re trying to become the world’s last 3rd world country here.