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minus-squareroofuskit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·1 day agoRepublicans are racing to see who can make their state into a 3rd world country first.
minus-squareFenrisulfir@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up10·19 hours agoA lot of states would already be classified as third world. Take away the funding from blue states and they go straight to undeveloped
minus-squareAlexanderTheDead@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-29 hours agoWhich ones? I live in a low income, rural area in a red state. It is nothing like a 3rd world country, just not even remotely close. Yet.
minus-squareFenrisulfir@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 hours agoHow many have you been to? I’ve been to a few. I didn’t realize that 3rd world is a derogatory term from the Cold War era so let’s switch to developing. One developing country I’ve been to is Paraguay. They have a literacy rate of 94.54% and apparently the global literacy rate is 86.3% Let’s look at US states now https://www.datapandas.org/ranking/literacy-rate-by-state Yes I just quickly googled these because this is social media, not a uni term paper
minus-squareAlexanderTheDead@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-23 hours agoWell, I would agree that literacy rates are lower here. To be fair, I am going off media representation of what is considered “developing” (well, media representation of “3rd world”, anyway). But, simply look up HDI scores for the US states and you will see that there is no comparison here. Edit: link for your benefit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_Human_Development_Index_score Paragauy was like .731 or something, for reference.
minus-squareSPRUNT@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·20 hours agoRepublicans are racing to see how many different ways they can legalize pedophilia.
Republicans are racing to see who can make their state into a 3rd world country first.
A lot of states would already be classified as third world. Take away the funding from blue states and they go straight to undeveloped
Which ones? I live in a low income, rural area in a red state. It is nothing like a 3rd world country, just not even remotely close. Yet.
How many have you been to? I’ve been to a few.
I didn’t realize that 3rd world is a derogatory term from the Cold War era so let’s switch to developing.
One developing country I’ve been to is Paraguay. They have a literacy rate of 94.54% and apparently the global literacy rate is 86.3%
Let’s look at US states now https://www.datapandas.org/ranking/literacy-rate-by-state
Yes I just quickly googled these because this is social media, not a uni term paper
Well, I would agree that literacy rates are lower here.
To be fair, I am going off media representation of what is considered “developing” (well, media representation of “3rd world”, anyway).
But, simply look up HDI scores for the US states and you will see that there is no comparison here.
Edit: link for your benefit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_Human_Development_Index_score
Paragauy was like .731 or something, for reference.
Republicans are racing to see how many different ways they can legalize pedophilia.