NeedlessPedantics

NeedlessPedantics t1_jecsbbz wrote

Every idiot I grew up with in rural Canada is convinced Putin is fighting against the deep state to stop the WEF, and Trudeau from forcing us all into 15 minute communities. The same people who think China managed to steal the election for Trudeau. But Russia wouldn’t possibly do anything to subvert our democracy.

No no, only China.

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NeedlessPedantics t1_jaioyjy wrote

“Women are gods creation, as much as men”

Yes the solution to religious indoctrination is to start splitting untestable theological hairs. 😒

No, no, no, don’t treat women like second class citizens according to Islam… treat them like second class citizens according to Christianity… there we go, much better.

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NeedlessPedantics t1_j8a2gpo wrote

That’s right.

Which is why I tried giving the guy some additional information so he doesn’t make himself look foolish to anyone that knows what those terms actually mean in the future.

So of course he downvotes, says something shitty, then deletes his comment.

Because providing a better understanding of something with additional information is just a dick move on my part. /s

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NeedlessPedantics t1_j8a15ep wrote

I think you’re trying to use “third world” in a colloquial sense to mean something similar to impoverished.

But the US is certainly part of the first world, but not because of reasons you may think. Rather, it’s in part because the US was an allied democratic nation following the Second World War.

https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/third_world_countries.htm

People misuse these terms frequently though, so I get it.

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NeedlessPedantics t1_iz7kzui wrote

You’re thinking about this in terms of individuals making conscious decisions within the time frame of a single life, rather than successive generations of groups of people changing, moving, splitting, returning, dying off, repopulating entire regions over thousands upon thousands of years.

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