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[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 2 points 3 hours ago

But they have "self driving cars" in north america.

[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Fuck "self"-driving cars. Clogging the roads with dangerous unpredictable vehicles is a bad idea. Look at all the accidents they're causing.

[–] antifa_ceo@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 hours ago

Is the joke here racism?

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

wdym, America has so-called "self driving" cars

[–] db2@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

3rd world is a concept cooked up by the Epstein class and they actively work to make it like that. Just saying.

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 minutes ago

3rd world was originally termed to indicate countries not taking part in the Cold War, or so I was taught.

[–] redparadise@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] db2@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

The term "third world" was made up during the cold war to identify and belittle developing countries that were maturing but not strong enough to defend themselves who had also not picked a side in said cold war. They have been systematically plundered of anything of value by the "first world" countries. There's no doubt they're not in good shape but the biggest reason that is is any means they had to not be like that were stolen and continue to be stolen from them.

Gold, diamonds, copper, lithium, oil, wood, water, anything of value. More recently the plundering has taken the form of just money, though still not exclusively.

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions/2021/5/6/rich-countries-drained-152tn-from-the-global-south-since-1960

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/may/24/world-is-plundering-africa-wealth-billions-of-dollars-a-year

https://www.colorado.edu/polisci/2024/03/28/exclusion-wealth-within-developing-countries

The same economic class perpetrates both things.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Maybe stop stealing from the poor and they’ll stop stealing from you. As it is, stealing from the rich is self defense.

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The third world? I thought we only had two

Those being the surface world and the hollow earth world

[–] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 hours ago

This is Moon People erasure

[–] Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Same goes for the autonomous robots, 10s thousands of dollar device walking around with no supervision, yeah that's not going to last a day

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 1 points 12 hours ago

I've thought about that too. When the police are human there's a natural deterrent there in that most people don't want to hurt someone else. If it's a robot way fewer are going to give a shit