Sen. Markwayne Mullin, a former MMA fighter, had challenged the president of the Teamsters union, Sean O’Brien, but Sanders shut them both down.

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    Can some one fact check my random knowledge dumpster of a brain?

    I feel like at some point I heard or read that “third world” referred to countries who did not take a side during the cold war. Is this accurate?

    Technically the term third world has nothing to do with the developmental status of a country, but it happened to take on this second meaning because lower GDP countries tended to stay out of the conflict? The West and their friends were “first world” and Soviets and their comrades were “second world”?

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      1 year ago

      It’s basically a bullshit term and shouldn’t be used, I only did for comedic and or rhetorical effect. But it has no academic use, if we let it rest at that. It’s little more than economic racism.