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[–] edgemaster72 155 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Congrats to Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Czechia, and Slovakia for making the cut

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's also the list of countries that have better internet than Australia.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Last I remember, the Baltic states have better internet than most of Europe and the US.

[–] Nihilistra 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yo, german bro here. When I go by train from my village Willich to fucking Düsseldorf I lose connection 2 times, going 10 kilometers into the state capital.

My friend in Wesel can't reliably call his clients by car cause it's just a connectivity minefield around there.

Send help

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Germany is so far behind with wifi coverage, it's insane. Fiber is also rare outside of the hotspots. I volunteered in a refugee center once and an ongoing joke among them was how war-torn Syria had better internet connection than Germany lol

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[–] Mr_Blott 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Used to have. Now it's just better than the US and UK lol

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh no, still better than Germany. Worlds better.

[–] matter 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yes, Germany might be the only western country worse than Australia

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[–] seaQueue 103 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Akenismit 12 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Almost like news written in english tends to focus on english-speaking countries and their allies

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

The obvious context of this meme is articles that express the "consensus opinion of the international community" on some foreign issue. Like "international community condemns antisemetic criticism of Israel." Or "international community condemns Niger coup, calls for original government to be reinstated so France can keep buying cheap Uranium from the second poorest country on the planet."

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[–] Skullgrid 72 points 1 year ago (4 children)

let's tune into Radio Saudi Arabia and find the real thuth! /s

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

why should I pretend like I give a shit about the third world when American media tells me everything I want to hear /s

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[–] tdawg 49 points 1 year ago (4 children)

South Korea is pretty good about pumping out culturally relevant stuff too. Honestly I'd say they do it better than Japan these days (not that I'm personally interested in stuff like k-pop, but it's clearly huge)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Korea is certainly ascendant but I doubt they've passed Japan in cultural exports. At least in the US, there is anime and Sushi in basically every population center these days, whereas Korean BBQ and chicken are still mostly popular in large urban areas (where sushi is still way more popular).

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (21 children)

Basically democracies. It is kind of difficult to consider non-democratic dictators like Putin or Kim Jong-un as representatives of some kind of “community”.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (11 children)

You know the vast majority of south and central americas are democracies too, right?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

Also a not-insignificant amount of Asia, Africa, and Pacific islands.

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[–] HeisenbergsName 27 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Never realized South Korea, Taiwan, or other SEA countries are not democracies but dictatorships.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

South Korea at least should probably be included in this map. It generally does include capitalist democracies, but it's not sufficient and probably not necessary for the general criteria.

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[–] afraid_of_zombies 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Latin America and India doesn't count because they are full of brown people, right?

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Idk, I feel like Al Jazeera gets quite a bit of visibility and has a good amount of credibility, but Qatar isn't on this map.

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[–] FrankTheHealer 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

South Korea tends to make the cut also

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

I like to call this "The Commonwealth and Friends"

[–] Touching_Grass 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TokenBoomer 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I still don’t know where they got cigarettes in that movie.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Viking_Hippie 8 points 1 year ago

All Kiwis celebrating rn!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (34 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

New Zealand is happy to be included

[–] CosmicCleric 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is this post done in relation to some news story that just occurred?

Or is this just a generic First World versus Third World post?

It's the ladder, then they missed a few First World countries on that map.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (21 children)

I think its pretty close to a map of countries that don't recognise Palestine, or who continue to benefit from colonialism or globalisation.

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[–] RichCaffeineFlavor 9 points 1 year ago (13 children)

I guess I should be less surprised how this meme is sailing over people's heads in here

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[–] assassin_aragorn 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"US liberals would be far right anywhere else in the world!"

The world:

[–] Zehzin 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They absolutely would not be far right in Japan and a few more on this map, but they would be right to far right in a lot of countries not on the map too.

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[–] RampantParanoia2365 7 points 1 year ago

You never hear about China or Russia?

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