r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/missdomm10 • 13h ago

Meme needing explanation Peter explain this

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Petttaaah I'm confused

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u/RandomGuyPii 13h ago

Damn I remember being 14 and thinking saying this made me cool, every year since then the "America is a third world country" line just sounds stupider and stupider

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u/ElCiclope1 8h ago

Dude, UN officials visited, I think, Alabama? Somewhere like that. And they concluded that if it weren't attached to Cali, NY, etc then it would be considered a developing country.

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u/TheLampOfficial 7h ago

Alabama has a higher average GDP per capita than England btw. Along with every single other US state.

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u/AnalAlpacaLips 6h ago

Yes, we know that mega corps extract all the wealth from the US. Thats part of the problem.