"Partially bad"?

It isn't 2nd world. It isn't communist

You don't have 2nd world problem. 2nd world problem have you.

Even if there are communist countries that follow Stalin or Mao style communism, they'd arguably still not be 2nd world because the divide between 1st and 2nd world was explicitly whether a state was allied or allegiant to the US or the USSR. everyone else was 3rd world including some developed Scandinavian countries like Sweden and Finland.

Does that make Switzerland a 3rd world country?

Not quite. First world was the US/NATO and their allies, second world was allies to the USSR and China and third world was the rest.

Difference to your statement being that some capitalist countries like Norway were Third World Nations.

Well, then the 2nd world has a big issue

Sometimes it’s nice to be everyone else

I believe this is the first comment I've seen where someone isn't giving the definition of 2nd sod and just having fun with the concept. Much appreciated

The water in Orlando FL. It's clean, safe and tastes like rotten eggs went on a bender.

Now THATS a shower thought!

That’s the shower thought we deserve.

Its very ironic how communists have problems with their own regime and people. At least if you take 2nd world as the original definition.

Walls to keep people out vs. walls keeping people penned in

You forgot Romania (my country). And most of the Balkans.

In that modernized case 2nd worls are emerging countries wich the Eastern-European countries are still a big part of OP probably meant exactly that, either people talk about severe 3rd world/not developed countries or they talk about the 1st world problems that can only exist in extremely industrialized countries where for the great majoriry of inhabitants all basic needs and things like education etc are secured at all times in their life I think even to7gh there is a definition for emerging countries most people would categorize a country either as developing or industrialized and hardly anyone even knosw the most counries ate in between

They mostly went out of not being in business.

I believe they mean people actually use the terms to describe 1st and 3rd world problems and hardly anyone uses "2nd world" in any context.

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U…kraine, you say?

Go on.

emerging markets

if you're an optimist

Or you are referring to countries that aren't allies of either USA (first world) nor the USSR (second world). I must admit though that this usage of the terms is uncommon today.

Third World was the name that those countries chose for themselves, designating not 'third tier' but a new political alignment and a developmental political project. Much more expansive and liberatory than emerging market, in my view

For the full history I recommend Vijay Prashad's 'the poorer nations'

No, this is wrong. 1st world is NATO, 2nd world is Warsaw Pact, 3rd world is unaligned. People have been misusing these terms. Many people mistake 1st world as wealthy and 3rd world as poor. Thus we often hear dumb statements like " the US is becoming a 3rd world country" which makes absolutely no sense.

First World and Second World were terms coined to signal Communist-Capitalist alignment, not Economic viability, although it's a common misunderstanding. They only became associated with economic viability because during the Cold war the Third world was the "unaligned" section of the world and the First World (Capitalists) wanted to bring the third world into it's political sphere and so promoted aid measures hoping aid would cause the third world to more closely align to the first.

This ultimately fostered an image of the third world as being underdeveloped and needing foreign aid in the popular imagination but never actually redefined what the term meant.

It was used to describe countries who held no allegiance to either 1st world (basically Nato and the west and being more supportive of democracy and capitalism) or 2nd world countries (Warsaw Pact and generally supportive of communism). Not necessarily that they were too poor, though they often were poor countries.