Which thirdie country has the best subway system(s)?
Moscow>inb4 that's second world
>>2067282sex with this creature>>2067285more than that, moscow is not a country
>>2067285>>inb4 that's second worldIt hasn't been second world since the early 90s, now it's just third world>>2067286>moscow is not a countryalso this
>>2067282jp, no firstie would have these
>>2067285Beat me to it.
>>2067286>moscow is not a countrySTFU Retard
>>2067282Brazil now, India in the future. The latter is building SO god damn much.
>>2067521OH FUCK, also China. desu I should've said that.
>>2067282Bulgaria.
ITT:>first world is only when your country is run by jews
>>2067285Imo Moscow & St. Petersburg are second world (used to be first world before uncle Vlad went full retard)Any major city with population around or above one million is third world (again, used to be second world but alas)And the rest of the country is either fourth world or downright wasteland
>>2067303What's a woman?
>>2067689You don't know what any of these words meanAt no point in Russia's history was it ever first world. First world, Second World, and Third World are all Cold War era terms that we've just re-appropriated as shorthand for a countries development First World = USA/NATO and friendsSecond World = USSR and friendsThird World = Everyone elseAfter the collapse of the USSR in 1991, the Second World died, leaving only the First World and the Third World. Modern Russia is a Third World country.
>>2067282New York.
>>2067773wouldnt russia and its immediate vassals (like say georgia) still be 2nd world since they're effectively just the evolution of the USSR>>2067536yes, actually, 1st world is a western term to denote NATO countries (and those with "NATO Ally" status) specificallylatvia and lithuania used to be "second world" but then they joined nato. like >>2067773 said it's basically shorthand for >countries we like>countries we dont like>countries that do not matter
>>2067781Russia only has a handful of vassals at best, not enough for them to be considered a multipolar bloc like they once were. The closest we have to a second world is China, but China doesn't really have any allies or vassals like the USSR did (BRICS isn't an answer to NATO, it's an economic alliance, not a defensive one, and none of its member states share a common goal or ideology other than being contrarians to the Global North)
>>2067781First and third world had a semantic shit after the cold war, now they simply mean developed country and shithole country respectively. Russia is a shithole country so it's third world.
>>2067773>First world, Second World, and Third World are all Cold War era terms that we've just re-appropriated as shorthand for a countries developmentThat actually makes a point of Russia still being second world since development-wise it's between first and third world, and the political classification is pointless anyway.
>>2067807Moscow subway looks better than any subway in the US and probably better than most in Europe. You're a dumb turd.
>>2067786true and fair but they are still by original definition second world and by modern gen x/millenial "definition" of "kinda poor country but it matters enough that when shit happens there it affects us" still second world but then again we have people itt who literally understand that Moscow isn't a country so do any of these definitions really matter?
>>2067860Bangkok's MRT is really nice and has decent coverage of the city. I can't think of a nation with comparable wealth with anything close to it.
>>2067689Do you even know what first, second and third world means?
>>2067871I need to see the Reds some day, a metre gauge 160 km/h suburban train, I should probably write a bucket list starting with it
>>2067282Santo Domingo Metro in the Dominican Republic, probably.
>>2067536That would make Russia first world if that were the case
The US is pretty good by third world standards
Mexico City is good by third world standards. When first built, much of the population was illiterate, so stations were given pictograms in addition to names and line colors.
>>2067286>>2067287>moscow is not a countrymoscow IS the countryanything beyond the ring might as well be junglet. proud moscow denizen
>>2070300>When first built, much of the population was illiterateThat seems like an urban legend, it's not Santa Virgin de Tlaxopocalpatlextlocl de la Sierra de Azuhuayancaxtlopotlepec in Guerrero it's Mexico City where "poor" means you only have one car and you have to ride the subway when it's not your license plate dayMore likely they just thought the pictograms were cool since Mexicans are obsessed with visual art and design
>>2070302People visit Mexico City from other areas. It's not much of an issue now but when the system was being planned, it absolutely was a concern and they intentionally designed for it.
>>2070306I mean sure I can see that as being floated as the rationalization but the practical application seems like a real stretch. Even in 1970 the adult literacy rate nationally was almost 80% and that includes the most impoverished backwaters. And "adult literacy" means you can fluently read, write, and communicate in written form. Like, I'm functionally illiterate in Russian but if you dropped me in the Moscow Metro I could certainly decipher enough cyrillic to make sense of which station I'm in and which station I need to get to. So the remaining 20% of the population likely included a majority of people who could easily read individual words.On top of which, how many completely illiterate people from a backwater village were just randomly dropping into an airbnb in Coyoacan in 1970 to hang out with the bohemians and smoke weed and read communist poetry? The whole thing just sounds like a cool story people tell to tourists that sounds cool but isn't true. Like "midtown manhattan and downtown has a gap in high rises because of the bedrock" (absolutely false but it's been repeated as a fun fact for decades)
>>2070301Geez, no wonder all the republics want to get away.
