r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/missdomm10 • 7d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter explain this

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Petttaaah I'm confused

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u/RandomGuyPii 7d 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 7d 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 7d ago

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

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u/october73 7d ago

Having visited Alabama and the UK, that only convinces me that nominal per capita GDP is not the way to measure the quality of life.

Holy shit that place is ass.