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TranscriptA threads post saying "There has never been another nation ever that has existed much beyond 250 years. Not a single one. America's 250th year is 2025. The next 4 years are gonna be pretty interesting considering everything that's already been said." It has a reply saying "My local pub is older than your country".

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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 182 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is a misunderstanding among conservatives. Our legal system and government structure is woefully outdated, but our country is really young.

It's like a teen athlete being really proud that he has the oldest sneakers of all the competitors.

[–] Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Worse, it's like a teen athlete being really proud that he has the world record for best stickballer, so he drops out of school to play stickball full time.

Then when everybody else wants to play an actual sport with actual rules where people wear helmets and don't die, suddenly the teen starts starts swinging his stick through people's windows and at people's heads.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Your analogy has nothing to do with the topic. The topic is about the age of the countries, and their constitutions.

[–] Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yes, I'm suggesting that the US constitution was impressive and exciting and set a lot of new records, but everyone quickly moved onto bigger and better things while the US lagged behind pretending its outdated rules were still the best in the world.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 16 points 2 days ago

So it’s like a teen who’s really proud of having the oldest sneakers of all the competitors then.