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"No nation is older than 250" (infosec.pub)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/facepalm@lemmy.world

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A 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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[–] Limonene@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago (11 children)

If I assume by the word "Pub" that they are in the UK, their country has only existed for 103 years. Obviously, that doesn't mean the end of the people, or the pubs, just the end of that system of government and/or territorial border.

There's no shame in it. Constitutions and bills of rights need to be updated as people become more enlightened and civilized. The US would certainly be better off if it had had more constitutional amendments over these 250 years. Maybe then it wouldn't need a revolution.

[–] TimMadisun@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Mate, the UK has existed for a touch over 103 years.

[–] Technofrood@feddit.uk 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Depends on what you are counting as the start and end of a country like ours. In our current state/make up of countries, it's 103 years, when the Irish Free State left in 1922.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 4 points 3 months ago

By that reckoning the US has only been around since 1959.

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