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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”.
Americans have been brought up on national exceptionalism in school. This is what they’ve been told since they were children. The “logic” being that other countries have reformed their governments once in a while for different reasons while the U.S haven’t. Sweden for example was according to american logic founded in 1994.
A ha ha ha ha Sweden is fouded in 1994 🤣😂 ouch my stomach hurts! What the hell 😁 I mean at least make it 1894 or something.
I don’t remember anything special in 94?? Maybe we got a borglig regering? But with that logic the USA is only some months old lol.
Sweden joined the EU on Jan 1st of 1995 requiring som changes in governance (just formalities with no real impact). Google even listed Sweden as being founded in 94 for at least a decade. I used to show that to people as an example of why they shouldn’t trust information from the internet blindly.
Another metric Americans and no one else use for age of countries is last time the constitution (grundlag) was changed. This would make Sweden born in 1974. Nevermind that the U.S has made several “addendums” to their constitution efter the fact. They don’t consider that a change.
Oh I can almost see the logic - It’s like an append-only log, you only add to it, the original text is still original
Except amendments can override existing parts, so in reality, the US was born May 7th 1992 and judging by its age and personality, was likely a Vine star for a while.
We got a name for that kind of logic from where I come from.
It translates roughly to “stupid”.
I’ll bet not 1 American in 100 know that there was a time when Sweden was a dominant superpower in Europe.