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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”.
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”.