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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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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago

It does a lot of heavy lifting when defining the US to be a democracy too.

You'd have to be a white supremacist to think the US was a democracy when slavery existed. Sure some people may have been voting, but there were Lords in a lot of places in Europe voting on stuff for a very long time.

We may as well say the Holy Roman Empire was a democracy because people voted for who would be Emperor. Sure the peasants didn't get to vote, but it doesn't matter if not every one gets to vote? Or does it?