• Fluke@feddit.uk
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          Mate we have pubs here that are older than your entire country. The US isn’t the “oldest” anything, there’s nothing the US knows that it didn’t learn from someone else. From Warfare to Politics, Science to Religion, all shamelessly lifted wholesale from elsewhere, or plain stolen from someone else.

          American exceptionalism is the greatest lie you’ve ever been sold.

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              I’m from the UK, but that’s irrelevant as I didn’t say democracy here was older than your country, did I?

              My point stands.

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                You brought up the pub in order to compare it to the age of democracies, so of course it’s relevant. But that pub is even older when compared to the British democracy than American democracy, isn’t it?

                If the pub’s age compared to a democracy isn’t relevant now, then it wasn’t relevant when you brought it up, either.

                You are the one who brought it up, and I am using it in exactly the same way that you did. If you don’t like it, then you shouldn’t have brought it up.

                Of course, I expected you were from the UK, but I knew why you didn’t write the UK in your original comment, because most of the things you said about the US in that comment could be said in even harsher terms about the UK.

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      At this point, I think no matter what Trump does his base will still support him. The war may go on for years, but the legend of that jackass might be exalted for millennia.

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        He is going to end up embalmed in the rotunda of the Congress like Lenin or Jeremy Bentham.

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          I find myself wondering if every messiah of every religion might have started as a version of Trump. Many religions are popularized long enough after the death of their holy one that living memories would be sparse and the stories are what remains, true or false.

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          just because he’s not eligible, doesn’t mean he won’t. He was ineligible at the last election, given his MANY felony convictions, but here we are.

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    The same group of people that bet on the first one has made another bet that they’ll be a full on ground invasion