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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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      1 day ago

      The Kingdom of Great Britain, which ceased to exist in 1800 and lasted less than a century.

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        Use the same definition (unchanged political institutions) and tell me how long the Roman Empire lasted.

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            18 hours ago

            You have to add all these together to include coups and hostile takeovers or divide it to hilariously short periods.

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              I think that was the point of the original poster. I mean, they were wrong, but I find a lot of the comments in this thread hilariously more wrong in their self-righteous response.

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            The was also a kingdom period in Rome’s earlier times. But that’s ancient history, am i rite?

            (I’ll let myself out)

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        They think of countries as dynasties or times of uninterrupted, peaceful transitions of power. Britain has changed dynasties and government types over the years. It’s semantics.