Are you forgetting how often European nations fell apart and had many civil wars and change of government forms? Don't you remember the Yugoslav Wars? Even the Kingdom of the Netherlands is younger than the United States. The USA has a continuous democracy since 1789
Usually a coup is counted as a success if the person executing it takes it remains in power.
Trump did not remain in power, and the attempt is counted as a failure.
It’s a clear sign that there’s danger to the democracy, but that doesn’t mean the coup didn’t fail or that the democracy has.
Hitler took power after a failed coup, but that doesn’t mean that the coup wasn’t a failure, since he didn’t take power as a result of the coup.
Define country, because the American government is actually one of the oldest continuous governmental systems in the world. Certainly the oldest republic that isn’t a micro-state.
Now if you want argue that France, for example, is an older country than America because there’s been a fairly stable region largely called France for several centuries you can, you’d just be wrong.
Now if you want to start talking about nations that’s different, but also a much, much blurrier subject in general.
I’m using the term to mean more or less the collectively agreed upon “identity” of a state. Not merely a single contiguous government (for the same reason you just bring up, people still consider France to be France even though the government has changed fundamentally many times over the years), but I’m not using it to just mean “nation” either, since were France to be completely conquered and annexed by a foreign power, the French nation, as in the group of people, would still exist, but the country would not, at least until such time as it could be recreated, or for a different reason, that one can have a national identity split between different states, or a state involving different such groups.
I don’t have a dick so I don’t have any personal experience on this, but do people actually do that? I don’t want to chat with randos if we’re not at a party or something, much less when I’m pissing.
Penis-possessor here, so I am obviously an expert: I only ever have it happen to me at the sink or when it’s someone I know like a co-worker (I hate it when that happens).
There is no better place to spread the good word of Arch Linux than a gas station bathroom. I also let Mormon evangelists into my place just to show them how great Arch Linux is.
Really wish I had the chance to get one. Where I live, the Zune was probably never even sold, at all. It was unheard of. Even iPods were rare here, I only saw two in person in my entire lifetime, one of which was my own 6th gen. But yeah, I still really liked the Zune.
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