Well the trench coat…I was about to say a fairly recent addition but some states are younger than that. There was a time when we said “The United States are…” rather than 'The United States is…"
We are, after all, the world’s oldest surviving Federation.
That’s really just the world getting used to it. The country may be a fucking disaster but it’s unlikely to see states coming in and out or being combined so they are, as far as anyone else needs to care, one unit. Nobody switched to “is” because of some idea of unity, it’s just because they don’t act separately on a federal level. Anyone with a braincell to spare knows that cooperation is a stranger to the States.
It’s a shitty “oldest fedration” that, frankly, as a Canadian I only know a lot about because every little piece of garbage it pumps out has a very nearly direct impact on my life in the form of a dogshit conservative culture that our own conservatives reproduce. I wish I could ignore that place, or maybe even enjoy its diversity of less toxic cultures and landscapes, but as it is I just hate the place and my familiarity with it is on a “know your enemy” basis. I could not give two flying shits about some white-washed “oldest federation” bullshit and am frankly insulted that even a small fraction of a part of you believes that I should care(the rest of you is fine though, I’m sure you didn’t mean it that way).
That rant got way out of hand, sorry, but I’m leaving it.
Well the trench coat…I was about to say a fairly recent addition but some states are younger than that. There was a time when we said “The United States are…” rather than 'The United States is…"
We are, after all, the world’s oldest surviving Federation.
That’s really just the world getting used to it. The country may be a fucking disaster but it’s unlikely to see states coming in and out or being combined so they are, as far as anyone else needs to care, one unit. Nobody switched to “is” because of some idea of unity, it’s just because they don’t act separately on a federal level. Anyone with a braincell to spare knows that cooperation is a stranger to the States.
It’s a shitty “oldest fedration” that, frankly, as a Canadian I only know a lot about because every little piece of garbage it pumps out has a very nearly direct impact on my life in the form of a dogshit conservative culture that our own conservatives reproduce. I wish I could ignore that place, or maybe even enjoy its diversity of less toxic cultures and landscapes, but as it is I just hate the place and my familiarity with it is on a “know your enemy” basis. I could not give two flying shits about some white-washed “oldest federation” bullshit and am frankly insulted that even a small fraction of a part of you believes that I should care(the rest of you is fine though, I’m sure you didn’t mean it that way).
That rant got way out of hand, sorry, but I’m leaving it.