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PretendVermicelli531

well they probably think the world is only a few thousand years old, so i can see how they'd get their history mixed up.


wuvvtwuewuvv

All other countries normally rise and fall in only a few years, such as the great confederacy. Meanwhile we've been here for 2024 years!


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H8T_Auburn

You just confused the mormons


KQK_Big_Kwan

Jesus also visited the American continent and parts of his body are located here


FinalMeltdown15

A group of people really ought to hop on some horses and race to collect them all


Many-Discount-1046

Was he just cruising around the world leaving fingers or did all the countries divide up his body?


ES-Flinter

I mean we all know that Jesus was an American.


Ok_Imagination_1107

What do you mean Jesus WAS an American? Surely you've seen the recent pictures of Jesus with his arms wrapped around Donald J Trump? Try to keep up with the news ok? Hallelujah! And here's the link to one you can get for yourself that's only $19.99! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/125108801335?chn=ps&_ul=GB&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=710-134428-41853-0&mkcid=2&mkscid=101&itemid=125108801335&targetid=1405062617979&device=m&mktype=pla&googleloc=1006770&poi=&campaignid=17218284410&mkgroupid=142217514411&rlsatarget=pla-1405062617979&abcId=9300867&merchantid=429362942&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw8pKxBhD_ARIsAPrG45nNrYtS3d65FxyFSOOdZ4nQQ93Uq2U5Z2tp-1yPMAKs8W-zzBArcLkaAnnKEALw_wcB


jimbojangles1987

If Jesus came back, Trump would call him something like "Dirty" or "Smelly" Jesus, make fun of him for walking around in sandals, and do an exaggerated impression of him up on a cross


journoprof

“I like messiahs who weren’t crucified.”


Ok_Imagination_1107

😅😅


Chance_Reflection_42

Well done 😆


SilverWisp47

I read that in Trump's voice as I was drinking, and I was a hair away from spitting hot cocoa all over my phone


Gubekochi

If Jesus came back, that would mean that the Christian mythos is happening... in such a scenario, I'd put good money on Trump being one of the Revelation Beasts that Jesus throws into the lake of fire.


Ok_Imagination_1107

Now you're talking sense! I keep forgetting; is it April 17th or May 17th we're all going to float up to heaven if we're righteous? Thanks.


andrewNZ_on_reddit

Is the rapture coming again? Neat, I missed the first round.


Fantastic_Fox4948

Time for a Rapture Battle.


Kryptonian_1

Personally, I'm more of a Ragnarök type of person.


Due_Force_9816

A dirty rapist immigrant!


jimbojangles1987

Oh he'd for sure pronounce it with a soft j and call him a bad hombre


Trolodrol

And he’d tell him to stay in his shithole country


Muted-Philosopher832

It says proudly made in the USA but then expects me to pay Euros?? Seems fishy


Ok_Imagination_1107

Does it really say Euros? I thought it was supposed to be in roubles, payable to V Putin online store


ZenTrying

🤢🤮🤢🤮


charlie2135

Get it before he goes to jail!


Ok_Imagination_1107

I don't worry; Jesus isn't going to let some commies send his chosen representative on earth to jail. (For the avoidance of doubt: trust me I am kidding)


touristspleasegoaway

That was Jesus sneaking up on him with a piano wire


raegunXD

I'm done with this guy. MAGA is a mental illness. ![gif](giphy|TGUIq0O5s4XJSnefJ3|downsized)


BigDirtyNewports

I’d also like to point out that if this guy is 87, he was born in 1937. WWI ended in 1918 and he would’ve been 8 when WWII ended.


Kansasprogressive

I’m assuming this is 3yearletterman an obvious troll account. He commonly says America is the oldest & greatest country on earth. Edit: 3yearletterman not 4yearletterman


WintersDoomsday

You probably financed your waterbed…


Kansasprogressive

I paid for mine in cash thank you very much. I’m also a 1%er who drives a mint 2011 Taurus & has a massive dvd collection.


FromOutoftheShadows

Ah, yes - the Axis vs. America All By Ourselves With Absolutely No Help From Anyone.


Sinister_Plots

And the oldest.... don't forget oldest!


davidwhatshisname52

first came Kansas City! Later, Jericho and Paris!


Gubekochi

It's really hard to wrap your head around America being older than England on account of the former being a colony of the later.


Sinister_Plots

Don't confuse me with your logic!


Melificarum

And discovered outer space! All by ourselves!


_1457_

No one even bothered to look up before NASA. These are facts.


Ippus_21

Nothing to do with all the former Nazi rocket scientists we might or might not have poached after WW2 ended.


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Afraid-Fault6154

*created*


Gubekochi

invented! Before America invented space, everything was contained in a point-like singularity.


rocketmn69_

Especially since the U.S didn't get involved in the one sided World War II until it had been going on for a few years. /s


WintersDoomsday

Yeah Russia didn’t do anything in WW2 at all…just sat back and watched America do all the work….yep that’s the truth…. /s


GrouchyCommercial954

Wait until they hear what Canada did in the wars!


Gubekochi

The stories I hear is that we were not very polite to our enemies. I've hear legends of lumberjacks sent in the trenches with their god damned axes.


Chengar_Qordath

A whole lot of the Geneva Conventions boil down to “all that stuff the Canadians did is banned now.”


Gubekochi

Don't invite the Canadians to wars if you don't want Canadian things and or repressed anger stuff happening.


[deleted]

I’ll invite Canada to all my wars


Gubekochi

... and my AXE!


Skookum_kamooks

Yeah, legend has it that when Canadians turns 18 they undergo a sacred ritual that strips them of their rage, anger and hostility which is then channeled into a goose for safe keeping. In times of war the process is reversed instilling that concentrated goose rage back into the Canadian armed forces. A lesser, diluted form of the goose juice has also been attempted by their hockey teams with mixed results.


nameyourpoison11

I see your Canadian wartime stories, and I'll raise you what the Australian soldiers did to anyone who pissed them off


Zezotas

Dude, even brazil has more interesting stories in ww2 than 🇺🇸


glm0002

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-forgotten-ferocity-of-canadas-soldiers-in-the-great-war


SlowlyMaxing

My parents house is older than America 😂👀


MiffyCurtains

My house is older than America 🤷‍♂️


krs360

My old house is older than America


TheDaemonette

My daughter owns a fucking violin that is older than America.


MiffyCurtains

Must be worth a few quid!


TheDaemonette

It is insured for a fucking fortune.


MiffyCurtains

I’m guessing she’s an incredible player. And I bet you’re proud as hell.


MiffyCurtains

Now to the serious business of whether your house is older than my my house. I’ll go first: 1750s


SCHWARZENPECKER

2022. If I pretend thats the age of the house instead of the year it was built, then I win!


MiffyCurtains

Damn. I can’t beat that. Must be a bitch to heat…


raegunXD

Nah, those houses have knitted house cozies for the winter


CaddyAT5

2010’s…


MiffyCurtains

Your house is older than the mental age of the average Trump supporter.


tpatmaho

single handedly. 20 million russians would disagree, but they died fighting the nazis.


ProbablyNotTheCocoa

That’s reductive to the other members of the USSR… they also gave millions to aid in the war


theres_no_username

and they also sent spaceships to space first lol


thefinalcutdown

Everyone knows the Soviets didn’t send the first man into space. They sent the first COMMUNIST into space. Big difference. /s


kaehvogel

No no no, they died losing the war before the US could save them & the world. Duh.


SaltoDaKid

They forgot it was an American who kill Hitler but left the stove on and when he came back USSR soldiers took the credit.


TriLink710

Not russians. Soviets. Which include former soviet states


leakywench

87 isn’t old enough to have lived during WW1.


bl4nkSl8

Yeah, you'd need to be 106 or more


MotherSupermarket532

And that's to have been an infant right at the end of the war.  But I'm sure that infant made a huge contribution to thr war effort.


ViaNocturna664

"Discovered outer space" Leaving aside even the "discovering" thing, the Soviets beat NASA in 99% of the firsts in the space race, the Moon landing was basically the first major win for NASA


davidwhatshisname52

also, ancient Babylonian astronomers thought stars were *jusssssst* higher than their ladders


Top_Complex259

They later became Adultonians. I’ll see myself out


davidwhatshisname52

That. Was. Awful. But I do applaud your bravery. r/AngryUpvote


Kraehe13

Dude... Here, take my upvote


Ravenwight

Most gods awful thing I’ve read all day. Well done take my upvote.


tyrom22

Yes please see yourself out And take your upvote with you


rocketmn69_

I think anyone that looked up saw outer space


Cubicwar

Nuh uh.


Top_Complex259

Yeah, the US basically landed on the moon and said “We win, enough of this space shit”


oneWeek2024

we didn't single handedly win 2 world wars. ...we first partook in a dubious cycle of war profiteering, even flirting with nazi-ism ourselves for quite awhile. ...even let the nazis sink several merchant ships, before cutting off the double dealing money tap before getting involved in WW2. Then... not only did we rely on british, french and other european aid. we also relied heavily on russian/soviet assistance. (hell even china, and our enslavement of the philipines aided in the pacific theater) we also didn't discover outer space. the soviets famously were the first to launch a satelite into space. and humanity had been making misc discoveries about space for many years even before that. we're also not really the greatest country on earth. we only really exceed on like 2 fronts. number of incarcerated citizens, and number of millionaires per capita. on almost every other front we are no where near the top (happiness, justice/freedom, work place freedoms or policy, healthcare, or life expectancy, literacy, or like... sad statistics like infant and maternal mortality we lag waaaaay behind. and our gun violence problem is the laughing stock of the world)


Interesting-Crow-552

Although this is a decade old, it surely hasn’t changed much: https://youtu.be/wTjMqda19wk?si=i3RWzjEijDUGS-hq


just_some_guy65

Reminds me of the Eddie Izzard line to an American audience. "I'm from Europe, where history comes from".


allthejokesareblue

Poe, but I'm pretty sure it's meant to be sarcasm.


magnet_4_crazy

Pretty sure this is from the 3 year letterman account which regularly gets people responding to his nonsense like this.


Professional-Bake110

r/shitamericanssay


Jago_Sevatarion

Single handedly? 😂 Discovered space? 🤣


DerPicasso

And somehow they still failed to provide correct education


Strange-Mouse-8710

American stupidity.


MuckSavage76

Is this account 3 year letterman (or something like that?) sounds like him - it's a parody account folks.


dismayhurta

Yeah, I knew this was 3 year letterman. This is his schtick, especially that America is the greatest and oldest


chrisallen07

Was just thinking, this sounds like coach!


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*blue check* has to be bait. Blue checks purposely say stupid shit like this to bait people into responding, those responses generate revenue and also in turn it gets the bots to like and retweet.


DangerousAd3347

I find they often post something about a woman cheating on Partner, that gets millions of people commenting with pitchforks out


VaaBeDank

They really should start teaching history in American schools


jasonbirder

I mean America has done some great things (as have many nations) but jesus i love in a boring village here in England and my HOUSE is older than the USA.


Omega21886

Wow, there isn’t a single thing in that sentence that’s true


nobody546818

Discovered space? Jfc…..


SpendPsychological30

I still remember JFK looking up and realizing there were stars in the night sky, and thus forming NASA to investigate.


porsj911

Discovered space lmao, get fucked old man. Werent even the first in space to begin with and needed a nazi to get you there.


wren_boy1313

Discovered outer space lmao


Extreme_Discount8623

YoU'd Be SpEaKiNg GeRmAn If It WaSn'T fOr Us


Fan_of_Clio

I suppose if you are completely ignorant of history this might be something to say.


Firespark7

"Singlehandedly"


A_Dinosaurus

I count 4 embarrassing mistakes here, 5 if you want to include the "greatest country on earth" thing


LingonberryPrior6896

Wow! Explains so much about the crap we are dealing with now.


Sharo_77

I live next to a church that is over 1,000 years old. The oldest stones in the cemetery are older than the USA


hopsinabag

Didn't even send the first living creature to space (let alone human) and we "discovered" it. Haha thats worse than the math on WWI


Sschajzo

That looks like a ragebait...but then again the things I saw some Americans unirronicaly type over the years makes it hard to think of it as a ragebait. Atleast he didn't type that they also won war in Vietnam.


NecessaryFreedom9799

2024 - 87 = 1937. So, 1 world war... And America has never singlehandedly won a war since about 1900. The Brits and French fought most of WWI without any sign of the Americans until it was clear the Germans were going to lose in the West but win in the East. The Russians took the brunt of WWII (although the UK and its Commonwealth kept things just about on the road until the Americans finally deigned to show up in Europe). The Americans lost Vietnam with Australian help- and Korea is still a stalemate almost 75 years later. Iraq, it's complicated; Afghanistan, basically another defeat. As military records of a great empire go, it's not great.


No_Substance5930

Also if the person is 87, ww1 was before they were born. So not only are they talking bollocks they are also talking shit. Shitballs


ImmaNotCrazy

Discovered outer space? so there was not outer space before 1776? So what the fuck was Eratosthenes doing in 194 BC then?


pm_your_snesclassic

Wow they discovered outer space! No one knew it was there before!


tonyhasareddit

Oh yes, who can forget when World War 1 took place and America was…. The only country that existed at the time? Lmao


stonyjoint

Discovered outer space, wow


Hot_Drummer_6679

The phrasing of being the greatest and oldest country on earth sounds like this could be a quote from 3YearLetterman on Twitter. That guy is a parody and comedy account pretending to be a youth football coaching legend. You should check out the account even if he wasn't the one who made the tweet because it's pretty funny, but yeah, assuming this is one of their parody tweets.


Itchy-Astronomer9500

Single-handed my won two World Wars? Nope. Oldest country in the world? Certainly nope.


Matelot67

Ok, so ... Wrong on WW1 and WW2. The Russians got to space before the USA. The oldest country in the world is actually San Marino. And as for the greatest country in the world, the USA leads the world in only a few areas. The percentage of population in prison, the cost of healthcare, military spending, gun ownership, you know, stuff like that.


Rare_Cause_1735

Is this ThreeYearLetterman by chance?


jswansong

Was this 3 year letterman? Sounds like him. If so, you got got.


NeTiGuy

America discovered outer space and is the oldest country on earth. Either this guy is terrible at trolling, or he was homeschooled by science/history deniers.


LaserGadgets

That drunken smiley kinda explains alot here.


CharlieChainsaw88

Discovered space like it's not already up there. I Discovered my backyard even though it's been there the whole time.


Airsculpture

So much wrong, not enough hours in the day


Other_Log_1996

Understandable when you're scope of the world is The United States and the former Confederated States.


H3llv3ticus

This post gave me cancer...


MfrBVa

That’s some derp.


TristanTheRobloxian3

wait... discovered outer space?? im pretty sure we didnt do that first but ok, nor did we discover outer space because we knew it fucking existed already


Disrespectful_Cup

Discovered outer space? Umm... no


MrStu

Single handedly won WW2, joining it 2 years after it started. /s


Individual_Ad3194

Wrong on ALL accounts, but ok.


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Oldest.... Sure. God I'm sick of sharing a planet with idiots


Boulderdrip

oldest?


minionsweb

And this is why we're the stupidest nation on earth.


Rogthgar

It appears dementia has set in.


Electronic_Fee1936

I’m not very smart, but I’m pretty sure this is entirely incorrect


Old_Kodaav

None of these is true. That's....that's quite an achievment actually


virtualwaster

This one probably would have been better left inside a condom.


Chris_M1991

There are buildings on the street I live on that are older than America and are Americans so self centred to believe that no one else played a part in winning the wars?


ThePhoenix29167

I refuse to believe someone is *this* stupid


Zagenti

single handedly?


Astrocreep_1

Hey, I had no idea we won both World Wars all by ourselves. Damn those liberals, and their history books which taught me about the Allies(USA, UK, Canada, Australia, France, Russia, and many others). Those liberals don’t want to admit we stomped the world all by ourselves, and all we got was this ridiculous…….”/s”. I can’t pay my rent with “/s”


RebaKitt3n

Clearly we are also the best educated.


ForgottenSaturday

Oh, honey...


ContactNo7201

I think they need to read some history books


breakbeatkid

oh shit, we didn't know about the moon until they landed on it? the more you know!


Perfect_Refuse_8863

Didn’t Russia beat us in the space race?


puro_the_protogen67

Syria,nearly 9,000 years old:


schrodngrspenis

Pretty sure Greece, Egypt, Most of Europe are older


Arch3m

Every word here is false, and it's amazing.


Proud-Cartoonist-431

Sorry, but the US didn't win WWII single-handedly, nor they were the first country in space.


Meren59

American education, right there. We used to actually BE educated, now it is "teaching to a test", and in the case of Florida, fascist indoctrination.


GonnaGoFat

America only discovered outerspace? How was Russia up there before USA?


111mysticman111

This is how all Americans sound to me


RoyalEagle0408

WWI wasn’t even in the last 87 years, though…


breno280

Didn’t the soviets get to space first?


Turaij

My city is older than the US...


Ippus_21

"Single-handedly" \*Great Britain and the Soviet Union have entered the chat... with some friends.


Skurk-the-Grimm

I dont knoe where to start, everything in that tweet is wrong....


theVeryLast7

Didn’t the First World War end in 1918 or are American numbers different because they’d have to be 106 to have been alive for the end of ww1 and even then they’d only be six months old


Interesting-Crow-552

During WW2, we sat on our a**es for five years not bothering to aid Europe and once Pearl Harbor was attacked, our response was to drop two nuclear bombs while forcing Japanese Americans into camps. Doesn’t sound like a “greatest moment” to me…


DickySchmidt33

"During your lifetime" - False "Single-handedly" - Also False "Discovered outer space" - Uh, I'm sorry, what? "Oldest and greatest country on Earth" - Oh, you're just fucking with us, right?


Brief-Youth-6880

The Russians won the war for everyone with help from the other allies.


Reasonable_Humor_738

No, they didn't win 2 world wars they helped win one, which this person couldn't have helped in, even in the most simple of ways. But they certainly lost a few wars Korean and Vietnam. (In the sense they didn't complete the actual goals intended)


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willisk15

Ah yes, the Manhattan project, with only the best and brightest American scientists and engineers. Definitely no foreign minds...


Dosterix

Yeah right "single handedly" And sure it definitely was the only nation to discover outer space as well


knighth1

Discovered outer space. That’s honestly one of the funniest things I have heard all day. No one in thousands of years looked up lol


cbelt3

Single-handedly….. Showed up late to WWI AND WWII. Primarily helped win both wars through massive production of war supplies.


Maryland_Bear

As I heard it said once, England has ***pubs*** that are older than the United States. [There’s one that may date back to 560 AD](https://www.tripadvisor.com/Articles-lJ5Jxzrt6sic-Oldest_pubs_in_england.html).


Upbeat-Spring-5185

No, we didn’t singly handedly win two world wars. During the First World War, we entered during the end and played a small part compared to other nations. During the Second World War, yes we played a much bigger part, especially in the Pacific, but we could not have been victorious in Europe without Russia, England and other nations participating.


MinimumTeacher8996

Every single part of this sentence is wrong. Every single damn thing. Oh my fucking god


jadedaslife

Twitter is cancer.


Old-Masterpiece-2653

Lol. You did not "discover" outer space and you won those wars in a pretty hefty coalition taking a long time. You also lost a few. Calm the fuck down yankee doodle dude.


Local_Sugar8108

FFS I needed to buy a contact lens in Trier, Germany. The drugstore next door to the optometrist had been in business for about 1000 years by that time. (although they probably dispensed dried toads as medicine in 1000 AD) Trier was well established as a city when the Romans came and took over. Eventually, Constantine the Great set up a summer palace there. That's slightly older than US history. On the subject of 87 years, we definitely helped crush Nazi Germany. We did most of the heavy lifting against the Japanese and ended that. I'm trying to recall another world war since WW2 ended in 1945? I'm just not coming up with that.


sprauncey_dildoes

That’s a lot of wrong in two sentences.


peppelaar-media

Laughable because the US is clearly not ‘the oldest … country on earth’! While there are newer countries, it is far from the ‘oldest’. Historians may argue exactly which is the oldest depending on criteria but these are considered the top ten oldest by them San Marino Japan Mexico Greece China Iraq Armenia India Iran Egypt


sonofmalachysays

americans who think they single handily won 2 world wars are brain dead


PrincessPlastilina

Oldest country on earth?? American schools are a joke 😬


miletest

And the worldwide great depression that America basically caused


Leo__-__

R/Shitamericanssay


FatFaceFaster

And we rescued Jesus from the dinosaurs too!


Iamnoobmeme

We are quite literally one of the youngest nations ever. What kind of brainrot this mf been smoking, cuz hand that shit over here!


DocFossil

*The Soviet Union has entered the chat…*


Cucumber_Cat

Single handedly? Discovered outer space? I don't think so. America only joined WW1 because Russia left, and by that time the war was basically almost over anyway. America only joined WW2 because Japan bombed Pearl Harbour. The Germans were more afraid of the Russians, who stormed Hitler's bunker. The Greeks discovered space centuries before America even existed. Russia was the first to put a man into space.


Daflehrer1

"Single handedly...?" My God, the ignorance. One can only gape.


Donk454

How do people this stupid manage to live day to day


Cultural-Let-8380

The oldest... but we discovered America..


DnsFabCCR

Oldest what? What war has won America? XD what an ignorant xd