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Yes unlike other countries that dont have any sort of local government whatsoever.
Like the UK is one big monolith government. Definitely not 4 individual countries with their own parliaments that have counties with their own local governments and those counties have local councils with their own councillors and bylaws.
Germany only has the German government, not seperate states.
Spain doesnt have regions that are trying to gain independence.
France doesnt have regions on the other side of the atlantic with their own local government.
Canada doesnt have provinces
Nor does Autralia have states
etc. etc. for literally every country except like the vatican.
America is just so special and different
Special and different enough that it should be wearing a helmet and have childproof caps on the paste.
And probably not play with firearms
I agree with that.
What country are you from, if I may ask?
Honestly though, America is different and special. We have states the size of the some of those countries, and states with GDPs that eclipse most of the countries you listed. Local government is a completey different scale at some levels than any of those countries you mentioned. It's important to remember we are all different, and that's not a bad thing.
Reddit-ass comment
Not the topic at hand but sure.
All those governments you listed were modeled, in part, by the ol Dead Presidents of American lore and the brilliant Iroquois Federation.
But yes, partially those are true, but those national governments behave much differently than the US's. Birmingham's county is not an independent state from Manchester. The meaning of United States is lost in it being the name but we are a federation of countries ie. a bunch of countries inside one big one.
And we are special and different at good, bad, and evil things. Always to the maximum it seems. I know it must be such crackup to laugh at America... And fair enough we all do it. But when outsiders do it based off ignorance, complete ignorance, it makes me go ballistic. Your Freshman level dig proves my point so fucking hard its hard to breathe, with the exception of Spain because it was just so stupid as to be a non-sequitur.
Yes because those are cities. Not states. So you're purposely making a bad comparison.
Scotland and England are partially independent countries, so would be the far more appropriate comparison to different US states. And is why i mentioned them as such in my previous comment.
No, you are a federation of STATES hence the 'S' in USA, with a couple of exception your states weren't their own countries. Unlike say the UK where Scotland England and Wales have been their own individual countries before unification for longer than there have been white people in the Americas. And now still have their own governments, laws and culture and as such are as or more individual than US states. And it's the same with German states as well and most of my other examples too.
I wish you'd said this at the start so I wouldn't have wasted my time replying to someone that unironically believes in American exceptionalism.
It's not complete ignorance. I have much better grasp of American internal politics than you do of any other country.
I really wish we left people like you behind on reddit.
You mentioned counties of the UK, so I mentioned the cities because I have no idea what counties they are in but assume they are different. If you're talking about the countries then yeah, that's more similar to the US. I should have said so.
But you're wrong about the federation. A solid handful of them were (briefly) countries before they were "STATES", but some were properties/colonies of foreign governments, and with the exception of the 13 colonies, all independent lands with their own laws and currency. Also, this is beside the fact the natives were murdered and their land stolen by Europeans and/or Americans. Then, the idea of statehood was floated as a way of keeping them independent under a common roof, analogous to countries. I suppose there's a room for interpretation, but not by much. They operated under their own law, money, norms, cultures, and religions. They were founded as, and remain separate but united states (From MW: a politically organized body of people usually occupying a definite territory - especially : one that is sovereign)
German states are very much a bunch of old countries and tribes, sure. Cool. And? Why are you under the impression that being similar is in anyway important?
Read the fucking post. I said, paraphrasing, people who generalize/judge America don't know how America works and are ignorant and smug. I wouldn't do the same to your fucking country, but here I am, defending mine from smug ignoramuses.
And yeah, wooooow we get it, the Old World is older than the New World. Amazing how that is such an unearned point of pride from Europeans that only Europeans make. The Chinese don't play that card, the Egyptians don't play that card, and the Japanese don't play that card but lo and behold some clown online regularly goes to a dingy pub established in 1698, in some backwater village, and they're the Wise Grandfathers of America.
You call it American Exceptionalism, I call it the country everybody moves to and makes cool shit, choking the poor on their way, and bombing people on occasion.
And it isn't a high bar to know more than me about other nation's internal politics, except Mexico and Canada. None of Europe's or anybody's matter to me or anyone else here besides the big stuff. I have 50+ states/territories in my own backyard to care about. It literally doesn't matter because Europe, for example, is 3.5k miles or more away and I'm not going to be an arrogant, self-righteous, know-it-all, ignorant, condescending, annoying fucking asshole to those people about their dramas and politics when I talk to them.
This whole fucking post is you doing this.
What the fuck are you on about? Have you ever actually met someone from another country? Or have you lived your entire life in like rural Oklahoma or something? All of those people are very proud of their long histories and absolutely do "play that card."
Okay so you're just a troll. I'm kind of ashamed it took Mr this long to realise when this is basically a "ShitAmerkcansSay" highlight reel.
Way way way too late for that one mate, lol.