• FelixCress@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      For fuck sake… : https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/state

      “state noun (COUNTRY) C1 [ C or U ] a country or its government: The drought is worst in the central African states. member state Britain is one of the member states of the European Union. The government was determined to reduce the number of state-owned industries. Some theatres receive a small amount of funding from the state. affairs/matters of state formal His diary included comments on affairs/matters of state (= information about government activities).”

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          The United States is a state. The united states that make it up are states, in a different sense of the word. The brain hurt is happening because you’re using two different definitions of the same thing really close together.

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            No, are you? (Wtf, is this reddit or something?)

            “The US is a failed state” is just grammatically incorrect sentence.

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              No it fucking isn’t, because the phrase “The United States” is a proper noun referring to a singular entity.

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      To bad for you, it’s all just grammatical nonsense!

      This exceeding trifling witling, considering ranting criticizing concerning adopting fitting wording being exhibiting transcending learning, was displaying, notwithstanding ridiculing, surpassing boasting swelling reasoning, respecting correcting erring writing, and touching detecting deceiving arguing during debating.

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      See the above comment for an example of how America became a failed a state and why it will remain as such.

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        Yes. Single state. Although Spain complicates things a bit. I just find saying “States is a state” extremely weird. Like saying “Ducks is a duck”.