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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why are non-European countries even allowed to participate?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

All countries associated with the European Broacast Union can participate.

Brazil, Peru, Japan, India, and even China and the US could participate too.

Russia and Lybia used to be part of the EBU but they were suspended. They know what they did.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Well, we do share a land border with Denmark. Sooooo…. we’re practically European already!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

#canadentry

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm super jealous because I've wanted to have Canadian citizenship since back in my late teens / early adulthood when I realized that there was already a version of America that actually lived up to American ideals and which offered same-sex marriage as well as universal healthcare. That weed and apparently codeine are legal there make it so much more bittersweet.

The only people I've known personally to get citizenship are those who married a Canadian citizen. Which sucks for me because I'm already happily partnered and there's no way I'd give that up for anything, not even Canadian citizenship, awesome and appealing as it is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Maybe if/when the US invades, if we fight for Canada they'll give us citizenship.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How about the US just becomes provinces 14-64? I'll gladly take anything else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Nah sorry we're not taking the red states. They can be their own Christofascist hell elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Might be some geographical issues (perhaps of the ocean variety) with this proposal

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Well, Ireland is separated from the rest of the continent by ocean. Canada is just a slightly bigger island, slightly further away...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe canada can be the first member of a post-European EU. I guess we'll need a new name.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

White supremacist imperialist conglomerate (non-US version)?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Once again, we are forced to raise the lingering question: Are Italians White?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As a European, I think it would be pretty funny if, after Brexit, the other parts of the former Empire joined the EU.

But at least right now, membership is probably more of a meme - some solid cooperation and shared institutions would be amazing, though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

EU already said this can't work. It said in the rules only European countries can join the EU. But something can be worked out, no doubt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

~~European~~ Worldwide Union

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Globalists but for real this time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Canada becomes a France province, easy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Or France becomes a Canadian one and switch to English as the primary official language. It would solve a ton of issues and I'm sure the French would be okay with it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You have to be "substantially European", which includes Cyprus, which is fully in Asia and half Turkish. Also, Greenland and to a degree Iceland aren't geographically European.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Neither Greenland nor Iceland are in the EU.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

No, but French Guiana is, and it's in South America.