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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Türkiye is gonna be pissed.

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

Wouldn’t mind it one bit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

At a minimum any states bordering Canada, including those bordering the 4 Great Lakes shared with Canada, should get a vote of which country to go with.

Pennsylvania is 100% included, and honestly if Indiana and Illinois go for it despite being on the “wrong” Great Lake, I’m not going to complain.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 54 minutes ago

You can give us Buffalo any day. I love that city so much.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

The EU 🇪🇺 is more than welcome to include Canada 🇨🇦 as the 28th member state 🤝

[–] RelativityRanger 22 points 10 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

There is French territory just off the coast of Newfoundland too (see Saint Pierre and Miquelon), also Denmark is right next door because of Greenland. So while still pretty far fetched, there is some precedent for European territory in North America.

[–] dankm 1 points 17 minutes ago

Canada shares a land border with Greenland on Hans Island.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Ireland is separated from the rest of the continent by ocean.

The Celtic Sea is not an ocean.

[–] rabber 0 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

By that logic then Vancouver Island isn't an island because the Juan de Fuca is a strait not an ocean

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

They didn't say Ireland wasn't an island because of it... But, for the record, Canada isn't an island anyway so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago (4 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 1 hour ago

Cyprus is already the first non-European EU member.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

White supremacist imperialist conglomerate (non-US version)?

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

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

Sounds like a football club that has no one to play against.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Earthed Union the EU.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Can we Philadelphians join?

👀

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago

No, you guys know what you've done

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Any reasons why these two neighborhoods go against the grain? Are they the posh suburbs?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

As someone from a South Jersey suburb of Philly: take me with you!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago

Can’t we just harvest the states that want to leave?

[–] [email protected] 73 points 23 hours ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Ya know, when you put it that way

Tap for spoilerPun intended. Get rocked.

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

That doesn't look as absurd as it might seem at first!

[–] jerkface 1 points 1 hour ago

especially once the north pole melts

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago (6 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.

[–] jerkface 1 points 1 hour ago

Legal marriage and having a life partner are not the same thing. I'll marry you and my partner will marry your partner, no big deal.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

FWIW I obviously don’t have the power to approve that but I would certainly vote to make that a thing!

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