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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Make Commonwealth Imperial Again!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours 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] 3 points 6 hours ago (2 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 4 hours ago

Earth United!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Earthed Union the EU.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Can we Philadelphians join?

👀

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago (3 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] 4 points 10 hours ago

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

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

Unfortunately, Canada has MAID, and also likes to deny healthcare to natives in the hopes that they will just die.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 169 points 21 hours ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Why are non-European countries even allowed to participate?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Because Australia were mega fans, so they invited us :3

[–] [email protected] 31 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 19 hours ago

Eurovision is organised by the European Broadcasting Union, which includes basically all countries in the European Broadcasting Area (basically Europe + all of the Mediterranean). Those include Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Israel, Armenia, etc. They have always been allowed to participate. Australia is an outlier. They just got a special invitation.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Guys guys guys, let's be good friends with the EU, let's even adopt some of their best policies, but honestly, they also have some baggage we don't need.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago

Believe me, we don't want Orban either..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

I just want to be sovereign. How is that so hard for people to understand?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

Ya both those prospects seem "Colonial"

[–] [email protected] 43 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

And France (Saint Pierre) I think? Thanks CBC Gem!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 18 hours ago

Saint Pierre and Miquelon, right by Newfoundland. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 21 hours 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] 21 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (10 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] 6 points 14 hours ago

Membership of the European Economic Area - same as Norway - for example.

Comes with being part of the EU Internal Market, Freedom Of Movement (both ways, of course) and exceptions in a couple of areas (such as fishing rights not being decided by the EU, which I suspect is something that Canada would rather have) but without voting power within the EU.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

~~European~~ Worldwide Union

[–] [email protected] 12 points 18 hours ago

Globalists but for real this time.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Let the GOP force them to become a state. They'd get 2 senate seats and more electoral college votes and congressional seats than any other state. Just in time for the Dems to run on deannexing Canada.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I'm a bad feeling they'd Puerto Rico us

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Territories are still citizens, who can vote when they reside in states. If 2-3% of Canada immigrated, that's 1 million people, which would shift the balance in a lot of places.

Of course, even if you shifted 10 seats in the Senate, the democrats would probably give republicans half the budget and let them write their own bills in the name of bipartisanship (again), and you'd quickly become as hopeless as the average american is in the democrats helping them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

You are 100% correct.

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

Actually, no, they wouldn’t. They would have ZERO rights.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Well, if Canada can take part in the Eurovision song contest, they might as well join the EU.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Let's just rename the EU to "United Earth" like in Star Trek, since Australia is practically in it already on account of being in Eurovision.

That way we don't need to change the initials, just swap them.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Earth United would be better, no need to even change the merch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Of course, all of these variations will still be different/inverted in french, which is already in the Union Européenne (UE) today.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

They always lose on penalties to fuckin Mars, man

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 19 hours ago

#canadentry

[–] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours ago

Yes please, I will vote to support this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

When "the big one™" hits, can California join either of y'all?

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