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[–] Panamalt 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] threelonmusketeers 23 points 1 month 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] 9 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Canada shares a land border with Greenland on Hans Island.

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

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

The Celtic Sea is not an ocean.

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

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] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I wasn't awake when I wrote that but I still think they meant to imply it doesn't make it an island. Poor reader here I guess.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

[–] SenorBlanco 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Cyprus is already the first non-European EU member.

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

Earthed Union the EU.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

White supremacist imperialist conglomerate (non-US version)?

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

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

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

new caledonia and french guiana are laughing it up from the southern hemisphere