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The US has so much space (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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[–] dmrzl@programming.dev 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

To be honest in my head US state == country in Europe and USA == EU. Both are unions of states - one of them is just younger and less binding.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Similar, absolutely, but there's a LOT more uniformity to states in the US than member states of the EU. Every state speaks English, every state has the same laws generally speaking for about 90% of things, etc.

[–] dmrzl@programming.dev 8 points 8 months ago

Yeah, that's what I meant by binding. Just wanted to say that it is not really surprising that the majority of Europeans in these comments compare US states to EU countries.