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[–] [email protected] 155 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Join the EU.

Or pass their Digital Services Act and GDPR Laws in the USA.

Sadly, for the USA, each option is about as likely as the other.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Get New York and California to pass it. Might be enough. California has sort of done it lol

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago

California is the EU of America.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’d vote to create the EAU. I think there’s a real thirst for having some sanity over here.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As a EU citizen - no thanks, unless you get like ten seats in the EU parliament at most.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As a Californian, I am fully used to being horrifically underrepresented proportionally in national politics, danke. Tax our billionaires. Give us healthcare. Make us use public transportation and drive on better roads. Do your worst. I triple dog dare you.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and as a citizen of a country other than the US, we’re very used to america being horrifically overrepresented in any sort of politics ever no matter what :p so swings and roundabouts i guess

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay, good note.

What if we made Canameximerica first and then joined?

I mean, I’m feeling a vibe here.

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

North American Union has a certain ring to it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tax our billionaires.

They'd probably bribe half the EU parliament and make it reduce the taxes in EU instead.

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

Honestly can't blame you.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It’s a pun to discreetly signal that I welcome our new French overlords.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I hear cries in British.

"...and the tea is cold!"

Yep.

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

Or pass their Digital Services Act

Not likely. This act would never pass the 1st amendment check.