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Written by Fullmetal Manager 🌈💖🔥 on 2024-12-28 at 19:49

The whole England/Britain/UK thing is a load of bollocks. You can't have a country INSIDE of a country!

And then the whole "British Overseas Territories" mess, and the British Commonwealth. And Scotland is an "independent country" but it's part of the UK country so it's not independent, while Ireland is genuinely independent, but Northern Ireland isn't even a country even though it clearly is.

And don't get me started on Wales, which is somehow more independent than Northern Ireland while being about as independent as a cat's tail is from its spine.

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Written by Fullmetal Manager 🌈💖🔥 on 2024-12-28 at 19:51

Rosencrantz was right

Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway.

Guildenstern: What?

Rosencrantz: England.

Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosencrantz_and_Guildenstern_Are_Dead

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Written by Hanna on 2025-01-16 at 16:30

@saraislet Oldies but goldies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daB7np-RtOM#ddg-play

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Written by Oliver Geer on 2024-12-28 at 19:53

@saraislet I agree it's ridiculous. In which sense could Wales be said to be more independent from England/Scotland than Northern Ireland? It would be interesting to know, especially since in the legal context England and Wales are treated as one unit while Scotland and Northern Ireland are both separate: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_and_Wales

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Written by Fullmetal Manager 🌈💖🔥 on 2024-12-28 at 20:28

@WebCoder49 IMO less oppressed. Northern Ireland is held closer to the chest because Wales already hides under its mother's skirts

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Written by Dave Neary on 2024-12-28 at 20:37

@saraislet @WebCoder49 That and the potential for social unrest. The main reason the UK holds onto Northern Ireland IMHO is the territorial waters at this point.

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Written by Oliver Geer on 2024-12-28 at 21:09

@saraislet Ah - so you mean in practice rather than technically. Thanks for the clarification!

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Written by Fullmetal Manager 🌈💖🔥 on 2024-12-28 at 21:49

@WebCoder49 I barely know anything about the UK so this is just my ignorant perspective

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Written by bEA 🔓 on 2024-12-28 at 21:24

@saraislet yeah the ambiguity is definitely the worst part of colonialism

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Written by Fullmetal Manager 🌈💖🔥 on 2024-12-28 at 21:51

@bea just a dumb bonus feature, like unraveling food regulations while denying human rights and furthering climate change

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Written by Jayne, destroyer of integrated circuits on 2024-12-28 at 21:32

@saraislet british imperialism was so hungry for countries they started putting countries inside other countries

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Written by Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: on 2025-01-16 at 16:38

@saraislet And Brittany finally settled to being attached to France instead of swapping between French and British crowns (and other kinds of more local nonsense).

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Written by Fish Id Wardrobe on 2025-01-16 at 17:26

@saraislet Just going to put this here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territories_of_the_United_States

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