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[โ€“] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 55 points 3 days ago (5 children)

As a Canadian, Iโ€™ll support you EU.

I just hope youโ€™ll support us too!

[โ€“] Quittenbrot@feddit.org 35 points 3 days ago

I'd love to see our ties grow stronger as a sane counterweight to the madness happening south of your border.

[โ€“] Soggy_Commission_934@feddit.org 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh you bet! I subscribed to CBC Gem and watch Pornhub ๐Ÿ˜†

[โ€“] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Both have some surprising content

North of North is good

[โ€“] devfuuu@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Only if you deal with all the french people ๐Ÿ™ƒ

[โ€“] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 2 days ago

Hopefully not your tar sands

[โ€“] talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

We do support Canada!

We'd love for you to join as the 28th EU state!

Wait, what do you mean "We are good just the way we are, sorry"? What if we gave you Greenland? (you can have the Suez canal too)

[โ€“] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

The last time Trump was in power I thought we should get much closer to the EU, potentially as a member

I look at Europe's worker protections and privacy protections as a model we all should follow.

[โ€“] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is Greenland in the EU, or is it a Danish territory that is explicitly outside the EU?

[โ€“] albert180@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Greenland is not in the EU because of the Fishing Quotas

Probably good though, Denmark pumps in 500.000.000โ‚ฌ per year for just 50.000 Inhabitants and it's still not really great to live there...

[โ€“] ekky@sopuli.xyz 28 points 3 days ago

!buyfromeu@feddit.org for those who would like to subscribe the community.

[โ€“] circledot@feddit.org 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[โ€“] Soggy_Commission_934@feddit.org 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Ah fuc*... I've searched for it, but probably I didn't get the results I wanted... sorry for the duplicate!

[โ€“] circledot@feddit.org 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Does it make sense to have two identical communities? There are duplicate posts already...

[โ€“] Soggy_Commission_934@feddit.org 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No not really... I will postpone thinking about it to later this day (after sleeping)

[โ€“] ekky@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 days ago

I'd keep it. People can subscribe to both, and I often find myself looking for goods in EU stores (aka. not UK, sadly) so I don't have to pay ~30โ‚ฌ handling fee + tax. I know that OSS exists, but it's rarely apparent whether any given online store uses it.

[โ€“] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean the UK isnt part of the EU and there are significant differences in law and trade stuff so its not a clear cut answer.

[โ€“] Microw@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Feddit.uk is not just used by brits

[โ€“] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah but the community is called buyeuropean not buyEU

[โ€“] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is true. !buyeuropean@feddit.uk is for whole Europe and not just EU (the community logo is bit misleading atm).

It's of course ok to have a more EU specific community but I personally think Lemmy isn't big enough to have so much fragmentation and incredibly specific communities (yet).

But we can link to !buyfromeu@feddit.org from our community if OP decides that there is need for EU specific buy-community. Fediverse is free and both communities share the same goal: support closer economies!

[โ€“] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

Lemmy Explorer is a great tool to see if a community already exists :)

Would you like to become a moderator?

[โ€“] CyberEgg@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago

Looks like a brexit trap

[โ€“] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Is this just for the EU or Europe in general?

[โ€“] C0n57an71n@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think Europe as a continent, but not limited to Europe only. I think nobody will raise their eyebrows if we buy Canadian...

[โ€“] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 3 points 2 days ago

I think they mean like Norway and Switzerland

[โ€“] A_A@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

From any of your home instances :
!buyfromeu@feddit.org