• null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    Nah we just need a fancy team name for the not-absolute-fuck-head countries.

    I mean EU is Europe and I fucking love you guys but down here in Australia we can’t just up and move the continent to Europe.

    I don’t think the name should be dependent on membership like BRICS or whatever because you don’t want to have to rebrand when you kick someone out or let someone in.

    I think it should include a word like collaborative because honestly, that’s what it’s about - we’re better off working together.

    It’s also important to choose a name with a catchy acronym that isn’t already taken.

    Maybe Collaborative Union of Nice Terran States.

    • Matombo@feddit.org
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      2 days ago

      EBU EU whats the difference?

      If Australia can be part of the Eurovision song contest so It can be of the EU. Also everybody already asume anyway that you are just Austria.

    • m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      You just answered yourself. Just call it CUNAFHC - Collaborative Union of Not-Absolute-Fuck-Head-Countries

    • Solon@feddit.org
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      1 day ago

      But its about European values. Compassion, democracy, empathy, forgiveness and freedom

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        1 day ago

        I still would not call them European values, it comes of as values that exist in Europe and nowhere else. And I’d rather have compassion, democracy etc everywhere.

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        14 hours ago

        We’re also democratic, we should call it the free democratic coalition of states.

        Its not like there is any bad precedent in using names like this, like democratic republic of korea, or just referring to USA as “land of the free”…

      • m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        Not true, there’s also we poor countries who can’t afford hanging around with the nice guys in the block

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          1 day ago

          Well who says you cant join up? An alliance like NATO doesnt have a price tag except for the 2% minimum defence limit, but it’s 2% subjective to your income. So you literally can afford that.

          • m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world
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            1 day ago

            Yes but then you’d need NATO’s approval. Remember how Erdogan put all sorts of 'but’s to Finland and Sweden, countries with way more wealth (and more arguments to be included in NATO) than one like mine

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      2 days ago

      I like “Commonwealth”.

      But I re-read your comment and the initialism is a solid option.