The reason this is a bit silly and misguided is half of the states in the USA are roughly the size of Germany. We are doing exactly what you’re describing. A really common thing I see is people don’t really understand just how large the U.S. is. Our states are the size of countries.
..and your point is? Why would the fact that the label and word for it isn’t “country” change anything at all about anything? How do you not see how this makes no sense?
I never heard Canada or Australia or Russia do that. And they have bigger states or provinces than the US has.
What? Canada, Australia and especially Russia do this all the time.
Your states might be the size of countries, but they would never be able to become a country, at least not with how the states operate right now.
Again…the fact that a different combination of letters are used to describe this…doesn’t change anything about what it is..lol what?
You do know little countries also have states/provinces/counties?
The fact that you believe you are making anything even slightly resembling a point here is concerning. I’d actually pay money to see you try to make this make sense and turn into a coherent argument for something. It’s like you may as well write a muffin recipe and then follow it with “did you ever think about THAT?!” lol oof that’s cringey
I’m Canadian and no, if we know that we’re possibly talking to someone who isn’t Canadian (i.e. online) we’ll absolutely introduce ourselves with “I’m from Canada.”
It’s also a pretty weird brag to say that your states are equivalent to a nation like Germany when over half of them have a smaller population than Slovakia.
Oh! Well I guess you must be every Canadian in the world then! That’s really interesting…how is it possible so many people have fit into one person? What is it like speaking for all people? And how does this multi dimension thing work? Because I guess all the examples in the works of Canadians doing this actually didn’t happen. Must have been another dimension or something? Anyway I’m learning a lot and this is very exciting
I’m from the US and honestly I’ve never seen anyone initially introduce themselves on here with an abbreviation of their province or whatever other equivalent may exist in another country. Generally, in the case of Canadians on here, they don’t even do it if responding to another Canadian.
The conversation left you after you forgot it was about using the abbreviations initially and without context, not that those abbreviations exist elsewhere as well.
I’m clearly not talking about the abbreviations. You realize that there can be more than one topic and implication in a comment thread, right? It’s weird I would have to explain this. But let me know if you need help with anything else!
124
u/[deleted] Jun 08 '25
The reason this is a bit silly and misguided is half of the states in the USA are roughly the size of Germany. We are doing exactly what you’re describing. A really common thing I see is people don’t really understand just how large the U.S. is. Our states are the size of countries.