zlacker

but it didn't, and this is moving the goalposts. the original claim was correct.

>>leetcr+(OP)
The original claim was also a bad and misleading comparison. It doesn't make sense to compare a single country to an entire continent of 44 different countries, which are quite different from each other in a large variety of salient ways.

>>CydeWe+d2
why not? the US is a large country (with more land area than the "entire continent" it's being compared against) with fifty states that are also quite different from each other. the US states are less autonomous than EU, but the country is large and diverse enough that it makes more sense to compare it to the entire EU than a very wealthy subset of US state-sized countries.

>>CydeWe+d2
It doesn't make sense to compare the EU to a federation with more than double its land area, composed of 50 different states, which are quite different from each other in a large variety of salient ways.

>>CydeWe+d2
It assuredly does to citizens of the United States.

The hint is in the name.