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Your nations politics are depressing enough from afar; I would not choose to have it affect me more directly than it does now.

The US can't even make Puerto Rico a US state.

Or its own capital, whose citizens still have no real representation.

DC was built on lands ceded from the states of Maryland and Virginia for the explicit purpose of creating a national capital that was neutral ground between the various states. The residents of the District are free to vote for retrocession back to Maryland if they want representation.

>if they want representation

Was the US not founded on the notion that you should have representation if you are taxed?

Yes I'm sure Iceland, a typical northern European social democracy, would be very happy as part of the US.

Anyone who's been to Iceland can see that it is not, in fact, a typical Northern European society. It really feels like a strange mix of US and EU. Besides, the north-east US states can easily be described as social democracies as well.

As EU-ropean, I'd much rather see Iceland a member, but I can see them becoming a US state or territory and it wouldn't really be that far-fetched to be honest.

The USA is entering a death spiral, you fool. Some lunatic fascist techbro openly payed his way to being the de-facto president. Get ready for an unprecedented face-fucking.

Iceland is a founding member of NATO.

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