• epicstove
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    8 hours ago

    It’s not. Never was, never will.

    • DicJacobus@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      you misunderstood what they meant.

      all countries are states. a state is an entity, some states band together into a federation of some sort. some are unitary, some are not. unitary means the same laws apply in all places, others have regional autonomy.

      canada is a state, with subdivisions that it calls provinces america is a state, with subidivisions that it calls states russia is a mafia pretending to be a state, that has oblasts and others

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        6 hours ago

        You know what you said, we know what your goal is. Let’s not confuse the multiple meanings of the word “state” here.