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When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire

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Re: When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire

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Post by madcaptenor »

seszett wrote: post #155
capitainenemo wrote: post #82

Hm. I feel like the french republic can still make the claim though, at least according to this wikipedia map. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Mapadefr...

I measured it a while ago (well, 11 years now) and both France and the UK made the cut[0]. France has much more margin though, IIRC no single territory becoming independent would make the sun set on France. [0] https://ssz.fr/sun-never-sets/

I'm glad someone did this, because for a moment I was thinking that I was going to have to do the math on France.

Re: When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire

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Post by robotresearcher »

paulddraper wrote: post #131
robotresearcher wrote: post #93

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Since 1984. One of the facts I learned for the Canadian citizenship exam. So only Elizabeth and Charles.

Perhaps so. Should you care, here’s the link to correct Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_monarchs

That page correctly describes the different entities that are all called ‘Canada’. It’s not wrong. The one that has its own monarch - the King/Queen of Canada - is the modern one, established in 1984.

Previous to that, the UK’s monarch had dominion over Canada. In 1984 the roles were made distinct.

Re: When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire

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Post by robotresearcher »

bobsmooth wrote: post #102
robotresearcher wrote: post #94

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Canada is no longer part of the British Empire. Neither is the US, since the end of the War of Independence. That’s what independence means.

Great, tell ozim that.

So your question was rhetorical. Not totally obvious to me, and I answered it as if it was a normal question.

Re: When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire

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Post by tonyhart7 »

actionfromafar wrote: post #158
michaelt wrote: post #151

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> That said, it's unlikely that the entity currently managing .io (a hedge fund if I'm not mistaken) has the legal muscle to force ICANN to keep it in the list ICANN periodically lets anyone with $1 million create random new generic TLDs like .top and .win and .google and .hiv and .amazon and .zip - it's pretty clear there aren't any real rules or standards for TLDs apart from having money. Why should ICANN break thi…

Aren’t two letter codes reserved for countries though IIRC.

people forget the fact that countries can break up in the future

example: what happen if canada break up into 2 different state that want to their unique tld???? also what happen to current .ca ??? do you migrate all that domain and .ca ceased to exist????

internet is faily new in terms of human history (30+ years) while countries or kingdom has been ceased to exist and "rebrand" all the time

its not so simple to just put on "acronym" countries name

Re: When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire

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Post by robotresearcher »

tonymet wrote: post #113
bobsmooth wrote: post #103

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And the UK has no influence on Canadian governance.

the king can call you to war right?

No, only parliament can declare war. And the King of Canada is a different role than the King of the UK, as explained many times in the thread.

Re: When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire

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Post by retrac »

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #112
Waterluvian wrote: post #77

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To be satisfyingly pedantic, my King isn’t the same King. Mine is the King of Canada. It just happens to be the same person as the King of England and the King of Australia ;)

Is that true? “”” Charles III, by the Grace of God, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of His other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith. “”” So in my head canon, he is the King of the UK and Canada … the same person and the same office. Ie there is no King of Canada officially - the title is always King of UK (first) and of other places as well … i…

Elizabeth II was at war with herself, briefly.

Jamaica has the monarchy. Jamaican forces were part of the US-led coalition that invaded Grenada in 1983, after the communists seized power. The communists found it politically expedient to maintain the structure of parliamentary government, and so the head of state of Grenada also remained nominally, Elizabeth II.

Re: When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire

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Post by [deleted] »

ineedaj0b wrote: post #157

I’ve been really sad getting older and having so much more context on Britain. My family weirdly had access to all of British TV in US growing up and they had fantastic programs. Now, I feel they are a joke. They seem like a strong example of what absolutely not to do. Their cultural exports have sunk. The arrested citizens for social media posts seems draconian. The economy barely hanging on. I understand the Media…

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Re: When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire

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Post by robotresearcher »

ozim wrote: post #114
bobsmooth wrote: post #102

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Great, tell ozim that.

Well I did not expect the thread to be that good ... but I am definitely going to get popcorn out to eat while I read all the people telling me that :)

Ha! Yeah, Canadians are quick and eager to describe their independence from the UK, relatively fresh as it is :)

Americans had 200 year dramatic and violent head start and everyone has figured that out by now. The details of Canada’s status are understandably less well known.

Re: When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire

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Post by StopDisinfo910 »

awesome_dude wrote: post #154
StopDisinfo910 wrote: post #152

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Over simplification. By that argument, Americans can leave the US right now and give it back to the original inhabitants of the country. Various parties want more autonomy in New Caledonia which France is more than ready to give. The process is somewhat sabotaged by a tiny group of Marxist but it is moving in the right direction.

Take a better look at Fiji - the indigenous people there have been outnumbered by the people bought into the country from India (by the English) The Fijians have had multiple coup, and changes to their constitution to ensure that only indigenous people can run the country Whether I agree with that or not is beside the point, the point is that what you claim is false, what can happen has happened elsewhere, and where…

Wether you agree or not is the entire point. This is not a theoretical question about what could be done.

The question is why should it happen in the first place? Why do you think people who have been there for 150 years and ask nothing more than cohabitation should be forcefully removed from a place?

As I said, it is not that simple. It has absolutely nothing to do with "the sun setting on the French empire".

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