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[–]useless_aether 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (6 children)

the vatican

[–]Tiwaking 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (4 children)

the vatican

Oh Italy. Why didnt you wipe out The Vatican when you had the chance...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_Rome#Rome_captured_by_Raffaele_Cadorna

The Italian army reached the Aurelian Walls on 19 September and placed Rome under a state of siege. Pius IX decided that the surrender of the city would be granted only after his troops had put up enough resistance to make it plain that the take-over was not freely accepted. On 20 September, after a cannonade of three hours had breached the Aurelian Walls at Porta Pia (Breccia di Porta Pia), the crack Piedmontese infantry corps of Bersaglieri entered Rome. In the event 49 Italian soldiers and 19 Papal Zouaves died. Rome and the region of Lazio were annexed to the Kingdom of Italy after a plebiscite on 2 October.

The Leonine City, excluding the Vatican, seat of the Pope, was occupied by Italian soldiers on 21 September. The Italian government had intended to let the Pope keep the Leonine City, but the Pope would not agree to give up his claims to a broader territory and claimed that since his army had been disbanded, apart from a few guards, he was unable to ensure public order even in such a small territory.[12]

[–]beermeem 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

I have no idea who you people are but somehow the 3 of us end up agreeing on a lot of shit.

[–]Tiwaking 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I agree with you and /u/useless_aether about many things.

But I also disagree with the both of you about many things :)

[–]useless_aether 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

HoW dAeRE YOu!

[–]fizzyj 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

lets disagree to agree

or agree to disagree

and then agree to agree

and disagree to disagree

seems like fun

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You forgot London and DC

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

The Vatican.

[–]fizzyj 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

The BADAGAIN

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

What do you mean by "remove a country"?

What, to begin with, is a "country"?

It isn't the land, because land is land. It isn't the people, because people are people. It isn't the borders, because borders are imaginary. Is it the culture? The mores? The politicians?

Countries don't exist. They are made-up notions about people living on land, delimited by artificial, imaginary borders and governed by more or less utterly shithead politicians who more or less thoroughly sell out their power to the highest bidder.

So this leads me to my answer: I would remove the notion of "country" itself, its word from the dictionary. That's the country I'd remove.

[–]Zahn 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

Whew Lad! It's time to put the bong down.

A country is made up of a culture and people with historically shared major belief systems. While some of those line/borders are technically arbitrary, they are still entirely legal...and legal defined as whose military has the most or biggest guns.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

A country is made-up notion comprised of the actual things called: A people, a culture, a history, land, borders, and a political system.

But it still doesn't have an independent existence. The parts exist, but the whole is just using a single word to designate the parts as a group.

[–]Tiwaking 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Whew Lad! It's time to put the bong down.

He needs to put the syndrome down ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–]Racist[S] 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

wtf are you talking about

[–]beermeem 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

sToP bEiNG dEMb

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Um... what the hell is wrong with you?

Countries are baptized in a ritual of rape and blood that the citizenry are then brain-washed to think is sacred. It is "holy" to protect those territories that their ancestors and many others died for in order to "possess" and the native women they raped to foster that cuntry. The citizens also tend to be those rape-babies and love worshiping the filthy barbarians as their idols (as their ancestors once were). They usually prefer a pedophile rapist as their chieftain too. All of this is perfectly fine and sacred! Get with the program of the holy elect and remember to vote and fight for your cuntry!

Edit: I may have misspelled country.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yes, which is why I state that they have no idependent existence. ;-)

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They should have no existence! Its only because the brainwashed citizenry can't see themselves as the children of rapists, glorifying an inconsistent past over some emotional subjectivity of wanting to return back to "the good ol' days".

Damn reptilian-mammalian based idiots, can hardly use their cortex! Let them burn along with their ignorant creations that they "lub".

[–]beermeem 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well said.

[–]Tiwaking 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

https://www.worldometers.info/geography/how-many-countries-are-there-in-the-world/

There are 195 countries in the world today. This total comprises 193 countries that are member states of the United Nations and 2 countries that are non-member observer states: the Holy See and the State of Palestine.

PALESTINE

[–]EnoughGunControl 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

FAKESTINE

[–]useless_aether 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

PHILISTINE

[–]RagnarDanneskjold 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Palestine already doesn't really exist though.

[–]m68k 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Does it have to be only one? :3

[–]beermeem 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Chumash.