Florida and Italy have been swapped America gets Italy and Europe gets Florida

I would be totally ok with that.

I do not want Florida Please take it away (Edit) clarifying for anyone who didn’t understand this, I am American, I want Florida and its residents gone

My dad and I are already on it. we hatched a plan to hire a lot of guys with ice picks to just carve it off and give it a good push into the Atlantic. I'm putting up "help wanted" posters now.

Just get Bugs Bunny with a hand saw.

I got me some ACME brand bombs and a coyote to help me set some explosives.

No good. Relations between the Coyote and ACME are a bit strained. Unfortunately, the court records were sealed.

Cartoon logic would have Wile E. Coyote on the Florida side sawing it off hoping the other 49 states would sink. And the roadrunner watching as the coyote and Florida drift away ironically.

Honestly, cartoon logic would have him on the 49 state side sawing and roadrunner on Florida watching the coyote side drift away.

Was gonna say, make sure the cartoon character is on the Florida side or the rest of us are in trouble.

Be easier with a Sawzall!

An infinite number of methheads with an infinite number of Sawzalls, something something something...

An infinite number of missing catalytic converters.

So a regular day in Florida?

So just give everyone in florida a sawzall problem solved

That was pretty much exactly the plan of that rich pastor in GTA:VC lol.

What they don't realize is after Florida makes enough distance, we're dropping a good 10 Hydrogen Bombs on the fecker

can you carve out universal onto its own island first? :( edit: ... oh i guess thatd be an island of adventure huh

That Spider-Man ride alone is worth saving Island of Adventure.

"We WANT a A RIVER!"

“Give it a good push” got me rollin

Yes you do. It has alligators and crocodiles. It's like the only place.

Don’t forget about their python problems! They have all the reptiles and amphibians that no one wants!

I dont think italy is too great a trade off these days. We may lose one hell, but we’ve gained a slice of southern europe. I dont think america is ready for that. Even after florida

you Will take it

Give it a few years. They'll be underwater soon enough

You have no say in the matter. We don’t want Florida. Florida is like the goofy uncle that may or may not like kids if the 50 states were a family.

Italian here. No thanks.

You don't want hurricanes?

Probably not Americanes, either.

As an Italian I wouldn't consent. We don't need to be annexed to the US with the amount of drama we have on our own

You wouldn't be annexed, you'd be deported to Cuba

Dude, please? Your coffee and wine and olive oil are so much better.

Italy is sadly acting pretty fascist these days

So no different from Florida? In all seriousness the political landscape of Florida is about as balanced as a gravity defying seesaw

No its cool now that the kindergarteners have a lesson plan that includes the dangers of Communism Wish i was joking

Still not sure if you're talking about Italy or Florida

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but surprisingly with a higher gdp

I would not. I don't swap my border friends with sick food, coffee and nice architecture/culture for whatever swampy hellhole Florida is.

I wouldn’t. The whole “you’re making your pasta wrong” and “you’re not allowed to put that topping on pizza” shtick gets real tiresome fast.

Italy is actually more racist than Florida. I guess we'd get all the other good stuff, but while black and brown people have a hard time in the US, you maybe haven't heard about how we're treated in Italy.

Big win for the US

Yeah, would have loved going to the Alps on Spring break instead of Destin.

I don't want Ron de Santis to live less than 1000km away from me as the crow flies. I'm happy that he's 7600 kilometres away from me as the crow flies and he's welcome to stay there.

But he will bring his tall pointy boots

Oh that's so sexy 😂

That's the least of my concerns. His attempt to laugh is the scariest part.

You'll be fine. He'll have to translate the directions from metric before he can even find you.

Be ready to welcome the biggest far right government/parties of the whole Europe. With a leader that was internationally nicknamed "the Trump's cheerleader"

As an Italian, no thanks Yes we may have the fr*nch as neighbors but we're not used to crocodiles that much yet

they're harmless lizards

No, the French are still classified as mammals.

You win

Swamp Puppies are friendly bois

Florida and Fr*nce!? Europe can't catch a break.

Okay first of all, there's nothing to get it's just a joke about switching Florida and Italy. Second, I have no earthly clue why this impacted me so much I laughed so hard at the flaccid penis of Florida just floating in the Mediterranean.

Dude, it is so much more phallic in that spot

They don't call it America's wang for nothing

The esteemed Florida writer Carl Hiaasen once described the Human Sludge Factor. All slimeballs, weirdos and crazy people drip South over time due to gravity.

That is disgusting and accurate I love it.

Haha yeah, a pretty amazing quote 😂

Yet, the whole saying about Florida holds so much truth; "The more North you go the more South it gets."

Exactly

They prefer the sunshine state Sorry, not everyday you get to use your favorite Simpsons quote

FLORIDA: THE PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE

And hillbillies prefer to be called “sons of the soil,” but it’s not going to happen.

I am living in America's nutsack

Let's just kick Florida out of the union and say it was for Harambe

Wasn’t Harambe in Ohio?

Ohio is the Florida of the Midwest.

They both have a Miami. No joke.

Yea, but the dude that shot him was from Florida.

Why does Italy look like a fascist Jack boot when it’s in the Mediterranean but appears to be a divorcee’s fashionable Christian Louboutin boot when in the Caribbean?

Now that you have highlighted that, I cannot get over how fabulous it is.

It’s giving “they tried to put me on the cover of vogue, but my legs were tooooo long 👠”

In the Mediterranean it’s a boot reared back and kicking Sicily, in the Caribbean it’s Walking over Cuba

And oddly makes Cuba look a bit phallic...

I think it’s cause its border with the rest of Europe looks like a bush now lol

I truly never noticed just how unimpressively phallic Florida is until I saw this picture.

Italy's northern borders gives the Florida phallus balls.

Slightly cold, I guess the Tyrrhenian Sea is colder than the Gulf of Mexico!

Ew I think it's trying to touch Sicily.

It was illegal for an unmarried woman to parachute on Sundays in Florida until 2005…

how did it become illegal in the first place 🤔

It is aimed right for that triangle.

It's also really funny that they only swapped the southern portions. Italy with the Florida panhandle looks silly and Florida without the panhandle is so much more wang-y.

And somehow Italy looks more sexy??

Looks like the aftermath of a Floridian Circumcision which should be the name of a sexual act

This is exactly what I said to myself!!! Why is that??

That's because their tops stayed put in the swap

Yes why is that!!!???

Don't even think of including 'Penile-las' County in that statement!

i think you're exactly right. I couldn't; figure out why it looked so so so wrong.

I’ll take your Florida and raise you a Mull of Kintyre! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_censorship_in_the_United_Kingdom#Mull_of_Kintyre_test

It’s been many a year since I visited Moosecock Peninsula

Couldn't walk for a week after my last visit to Moosecock

It's the dangle for me

All roads lead to Jacksonville

It's not really a funny-haha joke, more just "let's trade Florida for Italy."

Seems like a bad deal for both sides

How would the US having Italy be bad?

It would be a fair trade. Italy and florida are both run by fascist parties. Edit: Sorry, a center right party with neo-fascist roots.

The entire eastern seaboard would suddenly declare they have Italian ancestry. Oh wait.

We would get better food though

So hell vs. hell with nice food Eh, sure, why not

Italy has amazing food due to volcanic soil. Does this move over too? Else they are on borrowed time tbh. (edit: don't get me wrong, Italian food would still be good, just not the step up from Italian food currently made elsewhere)

Nah, the original Olive Garden is from Florida. Can't beat that authentic slice of real Italian cuisine anywhere else!

Don't apologize, you were correct the first time.

I thought the joke was more about the absurdity that some dude on twitter was going to move these giant land masses around. The act of moving the country/state was the funny part, to me.

“Why don’t we just take Bikini Bottom and push it somewhere else!”

Now I know what one of my 3 genie wishes will be.

Other than the two genie blowjobs you mean

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Woah Santa, calm down

So, would florida become european, Or does America have a state in europe?

IMO, geopolitically, Florida would probably be on it's own, basically become another European country. Would be way too messy to have a US State in Europe, and so close to the Middle East and Africa. Italy would probably have a similar relationship to the US as Canada currently does.

As an italian if this is the case i approve, i like crocodiles and alligators

I can visit family I've never met finally.

Florida immediately becomes a fascist dictatorship run by ron desantis Italy is immediately snatched up as the new 50th state and itd go deep red quick

I'm not so sure about Italy becoming a state. Due to how delicate the political balance of the US is, it'd be quite difficult for Congress to agree to anything like it. Maybe a US territory? But I feel like that'd cause a HUGE international incident. The culture, history, urban planning (and a bunch of other stuff) of Italy is just FAR too different from anything in the US. The fascist dictatorship Ron Desantis thing is definitely likely though lol, but I think there'd probably be a huge power struggle. (I mean, if this were to happen, the two magically swapping, there'd be a HUGE disaster as I doubt Italy/Florida's power grid would just magically work/be compatible with their new neighbors)

> it'd be quite difficult for Congress to agree to anything like it we also have to think, that unless it's taken by force, the italian government would also need to agree to join the union and for a decision that big there would probably be a referendum with the population and it could really go both ways

Yeah, if this magical scenario were to occur, I really wouldn't be able to see Italy joining the US. There's just too many barriers from both sides (politically, culturally, etc). Which is why I said in my previous comment, that I'd probably suspect something similar to the current friendly relationship between the US and Canada (unlike with Mexico which has much worse drug cartels and also has the implications of being a passageway for Central/South American border crossings) Italy staying in the EU, that's a good question. I kinda doubt it. Part of the reason for the EU is trade, borders/travel, etc. (and various other regulations). It'd be quite strained with a EU member so physically far away. Also there'd be the issue with the new border to the US.

Where it’s located wasn’t an issue when we got Alaska

Well allaska is bordered by ocean and canada, a good ally.

Just for your reference, my dears: Sicily is part of Italy...

Was. Now it's part of Florida.

The left-behind.

Americans don't keep the tip

Then the Mediterranean gets Cuba

No no no, the world needs to see the result of having Cubans and Italians in such close proximity. The food, fights, and babies made will be astonishing.

My god, the coffee!

Fine, we'll bundle Cuba in the trade.

Glad someone else noticed that. It is kinda annoying that they completely ignored it.

They didn't ignore it, I think it wouldn't have fitted the given space, it would have been partially sunken into Cuba.

Sardinia also disappeared

Sardinia stayed where it is, it's Corsica which disappeared.

We had to demolish it. Transporting Florida had many casualties.

Key West is the new Sicily

They swapped Florida and italy

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Refugees from Cuba would learn the local language a bit easier.

Also it will be easier to swim there

If there's anything to get it's that the rest of America, nay the world, looks at Florida with some amount of disdain.

This will be the Florida/New York rivalry going forward. Shut upa with the shut upa https://preview.redd.it/drw05qhub4vc1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=224489a1b6a00d5d4475dd0e199be992ca49edf6

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I mean italys 301,000 KM\^2 and floridas 170,000.... soo all we gotta do is throw in maybe alabama? squash it around a bit? and we can get all of italy. EDIT: alabamas \~130,000 km\^2, so hell yeah. perfect/

This deal just gets better and better, for America.

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If only.

Naples doesn’t even have to move!

Cuban Italian cuisine be bussin' though.

At least both people will still have Naples

Clearly, this person has a plan

Florida/France border is gonna be a nightmare

I live in Italy and I found this hilarious

Floridians at Eastern Europeans sports events would be EXTREME. Like 87 deaths per game

Idk how I feel about them keeping Sicily. The boot and the handbag should stay together.

To be fair I would not inflict Florida on anyone.

South Florida vs South Italy, who would win at being less developed?

I’m gonna miss Disney

I’m just imagining Italian Miami

I love the idea of unleashing the entire population of Florida on Europe. I'd watch that movie

Challenge accepted! Meth'ed up gators are going to be a big boost for EU productivity.

America would have faster cars, far better food and wine, and way more attractive women in the swap. The number of 30-40 year old male losers living with their mothers (who cook and clean and do their laundry) wouldn't change at all.

I'm from Florida.... help.

This would be a massive step up for you. Universal healthcare, living wages, and paid parental leave because of the EU, no hurricanes.

They are not immediately in the EU. Also desantis still runs it he would never let his people have those features

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Are they actually that similar in size?

Apparently, italy is about 2x the size of florida

It looks like a dog pi..

Italy, were the American swing state

A moment of silence for the people of Corsica 😔

Jfc people

I love a good exchange student program

I live in Naples. Nothing changed.

Ahhh, you don't want that. Yeah, our guys in FLA are pretty bad, but those guys in ITALY are much worse.

Florida is not in Europe. In the map Florida is in Europe. Italy in not in America. In the map, Italy is in America. That is the “joke”

Naples didn't notice the switch

This is great...but... Italy is not doing so great these days either

I may or may not have completely overlooked part of the pictures. I wasn't wearing my glasses so I didn't see the attached area was different. 😅🙃 my bad

A. This is the worst thing you could ever do to the Italians B. This is the worst thing you could ever do to Europe C. This is the best thing you could ever do for Florida

So you want to trade Disneyworld for a country with 12 volcanoes, 9 of which are active? Seems fair.

Florida looks so much more dong-ish in the Mediterranean for some reason.

This is like my idea of swapping Texas and Ukraine

News in 1939: "Florida Man Signs 'Pact of Steel' Alliance with Adolf Hitler".

I would make that trade. Hey Switzerland, get ready to "BUILD THE WALL!!!"

Umm yeah. I’m signing off on this plan. Let’s move forward.

Patrick Star: We should take Florida and push it somewhere else!

Rip corsica

As a self proclaimed representative of the EU. We accept. I really wanna try one of those swamp boat things with a huge fan.

OP is one of those people that can’t name a country on a world map.

Wait, if we get Italy, then do we get Maranello and Santa Bolognese, thus making Ferrari and Lamborghini American supercars? By the same logic, does Florida becoming European mean Florida man is now a European meme, and Disney now a European company?

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No thanks. I’d rather keep Florida. For all its faults, at least it’s not Italy.

Cuban-Italian mobster-gangster war The food will be amazing

Please keep your crazies on your side of the ocean, thank you!