The UK is a non-example because that makes the argument circular.
So I'll forget you mentioned it.
Norway isn't successful?
Norway is an outlier case, for obvious reasons.
You could have also picked Albania, ex-Yugoslavia, Belarus, Ukraine in your list of proud EU dissenters but that wouldn't support your argument too well if you had, now would it?
Of course there are such examples
Just not "plenty" of them.
Dear God, aren't debates on HN about basic world facts outright silly.
You're the one who made the claim that there were no such examples, which is wrong. Now you're trying to come up with explanations for why those examples don't count or should be balanced against other countries.
You're also putting quote marks around the word "plenty" although you never said that, your statement was absolute.
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So, Switzerland is not successful? Norway isn't successful? The UK isn't successful?
Of course there are such examples. Especially if you consider that it's not really clear what makes the EU "successful" in this argument.
The UK is a non-example because that makes the argument circular.
So I'll forget you mentioned it.
Norway isn't successful?
Norway is an outlier case, for obvious reasons.
You could have also picked Albania, ex-Yugoslavia, Belarus, Ukraine in your list of proud EU dissenters but that wouldn't support your argument too well if you had, now would it?
Of course there are such examples
Just not "plenty" of them.
Dear God, aren't debates on HN about basic world facts outright silly.
You're the one who made the claim that there were no such examples, which is wrong. Now you're trying to come up with explanations for why those examples don't count or should be balanced against other countries.
You're also putting quote marks around the word "plenty" although you never said that, your statement was absolute.