Political power grows from the barrel of, uh, signing petition
Denmark
Fact-based politics
Uh…
I follow a philosophy called “always being right”
Always being right
Proceeds to raise retirement age to 70 in one of the richest countries on Earth
Liberalism is fully post modern vibes based thinking. Having danishes is better vibes than what we got
They’re incapable of shame and allergic to doing anything meaningful. I on the other hand am extremely capable of shame and merely too depressed and lazy to do anything meaningful.
Fact-based politics like playing a make-believe game where they can buy a portion of the ruling superpower
Being a territory of Denmark sounds lovely for Californians until they find out about the sterilisation policy.
And then think it’s horrible until they realise that that was ended literally fifty years ago and today’s representatives have apologised for the country’s wrongdoing. I bet the same thing can be said about the stuff the US did fifty years ago, right? Right?
It’s not like colonial persecution magically stopped with the ending of the sterilisation policy. They’ve been carrying out control of the population through other methods like taking children away from mothers for “humane” reasons. This continues to this day, even having significant media coverage over large (for greenland) protests.
Ultimately it’s an occupied territory without sovereignty governed by a foreign colonial power. That comes with all the same problems as colonialism performed by any other European colonial state historically. They’ve all been evil, and are still evil. Greenland deserves real independence and to be controlled by its indigenous population.
This is Hexbear- Awoo was in no way defending the united states. The US is the greatest evil- it’s just that Denmark is also an evil colonizer and comes with different flavors of that evil
Hell yeah I’d sign that shit
Critical support to the danes backing US balkanization
Also it reads to me as a joke, people “sign” online petitions like this the same way they retweet shit they like
Denmark couldn’t afford California our economy is like 40x bigger
They’ll just increase ozempic and Lego prices by 20% should be enough
The VC money shell game doesn’t count. 😜
OK fine 10x bigger
Just Deport all white people to Denmark since they like them so much
I’d be ok with that bicycling is queer culture and Copenhagen is great for that
you will have to eat danish food tho
Fuck thats a deal breaker
That sounds kind of nice actually, I could get a cute apartment in Copenhagen, go biking around the countryside
No sorry you’re going to the Yankee slum.
Oh yeah! Well as a displaced American in the Danish slums I’m forming Yankee Liberation Army!
King Friedrick X, my people, the Californians yearn for freedom and pickled herring!
Friedrick
*Frederik
Would Solvang become the new state capital?
What is this supposed to prove?
Do Californians want to be bought by Denmark? Then that’s just feeding into Trump’s idea of buying Greenland, because they supposedly want it. Do Californians not want to be bought by Denmark? Then that’s feeding into Denmark being worse than the US.
Never mind the fact that this is make-believe nonsense that is totally detached from Denmark’s actual ability to buy California.
Tbf if I learned California was going to be part of Denmark next week I’d be on the road to California tomorrow
Denmark isn’t great but it’s better than the US
Whichever country is better still fits the underlying premise, that the best country should be the one that rules the colony.
No it doesn’t because greenlanders don’t want to be bought and every single poll is going to bear that out, while Californians might actually go for this, at least in the abstract. The universal healthcare is a massive jump up in quality of living whereas Greenland under US rule is a massive dripping whatever QOL they have.
Also, the US isn’t asking to buy Greenland, they’re pretending they’d buy it and then are just going to take it and then not pay anyone anything.
California is rich enough to afford our own universal healthcare system. If we wanted to be distinct from the US, we could “just” secede and still have a massive economy and also have universal healthcare.
Yeah, and?
They’re socialists!
One proposal for how the US could buy Greenland is direct cash deposits to every person in Greenland, basically buying their loyalty. Now obviously it’s all bullshit, the US just steals and kills to get what it wants, but let’s entertain this idea.
If the US paid each person in Greenland enough to get a majority onboard, would that actually be acceptable?
Yeah? Unless you think you know better than them. Or that they shouldn’t be allowed to receive money compensation. I assume most of them are smart enough to know how short the money will go.
Well then we’re in agreement - the premise of this joke is feeding into Trump’s idea to buy Greenland.
My point is that it’s in contradiction with the intention of the joke, which is clearly meant to say the opposite.
It’s just a joke
I’m aware. Hence, we’re ignoring the fact that it’s make-believe nonsense.
My point is that the punchline of the joke is in contradiction with the presumed intention of the joke. The joke just kind of feeds into Trump’s intentions, rather than poking fun at it.
Prime Minister Frederiksen, please liberate my people!
There is no such things as Danish pastries lol. In Denmark they called them wienerbrød (Vienna bread)
heheh wiener bread
Wait this is real
lmao
