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Greenland Rename [Rule] (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 83 points 1 week ago

My money is paying for this. Not for the "purchase", because that will never happen, but for their salaries, server capacity, electricity, etc.

[-] Gormadt 39 points 1 week ago

Same

My tax dollars are paying for this shit

I'm not a fan to say the least

[-] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 week ago

Do you guys want to pool our tax money instead this year? We could vote how we want to spend it

[-] Gormadt 14 points 1 week ago

As fun as that sounds I know the long arm of the IRS would happily go shoulder deep for every penny with fines if we tried that.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

As long as you don’t have enough money to hire a team of attorneys to demonstrate that your offshore tax havens definitely aren’t ways for you to avoid paying taxes, you’re fair game!

[-] LadyMeow 64 points 1 week ago

What the fuck…. This is actually real.

I’m sorry, what? What fucking clown country are we living in? Please, I want off the ride.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

And we’re not even 4% through the Trump presidency, if anything like a presidential term or limit even exists in the coming years

[-] urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

you guys are fucked. better flee

[-] Schorsch@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago

This is right, flee! And if you're coming here, bring popcorn.

[-] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 3 points 1 week ago

I still couldn’t believe it .. jesus flying fuck the insanity https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1161

[-] SnotFlickerman 53 points 1 week ago

I just cannot even with these fucking people.

[-] Gormadt 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It feels like I'm taking crazy pills like OMFG

Other people see this behavior and they're like "That's my President! Woo 'Merica!!!"

[-] SnotFlickerman 10 points 1 week ago
[-] Gormadt 11 points 1 week ago

Based Puppygirl Polycule

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 1 week ago

Look over here while Elon rapes the country

[-] superkret@feddit.org 28 points 1 week ago

The Greenland thing is serious. It's full of natural resources, important to control when the Northwest passage will be ice-free and Russia claims it, too.
Annexing Canada is the "look over here" thing.

[-] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Canada is full of resources too. Perhaps a lot more angry beavers there to defend it tho...

[-] yozul@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately the strategy is probably just to start so many awful things at once that we just can't make a fuss about all of them, and then they'll just follow through on whichever ones don't get enough attention. Even if we can get everyone complaining about Musk's garbage and Greenland at once, there's just something else almost as bad that they'll do instead.

[-] megopie 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

“Ignore the fact that we almost caused a global financial collapse because we let a 20 something with no experience in COBOL muck around in the code for, and potentially introduce bugs to, the federal payment system that services, among other things, treasury bonds, the things that are the foundation of the global financial system. Yah we know we said he had read only access but whoops, turns out he actually had write access as well!”

[-] Gormadt 12 points 1 week ago

Exactly this it feels like

shaking keys to power

"Don't look at the coup in progress over there look at Greenland"

[-] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 36 points 1 week ago

I could have sworn this was an onion article mere hours ago

[-] Gormadt 17 points 1 week ago

Hell the Rep could have seen the article and went "Wait. That's actually a good idea! Thanks the Onion!"

[-] Bumblefumble@lemm.ee 26 points 1 week ago

I am dumbfounded that this is not a shitpost.

[-] _cnt0@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago

This has got to be part of a bigger ploy to undermine the Onion and other satire publications.

[-] ingeniosissimo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It has to be. This bill getting any further than a mere proposal is futile. The Kingdom of Denmark cannot (easily) sell or otherwise transfer ownership of Greenland to another nation. It would require a change to its constitution (which is pretty hard to do, with the current senate and government having to approve it, retire, reelection, senate reapproval, and finally a public vote with at least 40% participation).

And that is not even enough. Greenland itself would have to agree to it as well, as they are a sovereign region. Neither Denmark nor Greenland have expressed any interest in such a deal.

The fact that the bill proposes to rename Greenland regardless of being acquired by the U.S. is a clear sign that it is not a serious bill.

Acquiring Greenland by other means (e.g. by force) would also be in direct conflict with UN and NATO agreements between the two nations, and cause a serious problem for the new administration.

[-] arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago

It isn't dark humor but I feel like I will be using this image a lot

[-] Fredthefishlord 16 points 1 week ago

God this would be so goddamn funny if these clowns weren't running the damn country.. I wish they took a job in comedy instead

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

"for my next trick, watch the value of the dollar as it disappears!"

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago

The onion really can't compete with reality anymore.

Not allowed to be green in Trump's America.

[-] HEXN3T 9 points 1 week ago

Proposition: We engage in "peaceful negotiation" with the US, and turn it into our own damn country

[-] Kaput@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Too bad healthcare in USA is so expensive, I suspects quick CT scan could find this person has a crayon lodged in the frontal cortex from their childhood body exploration. Or recent body exploration.... Who know what kind of wacko, americans will elect nowadays.

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 week ago

So... is this satire or not?

[-] Gormadt 4 points 1 week ago

Looks to be real

Sometimes the biggest joke is reality

[-] Zier@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

Dnalneerg would be a much more logical name.

[-] ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Thought that was an actual Scandinavian word for a moment...

I was certain this was satire. At least we get some humor in this boring ass dystopia sometimes

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