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[-] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 175 points 1 week ago

Backdrop of military folk because:

  • They have to follow orders, no matter how asinine
  • Because of The Implication
  • Nobody from Greenland would stand behind this clown
[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 71 points 1 week ago

The wide shot is also hilarious:

[-] Mechaguana@programming.dev 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The soldiers look like children who would rather be in gym class instead of going to the school assembly XD

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[-] fox2263@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago

Hi erm…guys…semper fi right?….erm…can you stand behind? Yeah just like behind yeah…whatever makes sense. How long you been here?

[-] Heikki@lemm.ee 35 points 1 week ago

Also, he is too cowardly to actually say this in Nuuk and has to say it at Pituffik Space Base 1000+ miles away, like the couch defiler he is.

[-] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

Backdrop of military folk also because this press conference (to the several embedded press people they dragged along for the event) was held at the US military base on Greenland - because they were not invited to visit any other part of Greenland.

So, they had literally nobody else who could be in the background of the shot except reporters and US base personnel.

Both Denmark and Greenland governments responded by saying they view this as an escalation and that Vance had better watch his tone. I think they should start talking about cancelling the renewal date of the land lease for the US base (doesn't matter if the date is far in the future, just telling them they're risking expulsion is enough).

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-30/denmark-criticises-vance-tone-in-greenland/105113854

[-] Windex007@lemmy.world 160 points 1 week ago
[-] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 43 points 1 week ago

from whom, mofo. from whom.

[-] loutr@jlai.lu 17 points 1 week ago

Thanks, that's exactly what I thought of when I saw this post

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[-] Emil@lemmy.sdf.org 126 points 1 week ago

Did he say thank you even once?

[-] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 70 points 1 week ago

He's nor even wearing a suit.

[-] haulyard@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

I feel like he’s trying to pull off the Zelensky look.

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[-] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 87 points 1 week ago

The country disappearing its own citizens claims another country isn’t protecting its own

How quaint

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[-] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 86 points 1 week ago

Denmark indeed didn't do enough to keep Greenland safe. They let Vance go there.

[-] Gerudo@lemm.ee 70 points 1 week ago

Denmark isn't doing enough to keep Greenland safe?

First of all, is there some conflict there that I'm not aware of?

Second of all, we have a goddamn US military base there. Are the troops behind you not doing enough to keep it safe?

[-] courageousstep@lemm.ee 25 points 1 week ago

I am so sick of the persistent invention of bad ideas they're trying to make real. It's like they think of they can say whatever they want often enough and enough people will hear it, then suddenly it's a real fact.

Stop trying to make Fetch happen, Vance. It's never going to happen.

[-] rosco385@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago

It's like they think of they can say whatever they want often enough and enough people will hear it, then suddenly it's a real fact.

It worked for Trump. Twice!

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

The “Big Lie.” Even Hitler was “open” about it - in positing that the “Big Lie” was Jews being responsible for Germany’s failure in WW1, he was asking his audience to accept a true “Big Lie.”

Allegiance to outright falsehood is about a marker of being of the right ideology. Political parties have always been like football teams to some of these folks - it’s about having the correct tribal markers and spouting the slogan. Words aren’t really supposed to mean anything - what they are communicating to everyone is “we want to invade Greenland.” They are signaling to their audience and just know that they can say whatever they want, while we scramble to respond to the words and not the meaning.

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[-] carbs@lemmy.world 67 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'd say the people of Greenland are way safer under Denmark than the US for one simple reason, public healthcare.

And other public safety nets to prevent people dying.

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[-] Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee 63 points 1 week ago

This is mafioso protection racket language.

"Be a real shame if someone came into your shop and busted up the place... Howz about youz guys let us take ownership? You can still manage the joint and we'll protect it as a favor to youz. We take all the risk."

[-] freeman@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 week ago

EU countries need to start making plans to remove us bases by force and destroy any US forces if necessary.

[-] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 60 points 1 week ago

Why do Americans always think in violence. The American people put a bunch of nazis into power, now you want Europe to fix it with a full out war. It's like the US is full of toddlers. Idiocracy was a meant as a comedy, not a manual.

[-] freeman@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 week ago

I am not American. I don't want Europe to try and 'fix' the US, my suggestions are merely for the EU to avoid being taken over by the US.

Since the US has put a bunch of nazis into power it's possible it will come to violence or threats of violence. It's better to be prepared. It's also better to act first if you know violence is inevitable.Or you could just acquiesce to any demand when threatened. Tariffs, give your natural resources to US companies, ban gays, ban 'communism' etc.

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[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

How have fascists typically been successfully handled by the international community in the past?

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[-] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 week ago

Because the US is NOT a democracy and every single right we have was only won through violence. Civil rights? Malcom X and the Black Panthers had to resort to violence. Gay rights? Please see the Stonewall riots. The right to unionize? Workers had to take up guns and fight the police and military multiple times for the mere right to unionize.

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[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, because open warfare with the US is a great geopolitical move that will end super well for everyone except russia. 100% no russian victory in fomenting that particular brand of chaos. nope.

[-] freeman@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago

If they US is not planning on using military force against the EU, they will simply withdraw from EU territory peacefully when asked.

Chaos will be when US troops attack us from withing while Russia attacks from the east.

Are you from the EU?

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[-] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 42 points 1 week ago

"Denmark isn't doing enough to keep Greenland safe... from America."

FTFY (Finished This For You)

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[-] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 37 points 1 week ago

WTF is going on anymore?! I feel like we are living in a fever dream.

[-] carrion0409@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago

Honestly, I don't even think the Trump regime knows whats going on. They're kinda just doing whatever as fast as possible since they know midterms likely won't go their way.

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[-] europeanfan122@lemm.ee 37 points 1 week ago

He is trying to look like Zelensky. How pathetic is that??

[-] Don_alForno@feddit.org 19 points 1 week ago

At the same time he looks like he forgot to remove the eyeliner from last night.

[-] P1k1e@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

Did this fuckwit steal Zelenskis look?

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[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

They are going to do this for real. I hope europe shows some balls this time because if not we are on a very fast lane and there are no exits before we reach war.

[-] El_guapazo@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

He must have left it on the couch after the Shady Vance rendezvous

[-] slothrop@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Seen at a military base in Greenland.

[-] rosco385@lemm.ee 26 points 1 week ago

Couch Fucker: Denmark isn't doing enough to keep Greenland safe!

Reporter: Safe from who?

Couch Fucker: From us of course!

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[-] madjo@feddit.nl 24 points 1 week ago

This image is proof that it was a fantastic idea from the citizens of Nuuk to not allow the Vances in their town. They’d have been abused for an image like this. This is the only reason why Vance wanted to visit Greenland.

So now they’re using their soldiers as backdrop to pretend they’re Greenlanders.

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[-] aeternum 23 points 1 week ago

LOL - And the US is doing such a great job of keeping US citizens safe? Yeah FUCKING RIGHT!

[-] dick_fineman@discuss.online 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Go fuck a couch, Vance. No one cares. Trump just grabbed you by your bussy so he could have someone who criticized him to scream "yes Daddy" when he pissed on your face. Posturing coward.

[-] merdaverse@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago
[-] Zendegy@lemm.ee 19 points 1 week ago

Isn't it for the Greenland's to say whether Denmark has "done a good job by the people of Greenland"? He is just the most pathetic, spineless simp ever.

[-] logicbomb@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

The suit stuff aside, what's with his weird grammar? "You have not done a good job by the people in Greenland." In this sort of sentence, "for" sounds much more natural than "by". And I think the common phrase that "Person A hasn't done right by Person B," is more of an exception.

But assuming he did mean it that way, then he's speaking as if the people of Greenland feel wronged by Denmark, but they don't.

In fact, Americans are much more disappointed with Trump and Vance than Greenlanders are disappointed with Denmark. If disapproval rating was the important thing, then Denmark would be acquiring the United States.

[-] Kirp123@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago

I am not a native English speaker but: "do right by" is a construction meaning to treat fairly. I assume that's what he wanted to say.

Also he is talking out of his ass. They couldn't find a single person willing to vouch for him and his wife when they wanted to visit. From tens of thousands of people living there they couldn't find a single person. Greenlanders don't like them.

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[-] don@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago

SHUT YOUR FUCKIN MOUTH, SMALL MAN.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago

Dear anyone from Greenland: Given how little of a shit the US Government cares about the US, I hope you aren't falling for this bullshit.

[-] MumboJumbo@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

General Zod wore it better, makeup and all.

[-] termaxima@jlai.lu 15 points 1 week ago

Not doing enough to keep Greenland safe ? … but Greenland is safe 😅 so by definition, they are.

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