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geography (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[-] Nelots@lemm.ee 148 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I fucking hate that I need to defend this guy, but like, have you guys seen the video? It was very clearly a joke. A joke. There are so, so many things to get pissed off about when it comes to him alone, focusing on a dumb joke is embarrassing. If a democrat said the same thing nobody here would bat an eye.

[-] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 17 points 3 weeks ago

Absolutely. With these kind of focuses, the GOP doesn't have to make conscientious efforts of distraction. People make dumb jokes. People have small hands. People have combovers, bad skin, weird voices and big bellies. Bringing up these things will just start unimportant conversations in field of politics. Instead focus on actual policies which are fucking over people.

[-] Maxxie 3 points 3 weeks ago

Its 2025 you don't need to lie to make republicans look stupid, just read the news smh

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[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 138 points 3 weeks ago

Vance is such a smoothbrain, he probably thought it's called Greenland because of how lush it is.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 86 points 3 weeks ago

Calling it Greenland was always a branding exercise.

[-] erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works 38 points 3 weeks ago

Vance in Las Vegas " Where the fuck are all the meadows?!?"

[-] frezik@midwest.social 15 points 3 weeks ago

TIL what Las Vegas means. But apparently, there was originally some meadows there?

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 13 points 3 weeks ago

Las Vegas was lush and green when it was settled. As more people arrived, the spring water that kept it that way dried up

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

That would require learning a piece of a language other than English …. He’d be an illegal immigrant, hardened criminal, gang member. That mascara is a sure sign of Tren de Aragua membership

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I like to think of it more that the old Norse had a good sense of humor.

[-] TwanHE@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago

Well the guy was banished from Iceland IIRC, so he had a good reason to hype up this new found land.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago

No, no, the newfound land is a scooch southwest

Geography has never been my strong point, but even I know Greenland is the cold one and Iceland is the green one.

[-] Zier@fedia.io 7 points 3 weeks ago

No silly Iceland is a supermarket!

[-] Damage@feddit.it 14 points 3 weeks ago

"Hey Donald, I've got new information, we should reevaluate this Greenland thing"

[-] ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

"have you heard about it? It sounds beautiful! Not cold or snowy like Iceland."

[-] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago

I think ppl in Greenland did that just to troll idiots like Vance. Same with guys on Iceland...

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[-] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 67 points 3 weeks ago

Is this.. is this like, for real? Sorry I can't tell anymore..

[-] captainjaneway@lemmy.world 64 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yes but he was obviously joking. Still a dumb joke.

You can see it in context here.

[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 62 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

... The Bush era joke is still holding up:

Americans learn geography via which countries they (threaten to) invade.

... I guess it is just fully beyond a joke and is now just completely literally true.

[-] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 35 points 3 weeks ago

"Not only will America go to your country and kill all your people, but they'll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad."

  • Frankie Boyle
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[-] ruk_n_rul@monyet.cc 47 points 3 weeks ago

Leif Erikson's trolling continues to claim victims

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 29 points 3 weeks ago

Just another reminder how stupid the people elected in US really are…

[-] Secret300@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah but some of them weren't elected. America is due for a civil war

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago

I still have hope for non-violent fix.
But that hope is melting fast…

[-] Soggy@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

"I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed, it might be done."

[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 19 points 3 weeks ago

It's named Greenland to fool the Americans out of invading Iceland.

[-] Azzu@lemm.ee 18 points 3 weeks ago

And people think they're immune to propaganda. Probably the majority read this meme and think Vance is just that stupid.

I mean he probably is that stupid, but not because of this particular instance of making a joke about the cold.

[-] tauren@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago

I was about to say that we shouldn't except factual information in a community where people post memes and jokes, but to my surprise, the rules of this community say "no misinformation". So I guess we should expect factual information here.

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[-] then_three_more@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

For Greenland is a hell of a place

It's a place that's never green

Where there's ice and there's snow and the whalefishes blow

And the daylight's seldom seen, brave boys

The daylight's seldom seen

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

Every day my mind is blown how actually stupid these people are. I wake up tead the news and wonder if it's The Onion or what

[-] entwine413@lemm.ee 8 points 3 weeks ago

He was clearly joking when he said that. Like, there are a million legitimate things to pick on him about. Let's not invent them.

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[-] glitchdx@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

It's a sad time when the onion cannot compete with actual real news.

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[-] nuko147@lemm.ee 17 points 3 weeks ago

Hey Boss, did you know that Greenland is mostly covered with ice? Why we want it anyway? - JD Vance

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Isn't it like one of those "kids first geography fun fact" stuff that gets taught everywhere? Like you'd have to be actively disinterested in the world not to know it?

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 15 points 3 weeks ago

And it's not even all that green either.

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 9 points 3 weeks ago

It was ironically named. Greenland is not green and Iceland is actually quite green.

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 13 points 3 weeks ago

Another victim of Red's og scam to get Icelandic vikings to move there

[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

I will bet money that both Vance and Trump confused Greenland for Iceland.

[-] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago

The centuries old gambit of switching names between Iceland and Greenland finally pays off!

[-] crazyhotpasta@lemm.ee 12 points 3 weeks ago

USA education in a nutshell

[-] Vespair@lemm.ee 11 points 3 weeks ago

Bold of you to assume they believe in controversial hypotheses like "latitude".

[-] ferretfacefrankburns@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 weeks ago

It's full of snow, and not the kind Jr likes

[-] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Bro never seen a world map

[-] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 5 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

If it’s all ice then why is it called Green?

[-] Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago

And you don't see them pulling the same shit with Iceland. I guess the name trick worked in the end.

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[-] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 4 points 3 weeks ago

That is some huge thinks

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

He is a Republican politician, in other words, he is dumb as a brick. Sentences like "It is cold here" when he is next to Santa Clause home turf are to be expected.

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