Greenlanders Reject Trump With 85% Majority Against Joining US

[spezi@feddit.org]

It was a poll, not a vote.

[panarab@lemm.ee]

I’m surprised that it wasn’t higher

[panarab@lemm.ee]

Imagine getting Eric or Don Jr as president

[panarab@lemm.ee]

Terrible people live long, Strom Thurmond lived to be a hundred

If you are a religious person the following from the Quran might provide some comfort:

And let not the disbelievers think that Our postponing of their punishment is good for them. We postpone the punishment only so that they may increase in sinfulness. And for them is a disgracing torment. (3:178)

[viking@infosec.pub]

There's 6% wanting to leave Denmark, but that's not necessarily joining the US. There has been a minor independence movement, but never really got traction.

Another 9% polled as "undecided".

[viking@infosec.pub]

He's too vital to hope for a biological solution anytime soon.

[tinidril@midwest.social]

JD Vance is waiting on the wings.

Anyways, it's not Trump making these decisions. He's just signing whatever the Heritage Foundation puts in front of him. Trump isn't even capable of actually writing an executive order.

[maggoty@lemmy.world]

There's only about 56,000 people in Greenland. While the standard is 1,000 people in a sample at some point you start having difficulty getting to 1,000.

[missgutsy@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

If you leave out the 9% of undecided voters, the poll is 93.4% against joining the US.

But the poll is also just a representative sample of 497 people, just about 0.88% of the greenland population. So an actual vote might be very different. The poll claims to have an uncertainty of "1.9 and 4.4 percentage points", so the result could be as high as 98% against joining the US

[canadaplus@lemmy.sdf.org]

Lol, so what's actually going on according to that, then, is that 85% are against it, 10% think it's a bad idea but are trying to keep an open mind, and 5% are lizard men.

The controversy exists only in Western news offices.

[canadaplus@lemmy.sdf.org]

Do they actually think you only need 3% support? I thought it was more like 3% active support, and majority passive support (no "sticking their neck out"), which is roughly historically accurate for basically every insurgency, at least in their target communities.

[hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

6% actually

[grammarpolice@lemmy.world]

Like the 9% undecideds are any less insane

[canadaplus@lemmy.sdf.org]

Which country?

[ramblingpanda@lemmynsfw.com]

Germany. It might be the media mix I'm ingesting, but those sources are pretty open about their opinion on Elon's first boyfriend.

[klear@lemmy.world]

I don't think Trump increasing in sinfulness is a good thing.

[panarab@lemm.ee]

It is not a good thing for his victims, that's for certain, just like the pharaoh. But God is allowing him to commit countless sins so that he will never be forgiven and that he will deserve a severe punishment.

The pharaoh drowned, maybe climate change will make Mar-a-Lago under water and Trump will drown with it.

As I write all of this, I don't actually believe in any of it. Just an amusing thought.

[nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca]

If you're Denmark, you don't have the luxury of ignoring this. Trump will escalate this before it's resolved. My guess is he'll order the military to stop paying for the US military base in Greenland, start operations that exceed what is in the agreement, and basically try to provoke a response to use as pretense for further escalation. It's already gone too far for Trump to just back down.

[itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

That's the lizardman constant

[aa5b@lemmy.world]

Depends on how you worded it.

• if there were widespread popular support in Greenland for joining the US and a majority voted to petition it, I might be in the 50% to welcome them.
• since that’s a total fiction and this is more personal empire building to be imposed regardless what the people there think, I’m in the 50% thinking what is this shit?