Trump reiterates US need to 'have' Greenland ahead of Vance visit

[mumblerfish@lemmy.world]

The person lurking that signal group need to spill it.

[cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works]

He will get booed, which is his job apparently

[corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca]

"Mr Trump, are you planning on belligerently invading another NATO country today?"

I think that airbase needs to go.

[officerbribe@lemm.ee]

There is this novel concept - being allies. Current US government should look into it.

[bigdanishguy@sh.itjust.works]

It is not a Danish island. It's a country that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, just like Denmark and the Faroe Islands. A Danish island would be an island in Denmark, like Funen, Ærø, or Bornholm.

Taking Greenland is a kin to taking Scotland from the UK, or Maine from the US of A. They're autonomous, and trying to buy a country from us really brings up some colonial feelings, that we would much rather be done with.

[donantoniomagino@feddit.nl]

This isn’t the first time the US has felt it ’needed’ others’ lands.

[shalafi@lemmy.world]

Talk to MAGA folks. They don't think we need allies or trading partners. They think the USA is big and strong enough to not only stand alone, but stand against the entire planet.

It's hard to get across how ignorant these people are. Their information comes 100% from Fox News, Facebook, friends, family and like minded people in their echo chamber.

I live in Florida. During hurricanes we literally live and die by NOAA. And day to day, we work and plan our lives around the National Weather Service (a subset of NOAA). Posted on NextDoor.com about the administration slashing NOAA and "have fun paying for private weather service, you voted for it". (Perhaps less snarky than comes across here.)

You would be astonished, at least I was, by the outpouring of gall and hate I received. I won't try to relate it all, but even faced with personal consequences, the answer was, "Fuck all that and fuck you! Good job Trump!" That was the most "popular" post of the week. Oh my, the replies would not die off. Imagine hating on the government weather service!

Best responses were a tie:

One lady proud to pay for her AccuWeather subscription. "Where do you think AccuWeather gets their data?" "I'm not arguing with people like you!" LOL, wanted to add, "Not arguing with someone that pays for free weather data."

One guy went off about vets, in reply to no one but the post, for some reason I can't begin to ascertain. Wish I could inject what I know about Trump and vets straight into his brain, leave him a twitching mess of cognitive dissonance.

Maybe cognitive dissonance is what I triggered? Just thought of that and I may be onto something.

(I use Weawow BTW. Weather is very important to me and they got it going on. Even has sun and moon info. You can choose your weather provider (I use NWS) but you can choose from 6 others. Norway even! Only data I wish they added was tidal, lol, and a compass would be nice. Free app of course, but I'd be glad to pay a one-time fee.)

[tomassci@sh.itjust.works]

And international security of companies who pretty much want to profit from thawing greenland ice.

[federalreverse@feddit.org]

While I think @Lemmist is much too optimistic, I can't help the feeling that these people will still trip over their own feet at some point. Their staff consists with second-rate sycophants and you just can't keep reality at bay forever.

[nocturnalmorning@lemmy.world]

Maybe not, but you can certainly stand up a fascist state with it, even if it doesn't last forever. Alternatively, the people in the wings of Trumps admin pulling the strings, will put competent christiofascists in charge once he's gone. They do have a large playback afterall.