Greenlanders Reject Trump With 85% Majority Against Joining US

[wadethewizard@fedia.io]

It seems to be a pretty consistent rule around the world that about 1/3 of people are complete morons. Only 15% being for it is probably a good sign.

[labbbb2@thelemmy.club]

I think they would just ignore Trump. It's bad for your health to answer to such people like him. He's a narcissist.

[facedeer@fedia.io]

Just "clean Geenland out", I guess.

[bassman1805@lemmy.world]

The Lizardman Constant is about 4%. So that leaves 11% unaccounted for.

[solsangraal@lemmy.zip]

fuck, i'm IN the u.s. and i'm against joining the u.s.

[whatamlemmy@lemmy.world]

There's always going to be 1/3 who are dumber than the other 2/3's

[darkassassin07@lemmy.ca]

I'm not sure I'd trust the results at all if they said 100% of people polled voted the same way...

[silence7@slrpnk.net]

Yeah, you get some silly answers from a small percent of the population, like this one:

Seven percent of all American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows, according to a nationally representative online survey commissioned by the Innovation Center of U.S. Dairy.

[kikutwo@lemmy.world]

WTF is wrong with the other 15%

[majorllama@lemmy.world]

I am choosing to believe that 7% of American adults think it's funny to answer questions like that. Even though I know it's wrong. God dammit.

Our education system is just cooked huh.

[majorllama@lemmy.world]

Thank you for that lol. Now I have a term for those types of answers.

[notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world]

TIL, Thanks!

[canadaplus@lemmy.sdf.org]

In commercial/political polling, they call it the lizard man constant. 5% will always agree, even if the question is something like "are you a lizard man".

Only 15% is a resounding rejection, honestly. The media was making it sound like there was actual mainstream debate within Greenland.

[canadaplus@lemmy.sdf.org]

According to the reporting, after dealing with Danish colonisation some Greenlanders see the US as (still) less imperialist than Denmark. The grass is always greener on the other side, basically.

Good to know that the vast majority understand that's BS.

[embargo@lemm.ee]

Pity that the stat is higher than 50% in the US.

[quill7513@slrpnk.net]

The Media is sane washing Trump. The Media is owned by the oligarchs who run this country. What NBC, CBS, ABC, and FOX say is reality is not necessarily speaking real. I'm afraid that in troubled times it falls on each of us to become a historian, journalist, propagandist, and warrior all wrapped into one

[quill7513@slrpnk.net]

Replacing your current shitty imperial power with a foreign imperial power never goes good

[oce@jlai.lu]

It's not 15% in favor but 6%.

A Verian poll, commissioned by Danish newspaper Berlingske and Greenland’s Sermitsiaq publication, showed 85% of the population on the self-ruling Arctic territory don’t want to be part of the US. About 6% said they’d prefer the country over Denmark and 9% were undecided, according to the survey published Tuesday.

[canadaplus@lemmy.sdf.org]

Sane washing is a good way to put it, actually. They're trying to write about Trump's rambling like it's a new and valid perspective on the world. It's not, and his supporters even know that for the most part.

I don't even use American outlets. Educated, well-off people across the West are still in some kind of weird denial, a near-decade into the madness.

[aaron@lemm.ee]

It's those homeless guys they bought dinner for