Greenlanders Reject Trump With 85% Majority Against Joining US

[barsoap@lemm.ee]

Not everyone is a US citizen. One does not simply threaten 450 million people with war and then complain that we're counting our stealth subs.

[kreskin@lemmy.world]

I'm surprised it was that high.

[gnygnygny@lemm.ee]

Who are those 5% ?

[kreskin@lemmy.world]

So..why do you think its bullshit? Trump was talking about this last time so it doesnt seem like one of his usual distractions and lies. Seems like he actually wants to take it. Every once in a while one of his series of lies is true.

[grammarpolice@lemmy.world]

You mean 15%?

[obviouslynotbanana@lemmy.world]

It's basically little more than statistical noise at that point. You can always get 4% of people to agree to something.

[tbi@lemmy.world]

I’m surprised this actually went for a vote but good on the government for upholding democracy and giving people the chance to have their say.

[fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world]

The only positive thing about Trump really is, that he's old, and with his lifestyle may not live that long anymore.

But even then, the damage he's already done, and does in the future may prove to be permanent for the foreseeable future...

[fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world]

Almost every european state has the far-right cancer (to varying degree, but nowadays unfortunately often 2 percent digits), which AFAICS are pro-Trump. I don't think it's any different in Greenland...

[blackmist@feddit.uk]

Nuke Nuuk.

[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.