Greenlanders Reject Trump With 85% Majority Against Joining US

[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?

[aa5b@lemmy.world]

Sure, plantation and business owners are enough. They have the local money and control people’s incomes. They can fund/extort/exploit to get it done. They have the pineapples/bananas They’re also more likely sociopaths ready to prioritize personal enrichment over social well being

Does anyone have historical numbers?

[aa5b@lemmy.world]

But we have no real way of determining what’s smokescreen and what is actually intended. It’s equally horrible and unreasonable.

I suppose im not directly affected if Trump abuses Greenland, but I’m sure they care

[aa5b@lemmy.world]

Plus that’s an example that escalated …

Ultimately, the U.S. would successfully pressure Denmark to sell the islands by threatening a military attack on the neutral nation during World War I.

[brokenglepnir@lemmy.world]

Basically lizard man's constant

[obviouslynotbanana@lemmy.world]

Pretty much

[collapse_already@lemmy.ml]

As an American, I strongly recommend that all Greenlanders oppose joining our shit show. I wish I could leave.

[embargo@lemm.ee]

I'm not talking about Greenland. Over 50% of Americans are idiots because in a two party system, they have actively voted in a dictator or withheld their vote resulting in not only the U.S. but world suffering.

[imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works]

The quuuuuuuuill, spitting bars

Nice comment.