Oh jeez. This is getting even more stupid. Trump won’t rule out seizing Greenland with military force.
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He learned well from Pooty-poot, didn’t he? “If a nation is weaker than you, you can take their lunch money and no one can stop you!”
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A century or so too optimistic, eh?
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Just WhoTF is he waving at in Greenland? I’m under the impression that almost every Greenlander is against this nonsense.
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He wants to rename it the Gulf of America. Priorities!
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Would you like to meet our lovely polar bears?
Feel free to pet them.
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I can’t even.
I’m having flashbacks to when he used to grab daily headlines by blurting out random mind farts. It’s one more way he’s so fucking exhausting (which may sometimes be the point).
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Nobody would imagine the United States going full Putin…
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Can he be impeached before he’s sworn in?
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(video at link, guessing people don’t want to see his face / hear his voice)
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Greenland is an existential threat to the U.S.?
And they’re flooding the market with the cheap ice exports.
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In a statement, Greenland’s government said Donald Trump Jr.’s visit was taking place “as a private individual” and not as an official visit, and Greenlandic representatives would not meet with him.
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Dear NATO,
Please hand this guy his ass.
Thank you
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I’m definitely not arguing for non-violent resistance, and I fully understand why people are specifically buying guns (as Americans, we’re thoroughly brainwashed into the idea that guns are “self-defense” objects that grant power), and am sympathetic. It’s just that, in all these horrors, I can’t see how people owning guns is going to make the situation better, much less safer for themselves, when the opposite seems to be true. Maybe there are some highly specific situations where that dynamic will work for people, but mostly it just seems reflexive and unplanned. People are, quite rationally, feeling powerless, so they grab onto whatever they can, without having thought it through. I’m not going to try to police how people respond to that threat - or even suggest that they be rational about it. (I don’t think it’s possible or even desirable to be fully rational in the face of the enormous, monstrous irrationality facing us.) Buying a gun to gain a sense of control, of power over one’s life, could be a useful coping mechanism and mental health crutch in the face of horror*, which I’m not going to begrudge someone who is part of a threatened community, but I can’t help but feel a sense of mounting horror of my own when the solutions people seek seem like they’re going to make things worse for them.
*Have I turned into a gun-fondler, now? Oh shit.
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Unless I missed it, you say nothing about how that would make things worse for them. Could you explain please?
Also, how do you think they’re wrong in thinking that owning a gun (and presumably, learning how to safely use and store it) could protect them?
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if i may, i believe that it is the notion that owning a gun makes it highly more likely that you will be hurt - or killed - with a gun.
in its most simplified version.
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Once they get entrenched it’s much more difficult to use democratic norms to get rid of them. If all democratic institutions have been shredded, forget it, without a war.
See above. If the state no longer represents democratic norms, then there are much fewer options, which amount to resistance of some kind internally, fleeing and resistance from outside. It might not be there yet, but it very well COULD be there. People are thinking ahead here. They are thinking about when the jackboots kick in their door and they have a few seconds to react enough to get the fuck out. But if you can ward off the bullies prior to that point, then you have more options.
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Well now that you bring it up, Greenland’s ice sheets actually are an existential threat to Mar-a-Lago. But nuking that country is unlikely to have the desired result.
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