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Calm everyone. Trump does not want Greenland, never did. He also doesn't care about the gulf of Mexico or Panama cannel.
It's just a distraction and negative media overload method that he uses. And you know what, it works. Here we are talking about this and not the serious things.
It's just a distraction and negative media overload method that he uses. And you know what, it works. Here we are talking about this and not the serious things.
Doesn't matter if it's a distraction or not. If Trump takes Greenland it will break NATO completely, and when Trump threatens to take Greenland, it weakens NATO and that can lead to all sorts of problems ... just not necessarily for the US.
Can someone poll Americans cause I vehemently oppose the purchase and subjugation of Greenland. And I also vote Trump gets run over by a train.
Trump does not want Greenland, never did. He also doesn't care about the gulf of Mexico or Panama cannel.
It's just a distraction and negative media overload method that he uses. And you know what, it works. Here we are talking about this and not the serious things.
As a European, I would say a US president repeatedly theatening a EU country with invasion is already pretty serious in itself.
Get a train and do it yourself.
I've been looking for any possible way that an average Joe can make a difference and havent been able to come up with any plan. So now I have one. Will go out after work and see about buying a train.
I get started then lose focus and start watching anime. See, this is why Americans need immigrant labor.
As an American, I agree, who the fuck cares of that orange turd wants it. He's a monster
How the hell do only 78% oppose?
The article doesn't show the full data but there's probably a good chunk of "don't know / not sure" in that 22%.
There's always about 25-30% insane people in every population. It's roughly the same percentage of Canadians who are SOMEHOW pro-US invasion of Canada
It's insanity
It’s roughly the same percentage of Canadians who are SOMEHOW pro-US invasion of Canada
Yeah, I noticed some of those users when blocking a bunch of magas elsewhere, and it was very o_O to see, too.
72% would let Greenland have the decision some of them might not want to give their own opinion or simple don't have one
22% think the pollster is a CIA operative. 6% can't wait to become a fascist Andorian hellscape because surely they'll be billionaires then.
YouGov is a poll that pays points pr. poll. These points can be used to buy actual products or gift cards worth real money. Lots of people click through them without reading the questions.
They sometimes add "click option 2 to verify that you've read the question", but even then it's likely that some percentages just click the right option by chance. On a short poll like this, they probably didn't even do the check.
So more than half have not been paying attention?
I live in Denmark, and was at a farm store, where the attendant said that musk did not do a nazi salute. I then jumped in and said "well, let's see your do that", which she did, and none of the others reacted to a girl in her late teens doing a nazi salute. You have no idea how many supports AfD and Trump has in Denmark...
Where i work, there's about 120 employees. 5 of them loves Trump, and one even proudly wears a MAGA hat. It's a fucking shit show in the country side.
It's a fucking shit show in the country side.
So just like the US then.
PROPAGANDA. WORKS.
Goseph Gerbils is laughing in his hell
People are people and people are stupid.
In many ways, yes!
Did you get a video? You know, so in the future nazi sympathisers get what they rightly deserve?
Do the schools teach history well in Denmark? Part of the problem in the USA is that people simply don't know the history of Nazism and the Holocaust.
I'm Norwegian, so the educational system is basically the same. Though, I'm not sure about today, but growing up in the 90's, we learned a lot about WW2, including pictures of when our elementary school was overtaken by the Nazis, so you'd think they'd be aware of it.
What is the real reason trump wants Greenland?
Rare earth minerals, exclusive arctic economic zone... and a theoretically easy territorial expansion to ensure his unconstitutional reelection.
As an Icelander, I just know if Trump gets Greenland he won't stop there. He'll try to take Iceland too. I'm scared.
Also, prime real-estate for when the ice caps melt.
Also he is stupid. That's probably an important reason.
That's always important to keep in mind!
Mostly as a distraction while he pillages the government coffers and sells off foreign interests to Russia and China.
I feel he saw how big it was on a typical map and thought "I can double the size of America. All we have to do is kick out these no-name unimportant suckers who happen to be there"
An excuse to access the war purse strings.