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Danish campaigners are proposing to buy California from the United States and turn it into a territory of Denmark in response to Donald Trump's bid to acquire Greenland. The 'Denmarkification' campaign says it seeks to crowdfund $1 trillion to purchase the US state, after which it plans to instill it with Danish values and make the most of its sunny weather and resources. (...)
(...) Bosses from Danish toy giant Lego would run talks between the US and Denmark, Dutoit told Politico, because 'dealing with children throwing tantrums over missing bricks has made them experts in negotiation.' (...)

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[–] FlyingSquid 12 points 10 hours ago

Normally, I would complain about someone posting a Daily Mail link, but this is fucking hilarious.

[–] Aztechnology 39 points 14 hours ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Aztechnology 16 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Could force us all to speak Danish and I'd still be down

[–] [email protected] 13 points 13 hours ago

No need for that, as I understand it most Danes are able to carry a conversation in English. But you might need to ditch 12h clocks and switch to SI units of measurement.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Og min økse!

[–] THB 2 points 12 hours ago
[–] BillTongg 9 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

In these dark times it's great to see the Danes responding to unpleasant orange chauvinism and bigotry with dry humour. It kind of deflates the mafia boss's self importance.

I'm watching series 7 of a Danish TV programme called Badehotellet at the moment and it struck me that the Danish sense of humour it portrays is very much like the British, full of irony and self-deprecation. If they could buy the UK as well I'd be extremely happy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago

California already has Solvang, so there should be minimal culture shock

[–] Zorque 17 points 14 hours ago

Trump'd probably jump at the chance to get rid of California. Should have gone for Florida or Texas.

Of course... then you'd have Florida or Texas. Euch.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 16 hours ago

Does that mean we could stop supporting the red states of the US on our backs? We already have and love Legoland, might as wella add Hamlet.

[–] FuglyDuck 90 points 20 hours ago (8 children)

does everyone who happens to be there when the exchange happens.....get danish citizenship?

Asking for a friend.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 20 hours ago

No but you get 33% off of your next danish.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I'd settle for some free Lego sets.

[–] FuglyDuck 3 points 14 hours ago

I like the way you think, yes.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Fun fact Denmark doesn't have birthright citizenship. Trump could score a win in that regard by giving it to Denmark.

[–] ByteJunk 2 points 10 hours ago

Big win, huge win, he should do it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago

If so ill need to buy a camper an real quick...

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[–] Ceedoestrees 16 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Fuck you guys, Canada has dibs.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Oh please, we've been over this. You guys get to burn the white house, we bring kindling and a drum of gasoline. In return we get to kick comrade orangutan in the nads first and roast schmores on the house fire. As for the rest we split it with no dibs.

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/16548513 aka "now that's what I call a treaty vol 1"

[–] A_A 1 points 3 hours ago

Quite funny statical thread. Here's the same link but from Lemmy(dot)World instance :
https://lemmy.world/comment/14937321

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

Canada/Cascadia, Cancadia

[–] not_that_guy05 56 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] errer 18 points 17 hours ago

I’ll pay Denmark to buy us…

[–] NarrativeBear 20 points 17 hours ago

Is there a go fund me page I can chip into. I'm not even Danish but support this message.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Isn't California's GDP about ten times that of Denmark?

I guess that purchase would be quite a bargain.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I think it would technically be a reverse takeover

[–] Cort 19 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

No offense to the Danes, but I'd like to see what the Nederlanders are offering before we make a decision

[–] biofaust 3 points 10 hours ago

Good choice.

-- an Italian who lives in Denmark but lived in the Netherlands and knows the difference

[–] knowWhat420 2 points 12 hours ago

Freedom is priceless

[–] [email protected] 27 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

New England wants in on this

[–] Late2TheParty 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I second this! Do I hear a third?

[–] BigDaddySlim 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Late2TheParty 3 points 16 hours ago
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Great story, but I feel I should mention that the Daily Heil does not qualify as news, due to the sheer volume of disinformation it publishes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

There's no mention of it in news in Denmark.

All the tabloids are pointing to this page as "source": https://denmarkification.com/

It's obviously a satirical site. My guess is that it's made by an American.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Lego Land from San Diego all the way to Jupiter. 😃

[–] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Can they buy Minnesota too? Or can Canada annex us? Anyone? Please?

[–] butwhyishischinabook 3 points 17 hours ago

Also Broward County, FL, specifically, would loooove to be an exclave. Huh? Huh? Could be pretty sweet!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Well if we’re doing that now: anyone interested in adopting Massachusetts?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Buy Maryland instead! We're closer!

[–] radix 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, no, he might take that deal and doom the rest of us to his bullshit for generations.

[–] Postmortal_Pop 4 points 18 hours ago

Get into Cali before they do it!

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