• oliveoil [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        If I were American, I wouldn’t care if he consensually acquires Greenland after giving them each $1mill (hypothetical of another poster).

        Look at how many trillions they destroyed attacking the middle east.

        At least the US is getting something out of this, and the colonized aren’t as victimized

        Usually when countries take territory, it is the bourgeois getting bought out.

  • towhee [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Population of Greenland is 56,831 per Wikipedia, so at $100k/person this comes to just under $6B. Good illustration of just how large a billion dollars is. On the other hand for the US this is chump change; pump it up to a million bucks a person and it only becomes $60B. Every other day this country spends that bombing some place or another. Hard to see how Greenlanders would turn down a million bucks a person to become a US territory. Spending the cash also guarantees dems wouldn’t reverse it (not that they would even if it were annexed militarily).

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    Mr. President, you said it’s a “fabulous, fabulous plan”. What did you mean by that?

    Why is the media so stupid? stupid-stupid-stupid. It’s because it is. It’s a fabulous, fabulous plan. The Greenland people are gonna get 100,000 dollars a person. When you live in snow and houses are wood - that’s a lot. A big lot. What do they use for heat? Fire in the pot stove - I think. So 100 big money. They can move to New York City. A fabulous, fabulous city with Broadway shows, women shopping, men clubs, and so much other stuff. Even though the mayor isn’t exactly right politics but reality tv charisma guy. Impressive. They love him! Love him! Broadway…

    He goes on speak for three whole minutes about his “old dreams of being big on Broadway”. He mentions “the very, very special magic factory and the very, very best bunny revue”. No one has any idea at all what he’s talking about.