• MehBlah@lemmy.world
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    Way to pick the lowest of the low. The victims of this garbage pile. Your target demographic is a spotless scratch free large heavy duty truck driver who gets nervous when they run over a puddle of water and park it when snow hits the ground.

    They are overweight and so uneducated that they don’t know the difference between stupidity and ignorance. They think stupidity can be fixed but ignorance can’t.

    They constantly worry about brown people showing up in the middle of the night and worry that those brown people might get some help from the government.

    The people you are making fun of get no mental health treatment. They are all in some way mentally unfit and turn to drugs as a way to escape the hell they are living. They are victims and you attack them.

    So good job Greenland it is very maga of you to do this.

    • RedSnt 🧩♂️👓🖥️@feddit.dk
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      So you wouldn’t say that a society should be judged on how it treats its most vulnerable members?

      Also, if the threat of invasion isn’t enough to warrant a clapback, what the heck is?

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        I didn’t say either of those things. I said it’s in poor taste to specifically make fun of the most vulnerable people in a society in your clapback.

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          I’d love it if we could ask those vulnerable people what they think about this video instead of us pretending to know what they feel or be offended on their behalf. If only we could do that, ask them how they feel about Greenland, it’s probably first on their mind when they wake up in their cardboard box on the curb.

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      It’s equally poor taste to threaten to invade a country, which will likely end in exactly that aspect of your culture being imported there first, because this will lead to the local population losing their universal healthcare, free education, their workers’ rights, and their social security.

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        So why would you make fun of the people also effected by that? It just seemed like mistargeted aggression

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        Trump isn’t a fentanyl addict. He’s literally the only person who was making threats about invading Greenland. Trump is disgusting; but he’s not a fentanyl addict. Do not put such a shame on fentanyl addicts by comparing them to him.

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        The poorest and most vulnerable people in the US are not threatening shit! The hell are you on about!

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          Becoming those people is literally what’s in store for the population of Greenland, if the invasion threats come true. So it’s very well their right to make fun of the culture that will give them this great gift, and of the gift itself.

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            Until these past few weeks, I had the impression that places outside of the US were more informed than the MAGA voters in the US. You’re yet another example of why I was wrong.

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          The poorest tend to be rural conservative morons who are absolutely threatening everyone by voting for Trump and continuing to vote for the GOP in general.

      • lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com
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        Mocking the part of the population the was made addicted because the president is an asshole??? Mock the president…

        It’s like mocking Venezuelan people for being poor.

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    Americans seem completely fine with mocking and insulting Russians, Israelis and others, but when someone mocks Americans, all of a sudden it’s inappropriate to make fun of the general population for their government’s actions.

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      American here, I’ve never agreed with mocking the population for the actions of the government. But sure generalise hundreds of millions of people, anything to avoid thinking about your hatefulness and it eating your soul bit by bit.

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          Maybe I’m fucking tired of being told that I need die for the sins of others or suffer despite not doing anything wrong. Maybe I’m tired of the constant hypocrisy from both sides.

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            No. Fuck you. What YOU SHOULD BE TIRED OF is living under a fascist regime that is sucking the life out of you and everyone around you.

            Foreigners making fun of you should be the bottom of your problems lists. Again Americans just have no sense of priority ranking.

            Grow some skin you dainty delicate little flowers. Makes me ashamed to be American.

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              Valid. Americans get angry at the wrong things. It’s a lack of Critical Thinking Skills being taught in public schools.

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              I AM TIRED OF IT YOU FUCKING IDIOT WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO FUCKING DO? I LIVE ON DISABILITY IN FUCKING WYOMING. I can be mad at multiple things you fucking piece of shit.

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      Israelis overwhelmingly support the genocide in Gaza. Bad comparison and bad take

      And that’s completely ignoring the fact that not a single person has even remotely approached what is being said about random citizens directly, about Russian or Israeli citizens. But yeah we’re just uniquely bad and evil keep telling yourself that

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    American here. The US fully deserves to be mocked, blocked, ridiculed, and shunned.

    I’m a Democratic Socialist, and have never voted for a Republican in my life. I’m as stuck with this BS as are the Britons who didn’t vote for Brexit. I laughed at the Brits while Trump was in his first term saying, “At least our fuck-up will be gone in four years.”

    D’oh!

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      Pretty much. We have been shameless for a decade.

      We literally have home grown Americans walking around with Nazi uniforms in the street. Like actually wearing Nazi signs. You know, the symbols our grandparents used to shoot at on sight.

      There are so many internal problems with racism, sexism, the economy, healthcare. But we are still screeching about America #1.

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        America #1.

        It’s #1 alright… just not where it matters.

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    Here is a Google translated interview with the Greenlandic MP Aki-Matilda Høegh-Dam (member of both the Danish and Greenlandic Parliament) in the Italian magazine Espresso today (original here).

    Below my reaction:

    "Her discourse is very nationalistic, heavily anchored in Greenland’s colonial history, with a strong sense of recourse for wrongs received. She clearly has a painful tooth, which transmits throughout the interview.

    While agreeing in principle (colonialism is indeed a deep wound and injustice, and Danes - I know since I lived there - can still be arrogant notwithstanding the Jante Law), she has to make a choice and face the reality of Greenland’s extremely tiny population, similar to that of the small Italian city of Cuneo, therefore of an extremely limited amount of people to be able to act convincingly on an international level.

    Greenlandic citizens have at the moment a Danish passport, not a Greenlandic one, therefore they are EU citizens (which she doesn’t mention) while not being part of the EU (which she does), but part of NATO (she mentions this at well).

    Are they more protected as EU citizens (with Danish or perhaps Greenlandic passports in the future) or as US citizens (as a territory, which - let’s be real - excludes voting representation in the U.S. Federal government)?

    In the end her discourse emphasizes the fact that the dignity of Greenlandic people ought to be recognized, but what if the other future partner/owner couldn’t care less?

    I am afraid the Greenlandic people are no stronger internationally (and with regards to the US in particular) than the much larger population of Gaza.

    They (the Greenlandic people) will just as easily be ignored and abused in this new US setup as the Gazans are right now and as Greenlanders were historically in the Danish setup (perhaps no longer right now, although some Danish condescension remains).

    Many Greenlanders are now considering emigration (moving to Denmark mainly) or simply being sidelined. It is not the moment, I am afraid, for Greenlanders to just adhere to principles, but to simply chose the best option available, while heavily insisting on those results that can be achieved in a very short time period (to avoid being on the menu of the 250th birthday party of the Declaration of Independence on 4 July 2026).

    The best thing they could do is to align themselves with Iceland (population 5 to 6 times larger than that of Greenland but facing unfortunately analogous challenges), Canada (same as far as the challenges are concerned) and the EU, and insist on actions on those levels, which she isn’t doing.

    I am concerned that her position might be noble in principle, but disastrous in reality."

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      I think this is unfortunately a fair assesment, speaking as a Dane. They want independence, but with a territory under so much pressure, it is unfortunately looking less and less feasible in practice.

      What is worse is that right now they feel completely sidelined, as per Danish national media. They see the American propagonda machine throwing out that a deal has been made, and they feel betrayed, left out, in the cold, unsure of their future.

      One thing is for sure though: we will not compromise on their land and their right to decide their own future. It’s a wild and weird situation. 1/3 of Greenlanders also live in Denmark, and vice versa, looking at the news while two small countries try to cement some sort or deal through high level negotiation.

      For now it’s probably best kept out of media though so our countries can figure it out without the orange clown dancing on our doorstep.

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      Aki Matilda Høgh Dam is a total joke who is using her inuit ancestry to parade around like she herself was ever remotely affected by the negative things Denmark has done in Greenland. Her entire personality trait is to cosplay as an oppressed inuit woman and she desperately wants to be a victim.

      I remember her making a bunch of posts after going to the doctor and being recommended to get the spiral which is very very common. I have had it suggested by my doctor too because I sometimes forget to take my pill on time. Aki Matilda went off on social media about how she was now a victim too of the spiral case which is a scandal from the 1960s where some greenlandic women had the spiral inserted without consent. She soooo wants to be an inuit victim while looking like this:

      I wouldn’t take an extremist like her seriously. At all. I would rather listen to real greenlandic people who actually live in Greenland and have sensible and adult takes on the Denmark/Greenland situation. It is complicated and I’m not gonna pretend like we were innocent angels who always treated the inuit right. That is definitely not the case, but we have done a lot to fix past wrongs and give the people of Greenland as much freedom and comfort as we can, to the point where they get more things for free via the welfare system than we do. I’m okay with that because they live in a very rough area and have many challenges of various different degrees so it’s the least we can do to make sure they have what they need to run a functioning society.

      Fun fact: Aki Matilda’s fiance, Kuno Fencker, was very much trying to be buddy buddy with Maga last year. Aki Matilda, Kuno and politicians like them are poison for the political discourse regarding Greenland because all they ever think about is their victim complex and their hatred for Denmark. There is very little rationality going on in those little heads of theirs and it is a total tragedy that their screeching gets a spotlight while the genuinely good and reasonable greenlandic politicians such as Aaja Chemnitz are drowned out by the extremists who go to Trumps inauguration with the greenlandic flag, livestreams their retardation from the white house and is called a traitor by their countrymen who were very much not okay with this unbelievably insane behavior. Cough, cough, Kuno, cough.

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          Your thoughts were pretty spot on, btw, but I see red whenever her name pops up anywhere. I don’t want anyone outside of the Danish Kingdom to think this idiot is remotely representative for Greenland as a whole.

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    Oh, oh, somebody should let them know that the CIA recently admitted to intentionally fucking with the global heroin supply potency because they thought it would fuck up Afghanistan’s economy (allegedly). Because they assumed if people couldn’t get consistently potent heroin they would just stop buying it? (Allegedly)

    I don’t think the CIA has actually commented on fentanyl being added to the U.S. heroin supply when they were intentionally fucking with the potency of heroin, but “whoever” introduced fentanyl to the U.S. took care of the potency problem. Now fentanyl has replaced heroin as the most commonly used opiate in the the U.S… so

    So “somebody” was kind enough to offer a solution to the potency problem the CIA created by providing a cheaper and more potent synthetic alternative to heroin that can be made in a lab instead of grown in Afghanistan, and now that alternative is what dominates the U.S. market. Its weird because I feel like I’ve heard a similar story about the CIA and a cheaper more potent drug being introduced to the U.S. market before… 🤔

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/12/cia-afghanistan-heroin-poppy-seeds/

    In 20 years of grinding war in Afghanistan, the United States dropped a multitude of weapons from the skies: Millions of tons of ordnance. Hellfire missiles launched from Predator drones. Even the “Mother of All Bombs,” the most powerful nonnuclear bomb in existence. And, amid the more conventional projectiles, tiny poppy seeds. By the billions.

    On and off for over a decade, the Central Intelligence Agency conducted an audacious highly classified program to covertly manipulate Afghanistan’s lucrative poppy crop, blanketing Afghan farmers’ fields with specially modified seeds that germinated plants containing almost none of the chemicals that are refined into heroin, The Washington Post has learned.

    The covert program, which has not previously been disclosed, is an unreported chapter in the 2001-2021 U.S. war in Afghanistan and in the long checkered history of American efforts to combat narcotics globally, from Latin America to Asia. Its existence was confirmed by 14 people familiar with aspects of the secret operation, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a classified project.

    Anyway, heads up Greenland. Who knows, they might even try to introduce an entirely new drug to the market to replace one that’s already selling instead of just smuggling fentanyl

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        That’s not the only other alternative, you know.

        Standing up for themselves and protesting is the best way to show you aren’t taking shit. But teasing and being provocative in this childish manner isn’t helping the situation, only antagonizing.

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            I’m not American…

            And that’s besides the point. You don’t make fun of a group of people who are abused and abandoned by their society and government and who are innocent in this situation. I want Trump to cease being alive just as anyone, but the majority of Americans are also against annexing Greenland.

            Again, I’m not American, I’m Scandinavian, so I just want this shit to end, not escalate.

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                ITT: a lot of people not admitting they are American. I would fucking love to see a Xitter style country tag on some of these accounts.

                I’m American, I’ve seen these people in every state I’ve been to, I’ve seen every person who walks by them avert their eyes, I’ve seen even the most liberal of cities make homelessness illegal.

                Punching down is what America does to the world and to our own. The world making fun of how our incredibly wealthy society has a problem with extreme poverty and drugs of oblivion isn’t punching down. They not making fun of the people, they are making fun of the society that has normalized abandoning them.

                This is forcing our eyes open and making us look at ourselves in the mirror, and a lot of people consider themselves the victims in that mirror when they are moving the machine forward with their action or inaction.

                America is the only place where we say “We” and we don’t mean the other 50% of the country. Those people are mutants. No, they’re also us.

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                it’s making fun of Americans with a drug problem

                Again, this is the bottom line for me, and it’s not cool or okay in this situation. It isn’t satire, it’s pure ridicule.

                But whatever, what’s done is done.

                Btw,

                like making fun by imitating children doing school shooting drills

                this is okay to do in your opinion?

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      It’s just how it goes, you only have one administration and people see that as representing your country. Happens with Russia too even though Russians certainly didn’t vote to keep Putin in power for decades so you could just as well say none of them’s to blame but whether reasonable or not people think they should rise up like Ukrainians did in that case…

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        You have to understand that there is a major difference between Russia and the USA though. Russia has been under totalitarian dictatorships since the middle age. They had a brief respite in the 90s when gangsters took over the country, and now its back to totalitarian dictatorship again. Russians has never had a chance to develop democratic values. The USA on the other hand certainly has, you just collectively decided that you hate brown people gays and trannies more than you like democracy.

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        It isn’t just one administration, that’s what Americans don’t understand. It wasn’t just Trump that brought us here. This outcome (fascist US) was inevitable with the geopolitical outcome of WW2 unless the US became more socialist. You didn’t, every President made the situation worse, including Obama (we prefer to call him Obomber). Wake up. You are the bad guys. You ALWAYS have been.

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      Trump is a symptom of something systemically wrong with your entire society. If this leadership is the end product of the American system then it is your problem and your fault and you should either try to do something about it or stop feeling sorry for yourself.

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        Yeah IDK why so many Americans are afraid to admit that Trump is merely a symptom of the depraved and corrupt society that created him. The American people, and American culture are the problem. It’s not like anyone invaded and installed Trump as a puppet, our dumb asses elected him out of foolishness or greed. Social change is the only way to fix this long term, and I don’t see that happening because nobody is willing to do any retrospection on what really caused Trump to take power.

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          But this time quite possibly for good. He did promise his followers that this would be the last time they have to vote after all.

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    This is the dumbest and most immature thing I have seen in a while. While I don’t supporting generalizing an entire nation like this, if you’re going to mock the US then at least do it properly. How are people supposed to react to this? “Ha ha! Drug addicts are so stupid!”? Not to mention that of all the things you could criticize the US for, fent addicts are not the most pressing issue.

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      Missing the point ENTIRELY.

      THIS is how foreign citizens view America. If we aren’t vicious psychopathic MAGAs ordering other countries obey our every irrational demand, we are just stupid, drug-addicted losers.

      And they aren’t far off.

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    I wonder if Greenlanders are going to lose their worker’s rights and universal healthcare after the US invades them