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    13 days ago

    Apart from all the deflection and Putin and Gilded-Age foreign policy policy theories, which may well be right, I think President Dingleberry also found out that Greenland is 1% larger by area than the Louisiana Purchase, which would make him the president that most embiggened America. How can you you deny MAGA if he literally made it greater (in size) than any president prior to him?

    It’s also possible he has only ever looked at a Mercator and thinks Greenland is literally the size of Africa or South America.

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    Must admit I’m sitting here in Australia, thinking about our uranium reserves, and thinking “uh oh”.

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    Anything less than rump kicking it from old age sooner than later is unacceptable but we can’t have everything. Fuck rump and his fascist states.

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      Wouldn’t make a difference. We’ve got him for a bare minimum of at least another year and six days. Otherwise it would count as a term for Vance. They’ll Weekend at Bernie’s his bloated corpse for a year if they have to for that.

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        Not making any political statement on what will or will not happen. Was just funning on the title and saying I hope age take him sooner or later due to being a nasty human being.

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      In case you didn’t notice, he gains power and confidence when you try to act above the fray and not confront him.

      It’s a media war, and fighting him and his propaganda in all ways is not a distraction, it’s an obligation.

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    Change my mind: Literally zero people want Greenland to be part of the US except Donald Trump and the people who have trained themselves to always agree with Donald Trump.

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      They don’t even have a fucking reason. Oh, it is an important strategic location? Good thing we already have a base there!

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        • Venezuela: oil, because renewables are becoming more expensive due to all of the raw materials going into AI-related tech and the US needs a backup plan if shit hits the fan and their bets don’t pan out
        • Greenland: rare Earth metals, because they are the strategic bottleneck amongst said materials, and China stopped exploring them recently and I guess Australia and Canada are harder targets?
        • Can you guess why China is circling Taiwan so hard nowadays? Because they want TMSC in order to overcome their current chip production limits (nm/transistor count)
        • But why is that important? Because of Moore’s Law. We’ve hit the practical physical limits of transistor size vs molecular complexity with current manufacturing methods. We (humanity) are stagnating now, and can’t climb up The Kardashev scale no more.
        • But we can’t stop because our resources and time are limited. Our planet is on a clock right now. So their apparent solution is: secure/stockpile rare Earth metals, sufficient energy reserves, and production means to train AGI, because apparently someone at some point put the idea that AGI would be the solution to the manufacturing problem.
        • But this is all being exasperated by AI training since the start: resources invested, materials wasted, energy spent, planet heated/polluted. Now it’s a recursive problem and a self-fulfilling prophecy
        • And everyone is betting they can solve it first, the will be the ones that’ll win the AGI race, and save us because they’re the good guys and know what they’re doing. Our wise leaders will sacrifice anything to save their citizens, even their own public image (see how noble Trump/Putin/whatever are being?) to save the planet. The end will justify the means surely, and people will forgive them once they realise what was going on all this time. Poor them.
        • Nobody is even stopping to ask: “but what if we (countries) worked together instead of against each other?” because of people like Trump being in power.

        There you go. My current working theory.

        P.S: wonder where the existing rare Earth metals went? Ask the planned obsolescence/anti-repair people and the Phoebus Cartel.

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      The people who have trained Donald Trump to agree with them. They want oil, minerals, land, etc.

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        Are we already forgetting that trump invaded Venezuela for oil, then the oil companies said “excuse me but we can’t profitably exploit their notoriously shitty oil”?

        Part of being a literal Nazi is that the o.g. Nazis got themselves stuck in an increasing number of military quagmires not because they had to but because they refused to do consider the obvious peaceful solutions for their problems. The war machine had to be fed even at the cost of their own self-destruction.

        Except this time they have a nuclear arsenal capable of wiping all civilization and somehow people aren’t freaking out nearly enough about that.

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      I believe the accelerationists want Greenland to join the US. Those guys are eager to see a nuclear war kick off.

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      Greenland is the suicide capital of the world.

      I’m pretty sure a lot of people are instinctively against US acquisition because they’ve been trained to think colonialism is always bad and what Trump does is always wrong.

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        Greenland is the suicide capital of the world

        You wanna pump those numbers up by subjecting them to US health care?

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        Trump may not always be wrong but it’s certainly in the high majority of things he does. Currently I can’t think of anything he has done that is actually positive.

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        Looking at history, colonialism has always been bad for the indigenous people.

        Similary looking at history, what Trump does has always been wrong.

        Also fuck you, if you think you know better whats good for Greenland than people who live in there.

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        List some instances where colonialism was good

        Or trump did something that was good

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        Are you actually arguing that the US should take Greenland? What in the actual fuck?

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        they’ve been trained to think colonialism is always bad

        There isn’t a single colonial project that was/is benevolent. So yes, colonialism is always bad. Also fuck off with the “acquisition” euphemism. What the USA is proposing is simply stealing somebody else’s land.

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    I really want to stress how deeply unpopular this is in the U.S. The MAGA movement is about 30% of the electorate, so you can generally expect that even the dumbest, most insane Trump decisions have a floor of 30% approval. 9% of Americans support this, 86% oppose it. At minimum, two-thirds of Trump’s most rabid, loyal followers are against this.

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        Well, I hate to throw cold water on that comfort, but I’m not sure the numbers matter. Trump is increasingly unresponsive to polling, even within his base, and it seems like the Pentagon really is planning an invasion. It would fracture his own MAGA movement, completely destroy NATO, make America a global pariah, and potentially start WWIII, but it seems he is seriously considering it.

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          I have nothing to base this on but some guy on the internet said that he is demanding invasion & the top brass keeps trying to talk him out of it.

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            I read an article that claimed some top Generals are trying to distract him with an invasion of Iran (which is also really, really bad). Traditional neocons certainly don’t want this, though; they don’t want to throw away 80 years of military alliances. Still, if the president tells the Pentagon, “make me a Greenland invasion plan,” they’re gonna do it.

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          Ah I’m sure he’s considering it and the planning is a given. I’m glad the bulk of Americans have some sense in this matter at least.

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            Probably as retribution to the American people for not voting for him in 2021. Such a lust for revenge

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      So what? He will invade Greenland, get voted out and everything will turn back to normal? Because you disapproved of said actions?

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        LOL, no. As I already said in this thread:

        Trump is increasingly unresponsive to polling, even within his base, and it seems like the Pentagon really is planning an invasion. It would fracture his own MAGA movement, completely destroy NATO, make America a global pariah, and potentially start WWIII, but it seems he is seriously considering it.

        Approval isn’t changing Trump’s actions, and he’s actively talking about canceling the midterms (though using his ICE for voter suppression is more likely). The only hope is that enough neocons tell him that they’ll support impeachment if he fucks up NATO.

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      Something I’ve learned in the last decade, no matter how unpopular a position, MAGA supporters will fall in line with the party rather than risk threatening the parties authority.

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        Maybe. MAGA is fracturing right now. Withholding the Epstien files really was too much for some of them, and Marjorie Taylor Greene’s defection gave a lot of them permission to question and criticize him. Invading an ally for no reason might actually break through to good chunk of the average red hats.

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          False hope. Come election time Republicans will rally around some insane thing like “Democrats are eating babies” and they’ll pull the lever for whoever has an R by their name. Even non-crazy people will tell themselves some half-baked story that starts with “Well, I don’t like Trump but…” and do the same thing.

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            That’s not what the special elections are showing. In last years special elections, Democrats have gained, on average, 14 points in districts that Trump won. Miami elected a Democratic mayor for the first time in 30 years. At the beginning of 2025, people were wondering if Republicans could hold on to the House. In 2026, they’re speculating on whether or not Democrats will retake the Senate.

            And this is all happening while Democrats have hit historically low approval ratings. Only 18% of voters approve of the job they’re doing in Congress, including -6% approval in their own party. And still, voters want Democrats in charge of Congress, 47% to 43%. People hate Democrats more than they have ever hated Democrats in the history of Democrats, and they are still hate Trump more.

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      I hope those numbers can be turned into actions to stop Trump.

      The elected officials need to be reminded what the vast majority of their voters want them to do.

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      how deeply unpopular

      He was elected twice. On both occasions those that didn’t care won.

      30% isn’t deeply unpopular btw. That’s about 5-10%.

      It’s bad enough that we’re reminded we have to stop and think about the Americans, let alone having to accept bullshit.

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      As long as that idiot is in power those numbers mean nothing. Impeach him, vote in a new guy and then we’ll talk.

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    Breaking Demented lunatic pedofile rants about invading foreign country from his memory care facility… this is what should be happening

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    We have an authoritarian dictator in the white house surrounded by constant drip adderall’d sycophants. Most of us are scraping the barrel to get by because we are overworked and paid shit.

    This is all by design. We are just expendable peons to them.

    Tech bro billionaires getting unlimited investment for AI and other nonsense are working on plans for Greenland.

    Wake the fuck up people. We have nothing to lose but our chains.

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      Wake the fuck up people. We have nothing to lose but our chains.

      Nothing meaningful will change until that statement is more true than it is now. The reality is that most of us are still comfortable enough to not want to risk what we’ve got.

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    more like “anything less than a distraction from epstein files showing more and my friends of pedophelia and sexual assault is unacceptable”- TRUMP.

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      At this point, the Epstein files are the distraction. Trump is going full Fascist both at home and abroad.