• Jimbabwe@lemmy.world
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    Backdrop of military folk because:

    • They have to follow orders, no matter how asinine
    • Because of The Implication
    • Nobody from Greenland would stand behind this clown
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      Hi erm…guys…semper fi right?….erm…can you stand behind? Yeah just like behind yeah…whatever makes sense. How long you been here?

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      Backdrop of military folk also because this press conference (to the several embedded press people they dragged along for the event) was held at the US military base on Greenland - because they were not invited to visit any other part of Greenland.

      So, they had literally nobody else who could be in the background of the shot except reporters and US base personnel.

      Both Denmark and Greenland governments responded by saying they view this as an escalation and that Vance had better watch his tone. I think they should start talking about cancelling the renewal date of the land lease for the US base (doesn’t matter if the date is far in the future, just telling them they’re risking expulsion is enough).

      https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-30/denmark-criticises-vance-tone-in-greenland/105113854

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      Also, he is too cowardly to actually say this in Nuuk and has to say it at Pituffik Space Base 1000+ miles away, like the couch defiler he is.

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    This is mafioso protection racket language.

    “Be a real shame if someone came into your shop and busted up the place… Howz about youz guys let us take ownership? You can still manage the joint and we’ll protect it as a favor to youz. We take all the risk.”

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    “Denmark isn’t doing enough to keep Greenland safe… from America.”

    FTFY (Finished This For You)

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    Couch Fucker: Denmark isn’t doing enough to keep Greenland safe!

    Reporter: Safe from who?

    Couch Fucker: From us of course!

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      Don’t call him that it’s disrespectful.

      Disrespectful to his victims that is, he’s a “Couch Rapist”

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      Honestly, I don’t even think the Trump regime knows whats going on. They’re kinda just doing whatever as fast as possible since they know midterms likely won’t go their way.

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        Agreed. I can fully see martial law being implemented or an actual civil violence happening just as midterms are about to begin.

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          According to the EO he signed on Jan 20th it might be sooner. They have 90 days to determine if we should declare a national emergency over the border. April 20th marks 90 days. It’s also Hitlers birthday and a pagan holiday.

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          Hell I wouldn’t be the least but surprised if the US is otherwise dissolved by then, actually that’d be kinda funny all fifty states, Puerto Rico, and American Samoa independent with the US only existing in Guam while everyone hashes how who gets what.

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        I don’t think they care about elections very much anymore. They just openly buy them now (combined with all the voter suppression of course). These guys are what the US is stuck with from now on unless forcibly ejected.

        I think they don’t really know what is going on because they are evil morons, they want everything done right now, without knowing exactly what “everything” is except more grifting and pleasing Putin.

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      Isn’t 04/02 supposed to be some martial law day? Maybe he’s getting ready to declare that he can’t wear a suit again, until the “war” is over.

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    The country disappearing its own citizens claims another country isn’t protecting its own

    How quaint

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        Don’t kidnappers usually try to return the kidnapped in exchange for something? I think disappearing is an apt description.

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          Horses for courses, I suppose.

          I feel that it’s downplaying the seriousness of what is happening to these people a bit.
          To me the statement “US Government Disappears Student” is not as worrying as “US Government Abducts Student”

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            Well, the reason I don’t view it as a euphemism is because it’s typically associated with totalitarian regimes. The government “disappears” people. See here,

            to cause (someone or something) to disappear:

            a: to abduct and kill or imprison (someone, such as a political dissident) while withholding information about the person’s fate

            Her son was disappeared during Argentina’s so-called ‘Dirty War.’— Associated Press

            “Disappearing” someone carries more weight than “abducting” someone.

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    Dear anyone from Greenland: Given how little of a shit the US Government cares about the US, I hope you aren’t falling for this bullshit.

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    Denmark isn’t doing enough to keep Greenland safe?

    First of all, is there some conflict there that I’m not aware of?

    Second of all, we have a goddamn US military base there. Are the troops behind you not doing enough to keep it safe?

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      The “Big Lie.” Even Hitler was “open” about it - in positing that the “Big Lie” was Jews being responsible for Germany’s failure in WW1, he was asking his audience to accept a true “Big Lie.”

      Allegiance to outright falsehood is about a marker of being of the right ideology. Political parties have always been like football teams to some of these folks - it’s about having the correct tribal markers and spouting the slogan. Words aren’t really supposed to mean anything - what they are communicating to everyone is “we want to invade Greenland.” They are signaling to their audience and just know that they can say whatever they want, while we scramble to respond to the words and not the meaning.

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      I am so sick of the persistent invention of bad ideas they’re trying to make real. It’s like they think of they can say whatever they want often enough and enough people will hear it, then suddenly it’s a real fact.

      Stop trying to make Fetch happen, Vance. It’s never going to happen.

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        I don’t know if you actually believe that repeating a lie does not increase the number of people who believe it or if you’re saying you don’t think it should work that way. Either way, I think the state of this country proves pretty decisively that it absolutely does work that way.

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        It’s like they think of they can say whatever they want often enough and enough people will hear it, then suddenly it’s a real fact.

        It worked for Trump. Twice!

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      This. And why did the US abandon more than 10 other bases and operations up here since the end of the Soviet Union.

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    Go fuck a couch, Vance. No one cares. Trump just grabbed you by your bussy so he could have someone who criticized him to scream “yes Daddy” when he pissed on your face. Posturing coward.