SoyViking [he/him]

Come on… This can’t be true. The yanks must have known that Iran would strike back.

It would be very funny and I hope that it is true. I just don’t think it.

Never attribute to stupidity or malice that which is adequately explained by a combination of both.

The people who rule us are stupid and evil.

Jensen - Denmark

“Kommunister i lysthuset”

A direct translation of “lysthus” would be gazebo but “lyst” can also be translated to “lust” or “desire”.

This year they didn’t give out a Nobel peace prize, they gave out a CIA employee of the month award

You’re giving the liberals too much credit by saying they admit that electoralism has never worked.

The liberal position is not only that electoralism works but that it is the only thing that works.

Robot vacuum. We have pets and children and our floors used to be disgusting all the time. But then my partner had the smarts to buy a cheap robot vacuum and now our floors are mostly clean most of the time.

Cheap Chinese diamond grindstones. I can have razor sharp knives any time I want now, it makes cooking so much more enjoyable.

It seems like a combination of racism (I bet they wouldn’t get worked up over two Norwegians communicating in their native language) and petty managerial tyranny.

A classified Pentagon review later concluded the killings were justified under the rules of engagement, the report said.

This is just adding insult to injury “yeah we invaded a foreign country who has never done any harm to us and gunned down a group of random bystanders but you can’t get mad at us because we wrote a piece of paper saying that we’re allowed to do it”

the white guy making the USA a police state

Which one of them?

I reckon it might work with more people than you’d like to think. Generations of predatory for-profit health insurance is going to leave its mark and I fully expect the morals of many Americans to be so degraded that it is seen, maybe not as good, but as an inevitable fact of life that sick people has to get murdered.

They determine a lot through pricing and decision on availability.

People don’t like getting ripped off or paying more than they have to so people, myself included, buy more of whatever they happen to have on sale this week. At our house a lot of decisions on what to have for dinner start by looking through the weekly offers page on the supermarket’s app which influences our diet. For instance we eat a lot more chicken than we would do if it wasn’t constantly on sale.

Decisions to jack up prices also affect diet. For instance we used to eat a lot of ground beef and sour cream but now it has become so expensive that it is no longer worth what they’re charging so we almost never have it anymore.

Availability is also a huge part of the way they determine what we eat. It don’t even have to be a food desert to have a huge influence, the convenience of not having to go to more than one shop alone has a huge influence. For instance I like beefsteak tomatoes a lot more for everything where you cut up the tomatoes and don’t want the watery seeds. But I eat a lot more plum tomatoes because that’s what they have at ordinary supermarkets and I would have to go to the Arab store to get the other ones which would mean I would have to spend 20 minutes more shopping.

“We have liberated Europe from fascism, but they will never forgive us for it.” - Georgy Zhukov

Nope.

Those questions are not tough for them at all. The propaganda has it covered and they will give some version of “we tried our gosh darned best to bring the savages freedom and democracy but their barbarian culture was simply too primitive”.

I can’t seem to find anyone in real life who doesn’t.

I hope it killed a lot of evil people

Trump’s policies have “brought the Danish Viking blood boiling,” said Jens Olsen, an electrician and carpenter. He is now considering replacing $10,000 worth of U.S.-made DeWalt power tools even though it will cost him a lot.

That’ll show the darn Cheeto in the white house. It’s as stupid as back in the 1990’s even people bought French wine to pour out on the streets in protest over French nuclear tests.

The danish national anthem summarized: In ancient times? We wuz Vikings’n shit. Today? Well our trees are really pretty.

One of the most basic rules of projecting authority is that you should never make threats that you’re not willing or able to follow true with. If Denmark told the US to end their military occupation of Greenland, the yanks could very well choose to simply ignore those orders, making it unbearably obvious exactly how paper-thin Danish sovereignty over Greenland actually is.

They are shitting themselves in Copenhagen over the Trump Greenland crisis. The Danish regime is increasingly paranoid that some leak, some unscripted comment could anger their transatlantic overlord. Initially the regime was projecting national unity, giving confidential briefings on the crisis to the leaders of all parties in parliament. However, since the infamous phone call the regime has retreated into its shell, sharing its secrets with only the leaders of a chosen few “government-bearing” centrist and right-wing parties, the ones deemed loyal to atlanticist orthodoxy and who can be trusted to keep their mouths shut.

Leaders of business as well as unions has received confidential briefings as well, so they can brace for the coming storm of Trumpian tariffs. However, the regime has told the public very few details about the Trump phone call and only mentioned the American supreme leader’s tantrum by saying that he “can be very direct”.

On her Facebook page (her preferred line of communication to the public) Danish leader Mette Frederiksen has posted that the regime “can’t tell everything or make statements as quick as other people”, telling the public that they will be kept in the dark until the crisis is resolved.

There has been no official defiance of Trump. Instead, the regime is groveling, their fear palpable as they scramble to prove their loyalty to Washington even as Trump’s boot hovers over their necks. When a fascist Danish MEP told Trump to “fuck off”, voicing the feelings of most people in both Greenland and Denmark, the Danish regime scolded him for being irresponsible, afraid that he might poke the bear.

Meanwhile, it has been hinted that the regime and the “government-bearing” parties has talked behind closed doors of giving Greenland a more equitable relationship to Denmark, of sweetening the deal to keep the colony loyal to Denmark. However, these efforts might end up being a day late and a dollar short as the uncomfortable truth about Trump’s claims that Denmark is being racist to Greenlanders and has failed to develop the island is that they are not exactly false.

Greenlandic elections are coming up and independence is going to be a major issue. Committing to Danish overlordship is not something many Greenlanders desire. Meanwhile, the Danish regime’s attempts to woo Greenland are being further hamstrung by domestic reactionaries raging over economic grants to Greenland and boiling with white supremacist rage at the thought of Greenlanders having the audacity to desire freedom from Danish rule.

Trump’s threats has triggered a profound ideological crisis in Denmark’s political elite. They are completely unprepared to deal with being in the crosshairs of American imperialism. For generations they have been telling themselves that “America is our closest ally!”. They believed America to be their protector, their friend and they turned Denmark into one of Washington’s most obedient puppets, a loyal lapdog by even the most sycophantic Western European standards. But now the protector has become the predator, and the Danish political elite is utterly unprepared to deal with it.