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The USA decimated its own native populations, so how is it better than Denmark?
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#182Let's hope you Americans will vote for the right party in the upcoming midterms. And let's hope you will even get the chance to do so.
We can hope that enough democrats win to cause gridlock and impede more harm. However, the democrats don't offer much in the way of substantive reform and have never demonstrated the stomach for taking bold stances. Whenever a candidate does come along and propose bold change, the institutional democratic party goes out of their way to sabotage or undercut them (think AOC, Sanders, Mamdani et al).
They aren't going to be able to stop the next generation of candidates. And they aren't signing up to run to maintain the institution. This year and 2028 has the potential to be the Democrat's "tea party" moment (except for decent policies instead of destroying the government policies). And it's long overdue.
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#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are getting downvoted because people see their own reflection in that statement. And they don't like what they are seeing.
Thinking in memes isn’t going to lead us to a better world. Least we can do is downvote it.
The thing itself speaks seemingly a truth though: growing up too coddled will risk a twisted perspective of what you deserve and what's a given.
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#184"Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times."
You are getting downvoted because people see their own reflection in that statement. And they don't like what they are seeing.
It is getting downvoted because it is a well known silly trope. Generally, success reinforces itself. That’s why there have been a bunch of countries that have had multi-generational streaks of repeated success. Eventually, this feedback look can fail, but it isn’t on some predictable four generation pattern.
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Russia can barely hold its own in a war against a neighboring country 30x smaller than them. Do people really still think they are a threat on the global stage anymore? China, yes, but their tactic is economic rather than military. And they are already winning in that front considering how dependent the rest of the world is on their manpower and manufacturing. It's pretty clear that going forward the only real milita…
Yesterday, it was "Russia is a threat to the whole of Europe so we need to rearm and borrow billions and send it to Ukraine"; today it's "Russia is so weak, they aren't a threat as they can barely handle Ukraine". Which is it? because this is confusing.
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#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
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U.K. and France have nukes. Against a conventional army like the USA, that is all that matters.
Several European countries are also hosting American nukes on their soil. What happens to those in case the US starts an open war with those countries?
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I strongly believe he just wants to secure his legacy. He wants to be the president that increased the land of USA and that's it.
This is the right answer. I don't know why everyone is overreacting saying how the US democracy is dead and he will be in office forever. He's just a narcissistic guy who wants to achieve some goals thw US had previously to show he's the only one who could do it, and to show what this great power can do (Iran, Venezuela, etc...) I also think he's probably aware of his age and cognitive decline, so that's why he's in…
like Hitler in 1942
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There wouldn't have been a problem if the US would've just done a deal go deploy all their stuff on Greenland, hell, even a whole autonomous military zone or something?
But nooooo, they gotta buy the whole thing like it's Alaska or something.
I don't get it. Especially because now Russia/China will actually get real interested in the Arctic, plus that they now have an opportunity to disrupt the alliance and delegitimize NATO etc.
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#189I think the administration's real goal isn't taking over Greenland. I think it's scaring the EU enough about the possibility the US might take over Greenland that the EU pays to fortify it so the US doesn't have to. (Somebody needs to fortify it, because the world is warming and it will become a strategically important trade choke point when a Northwest Passage opens up.) Just like Trump being hot-and-cold on Ukraine…
Ah yes, the "Donald Trump is playing 4D chess" story his supporters have been repeating since 2016.
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>>I fully support the US taking Greenland by non-military means. Makes sense economically and militarily.
So their own wishes on the topic don't matter?
Also I cannot think of many worse fates for Danes than becoming American, yeah I'm sure they can't wait to have their privatised healthcare and Gestapo policing. What Americans want in this scenario matters less than what Russians want in regards to Ukraine.
>>The Danish colonials force-sterilized the native peoples of Greenland.
Would you like me to start listing all the things that Americans have done to both their own citizens in modern times(like injecting people with radioactive compounds just to see why would happen) and in the distant past to the native populations of Northern America?