• IceFoxX@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    Moment “American representatives were seen in the city”, were they outside the base? That would have been the moment to do to the Americans what they do to the tourists and have them arrested directly… Legally that shouldn’t be a problem, after all it’s a matter of national security, and there have already been more than enough hostile statements and indirect announcements of war.

    Edit: replaced deeples non sense

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        Yeah, the lack of local accountability was a large part of why Trump “threatening” to pull the military out of Japan was a monumentally stupid bluff. Japanese people already hate the US military, because the average Japanese person’s perception of the US military is “drunk dude causes damage/hurts someone and flees back to base where he will never see any punishment.” It also came at a time when hardline conservatism and patriotism (bordering on jingoism) is increasingly popular in Japan. Japan basically went “fucking do it then.”

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    I will repeat it: Greenlanders are very based.

    If you are ever in Denmark, spend an hour to visit the Greenland museum, a huge raised middle finger of an exposition reminding everyone of Danish colonialism, placed right in the middle of Copenhagen.

    They are not well treated by the Danes either, who only recently recognized them the right for translators in the Danish parliament.

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    4 days ago

    It’s nice to see some good news from time to time in these troubling times.

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    I like to think they didn’t want to meet the Vances because they were afraid for the safety of their couches.

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      Very close, but more likely it’s an made-up excuse because they realize it’s a bit uncertain if border security would let her back into the USA /s

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    He actually visited Greenland. I just saw it in the news. He just avoided the capital and only visited an army base.

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      He actually visited Greenland. I just saw it in the news. He just avoided the capital and only visited an army base.

      Space force base. And not “an” but “the”.

      Fucking chicken, his staff apparently were too afraid that locals would have pelted him with eggs.

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    They really were hoping to find the one place that was willing to ostracize themselves for the headlines and the clicks. Thank you Greenland for fighting the good fight.

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    You don’t invite foreign invaders, you shoot them between the eyes. See Ukraine.

    Glad they got the hint.

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    4 days ago

    Imagine an ice center in Greenland detaining the vp and his wife citing a decades old law. 👁️👄👁️

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    3 days ago

    I’m willing to bet they don’t understand why because the know “Everybody adores us”