• PonyOfWar@pawb.social
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    8 months ago

    A full new state of 50.000 people who will never vote republican, meaning they’ll effectively cede control of the senate? That would be an… interesting move for sure.

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        8 months ago

        As a state, they would. Of course, Trump would never even consider making them a state and this random congressman didn’t think this through.

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          8 months ago

          It would be pretty funny if the democrats realized this and made it happen

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      8 months ago

      Only 56k people? Of that population, how many are voting age? It’s about 42k.

      There’s always about 15-30% of a population who are outright authoritarian, so they’ll vote for the leadership that strips them of their rights (see: conservatives).

      That means if the US feds moved about 10000 families (about 19,000 fascist voters) to Greenland it would make a supermajority for the right. This would cost somewhere between $300 million and $1 billion for the move and about $100 mil/year and in maintenance while the economy shifts to handle the influx.

      Do you believe that the current administration couldn’t pry a few billion dollars to buy a permanent two R-voting senators from the education budget?

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    8 months ago

    i don’t believe that trump will make greenland a US state

    i believe that it will be like more like a colony

    trump won’t want another governor nor more state legislature to have to argue with … it will be a protectorate or someshit

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        8 months ago

        The U.S. kidnapped a head of state and has hijacked a nation of 30 million people, the world is doing nothing about it. Do you really think anyone would step in to do anything about a patch of ice with 50k non-white people living on it?

        Stranger things literally already happened this year. It’s not even been two weeks.

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          8 months ago

          The US has always done that “regime change” crap. As far as I know, the orange turd claims to be the new venezualian dictator but that is just his demented ass speaking bullshit?

          As far as I am concerned, everybody who thinks non-white people are worth less can die a horrible death. But I certanly think denmark will act and the EU with them.

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    8 months ago

    No, they’re not going to let a bunch of Inuit have two senators, and there won’t be enough WASPs moving there to gerrymander a Republican majority. If anything, it’d be Frozen Puerto Rico.

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    8 months ago

    disingenuous argument because it is also secured by NATO agreement. This is just another Putin inspired bill.

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    8 months ago

    The proposed law doesn’t say anything at all it’s literally 1 paragraph long and doesn’t propose anything at all

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      8 months ago

      Oh wow, it really is just 11 lines. The article is significantly longer than the bill

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        8 months ago

        Almost all internet dependent media is fueling this hysteria from all ends

        We’ve never seen propaganda like this in human history