• Jo Miran@lemmy.mlMEnglish
    83·
    3 days ago

    My money is paying for this. Not for the “purchase”, because that will never happen, but for their salaries, server capacity, electricity, etc.

    • GormadtOPEnglish
      39·
      3 days ago

      Same

      My tax dollars are paying for this shit

      I’m not a fan to say the least

        • GormadtOPEnglish
          14·
          3 days ago

          As fun as that sounds I know the long arm of the IRS would happily go shoulder deep for every penny with fines if we tried that.

          • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            3 days ago

            As long as you don’t have enough money to hire a team of attorneys to demonstrate that your offshore tax havens definitely aren’t ways for you to avoid paying taxes, you’re fair game!

  • LadyMeowEnglish
    64·
    3 days ago

    What the fuck…. This is actually real.

    I’m sorry, what? What fucking clown country are we living in? Please, I want off the ride.

    • superkret@feddit.orgEnglish
      28·
      3 days ago

      The Greenland thing is serious. It’s full of natural resources, important to control when the Northwest passage will be ice-free and Russia claims it, too.
      Annexing Canada is the “look over here” thing.

      • Yozul@beehaw.orgEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        Unfortunately the strategy is probably just to start so many awful things at once that we just can’t make a fuss about all of them, and then they’ll just follow through on whichever ones don’t get enough attention. Even if we can get everyone complaining about Musk’s garbage and Greenland at once, there’s just something else almost as bad that they’ll do instead.

    • megopieEnglish
      24·
      3 days ago

      “Ignore the fact that we almost caused a global financial collapse because we let a 20 something with no experience in COBOL muck around in the code for, and potentially introduce bugs to, the federal payment system that services, among other things, treasury bonds, the things that are the foundation of the global financial system. Yah we know we said he had read only access but whoops, turns out he actually had write access as well!”

    • GormadtOPEnglish
      12·
      3 days ago

      Exactly this it feels like

      shaking keys to power

      “Don’t look at the coup in progress over there look at Greenland”

    • GormadtOPEnglish
      17·
      3 days ago

      Hell the Rep could have seen the article and went “Wait. That’s actually a good idea! Thanks the Onion!”

  • _cnt0@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    21·
    3 days ago

    This has got to be part of a bigger ploy to undermine the Onion and other satire publications.

    • ingeniosissimo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      It has to be. This bill getting any further than a mere proposal is futile. The Kingdom of Denmark cannot (easily) sell or otherwise transfer ownership of Greenland to another nation. It would require a change to its constitution (which is pretty hard to do, with the current senate and government having to approve it, retire, reelection, senate reapproval, and finally a public vote with at least 40% participation).

      And that is not even enough. Greenland itself would have to agree to it as well, as they are a sovereign region. Neither Denmark nor Greenland have expressed any interest in such a deal.

      The fact that the bill proposes to rename Greenland regardless of being acquired by the U.S. is a clear sign that it is not a serious bill.

      Acquiring Greenland by other means (e.g. by force) would also be in direct conflict with UN and NATO agreements between the two nations, and cause a serious problem for the new administration.

  • HEXN3TEnglish
    9·
    3 days ago

    Proposition: We engage in “peaceful negotiation” with the US, and turn it into our own damn country

  • FredthefishlordEnglish
    16·
    3 days ago

    God this would be so goddamn funny if these clowns weren’t running the damn country… I wish they took a job in comedy instead

  • Kaput@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    Too bad healthcare in USA is so expensive, I suspects quick CT scan could find this person has a crayon lodged in the frontal cortex from their childhood body exploration. Or recent body exploration… Who know what kind of wacko, americans will elect nowadays.

    • GormadtOPEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      Looks to be real

      Sometimes the biggest joke is reality