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    Why aren’t journalists asking about Epstein anymore?

    Where are the trump/Epstein documents? They released shit and just got away with it because apparently everyone forgot?

    What the fuck is wrong with America? Eh, don’t answer that.

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    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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        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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      You think they’ll allow those peaky natives there vote? You’re all positivism today

      But no, when conquered, they’ll never get to vote, that would be bad for the Republicans

      Plus, you know, I’m guessing that slave labor might be on the table again soon, so they’ve that to look forward to

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        No, of course not. My point was that this Florida congressman is clueless and probably just doing this to get attention. Trump would never turn Greenland into a state and this bill will go nowhere.

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

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

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

        We’ve never seen propaganda like this in human history