Except the part about “Holocaust guilt”. In reality, they just want to see brown people get killed.

Easy to find libs defending the slave labor conditions on other sites too.

Libs on other forums seem to be in denial:

This seems really fishy after that statement from Columbia’s Pres, why would they fold so easily within such a short amount of time? Seems to me like Trump never planned on doing any of that shit and this is just a win for propaganda.

But from what I read, the Columbian government confirmed it.

Rules-based order includes staging a coup on EU + NATO countries now.

but gommulism bad

Their particular shareholders were pro DEI, so liberals are now doing free promotion for them.

What? These models just generate one likely response string to an input query, there’s nothing that mysterious about it. Furthermore, “pain” is just “bad result”, while “pleasure” is just “good result”. Avoiding the bad result, and optimizing towards the good result is already what happens when you train the model that generates these responses.

What is this bullshit?

The team was inspired by experiments that involved electrocuting hermit crabs at varying voltages to see how much pain they were willing to endure before leaving their shell.

BRUH

I meant precedent more in the sense of “what the media can sell to people”, not in terms of what’s legal.

You’re right though, the autonomous nature of Greenland does make this much more difficult for the USA to pull off without military action.

At the same time, the idea of it becoming independent and distancing itself from the USA is probably one of the main reasons they want to acquire it in the first place.

That’s not enough for them, just check out the section “American goals of acquisition” on NATOpedia, to get an idea of what the empire is thinking:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_the_United_States_to_purchase_Greenland

Plenty of sources cited there. They clearly don’t trust Denmark to do enough to keep the Arctic in check, and in particular, they fear Greenland becoming independent and subsequently becoming friendly with Russia or China.

But the way Trump seems to go about it and the way I see most mention would, as it appears to me, be taking the path of most resistance.

Oh yeah absolutely, he’s not being subtle about it at all.

However, this isn’t the first time the USA has sought to acquire Greenland: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_the_United_States_to_purchase_Greenland

I think he’s putting the pressure on now because there has never been a more opportune time for the USA to pursue this goal. Europe is scared shitless of Russia, with it looking like it will win the war in Ukraine, and if Trump manages to convince Denmark and Greenland that they’ll be given additional security guarantees along with a nice sum of money, he might be able to pull off a deal. And we know that Trump loves his deals.

As for the moral aspect – we are talking about a country that is currently funding a genocide that has killed more people than the entire population of Greenland – under the “good guys” no less. You know it doesn’t really matter.

pushing for this would completely redefine the US-EU relationship in the public eye as well as make it clear to the average citizen (and hopefully a few politicians) that NATO is just what the warzaw pact was accused of being.

The public eye is primarily liberals, and they are easily swayed by propaganda. The moment Trump is out of office again, they will go right back to cheerleading for the US. They already rehabilitated Bush and Cheney, they will rationalize this too. “But we needed to protect the world from Russia…”

And after all, there is a precedent they can call back to: In 1917 the US bought parts of the Virgin Islands from Denmark: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Virgin_Islands

but what is the point of annexing Greenland, Canada,etc.?

Access to the Arctic Ocean once all the ice melts by 2040, to compete with Russia.

If you look at the Earth from top down, it will become much clearer:

Right now, they only have a small section of shoreline in Alaska, less than Europe, and that is simply not enough for the empire.

From a personal perspective, the Greenland stuff scares me. I’ve got danish family, until recently I lived in Denmark. I’d like to go back someday.

I expect the Danish government to fold and give Trump everything he asked for without much of a conflict.

Back in 2020 they laughed at him for making such a ridiculous demand, as he lacked the necessary leverage to go through with it. But thanks to dear old Biden being such a good friend to the EU over the past 4 years, Trump now has all he needs to extort Greenland out of them.

The Russian bogeyman has Europeans so spooked, they’ll do anything to keep the US in their good graces, even if it means giving up territory. It will be extremely humiliating, but they have no choice.

I get the feeling that “the resistance” will consist mostly of rich and famous people calling Trump and Elon poopy heads.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/green-day-takes-aim-at-elon-musk-with-bold-lyric-change/

Green Day delivered a pointed message to billionaire Elon Musk while on stage in his home country of South Africa.

When performing their biggest hit “American Idiot,” the band’s singer Billie Joe Armstrong changed the lyrics from “I’m not a part of the redneck agenda” to “I’m not a part of the Elon agenda.”

Stunning and brave.

Neoliberals are posting about how punching Nazis is cool, unless you’re a Ukrainian Nazi, they are the good ones you see.

Trump also confirmed that he will require NATO countries to spend at least 5% of GDP on defense.

I’m sure the people of Sweden and Finland are going to be excited about this.

Another important point in terms of foreign policy:

Biden lured Europe into becoming more dependent on the US, and Trump is going to exploit that to its full potential now (e.g. Greenland).

It’s just good cop/bad cop. They are playing for the same team, and barring a few exceptions, they showed this openly at the inauguration.

Russia expected to win the war in 3 days

That was General Mark Milley of the United States of America:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/gen-milley-says-kyiv-could-fall-within-72-hours-if-russia-decides-to-invade-ukraine-sources

With the media rationalizing Nazi symbols in Ukraine, is it really any surprise that they would do the same for Musk?

In moments like these, I wonder how Ulysses is feeling.