Nailed it. 90% of the people I’m surrounded by are hard core blue team. And just yesterday (after I’d heard the Canada/Greenland news) they all started repeating it and how crazy Trump is. And I couldn’t help feel like they were taking it a bit too seriously. What a strange creature; he’s like a Chaos Engine. But I’m beginning to wonder if it has a weird shock value cleansing effect? 🤷♂️
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I'm all for shock value, and precisely that's one of the main virtues I have always found in Trump.
My point was:
The pearl clutchers exist among the Democrats, and they come in two flavors: the intelligent ones who "go along" with the joke and use it to agitate against Trump knowingly, and the autistic and low-IQ ones who take it literally and truly believe the first ones (and Trump).
The question is, it's exactly the same among the MAGA movement. The leaders are just having fun and agitating to distract from the internal rift that quite a trivial issue like the HB1 visa conversation unmasked, but a large number of the base members seem to be taking it literally and truly believing something that is absolutely preposterous and idiotic, like nations giving up their sovereignty and allowing the US to annex them and own their resources just because.
Totally agree. It’s a weird dynamic.
I am one of those rather rare Europeans who generally speaking admire the American people and even think the MAGA movement was needed. But boy, don't these people prove time and time again what an uneducated bunch they are...
Earlier today I was reading about the institutional and legal structure of the relationship between Denmark as a sovereign, and Greenland, as an autonomous territory belonging to it. Nothing I didn't really know generally speaking, but some details are truly revealing and make this whole "conversation" even more stupid.
For instance, the Danish central government subsidizes the Greenland government in cash, in exchange for NOT exploiting any mineral resources it may find.
Recently, the Greenland government took charge of those resources, as part of the autonomy agreement, and as a result a clause kicks in that says that the subsidies they receive will diminish proportional to the resources they extract, until their complete elimination... *and from that moment onward, both governments must negotiate what's their respective share of those resources*.
So, Denmark is not just giving up their rights to exploit Greenland's mineral resources just because the Greenlanders are now in charge.
All I hear from MAGA world is talk about "buying" Greenland... but they seem deeply mistaken about who has the final right to "sell".
Yea. It’s all so nuts. Brings out the worst in people. Critical thinking out the window.
