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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Crazy that they don’t want to be a part of the fourth reich

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

Good.

Fuck my country. Never been proud of it, and how I am only ashamed of it even more.

This must be a personal hell. Growing up, I wanted to get out of my small town because I hated being surrounded by idiots. So I did.

Now... well... there is no escape apparently.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

Couchfu$&#er and his DEI wife getting rejected by Greenlanders is hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Kudos to the Greenlanders and keep it that way until the Turd Reich is vote out of office.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

keep it that way until the Turd Reich is vote out of office.

No, please. Keep it forever. The USA was never and never will be a reliable ally. Good riddance. Forever.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Questions

Bent:

We need to be independent of the United States and it can only go too slowly. After Trump probably comes a "normal" president and then maybe again an idiot and so on. My question then is: How quickly can Europe become at least 80 percent independent?

Bent is smarter than Keir Starmer, who's still treating Trump administration with undeserved grace.

[–] [email protected] 140 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I'm proud of my inuit brothers and sisters. The Americans may finally fucking get the hint. Apparently it wasn't enough to see that one inuk rip up American dollars when those cringe American youtubers came to give out maga hats an free money earlier this year.

Trump and his subhumans thought that the greenland-denmark conflict would benefit them, but honestly, it's got nothing to do with them. We have tried to sort out our differences while America has been an annoying mosquito trying to make our relationship troubles about them. Dumbasses. Greenland is their own people. They are their own nation and someday it will be official, but we aren't there yet and while they have a lot of issues with Denmark, there's no doubt they prefer us over America until they can stand on their own feet. It was never a question.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Particularly as the US has a no backsies law, which makes it illegal for any US state or territory to gain independence in the future.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The British Empire also had a no secession clause... oh wait

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It did not. No Parliament can bind a future Parliament. Indeed the vast majority of possessions gained independence via legal means.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Actually that's exactly what constitutions are for and why chabges to the constitutions requres a larger majority thsn for normal laws

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

External self-determination cares little about national laws. That's kinda the whole point. The real question is what type of conditions need to be met before a right to external self-determination arises and is recognized by other countries. In general, most countries don't recognize a right to unilateral seccession under any condition. At the same time, it is also agreed that if a state were to make the practice of internal self-determination virtually impossible or meaningless, then a right to external self-determination should arise. In which case any "no backsies" rule under US national law (even the constitution) may be seen as a breach of fundamental rights.

With independence, it usually comes down to who has the bigger stick (in both material and ideational terms). The are definitely scenarios in which US states can make a valid legal case for independence but the conditions for that still haven't been met as most international lawyers will agree that Americans in all states are afforded the right to internally self-determine. For now. Things are changing quickly.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It looks like a lot of US states are about to declare backsies.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

what? no it doesn't. not even a remote hint of that come on be realistic. the liberals are barely squirming over the illegal deportations. Folks are whining about eggs more than anything else.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

California checking in. I'm working on it, there's an effort to get it on the ballot.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, most Americans are too cowardly, or dumb (or both), to do anything meaningful. They prefer to sit by and watch their country get demolished, because trying to stop it would take effort.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I mean, yes, that's certainly part of it, but the other parts are that we (Americans) live among extremely well-financed and equipped (courtesy of military surplus) police forces who are obvious in their zeal to terrorize and extort citizens, while also being insulated by legal buffers like "Qualified Immunity."

In most cities, the police take up 40-50% or more of the budget, and produce essentially zero benefits, but will always be enshrined because they protect the status quo and the top wealth layer's property, and are willing to use force to ensure the most vulnerable are kept fearful and destabilized.

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