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

Times like this I am sad I am in California where these chumps don't show their faces very often. My fellow statesmen are renowned for their political shithousing and they deserve to have their voices heard!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago

Keep it up, Greenlanders. Fuck these pricks!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Ami go home

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

It's spelled usher, dumb fucks....

/S

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He actually visited Greenland. I just saw it in the news. He just avoided the capital and only visited an army base.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He actually visited Greenland. I just saw it in the news. He just avoided the capital and only visited an army base.

Space force base. And not "an" but "the".

Fucking chicken, his staff apparently were too afraid that locals would have pelted him with eggs.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He'd face the same treatment in most American cities, better get used to it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

We will just use the poop left laying around by all the homeless in need of mental health treatment and a safe place to live.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

I'm willing to bet they don't understand why because the know "Everybody adores us"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

clearly they are racists because she's black.

/s

(I know she's not, but when would anything republicans say make sense?)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Clearly they're antisemitic, since there is at least 1 Jewish person in India.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

find any locals who wanted to greet the Second Lady

Did they lead with that? As in, asking as if she was greenlanders "second lady" and not only americans (the term didn't exist before this distraction, afaik)?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What? The term "second lady" most certainly existed long before this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The term "second lady" most certainly existed long before this.

But only in the US as far as I know.

Most other countries don't have a title or official position for the spouses of the elected heads of state.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

And in those few other examples, it's not a position that has any particular importance to the state.

Where the US first lady has often acted in a pseudu-ambasador role.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago

Excellent, Now do every state in the US.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Moment "American representatives were seen in the city", were they outside the base? That would have been the moment to do to the Americans what they do to the tourists and have them arrested directly... Legally that shouldn't be a problem, after all it's a matter of national security, and there have already been more than enough hostile statements and indirect announcements of war.

Edit: replaced deeples non sense

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Usually American soldiers and military personnel are exempt from local policing. In Germany, they couldn't be stopped for a traffic control or asked to identify themselves by German police, only US military police. There even was a guy that got away with murder because of some related issues.

Here's the story:

https://www.lto.de/recht/hintergruende/h/acquittal-despite-confession-wittlich-us-court-martial-justice

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

Yeah, the lack of local accountability was a large part of why Trump “threatening” to pull the military out of Japan was a monumentally stupid bluff. Japanese people already hate the US military, because the average Japanese person’s perception of the US military is “drunk dude causes damage/hurts someone and flees back to base where he will never see any punishment.” It also came at a time when hardline conservatism and patriotism (bordering on jingoism) is increasingly popular in Japan. Japan basically went “fucking do it then.”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I was immediately reminded of the g20 summit in Hamburg (not because of America) Well..

[–] [email protected] 87 points 3 days ago

Good job, Greenland! Proud of you. Every country should do this.

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