As an American, I strongly recommend that all Greenlanders oppose joining our shit show. I wish I could leave.
this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2025
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If you leave out the 9% of undecided voters, the poll is 93.4% against joining the US.
But the poll is also just a representative sample of 497 people, just about 0.88% of the greenland population. So an actual vote might be very different. The poll claims to have an uncertainty between "1.9 and 4.4 percentage points", so the result could be as high as 98% against joining the US
I’m surprised that it wasn’t higher
"Please, America. Take away our healthcare. Not just for us, but for our descendants!"
Concerning that it wasn't 100.
It seems to be a pretty consistent rule around the world that about 1/3 of people are complete morons. Only 15% being for it is probably a good sign.
In commercial/political polling, they call it the lizard man constant. 5% will always agree, even if the question is something like "are you a lizard man".
Only 15% is a resounding rejection, honestly. The media was making it sound like there was actual mainstream debate within Greenland.
Interesting! I looked it up and the lizardman constant appears to be 4%; not too far from the 6% of Greenlanders in favor of selling their country.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate_Star_Codex#Lizardman's_Constant
The Media is sane washing Trump. The Media is owned by the oligarchs who run this country. What NBC, CBS, ABC, and FOX say is reality is not necessarily speaking real. I'm afraid that in troubled times it falls on each of us to become a historian, journalist, propagandist, and warrior all wrapped into one
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It's not 15% in favor but 6%.
A Verian poll, commissioned by Danish newspaper Berlingske and Greenland’s Sermitsiaq publication, showed 85% of the population on the self-ruling Arctic territory don’t want to be part of the US. About 6% said they’d prefer the country over Denmark and 9% were undecided, according to the survey published Tuesday.
Lol, so what's actually going on according to that, then, is that 85% are against it, 10% think it's a bad idea but are trying to keep an open mind, and 5% are lizard men.
The controversy exists only in Western news offices.
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If you read the article, 9% are undecided.
Only 6% were for it.
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Nah, like 20% of people everywhere are just dumb as rocks - in the US it looks like it's grown to be at least 35%... but there's no place on earth free of idiots.
Oh also, there's some small percentage of people that are just edgelords.... whether you count these people as idiots is probably determined by how recently you were a teenager (yes, we were all dumb once)
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For those who want to read longer, the original article in Berlingske. Not paywalled:
https://www.berlingske.dk/politik/new-poll-shows-overwhelming-majority-of-greenlanders-reject-trump
Maybe one day the people in the USA will reject the malignant tumor named Donald Trump
The only positive thing about Trump really is, that he's old, and with his lifestyle may not live that long anymore.
But even then, the damage he's already done, and does in the future may prove to be permanent for the foreseeable future...
JD Vance is waiting on the wings.
Anyways, it's not Trump making these decisions. He's just signing whatever the Heritage Foundation puts in front of him. Trump isn't even capable of actually writing an executive order.
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Imagine getting Eric or Don Jr as president
I would take Danish residence over US residence, too.
fuck, i'm IN the u.s. and i'm against joining the u.s.
Can we leave and join Denmark?
Can we join Greenland instead? If they’re majorly rejecting trump then they’re smarter than the majority of voters in the US.
Who are those 5% ?
That's the lizardman constant
There's 6% wanting to leave Denmark, but that's not necessarily joining the US. There has been a minor independence movement, but never really got traction.
Another 9% polled as "undecided".
You mean 15%?
6% actually
Like the 9% undecideds are any less insane
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