7mo ago

What do you think of my 56 billion dollar plan to make Greenland a US State?

You give each Greenlander 1 million dollars which will cost the Us 56 billion, which would be much cheaper than any war.

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skankhunt42 @lemmy.ca 7mo ago
Canadian here, it'd take a LOT more than 1 million USD for me to want to be the 51st state. I'd bet most people in Greenland feel similar.
- owenfromcanada @lemmy.world 7mo ago
  It'd have to be $1 million plus arrangements to move to the EU. If it weren't for family here, I'd probably take that.
- NarrativeBear @lemmy.world 7mo ago
  1million of free healthcare.
  
  eldavi @lemmy.ml 7mo ago
  so basically the equivalent of the 1.5 bouts of cancer under american healthcare pricing.
vvilld @lemmy.world 7mo ago
I have a better idea. Why don't we just leave them the fuck alone?
FriendOfDeSoto @startrek.website 7mo ago
I appreciate your effort to keep senseless loss of lives in mind here. I don't think it will work. They don't want to be US citizens. And the way the Trump economy is going to shape out, 1 million dollars may not be worth that much soon.
- Dyskolos @lemmy.zip 7mo ago
  In the us? 1m is shit, unless you have a great insurance. Elsewhere, 1m is decent if you invest wisely.
  
  FriendOfDeSoto @startrek.website 7mo ago
  My comment is referring to the imminent inflation in Trump's terrific tariff economy. During inflation, the value of money decreases. If it's hyperinflation - which is possible if he appoints one of his children to run the fed - a million won't cover your weekly grocery bill.
Eat_Your_Paisley @lemm.ee 7mo ago
Why do you think Greenlanders would trade EU membership for potential US citizenship for a relatively small amount of money?
- Gordon Calhoun @lemmy.world 7mo ago
  I think the implicit assumption is if they didn't take the offer ("easy way"), they'd then get the "hard way," in which the US receives the same end result, but no one in Greenland gets the million. It churns the bile in my guts that anyone on earth is even having this discussion with a modicum of seriousness. Greenland is for Greenlanders.
GuyFawkes @midwest.social 7mo ago
And deny the war machine its profits? NEVER!!!
SwingingTheLamp @midwest.social 7mo ago
Both the real President and the fake President have a long history of reneging on deals, and not paying up. DGE seized the Treasury's payment system, so they could remove money from the people's bank accounts. The tariffs have a good chance of plunging the U.S. into recession, and $1 million really isn't that much compensation for taking on the risk, especially if inflation gets going in earnest. They'd be on the wrong side of trade barriers with the economic bloc that's geographically easier to trade with. Would this regime bail them out?
In short, trustworthiness matters.
Rozz @lemmy.sdf.org 7mo ago
Why would conservatives do that? How can they generate outrage?

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