No it doesn't because greenlanders don't want to be bought and every single poll is going to bear that out, while Californians might actually go for this, at least in the abstract. The universal healthcare is a massive jump up in quality of living whereas Greenland under US rule is a massive dripping whatever QOL they have.

Also, the US isn't asking to buy Greenland, they're pretending they'd buy it and then are just going to take it and then not pay anyone anything.

[–] gayspacemarxist@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

California is rich enough to afford our own universal healthcare system. If we wanted to be distinct from the US, we could "just" secede and still have a massive economy and also have universal healthcare.

[–] WokePalpatine@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, and?

[–] gayspacemarxist@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

They're socialists!

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

One proposal for how the US could buy Greenland is direct cash deposits to every person in Greenland, basically buying their loyalty. Now obviously it's all bullshit, the US just steals and kills to get what it wants, but let's entertain this idea.

If the US paid each person in Greenland enough to get a majority onboard, would that actually be acceptable?

[–] WokePalpatine@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah? Unless you think you know better than them. Or that they shouldn't be allowed to receive money compensation. I assume most of them are smart enough to know how short the money will go.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well then we're in agreement - the premise of this joke is feeding into Trump's idea to buy Greenland.

My point is that it's in contradiction with the intention of the joke, which is clearly meant to say the opposite.