Friendly reminder that there are quite a few red states that literally would not survive without the tax revenue from California propping them up.
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2025
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California accepts denmark's bid. Please.
Honestly Washington State is the one I'd buy, but given the weird conservative obsession with beating up on California you can probably get a better deal.
The pitch is a bitter response to President Trump's plan to purchase Greenland, which Denmark currently owns.
Jesus titty fucking christ how obliviously ignorant do you have to be to not realize the satirical nature-...
the-sun.com
Oh, nvm when will the boomers fucking die already
Maybe France would be interested to buy back Louisiana as well.
This is the "Louisiana" they sold:
The Louisiana refund
aren't those some of the reddest parts?
@return2ozma@lemmy.world Countries do not fall into decline in one day, they fracture internally first.
"Buy California" rather than "Buy America" is precisely an example. Another sign would be ignoring tariffs and expressing its own foreign policy on trade.
I wanna carve out Philly and submit myself to whichever EU nation is willing to take us. We voted against the fascist by double digit margin, and in the last mayoral democratic primary, a pluality of us voted for the progressive candidates (but the votes split on two of the progressive democrats so they both lost, thanks FPTP).
I looked up what hygge means and I am all for it!
What’s hygge
Edit: that warm cozy feeling
I like how this underscores what a joke they think Trump is.
California should offer itself to sell to Canada already
Not interested, thanks. Or if you do come, can we ship the silicon valley tech bros into the sun first?
I hope they change the name to Hyggewood
they offered to buy Washington DC but it seems Russia beat them to it.
slow claps
Well done sir, well done.
With a pee room and some shady video
Yes please. If you could finalize the deal before April 15 that would be very helpful.
What's happening on April 15?
Tax day….
oh, I'm not american so I don't know your tax days.
It was more of a sigh… Collective sigh from all Americans. Not saying you’re bad because you didn’t know.
EU citizenship with no hassle?
Hell yes!
No hassle? I think you severely underestimate the effort required to learn Danish.
Wouldn't be the first bilingual EU country.
The Danish Realm already has three official languages, adding two more shouldn't be a problem.
Humoring the situation, I imagine English would be an accepted official language of the region lol
English and Spanish would surely be given the same status as Greenlandic and Faroese.
Yes, sign me up. I'm ready. Right now. Seriously. Do they want money?
This would be the biggest mass migration to California since the last one.
Yes! California native here. We accept.
$1 is a pretty good deal.
They should have charged, honestly.
Don't threaten me with a good time
Can they buy oregon and Washington too?
As a Cali expat in Washington I approve of this.
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Hygge me baby
gettin' Hygge with it!
Darn, I was kind of hoping for a viking raid of Mar-a-Lago followed by some pillaging up and down the gulf coast. Get some pirates back in the Caribbean and rename the Gulf to something even more obnoxious.
Well, the vikings reached the east coast of what is now Canada in around the year 1,000, but they were Norwegians, not Danes. They never got any further than New Brunswick, but who knows, if they visited Florida perhaps they would have stayed...
They never got any further than New Brunswick
New Brunswick can do that to ya. You have to be ready for it.
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The sheer absurdity of this "news" piece perfectly encapsulates the late-stage capitalism circus we’re trapped in. A real estate fire sale of cultural landmarks? Only in a world where oligarchs treat nations like Monopoly properties and influencers mistake clickbait for journalism. Hollywood’s already a hollowed-out shell of corporate algorithms—selling it to Denmark would at least spare us another superhero reboot.
Propaganda outlets peddling geopolitical fanfiction while actual democracies crumble? Classic misdirection. Meanwhile, the same clowns who’d auction Yellowstone to Saudi princes for a tax break are now cosplaying as statesmen. It’s not satire anymore—it’s a diagnostic manual for civilizational collapse.
Social media’s algorithmic abyss keeps amplifying this narcissistic delirium until reality itself becomes a glitchy deepfake. Unplug the servers before someone Tweets Greenland into the ocean.
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Can I offer you some hygge in these trying times?
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