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Danish campaigners are proposing to buy California from the United States and turn it into a territory of Denmark in response to Donald Trump's bid to acquire Greenland. The 'Denmarkification' campaign says it seeks to crowdfund $1 trillion to purchase the US state, after which it plans to instill it with Danish values and make the most of its sunny weather and resources. (...)
(...) Bosses from Danish toy giant Lego would run talks between the US and Denmark, Dutoit told Politico, because 'dealing with children throwing tantrums over missing bricks has made them experts in negotiation.' (...)

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[–] Aztechnology@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Im not Californian, so give it a week so I can rent a friend's spare bedroom there first

[–] Brodysseus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Aztechnology@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Could force us all to speak Danish and I'd still be down

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago

No need for that, as I understand it most Danes are able to carry a conversation in English. But you might need to ditch 12h clocks and switch to SI units of measurement.

[–] Carl@lemm.ee 2 points 22 hours ago

Og min økse!

[–] THB@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 14 points 21 hours ago

Normally, I would complain about someone posting a Daily Mail link, but this is fucking hilarious.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 94 points 1 day ago (8 children)

does everyone who happens to be there when the exchange happens.....get danish citizenship?

Asking for a friend.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 54 points 1 day ago

No but you get 33% off of your next danish.

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fun fact Denmark doesn't have birthright citizenship. Trump could score a win in that regard by giving it to Denmark.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

Big win, huge win, he should do it.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd settle for some free Lego sets.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I like the way you think, yes.

[–] Master@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

If so ill need to buy a camper an real quick...

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[–] BillTongg@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

In these dark times it's great to see the Danes responding to unpleasant orange chauvinism and bigotry with dry humour. It kind of deflates the mafia boss's self importance.

I'm watching series 7 of a Danish TV programme called Badehotellet at the moment and it struck me that the Danish sense of humour it portrays is very much like the British, full of irony and self-deprecation. If they could buy the UK as well I'd be extremely happy.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Trump'd probably jump at the chance to get rid of California. Should have gone for Florida or Texas.

Of course... then you'd have Florida or Texas. Euch.

[–] Michal@programming.dev 8 points 22 hours ago

California already has Solvang, so there should be minimal culture shock

[–] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 57 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] errer@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

I’ll pay Denmark to buy us…

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 day ago

Does that mean we could stop supporting the red states of the US on our backs? We already have and love Legoland, might as wella add Hamlet.

[–] Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Fuck you guys, Canada has dibs.

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Oh please, we've been over this. You guys get to burn the white house, we bring kindling and a drum of gasoline. In return we get to kick comrade orangutan in the nads first and roast schmores on the house fire. As for the rest we split it with no dibs.

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/16548513 aka "now that's what I call a treaty vol 1"

[–] A_A@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Quite funny ~~statical~~ satirical joke thread. Here's the same link but from Lemmy(dot)World instance :
https://lemmy.world/comment/14937321

[–] Glitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Canada/Cascadia, Cancadia

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

Is there a go fund me page I can chip into. I'm not even Danish but support this message.

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Isn't California's GDP about ten times that of Denmark?

I guess that purchase would be quite a bargain.

I think it would technically be a reverse takeover

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 day ago (5 children)

New England wants in on this

[–] Late2TheParty@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I second this! Do I hear a third?

[–] BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Late2TheParty@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago
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[–] Cort@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No offense to the Danes, but I'd like to see what the Nederlanders are offering before we make a decision

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

Good choice.

-- an Italian who lives in Denmark but lived in the Netherlands and knows the difference

[–] knowWhat420@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

Freedom is priceless

[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Great story, but I feel I should mention that the Daily Heil does not qualify as news, due to the sheer volume of disinformation it publishes.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 5 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

There's no mention of it in news in Denmark.

All the tabloids are pointing to this page as "source": https://denmarkification.com/

It's obviously a satirical site. My guess is that it's made by an American.

[–] FrederikNJS@lemm.ee 1 points 9 hours ago

According to the whois data, the site is registered to someone in Reykjavik, Iceland... Not that that necessarily is correct.

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can they buy Minnesota too? Or can Canada annex us? Anyone? Please?

Also Broward County, FL, specifically, would loooove to be an exclave. Huh? Huh? Could be pretty sweet!

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Lego Land from San Diego all the way to Jupiter. 😃

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well if we’re doing that now: anyone interested in adopting Massachusetts?

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[–] radix@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait, no, he might take that deal and doom the rest of us to his bullshit for generations.

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Get into Cali before they do it!

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