Danes launch bid to 'buy California' after Trump's Greenland threats
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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does everyone who happens to be there when the exchange happens.....get danish citizenship?
Asking for a friend.
Fun fact Denmark doesn't have birthright citizenship. Trump could score a win in that regard by giving it to Denmark.
Big win, huge win, he should do it.
If so ill need to buy a camper an real quick...
I'd settle for some free Lego sets.
I like the way you think, yes.
Why would you want citizenship in shitty little denmark lol
Guess could be used to move to one of the actually good nordic countries though
To be fair, in the Danes bought California, and made it part of Denmark, you wouldn't really be able to call or small anymore. California is roughly the same size as Germany+Austria.
If Canada wants to make an offer for the Western seaboard, they should speak up soon
Trump's over here saying canada should be the 51st state, meanwhile california, oregon, and washington are all like "peace out bitches!"
EU passport?
Please take us.
I’ll pay Denmark to buy us…
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.
Og min økse!
Same
Im not Californian, so give it a week so I can rent a friend's spare bedroom there first
New England wants in on this
I second this! Do I hear a third?
The Massholes accept!
My homies!
And by new england, you mean all of what people call new england, but also NY, PA, OH, MI, IL. Sorry Indiana.....you kinda suck.
I vote "no" on Ohio, but the rest are welcome. Also, Maryland and Delaware can come too.
Fuckin Ohio.
I know we suck! I'm sorry! I want to come too :(
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
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.
Is there a go fund me page I can chip into. I'm not even Danish but support this message.
No offense to the Danes, but I'd like to see what the Nederlanders are offering before we make a decision
Good choice.
-- an Italian who lives in Denmark but lived in the Netherlands and knows the difference
Freedom is priceless
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.
Fuck you guys, Canada has dibs.
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"
Quite funny
staticalsatirical joke thread. Here's the same link but from Lemmy(dot)World instance :https://lemmy.world/comment/14937321
Canada/Cascadia, Cancadia
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.
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.
According to the whois data, the site is registered to someone in Reykjavik, Iceland... Not that that necessarily is correct.
Normally, I would complain about someone posting a Daily Mail link, but this is fucking hilarious.
Also Broward County, FL, specifically, would loooove to be an exclave. Huh? Huh? Could be pretty sweet!
Well if we’re doing that now: anyone interested in adopting Massachusetts?
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.
Lego Land from San Diego all the way to Jupiter. 😃
California already has Solvang, so there should be minimal culture shock
Wait, no, he might take that deal and doom the rest of us to his bullshit for generations.
Get into Cali before they do it!