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  • I think that’s a wise choice, Denmark is not perfect, but at least we are considerate to Greenland as an independent self governing part of the Kingdom of Denmark, that consist of Denmark, Greenland and Faroe Island.
    Greenland is not treated as a minority population of Denmark, but as an independent population with a right to self determination over themselves as a people and Greenland as their country.
    They are also allowed AFAIK even guaranteed complete sovereignty if and when they want, but they are dependent on economic aid from Denmark, and Denmark has the standpoint that they can’t have both, which IMO is fair.
    By what logic should we give them money if they are not part of the kingdom?

    Greenland also has 2 members in the parliament of Denmark, which reflect the size of their population proportionally. Faroe Islands has the same. So they are both an equal part of our democracy with proportional representation.





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    So many Americans are delusional. Minimal state and maximal God is their wet dream.
    Deregulate everything and get rid of both controls and services.
    So now Americans can look forward to getting cheated by fraudulent businesses, getting food that is even more unhealthy, and die in unnecessary accidents because there are no safety standards, and enjoy more pollution in both cities and out in the country.

    Minimal state is a moronic idea, what the state needs to be is streamlined to make society better through good regulation and standards that make everything work smoothly.
    Come to Denmark and see how it works, I spend about 3 seconds doing my taxes. I spend zero seconds filling out forms when I need healthcare. This is not about maximal or minimal state, but about having good systems and good regulation and public services that actually work.


  • Russia and China are democracies

    No they are not, they are authoritarian regimes that oppress any political competition through censorship, imprisonment and even death. Just like we’ve seen with Navalny and Jack Ma. Try to look up tiananmen square in China. Or just ask a Chinese AI about it, it won’t tell you anything.
    You are a complete idiot, and I really mean literal idiot for calling those 2 countries democracies, there are clearly standards for what constitute a democracy, and Russia and China are not in any way within those standards. Free press and freedom of expression without threat of persecution by the government is a requirement.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index
    Democracy is not just about being allowed to vote for the dear leader, there has to be ability to participate in the whole political process without being oppressed.

    But human rights? You’re joking, right? Guantanamo Bay.

    Now you are just being stupid again, I said it shout be EXTENDED to human rights if we make a NATO replacement without USA, which we obviously can’t do now while USA is a member, because USA nolonger even pretend to observe human rights.

    Don’t bother responding. I have blocked you, your points are moronic, and I don’t want to ever read anything from you again.
    Get off the meth for christ sake.


  • so that Trump has an excuse to cancel midterm elections. They know that if the elections happen,

    Goddam the debates I have had, where people claim that is impossible, because the elections are run by the states.
    I suspect we may see if it’s possible or not, because Trump and the administration are completely unhinged.

    A civil war here wouldn’t be a war at all. More like a slaughter.

    Unless enough of the people that voted for Trump switch sides or stay at home because they can see things have gone to far.
    Nazi Germany only fell because they were defeated from the outside, that is not possible with USA. So it’s 100% up to the American people.
    I hope you will have more political allies soon. At least the popularity of Trump has declined a lot since the election.
    Even taking Maduro didn’t help on that, and such things traditionally gains the administration and president a lot of support at least for a while. But for Trump it failed completely to gain him any popularity.






  • Republicans and the voters that voted Trump are definitely the stupider part of that situation. Being fooled by a fool makes you pretty stupid. Failing to detect the blatant lies of a pathological liar makes you stupid. Thinking the obvious flaming sociopathic narcissist is on your side makes you stupid.
    The only way to be that stupid is by a lifetime of indoctrination that up is down. Americans have been indoctrinated for a century that freedom is the ultimate highest value, higher than life itself, without ever actually making a good definition of what freedom is! And Trump is a sociopathic narcissist, with no conscience no respect for anything or regard for other people and little self control, and that is seen by most of the American population as the ultimate expression of the freedom they idolize.
    Americans are also indoctrinated to admire being rich, as a sign of skill and intelligence. And since Trump is rich and famous, Americans think he is intelligent, despite his fortune is based on his inheritance.





  • Absolutely, Canada has now even made defense agreements with EU joining the EU SAFE program, and very early on trade agreements were expanded.
    They have been very active rerouting export goods hit by US tariffs away from USA to other destinations, helped by the government paving the way for these new trade routes.

    I can see from other comments that some Canadians don’t think the government has done enough, but I doubt they are aware of the speed the Canadian government has acted with, these things are very difficult to do quickly.

    Look for instance on the trade agreement between south America and EU, it has taken 25 years to make!!
    Canada has already made several international trade agreements beneficial to Canada in less than a year.
    The fact that they are also looking into buying fighter jets from Swedish SAAB a non US country is also a very big deal. Which I as an EU citizen really hope goes through, because it seems like such a good deal on cooperation on sharing technology and make better planes on both sides. With SAAB and Canada partnering, instead of Canada just becoming a customer.

    The net result of it all is that despite US sanctions against Canada, the Canadian economy has grown more than the US economy in 2025!

    EDIT PS:
    Technically the US GDP growth is slightly higher than Canada, but that is driven by the AI bubble, the real economy of USA when not counting AI is slowing down, as can clearly be seen on lack of job creation that falls far behind the increase in population.



  • In the future light may be a possibility, and light is merely a photon, and you can have photons basically follow the same paths in each direction simultaneously without colliding.
    So without in any way being an expert, I would think that if light can somehow be controlled precisely enough, that would be a possibility to go way below what any atom can. Even if the paths need to be directed by atoms.
    But AFAIK there is not a practical working model for that yet, although research on it has been going on for decades.