While we do #Denmark #Danmark #USA #Greenland #Arctic drama, don't forget the #Inuit, the people who live there

@Leendaal @benroyce We should as NATO countries, minus that US idiot, put boots on the ground in Greenland to give the signal. Do not mess around with us.

@fenixmaster @Leendaal

it really is the only thing the #trump administration will listen to: european boots in #greenland

it's one thing for bigot ignorant #MAGA chuds to thump their chest with #imperialism fantasies

it's quite another thing to confront a loss in american blood to play out their stupid arrogant fantasies

@benroyce Finally read up a little on the Wikipedia page of Greenland (partly because someone recently mentioned they are not part of the EU since 1985 and wanted to see that).

Anyway so the part that baffled me (but I guess shouldn't) is how the US, being guests on the island, showed absolutely no respect for their hosts, and tried to develop a nuclear launch site network in secret, which was only declassified and told Denmark 30 years after its cancellation. How fucking rude.

@phl

yup

#projectIceworm

the americans didn't tell the danes, they just set up a secret nuclear installation in #greenland, then abandoned it, and as the ice melts it's a pollution timebomb

https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/115107527036142772

@benroyce @phl I bet I’m not the only American to just now be hearing about this. WTF?!?!

@benroyce @ckd

We'll be looking for :
Trump declared a traitor
all his appointments reversed
his family and all of his cabinet and "advisors" jailed and stripped of all propterty
All his donors stripped of all property
Reparations for genocide of first nations.
Reparations for slavery.
All ICE agents jailed.
Supreme Court cleansed of fascists.

My logic: A US governement that is not ready to do all of these isn't actually ready to step away from US fascism.

And yeah, most of these actions aren't possible under the law, but neither were Trump's actions.

You cannot right the boat while tied hand and foot to rules that the fascists ignored.

@benroyce For many of us the mistrust has long been there.

Lots of people are aware stuff like the Hague Invasion Act has never been repealed, even when the so-called good democrats had decades to do so. It just wasn't important. For a long time that was still theoretical though.

Still I think it was really the lack of accountability and system fixing after the coup attempt that taught us to fear the US as a nation of people who just don't care about "others", foreigners in specific.

@ckd

@benroyce And I must say that I find it harder by the day to hear quotes from US citizens like "I didn't vote for him", "not my president", "not in my name" and especially: "50% of us disagree".

I get it. And I believe people when they say that. It also doesn't mean anything to me. That's internal.

What is external, to me as a citizen of another country, is that the USA -the country, with all the history, friendship & agreements we share- is actively threatening my country with invasion & war.

@Pepijn

if someone didn't vote, they are absolutely without a leg to stand on on anything

this is where i place all my anger as an american

all their toxic idealism, all their mindless cynicism: it's nothing more than pure unadulterated entitlement and weak stupid excuses

absolutely infuriates me

we *have* to vote to defeat this abomination. there are no excuses

@benroyce @Pepijn

The US also has primaries that don't get the attention they deserve. The Democrats are an appalling neoliberal far-right party, in the main, and the US's choice of Trump as an act of desperation is understandable from the POV of the status quo being intolerable.

The Wolf PAC's introduction of AOC, Rashida Tlaib etc. is what should be happening wholesale.

Without this, the Dems are a holding pattern before the next nosedive.

@Pepijn

2004 and facebook and 2006 and twitter

they didn't invent bigotry, but they supercharged it as a political force

@eswag @Pepijn

get 50 #mamdani s in the #primaries2026

absolutely NO american leftist has an excuse not to vote in the primaries

none

third party doesn't work. not voting is self-serving self-defeating idiocy

we take over the #democrats

it is a requirement or you need to shut up about what you say you care about forever, because you do not care if you do not vote in the #primaries

@eswag @benroyce @Pepijn

"the Dems are a holding pattern before the next nosedive."

So wisely said. The Democratic Party has structural defects that cannot be overcome. If there are elections next November, at best we can only expect another repeat of the previous administration.

@benroyce @Pepijn@mastodon.online this person has a history of being weird in this topic. DNE.

@davevolek @eswag @Pepijn

"that cannot be overcome"

and what does mamdani mean to you?

@fenixmaster @Leendaal @benroyce totally. And ask the US to leave Thule. No 5 eyes either.

@ErickaSimone

fuck

thanks for the heads up

@benroyce @eswag @Pepijn

He will eventually disappoint many of his followers. I mean no offence to this man, but he is operating a machine from the 19th century.

@davevolek @eswag @Pepijn

then *you* accept the status quo

we don't

there is only moving forward, no matter how much the path is rocky, and i agree with you it is rocky

but we cannot choose pessimism, rather than accurately and consciously identifying the challenges and meeting them

i reject your cynicism. it describes your attitude, not our reality

articulate a path forward or at least do not reject those who are moving forward, however hard you (accurately) see their path

@benroyce @eswag @Pepijn

In 2008, many were swooning over Obama--and USA was charting a new direction. I said, "That ain't gonna happen." Obama is a classy, intelligent, well-meaning guy, but he is against forces that he cannot overcome. And look what came after.

After the warning shot across the bow, the Democratic Party elected a leader who was not well, cognitively speaking. The nation paid the price for that mistake.

Whatever cynicism I may have is well earned.

We need a new way.