Post B2RCOyzsGfNnC9HFlQ by Merc@freerobuxextremist.com
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(DIR) Post #B2QwM7orPZnmQCk0cy by alf@noauthority.social
2026-01-19T02:39:50Z
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(DIR) Post #B2R6RRgBzxK90SrWk4 by magicalthinking@noauthority.social
2026-01-19T07:46:38Z
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@alf we're offering $700 Billion.if they don't take that offer they just get blockaded and invaded and Denmark can throw butter cookies at us.
(DIR) Post #B2R83YfQZBnpdXF3nU by cjd@pkteerium.xyz
2026-01-19T08:04:29.478521Z
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I think everyone is basically admitted to the fact that International Law is meaningless. We're in the Strong Do What They Can / Weak Suffer What They Must stage of the empire.
(DIR) Post #B2R8D6vsXQiaVzUYd6 by magicalthinking@noauthority.social
2026-01-19T08:06:27Z
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@cjd @alf Why does Denmark even have Greenland? If it were President Kamala Harris asking, they'd just give it to her.
(DIR) Post #B2R8KtiRYrxfqBv9FI by Merc@freerobuxextremist.com
2026-01-19T08:06:29.905116Z
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@cjd @alf @magicalthinking it seems weird that there are people who think something comes before force. That one can start with principles, and derive a stable world from that, rather than start from a stable world and derive principlesI'm sure there's a more eloquent way to put it but hopefully it's clear what I'm saying
(DIR) Post #B2R8SkiGuwBuEgaO5g by magicalthinking@noauthority.social
2026-01-19T08:09:16Z
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@Merc @alf @cjd Greenlandoids think the US wants the minerals, but we have our own minerals. It would take 50 years to get at any mineral deposits anyway. It's about the shipping lanes.
(DIR) Post #B2R8aQXln4cZzxKio4 by cjd@pkteerium.xyz
2026-01-19T08:10:29.023024Z
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First comes force. Then comes the recognition that in a world ruled by force alone, everybody loses. From that comes law, norms, and red lines. Then from comes the desire to break the rules to gain a little bit of advantage. Then from that, we go back to a world ruled by brute force.We're in phase 3/4, depending on who you ask.
(DIR) Post #B2R8g9HkrxkID5ZRdA by magicalthinking@noauthority.social
2026-01-19T08:11:42Z
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@cjd @Merc @alf How did Denmark come to possess Greenland in the first place? I'm sure it wasn't from asking nicely.Don't forget those fertility experiments they did in the 70's...
(DIR) Post #B2R8yC2BO7BBwptJDM by cjd@pkteerium.xyz
2026-01-19T08:14:44.501982Z
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I don't know, but I imagine they took it by force - during the previous period of Hard Times.Now it will be taken from them in the next.I don't really blame Trump for this, he's doing what Putin is doing - recognizing that international laws, customs and norms have been discarded.Who discarded them? Bush when he legitimized torture. Everyone when they threw rule of law overboard because muh covid. Democrats when they decided that stuffing ballot boxes was okay because "it's weally weally impowtant the good guy wins"...Weak men make hard times is a global cultural phenomenon, it's not confined to one person.
(DIR) Post #B2R9BGdlZcWxzxhlFg by Merc@freerobuxextremist.com
2026-01-19T08:15:52.094372Z
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@cjd @alf @magicalthinking I guess you gotta hope that you'll end up with people who have the ability to use force, will be willing to be principled and defend these principles, and these principles are good.I guess that's why I like the US and really hope for their success, they seem like the only ones who may be capable of holding and defending good principles. Everyone else is weak and so comes across as hypocritical when their laws are violated, holds bad laws, or just uses force and doesn't bother with consistency.
(DIR) Post #B2R9BZ78t8ixIHaTXU by magicalthinking@noauthority.social
2026-01-19T08:17:22Z
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@cjd @Merc @alf You're right of course. International law has always been a joke. Everyday there are genocides and tribes are forfeit and endangered animals are hunted so a chinaman can get a boner...
(DIR) Post #B2R9rGWMPLrFn4GcEa by amerika@annihilation.social
2026-01-19T08:24:54.265679Z
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@cjd @Merc @alf @magicalthinking Weak men create huge populations, huge populations create Revolutions, Revolutions create the third world.
(DIR) Post #B2R9uSDPNwLWvcvHBQ by amerika@annihilation.social
2026-01-19T08:25:29.186097Z
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@magicalthinking @Merc @alf @cjd And the Russo-Chinese submarines, just like Ukraine was about warm water ports
(DIR) Post #B2RBLWgOyyc8YcxP1M by cjd@pkteerium.xyz
2026-01-19T08:41:21.448690Z
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The problem is the US doesn't have principles either anymore. That's why we're here.Rule by force selects for those most capable of projecting violence. This is at least eugenic because it "capable of projecting violence" implies organization, cleverness, and general evolutionary fitness. The weak are pushed back into the margins and the failed genetic mutants get wiped out.But then the powerful come up against each other, and this is when they recognize that in perpetual war, everybody loses. This is the point at which they lay down some rules & norms, and they agree to abide by them, because they know war and they would rather restrain themselves than end up in it.But in a world where everyone restrains themselves, being a little bit less restrained confers significant advantage. So people will always aim to cheat, first a little, then a lot, and then the rules and norms themselves become meaningless.That's the "coyote ran off the cliff" moment, when everybody is still pretending the rules are important even though everyone is cheating in one way or another and nobody is really motivated to enforce them.It has been argued that Putin is an Übermensch, because he is able to place himself outside of the paradigm and change the course of history. What is clear is that he was unique in having recognized early the collapse of international norms and The Countries On The Map Are Free, You Can Take Them Home With You. That is to say, you can just do things and nobody is going to be motivated enough to really fight to stop you.
(DIR) Post #B2RCAmn0rGDLHQUYXg by Merc@freerobuxextremist.com
2026-01-19T08:49:05.745213Z
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@cjd @alf @magicalthinking I'm just glad that they say they want strong borders and they're attempting to enforce it. There's like nowhere else in the world I can look at for similar catharsis.Gotta love prisoner's dilemmas, bleh.I guess I hope the selection process will lead to good people coming out of this.
(DIR) Post #B2RCAoARjcYLYOSmhs by cjd@pkteerium.xyz
2026-01-19T08:50:43.925554Z
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Russia treats Russians like total crap, always has. I would loathe to ever live there.> hope the selection process will lead to good peopleIt always does, it's just a struggle session to get there ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(DIR) Post #B2RCOyzsGfNnC9HFlQ by Merc@freerobuxextremist.com
2026-01-19T08:51:51.693610Z
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@cjd @alf @magicalthinking oh, no, I'm talking the US. I'd hate to live in Russia, too. But I guess I gotta respect them for that, too.
(DIR) Post #B2RCjZCPNXaNGWxHSC by cjd@pkteerium.xyz
2026-01-19T08:57:02.084987Z
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I'm not sure how serious the US actually is. ICE is making a lot of "video content", but they're not doing the obvious things that they would be doing if they wanted to reduce illegal immigrants - like going to friendly places like Texas where they would be unopposed.I get the feeling they're more interested in social media street fighting - probably because actually removing people would affect businesses which would result in Trump getting a phone call...
(DIR) Post #B2RCsKF0MVItTpLWO8 by AnungIkwe@spinster.xyz
2026-01-19T08:56:06.273770Z
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@magicalthinking @cjd @Merc @alf Denmark colonised Greenland in the 18th century when missionary Hans Egede arrived in 1721,In 1916, the United States bought the Danish West Indies - now the U.S. Virgin Islands - for $25 million in gold. As part of that treaty, Woodrow Wilson said the US would not object to the Danish government extending its "political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland", formally recognising Danish sovereignty.Greenland was inhabited by Inuit peoples from Asia and North America intermittently from around 2,500 BC. Around 985 AD, Vikings led by Erik the Red settled in southern Greenland, farming and building churches. Around the same time, ancestors of today's Inuit arrived, living as hunters and gatherers. They became the dominant culture, pushing out Viking settlers around 1400. Inuit still live in Greenland.
(DIR) Post #B2RCtnvhSwWhqb1P4S by FourOh-LLC@pkteerium.xyz
2026-01-19T08:51:39.678391Z
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"The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools" -Thucydides
(DIR) Post #B2RCtw4VC6Jx6DCXtw by FourOh-LLC@pkteerium.xyz
2026-01-19T08:54:49.415724Z
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just think of ANTIFA, Anti-ICE protesters, the Universities and Teacher's Union, the Politicians and Congress - I have never seen so many fools doin thinking and cowards fightin.
(DIR) Post #B2RCxYl7oNVnxGrkR6 by Merc@freerobuxextremist.com
2026-01-19T08:58:41.523445Z
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@cjd @alf @magicalthinking ughhhhThere was one bit where they had to pull back on it because illegals were so embedded in the food industry and that pissed me off so muchUghhhhhI will continue to inject the copium that they are doing shit and this'll continue to escalate and it'll all work out because what does it say about the world if it can't...
(DIR) Post #B2RDAoygp0mS1NXBhY by cjd@pkteerium.xyz
2026-01-19T09:01:54.886729Z
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Tariffs will at least move the needle at least a little bit on re-shoring industry in places that have been bombed out since they decided to move everything to China (1999ish).Also DOGE will have some impact on trimming federal waste/fraud/abuse.I would say that for the average American, Trump is better than Clinton, Bush, Obama & Biden, but that's a hell of a low bar, and he definitely did not live up to his promises.
(DIR) Post #B2RDWkIWu191sSGino by Coyote@shitposter.world
2026-01-19T09:06:01.432173Z
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@cjd @Merc @alf @magicalthinking Everything about ICE is a distraction to keep people from asking "Why is Trump allowing $500 million 'sale' of Venezuelan oil paid to a Qatar bank account, and... Palestine, and.. the economy is 'good?' and... and... and... " Government: LOOK, GET MAD ABOUT ICE! Uh-huh, yea, ICE isn't a distraction? A horrible one, but .. an intentional distraction, it is.
(DIR) Post #B2RDuwC0KVCNiakgsq by Merc@freerobuxextremist.com
2026-01-19T09:05:27.440758Z
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@cjd @alf @magicalthinking it's so annoying how, where I am in Canada, everyone seems to hate him. Here, it seems like there's no hope of ever having a government that's accountable to its people. Looks that way in Europe, too.I really don't know anything, man. I just have vague hopes and grass is always greener isms.
(DIR) Post #B2RE7hPqa3GneaJPmK by FourOh-LLC@pkteerium.xyz
2026-01-19T09:05:55.722678Z
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@cjd You are comparing apples to oranges. If you must compare, do it with Kamala / Waltz, as reality dictates.
(DIR) Post #B2RE7iNkzJByeOLG9w by cjd@pkteerium.xyz
2026-01-19T09:12:27.158585Z
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Kamala was not meant to win, they stood her up so that Trump would be guaranteed the election. And no, I'm not going to do that.