u/SoyViking — SoyViking [he/him]

Another hoop you have to jump through in order to become a citizen is that you have to give the local mayor a handshake (skin-to-skin contact legally required). This is considered so important that it was upheld even at the height of COVID.

The reason for this bizarre rule is that chuds convicted themselves that shaking the hand of a woman was some kind of cryptonite to scary "Islamists". But the mayor is more likely to be a man than a woman, you say. Yes. That is true. It is ridiculous even on its own terms.

If you want to become a naturalised Danish citizen, one of the hoops you have to jump through is to pass a multiple choice trivia quiz with questions such as:

• What demographic did the "Radical Left" party represent when it was founded in 1905? (Smallholders)

• When was "the Christian Danish church" founded (the Viking age)

• What person was associated with the folk high school movement in the 19th century (NFS Grundtvig)

Some of the questions requires participants to parrot state propaganda, such as answering that Greenland ceased to be a colony in 1953.

It is deeply unserious.

I hope it killed a lot of evil people

I disagree. "Primitive" hunter/gatherer people would never deliberately starve children to death. To do something that evil you need civilization.

It takes a very complex society with a sophisticated ideological superstructure and to dehumanise people so much.

In a small way they are doing a little to legitimize the occupation by pretending it as a normal state. However the real culprit regarding the flight attendants and pilots are airlines like Wizz Air who are not only chosing to collaborate with a genocidal fascist regime but also to put their employees in harms way.

Then you should condemn the zionist regime for using civilians as human shields. It was they who chose to place terrorist infrastructure at the centre of a civilian airport.

Trump’s policies have “brought the Danish Viking blood boiling,” said Jens Olsen, an electrician and carpenter. He is now considering replacing $10,000 worth of U.S.-made DeWalt power tools even though it will cost him a lot.

That'll show the darn Cheeto in the white house. It's as stupid as back in the 1990's even people bought French wine to pour out on the streets in protest over French nuclear tests.

The danish national anthem summarized: In ancient times? We wuz Vikings'n shit. Today? Well our trees are really pretty.

One of the most basic rules of projecting authority is that you should never make threats that you're not willing or able to follow true with. If Denmark told the US to end their military occupation of Greenland, the yanks could very well choose to simply ignore those orders, making it unbearably obvious exactly how paper-thin Danish sovereignty over Greenland actually is.

They are shitting themselves in Copenhagen over the Trump Greenland crisis. The Danish regime is increasingly paranoid that some leak, some unscripted comment could anger their transatlantic overlord. Initially the regime was projecting national unity, giving confidential briefings on the crisis to the leaders of all parties in parliament. However, since the infamous phone call the regime has retreated into its shell, sharing its secrets with only the leaders of a chosen few "government-bearing" centrist and right-wing parties, the ones deemed loyal to atlanticist orthodoxy and who can be trusted to keep their mouths shut.

Leaders of business as well as unions has received confidential briefings as well, so they can brace for the coming storm of Trumpian tariffs. However, the regime has told the public very few details about the Trump phone call and only mentioned the American supreme leader's tantrum by saying that he "can be very direct".

On her Facebook page (her preferred line of communication to the public) Danish leader Mette Frederiksen has posted that the regime "can't tell everything or make statements as quick as other people", telling the public that they will be kept in the dark until the crisis is resolved.

There has been no official defiance of Trump. Instead, the regime is groveling, their fear palpable as they scramble to prove their loyalty to Washington even as Trump’s boot hovers over their necks. When a fascist Danish MEP told Trump to "fuck off", voicing the feelings of most people in both Greenland and Denmark, the Danish regime scolded him for being irresponsible, afraid that he might poke the bear.

Meanwhile, it has been hinted that the regime and the "government-bearing" parties has talked behind closed doors of giving Greenland a more equitable relationship to Denmark, of sweetening the deal to keep the colony loyal to Denmark. However, these efforts might end up being a day late and a dollar short as the uncomfortable truth about Trump's claims that Denmark is being racist to Greenlanders and has failed to develop the island is that they are not exactly false.

Greenlandic elections are coming up and independence is going to be a major issue. Committing to Danish overlordship is not something many Greenlanders desire. Meanwhile, the Danish regime's attempts to woo Greenland are being further hamstrung by domestic reactionaries raging over economic grants to Greenland and boiling with white supremacist rage at the thought of Greenlanders having the audacity to desire freedom from Danish rule.

Trump's threats has triggered a profound ideological crisis in Denmark's political elite. They are completely unprepared to deal with being in the crosshairs of American imperialism. For generations they have been telling themselves that "America is our closest ally!". They believed America to be their protector, their friend and they turned Denmark into one of Washington’s most obedient puppets, a loyal lapdog by even the most sycophantic Western European standards. But now the protector has become the predator, and the Danish political elite is utterly unprepared to deal with it.

They outrage is such a great example of western exceptionalism. The existence of western consumer businesses in the countries of the non-Aryan jungle is supposed to be an immense benefit to these places and their departure must necessarily be disastrous for them. Nowhere is the idea entertained that Russians are perfectly capable of creating their own shitty burger restaurants to replace those if the west.

Racism against children must be one of these "western values" I've been hearing so much about.