cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/36161826

The Trump administration is reportedly considering giving about $10,000 to each Greenland resident as part of its plan to annex the territory

Archived version: https://archive.is/20250411133253/https://www.latintimes.com/trump-admin-considering-giving-10000-each-person-greenland-annex-island-580455


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[–] 132 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Enough to barely cover your first ambulance ride.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    Will that even be enough in Greenland, unless you live around Nuuk?

    This makes a good point - a country like Greenland without strong government and a strong security net would simply become uninhabitable for normal people.

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  • [–] 113 points 1 year ago

    Ohh, a promise from trump, the king of lies who famously never pays anyone.

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  • [–] 68 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It seems as though they can't understand why anyone wouldn't want to be American, which is kinda nutty.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, you'd have to pay me a lot more to even consider it, $10000 seems laughably low.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Yeah. Someone else suggested it might cover your first ambulance ride. I'm thinking maybe your first year health insurance?

    Edit - it was just a wild guess, but here's a badly formatted table copied from an article in Forbes:

    Age of member Average monthly costs

    • Age 21 $445
    • Age 27 $467
    • Age 30 $505
    • Age 40 $569
    • Age 50 $795
    • Age 60 $1,208

    So, for my age, my guess was almost exactly right!

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  • [–] 62 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Fun fact denmark already sends more money than that so by accepting this deal they not only would they become american but also loose gdp. No matter how you look at it its a lose lose for greenland lol

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Just FYI, loose and lose have different meanings. Kinda like desert and dessert.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Yes it was a typo. Sometimes when im tired in the morning or night my spelling gets funky. I have spelt english words in hungarian and hungarian words on english before, i think its because im bilingual.

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  • [+] 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)
  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Yeah. As an Aussie, I can't tell you how awesome free/cheap healthcare is

    Don't forget Trump also wanted to get rid of generic medicine here in Australia, so it was also cost cheap medicine too

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    God this guy isn't gonna stop slobbing Putin's knob is he?

    Just chill, Donnie. The markets can smell your fear.

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    [–] 36 points 1 year ago

    I’m so sick of all his shit.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago

    But then all of the people in Greenland won’t work! Remember when the United States gave us all in the midst of the COVID pandemic and none of us returned to our jobs and now all live on yachts? This would be even worse!

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    All other idiocy aside, this number is just so fucking offensive. 10k, really? That's it?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's 65774 DKK. With 40k/mo salary average in Denmark (so like 25 after taxes),this is a few months worth of money. Ok, maybe salaries are lower because whole Greenland is in the middle of nowhere, but it's also not some war-torn African country - people don't live on five bucks a month

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Ok, maybe salaries are lower because whole Greenland is in the middle of nowhere, [...]

    Having visited Iceland, the cost of living is higher on islands with limited agriculture and high cost of imports.

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    [–] 22 points 1 year ago*

    Fuck you trump.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It is funny, people always seem to default to the lowest number of a big number they can think of when thinking of a big number.

    "I want a hundred"

    "I want a thousand"

    "I want ten thousand"

    "I want a hundred thousand"

    "I want a million"


    I realize that for Trump and the US ten thousand dollars is like throwing pennies at a poor person assuming they will be overwhelmed by seeing "ten thousand".

    Same in movies, unless a guy is supposed to be super smart, they will only refer to money as:

    • 100
    • 500
    • 1000
    • 5000
    • 10000
    • 50000
    • 100000
    • 500000
    • 1000000
    • 5000000

    They very seldom go, "I want 370000" unless there is a reason in the plot, never to just get more money.

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    [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    We're paying extra for bread to give people in greenland 10k?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    How about giving that to everybody who voted against you, for having to put up with four more years of your shit?

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    [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Bold of you to assume USD is worth anything

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    😂😂😂😂 oh really, is he asking Musk to.pay cause I know he wont

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    In this new era, these crooks will float an idead on the webs, then measure the response with AI fucking crawlers. I should just switch off wifi or something.

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  • It would take a lot more than $10,000 to go from benevolent rule by Denmark to being dogs for Trump.

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