Native American here: we have been trying and failing for 400 years now and could really use some help from everyone.
A full on economic embargo on the US would be a nice push, but the EU is too damn dependent (and swerving to the right as of late).
Dances with wolves me bro, I'll help.
What is crazy is this was actually a huge problem for frontier settlements. Tonnes of people would meet the indigenous population, be exposed to their society, learn enough of their language to communicate, and then go "fuck this" to all the European culture and just move in with the locals. They brought whatever skills they had including metalworking and so on and joined up and for the most part it went really really well for them, until the westerners came and killed everyone. Behind The Bastards had a great episode a few years ago about it, through the lens of one particular bastard, and yeah, faced with a culture where individuals were not exploited for every last shilling of value to the shareholders people wanted out.
I tried looking for this, but I couldn’t find it. Any chance you could look at that episode because I would love to listen to it?
Out of curiosity, if you're visibly non-white:
Have you ever been told to "get out of our country" or anything like that? Think I've seen articles about racist people telling Native Americans to gtfo a long time ago, but no idea how prevalent this kind of idiocy is or if it was just ragebait, as I'm not American myself.
Yep I get told that all the time. I’m 42 and am born and raised in my town and I’ve been told by older white men who are not from here to leave here or got to a bar/casino and drink myself to death. I’ve even been told to watch my back because the president is gonna allow “Indian” killings again.
I’ve even been told to watch my back because the president is gonna allow “Indian” killings again.
European here. Why are there Americans that hate Natives? Maybe I'm missing something, but I've never heard of natives terrorizing US, being the group of controversies, or anything else that could be used for hate. In fact, everything I've heard about Native Americans make me assume they're chill and interesting to hang out with
EDIT: I forgot about racists, but outside of racism - is there anything I'm missing?
I think it is just flat out racism. As an example I have a coworker who is only 2 years older than me and he and his wife absolutely HATES Native Americans. Every opportunity he has to make sure to tell me that the whites “rightfully” took this land because my ancestors were to unruly and didn’t believe in god. And that we willingly gave them everything and now natives are mad at losing everything.
I'm sorry that you and yours have had to put up with that kind of stuff for so long. When I was a kid I really believed that we'd have gotten over all of this racist bullshit by now, but I was always a little too starry-eyed for my own good.
Agreed I always thought that real true hatred and racism was a thing of the past. But the older I got the more I see it right in my face most of the time.
I'm white and I caught that shit almost 20 years ago because I was in an ESL program (despite English being my native tongue) because I moved to the states from Italy. Mind you I lived in USA before that and am natural born citizen, just father was stationed in Italy so I lived there for 3 years. Moved to USA in time for 2nd grade so had never been in an American school system yet. Mother is an immigrant sure but they didn't even know that, just saw me in the "Mexican kids class" and struggling with reading and spelling so I was one of "them". Mind you I'm talking about early elementary school, so kids just parroting and learning what their parents say at home. I can only imagine what darker skin people have to deal with from racist pricks raising racist children.
let me look up how to say "make greenland great again" in west greenlandic
Kalaallit Nunaat angerlaneqarpoq ajunnginnersaatitaasarlugu
that might be hard to fit on a hat
Hmm, maybe try east greenlandic?
Klaatu veratu niktu
The Greenlanders and Danes should export those hats into the USA.
We in the US do not wear red hats anymore... Excepting those who are completely fucked in the head.
My dad got a red ballcap, and I told him he probably shouldn't wear it outside lest people think the wrong thing about him. Nobody wants to encourage the loonies.
On the plus side, I've haven't seen a red hat in well over a year in a county he slightly won.
Canada too
I honestly can’t even stand ironic non-maga hats.
Can I buy one and ship it to the US? Only a small fraction of us actually like Trump. The rest of the numbers are blown up by the media to seem bigger than they are, then another chunk didn't even vote at all.
Those who didn't vote in the 2024 election are equally culpable to the Trumpoids in my eyes. It was very clear what Trump stood for, yet they didn't bother to go out and vote against fascism.
My favorites are the ones who claimed they couldn't vote for a genocide.
Now they have three genocides and two invasions.
Especially when Harris, as VP, supported investigating Israel so they could shut down the rule forcing them to supply arms to Israel.
It's my opinion that she only reversed course to get campaign donations. Looking at her voting history she was the closest to Sanders out of everyone.
Seems to me very likely that Harris would have been an above average president.
But sadly Americans chose the fascist psycho over Harris, because they didn't think Harris was left wing enough, or that she didn't support the Palestinians enough.
The logic being: I'd rather be killed by a fascist psycho than not be helped as much as I want by a way more moderate person, that isn't actively supporting killing me.
Non-white and woman surely counted as well in some circles.
Don't give them logic.
Saw a post denouncing Mamdani and AOC for not being pro-Palestinian enough.
They'd probably denounce Hamas for not being pro-Palestinian enough.
Only a small fraction of us actually like Trump.
Bullshit, he got half the votes, and those that didn't vote didn't dislike him enough to prevent his election.
So Americans like Trump plenty, until he does something that hurts them personally.
If you really believe your own comment, you are delusional.
They always play that card. Somehow, in their minds, they're the strongest democracy out there, but over the multiple decades of their elected government representatives doing atrocious stuff their answer is always "oh no you see they don't represent the real americans"
Read up on a thing called 'The Electoral College.'
The smaller, conservative states have more power than the larger states.
Left leaning California has 2 Senators, the same as tiny Rightwing Alabama.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Electoral_College
I'm not a conspiracy tinfoil hat guy, but there's been enough projection and "holy shit are they actually admitting it?!?!?" ramblings from Trump, Musk and Rogan over this past year that it's not just myself, but have brought many others to call into question the authenticity of the results.
TLDR: IT WAS RIGGED
I don't believe you, because there is not a shred of evidence of that.
Occam's Razor tells us it is much more plausible that Americans are just stupid, and didn't learn the lesson from 2 periods of Bush Jr. and the first period of Trump.
The American society is sociopathic and hold individual freedom as a religion. And they see Trump being a malignant narcissist as a perfect example of individual freedom, and they don't recognize the sociopathy because they see it as a virtue.
This is to me the way more plausible explanation, that we have seen play out in many presidential elections in USA, Where already Reagan's uncompromising war mongering campaign won over the much more moral and humane Carter that wanted environmental sustainability. Religious fanatics are fundamentalists, and fundamentalists vote to the right, and psychopaths are fascists and vote to the right. Trump election victory is 100% based in the insanity of the American society.
I am not saying all Americans are insane, there are many good Americans, but just as a person that has terminal cancer has cancer cells in the body that makes the body sick, doesn't mean that all cells are cancer cells. And in the same way American society is sick, because there are so many "sick" people that behave in ways that are harmful, that the society as a whole is sick.
Seen from a country that is one of the best democracies in the world, there is absolutely no doubt about it. It is very obvious that American society as a whole is very very sick.
Okay buddy, yowza that was a whole fuck ton of a response. Good on ya. I'm not in any way defending the dumbing down and weakening of critical thinking here. No shit, obviously we're getting dumber in the United States. It's been embarrassing since my childhood. I'm not going to bat for us.
Anyway, there have been a few instances where there have been slip-ups with Trump saying "Elon is so good with the voting machines in Pennsylvania", or with Rogan admitting how in awe he was of Elon looking at his phone saying Trump had won just as opening ballots had started.
Also Trump barely winning in swing states (ridiculous ) where it was a bullet ballot only supporting him, but being generally consistent along previous years trends that supported Democrats.. like I agree, yes we're stupid, whip me more Euro Daddy, but the fact that the Dems didn't immediately demand a recount is so cucked
Sorry, but that argument doesn't hold water anymore. We gave you guys the benefit of the doubt for his first term, but this time you knew exactly what you were getting, and you allowed him back anyway. 32% of the eligibile population voting for him is not just some small minority.
Last time he didn't win the popular vote, so there was some consolation to be taken. This time we really don't have an excuse.
Wouldn't Trump just mistake the red hats as translated MAGA hats and so take it as public support of the invasion? Not like he can understand the language, or read the fine print on the side. He just sees you guys using the same hat his base does.
Yeah, that was a strategic blunder on their part.
Most likely, yeah.
This is great, but maga idiots can't read. They are gonna think you're on their side.
The article title is only what the small print on the side of the hat says. The front text is a pun on the name of Greenlands capital, Nuuk.
"Nu det nok" means "now it's enough"/"enough is enough", but they changed the 'nok' (enough) to 'Nuuk'.
American here. Those of us with more than 2 brain cells are sorry that the Dunning-Krueger effect which elected and fuels the Orange Jackass is bringing our insanity to your doorstep. Almost nobody here wants your country but there's literally nothing we can do because the Orange Jackass controls all the tanks.
there’s literally nothing we can do
I wouldn't say "literally" though.
Here's a tip: start with ICE.
You guys are going to have to do something in order to take care of your problem.
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