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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. This is really impressive and I’m going to copy you. I was a witness to a horrible crash that became the subject of a major lawsuit a few years later and the first person to arrive and render aid to the victims (one died, the other probably wishes they had). As I ran up to the truck, empty handed, I realized that I had no plan and nothing to offer other than a limited capacity to keep the area clear until actual help arrived. I don’t want to be in that situation again.
  2. Sit down, stand up, head down, hands up, and…
  3. Win elections. Put winning first. Right now, in 2025, Texas Democrats are discouraging straight white men from seeking nominations in Texas over representational concerns, even in some gerrymandered Republican-held offices, literally telling them that a straight white man will have trouble getting past the primary base. Stop organizing to lose Texas. Stop putting money ahead of attention. Stop running tickets from the top down. Stop appealing to groups. Stop chanting litanies of magic words and using insider shorthand like “project 2025” and “opportunity economy” that only the base and The Groups understand. Put winning first. Contest every race from county commissioner up. Recruit good local candidates in the reddest of red races. Invade their spaces. Go on their podcasts. Be a guest on their shows. Stay on Twitter. Get on Truth. Be interesting. Be funny. Be cool and athletic and popular and good looking. Run the guy/gal who fucks. Only talk about real shit in real people terms. Make fun of questions about fake shit and work the refs. Saying Democrats need better messaging is like saying people with AIDS need to dress appropriately for cold weather.
  4. The original name of They Might be Giants was “El Grupo de Rock and Roll.”
  5. I know. I really do. And I know it’s easy for me to say because they aren’t coming for me (yet). But in part because of that, i think it’s critically important that those who are at risk of losing their personhood under the constitution, along with their allies, not only raise the stakes for their would-be oppressors but wrap themselves in the flag when they do it. We will reach the point this starts to be about the consent of the governed and when that day comes we will need to people on the sidelines to be able to tell who the good guys are.
  6. There’s no outcome where we “control Greenland” any more than Denmark controls Greenland today (which is even less than we control it today). No matter what president thinks: this is about what Greenland wants and who they want to sell their nominal allegiance or nominal independence to. They will determine the outcome of this*, with an outcome probably determined by pitting us against the Chinese for access to rare earth minerals. * community note: according to Surly lefties, assertions of Greenland’s agency are right wing propaganda.
  7. Don’t take my word for it, I’m not the former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
  8. I feel the same way I felt when I saw Gina Chavez perform it at Pride Night in 2021 at the FC Game: the song and the flag belong to everyone except the people who think it only belongs to themselves. They don’t get the flag, they don’t get the anthem and as far as I’m concerned they shouldn’t be left any safe spaces for hate, either. Bless your heart. In part because we’ve occupied Greenland, at their invitation, for 85 years.
  9. This is about what Greenland wants, period. Not Trump, not Denmark. The indigenous people of Greenland are holding all the cards. The idea that *Denmark* with a weak claim and no reason to hold onto it other than wounded patriotism could legislatively stop Greenland from declaring itself independent (which is what we are talking about here) and choosing its own destiny is absurd. Your argument is that the Danish parliament refuses to accept, and then …?
  10. Because it wasn’t and hasn’t been for 85 years. lol ok Again, strawman. What else you got?
  11. once more, for clarity: DENMARK CAN’T SELL US GREENLAND. While the words people use may describe something that sounds like that, that framing does not accurately reflect the nature of Denmark’s relationship with Greenland. Greenland can choose to leave Denmark, and can choose to subject itself to us, or independence. Consider for a moment that you are implying that Trump is accurately describing it. It’s like you are screaming “TRUMP IS TRYING TO BULLY OUR ALLIES INTO PAYING TARRIFS ON IMPORTS TO THE US.” This goes may back well before WWII. I summarized the history of Danish and US involvement in Greenland upthread.
  12. If you are seriously equating the Soviet occupation of Ukraine in WWII as a pretext for the current Russian invasion to our welcome presence in Greenland, ongoing since we stopped the Nazis from invading it in 1940 you have no business lecturing anybody about “historical gibberish.” Perhaps the first sentence should be an indication that maybe this isn’t the break you think it is. Trump is obviously nonsensical in his approach, and his motives have nothing to do with the foreign policy stakes at issue here. That said, he can’t bully Denmark to seize Greenland. It doesn’t belong to Denmark. Greenland accepts Danish overlordship and can leave at any time.
  13. Give me a fucking break. That’s a truly stupid analogy and borderline offensive on top of it.
  14. But it’s not your neighbor’s tract.
  15. And one more thing- maybe if the Danes were so worried about Greenland they shouldn’t have left its defense to the allies and signed a non-aggression pact with the Nazis. It’s important to recall that Greenland essentially declared independence in 1940 after the Fall of Denmark and invited the United States to defend it. And we have been holding it ever since.
  16. That’s a how point, not a what point. Me neither. Your rectum perhaps? They want independence (and in the past Denmark has made it clear they would like to be off the hook financially) but haven’t held a referendum for it because they would can’t backfill $500mm/year and NATO protection by themselves. Nice strawman, for the the record: 1) DC should be ceded to Virginia and Maryland 2) Puerto Rico should be a state 3) if someone want to purchase overlordship of Samoa and Guam I’m all ears.
  17. Sure. Probably the best way to explain it is that Greenland isn’t Denmark’s to sell. Greenland can walk when they want to. It’s more that we would be purchasing Greenland’s acceptance as sovereign. Greenland would vote based on some combination of public and private investment, both one time and ongoing, and some component of that would necessarily include a large cash payment to the people there. I also have to imagine that Greenland would set up some kind of bidding war between the US and Canada, and would want to retain at least the autonomy they have or greater.
  18. You can bet the order invoking the Insurrection Act and deploying the armed forces to a city is ready to sign.
  19. 1) Denmark’s claim is actually quite weak, and amounts to possession being 9/10ths of the rule, except in reality we’ve “possessed” it to a greater extent than Denmark for much of the last 80 years. 2) it would be better for the security of the Western Hemisphere for it to be a territory or protectorate of the United States. 3) it’s a mixed bag for the Greenlanders, all 60k of them, 90% of whom are indigenous, but one thing that is almost certain is that they would all become individually quite wealthy, overnight. The United States has been circling around Greenland for over a century, and the protection of Denmark, if you can even call it that, hasn’t done them any favors. I’m not in favor of taking it by force but just because Trump is stupid and bad doesn’t make this particular thing either.
  20. if there’s one thing 2024 should have taught us, it’s that we shouldn’t leave them safe spaces.
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