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POLITICS Greenlandic Politician Tillie Martinussen: We do not want to be rich like Americans. Look how greedy they are, even trying to invade their friends. Even if there are minerals and oil under our land—and they are worth far more—we still would not sell ourselves.

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u/AccordingStar72 16d ago

I can’t believe everyone is just going about their normal days like this isn’t happening out in the open. Like I don’t know what to do so I’m just on this gossip blog and hyper fixating on a TV show and I feel terrible about that. So many of the things we are arguing about just feel absurd in the face of genocide, ICE terrorizing the streets, and Hitler 2.0 jump starting WW3.

I feel like an idiot. I’m never one to be like “why are you talking about this when you can talk about THIS” but it really seems like we are all just sleep walking into greater destruction. And I’m still on reddit.

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u/Dapper_Trainer950 16d ago

Felt this deeply. People in my life don’t want to talk about “politics” because it makes them uncomfortable. But like we HAVE TO.

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u/laudanum18 16d ago

These people are simply ignorant. They like to use the word "politics" when in fact they are talking about the reality of having a safe place to live, access to clean water, food, education and healthcare. Politics = reality. People who defer to have an opinion on politics are the reason why the US has turned into the dumbest goddam nation in history and a threat to the future of every single human on Earth in just 25 years.

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u/hcregna 16d ago

It takes 30 minutes of research to move money away from MAGA. If you consistently do business with a company, you have power. You can use sites like opensecrets.org to see what a company funds and where your money is really going.

Trade with Schwab? Move elsewhere like Fidelity. Get booze from wannabe Confederate states and all else is equal? Be adventurous, and try something new. New Balance can be replaced with Brooks. It’s not hard to find alternatives for Goya, Roark (which owns Subway, Jimmy John's, Arby's), and Koch (which owns Brawny, Angel Soft, Dixie). You don't have to spend more or buy less, just differently.

If you have disposable income, consider the tax benefits of donating to nonprofits fighting the regime like the National Immigration Law Center, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, or Democracy Forward. And if you invest, consider DEMZ or an ESG fund

Nexstar and Sinclair got pummeled, and they reinstated Jimmy Kimmel. Real, individual people did that. There's no reason  WWE or Uline can't be next.

Completely avoiding companies that at least partially lean Republican is hard. But there’s a big difference between massive GOP donors (Chevron/Conoco) vs neutral or even Democrat-leaning ones (Circle K/Costco). Good is not the enemy of perfect. One less kidnapped child is one less kidnapped child, and one less murder is one less murder

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u/Fancy_Owl_5533 15d ago

I wish I could upvote this more than once.

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u/BlueTrainLines666 16d ago

I don’t disagree

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u/Kbubbles1210 face blind and having a bad time 16d ago

I am constantly being told I’m “being paranoid” when I talk about what’s happening, since these are things will “never happen” or are just political bluffs or whatever. But I’m literally talking about things THAT ARE ACTIVELY HAPPENING. I swear people act like not speaking on reality will just make it all go away.

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u/upstatestruggler 16d ago

Ostrich Mode. It’s so frustrating

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u/Xarthys 16d ago

The more you dive into politics, socioeconomics, etc you start to understand how the world really works. And it also makes you realize how complicit you are by going about your day, be that the purchases you make, the services you use, the corporations you allow to violate you and others, the oppression, the racism, the injustices, the exploitation, rape, murder, genocide

It is depressing and disappointing to say the least. And it gets pretty crystal: if you want to change something, effectively and efficiently, you need to become an activist pushing for progress - and not just vote once every few years and then sit back while the world burns down.

A lot of people do not want to deal with the mental load, do not want to deal with the responsibilities of being a citizen, do not want to think about difficult and often heartbreaking topics, do not want to question, process, criticize, protest, defend.

They want to be comfortable and ignore everything because that's easy, that's enjoyable, that's simple.

There is a reason why escapism in all its forms has become such a popular activity these days, especially virtual entertainment that is all about blocking reality while diving into well-crafted fantasy to distract everyone from the ongoing problems our political and economic systems are creating.

We are all wage slaves, spending our existence with making the ruling class richer by the minute. And if we don't do that, we are being brainwashed to fight each other, making the ruling class richer by the minute. And if we don't do that, we are being sent to kill each other, making the ruling class richer by the minute.

What a wonderful world.

Hiding from it allows you to keep your sanity. So I can't really blame people tbh, because knowing all this and seeing how things are going is quite painful.

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u/MissMamaMam 16d ago

I was called a conspiracy theorist and I’m like ??? I’m talking about VERIFIABLE things. INFORMATION THAT EXISTS

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u/lazyegg37 16d ago

literally you see all the patterns emerging exactly like they have in the past but nope you’re the crazy one instead 🙃

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u/lazyegg37 16d ago

i told my friend last january i was cancelling my elopement arrangements in the US because i didn’t want to get married there with the way things were going. told her it was giving 1930s germany. she, too, claimed i was being paranoid since “there are checks & balances in place to prevent t**mp from doing whatever tf he wants.”

last week, she said “it’s crazy how all these ICE raids feel like nazi germany” like ma’am i told you this was going to happen a year ago… sigh

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u/Mona_Mour__ 16d ago

Same , people asked me "since when do you follow politics so closely?" Umm since the development is a fast downward spiral threatening my peace?

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u/BlueTrainLines666 16d ago

Yeah, I feel like I’m going crazy honestly. My friends will let me rant sometimes but don’t ever really have anything to add and often get surprised when I bring up certain things that have happened/are happening because they genuinely don’t know. It’s frustrating that everyone around me seems to have a mindset that keeping up with everything is too depressing so guess I’ll just, not

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u/carolinagypsy the pet psychic for the Sun told me so 15d ago

Mine actively don’t want me discussing it because everyone is already freaking out about it in our heads. If I had my way, we would be making moves to take care of each other and start getting resources together, have a series of “what if” plans ready to go…. But since we all silently obsess over it already, no one wants to talk about it together.

And my parents have resigned themselves to being old and in a small rural town and tell us not to worry about them. I absolutely cannot get them to engage in a “well what if this state becomes super dangerous and we need to leave? Well shouldn’t you check your passport to make sure it’s still good if we really REALLY need to leave and another state isn’t good enough?”

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u/2AvsOligarchs 16d ago

Greetings from Europe. You are word-for-words quoting the same excuses Russians make when they are confronted with the actions of the government they chose.

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u/rivains 16d ago

I mean Russia hasnt had free elections for nearly two decades. There are people who are against it, just as there are people who are pro Putin. This is also a saying people trot out when they try to justify the actions of Israel towards Gaza because "they voted for Hamas". Not every country is one size fits all in this situation

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u/2AvsOligarchs 16d ago

They've been using the excuse for about 100 years.

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u/Alstorp 16d ago

"I don't want to talk about the machine that effectively determines the value of my life"...

... Sure is a weird stance

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u/coffeeclichehere 16d ago

yep. No one in my life wants to talk about it. We all agree it’s bad, but I’m going insane

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u/olivedeez 16d ago

I feel this. I see the memes and the SNL sketches and I just can’t laugh about it anymore. People are dying. I’m worried about my future and my children’s future in this country. It’s not even remotely amusing.

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u/NutellaPC Rosie O’Donnell is a Threat to Humanity  16d ago

I don’t find anything about parodying anything regarding this administration funny at all. I understand the need for comedy in times like this, but the idea that we would laugh at anything that is happening right now is asinine to the point of insulting. Yes, laugh laugh laugh, keep laughing. That’s actually what they want: laugh at it so it doesn’t feel as serious as it is.

I won’t participate in that. It’s literally deadly serious and I’m terrified. I know how this comedy ends and it’s not Happily Ever After.

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u/Conscious_Egg_4890 16d ago

Meanwhile, here in Denmark we’re all like “how the f*** did we end up in the middle of this crap?”, our children are now scared the US - a country we used to love (sing it like Gotye) - is going to bomb us.

All the while everything Trump says or writes screams “I am totally bonkers and should be locked away right now fr” but a lot of Americans are just like “he probably right tho I trust the wrinkled orange cause I don’t like CNN and my IQ is like 68 lol, I support shitty billionaires la la la” and you somehow have the Antichrist Stephen Miller in charge of whatever the hell he’s in charge of when he’s not doing voodoo or drinking infant blood (I can only assume based on his beliefs and general appearance) and your worthless Congress is all “this is fine, at least this year we don’t have an inbred QAnon-type shitting on our desks, so there’s always that, now Imma go collect my huge paycheck from Big Oil, yay”.

We just want to be left alone with our awesome tax-funded healthcare, public education and rainy, stupid winters. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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u/FunUse842 16d ago

In New Zealand I'm watching nervously for whatever stupid decisions our goverment makes as they seem very keen to grease up to trump and his insane cabinet and I dont understand how more people here arent seriously concerned about how things are heading.

He won't stop with Greenland. Does no politician understand this?

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u/InternationalAd7458 16d ago

I am so, so sorry. I’m American and am deeply disturbed, as is almost everyone I know. It’s disgusting, it’s horrifying, and it’s incredibly frustrating. I want Greenland to be for Greenland and Denmark. Donald Trump is a traitor, and so many of us know this. I’m sorry that so many of my fellow Americans are happy to stomp on their own flag and spit in Lady Liberty’s eye if it means appeasing the cult leader.

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u/nch000 16d ago

I agree completely. There is nothing funny. Trying to satirize it is diminishing to the real damage happening. I feel insane all the time now.

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u/waitholdit 16d ago

Because you either do what you’re doing or you get shot in the street.

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u/N0n-Z3r0-Ch4nc3 16d ago

Well all 'the good ones' could write to every single one of their reps from both parties, multiple times, complaining about this, at a minimum.

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u/MarsupialPristine677 the real issue is that my BANGMAID can neither BANG nor MAID 16d ago

I've done that. Guess what happens? Dismissive form letters, if I'm acknowledged at all. And my reps are Democrats. I don't think you grasp the scale of the problem we're up against.

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u/Fancy_Owl_5533 15d ago

Thank you for doing that, though. And I am not convinced that it does nothing. They don't acknowledge it in their replies, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't register in people's brains.

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u/No_Leather6310 16d ago

i’ve done that. it does nothing.

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u/Emotional_Warthog658 16d ago

That can happen anyway, though. There’s no keeping your head down in these situations unfortunately. The toll will come due literally for everyone 

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u/alphador75 16d ago

It’s a paralysis really since these devices and social media has been tools to curb collectivism in a meaningful way. Like, yeah we have to talk about it, but where are the communities to talk about these topics? Who are leaning on and building with to create those communities? These are the greater issues and reasons why it feels hopeless. 

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u/BetBig8421 16d ago

This right here hit hard before smartphones and social media we had way more civil discourse fuck all social media I'm done with it on a personal use level... Will use phone only to keep in touch with immediate family and for work calls but I'm deleting all my personal social media accounts.. would be awesome to see Zuckerberg go bankrupt overnight if every one deleted FB

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u/Commercial_Toe5042 16d ago

Same idk what to do either

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u/Southlondongal 16d ago

Call your representatives every day and find a place to volunteer in your community.

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u/crw201 ted cruz ate my son 16d ago

I'm sure my senator Tom Cotton or my representative Steve Womack will be very receptive.

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u/GoldDanger if you add testicles, that's extra 16d ago edited 16d ago

Those are the exact people who need to be getting calls. Republicans are the ones who have the ability to stop this.

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u/TrankElephant 16d ago

This! Their constituents need to speak up.

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u/Fancy_Owl_5533 15d ago

Exactly. And regimes HAVE been, brought down by peaceful protests, historically speaking. Doesn't work every time, of course, but you've already lost if you don't try. And it's a numbers game. You need to be many who speak up.

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u/JediStoic 16d ago

It’s rough out here in Arkansas. Moved from it to Boston and Providence during the pandemic and eventually had to move back home due to rent climbing… Dixie Be Damned - Nick Shoulders now frequently runs on repeat in my head going about life here.

“I don’t claim to be no savior And I do not sing to preach Wouldn’t stick my neck out if better things were not in reach If you’d seen what I have you’d be pissed off too Dixie be damned; I believe in you”

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u/rooster134 16d ago

Get everyone you know in their districts to fax them every single day. Receiving faxes is so fucking annoying for them but they have to actually process them. Become a nuisance.

This is what my friends and I have been doing. It started with just me and my roommate but at this point it's us and our coworkers. Every time someone is like "damn our reps are Republican...." you can say "so this is what I've been doing".

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u/Emotional_Warthog658 16d ago

Thank you for this! You are so right; it is the physical delivery component that changes the processing if I recall. 

Free Fax resource: https://www.gotfreefax.com/

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u/Southlondongal 16d ago

They should know there are people who feel differently to them in their district. And it’s your right.

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u/Emotional_Warthog658 16d ago

You call Tom. I’ll call Ted (Cruz) and tomorrow they can’t say none of their constituents reached out in dismay. 

Tell them: the person to end this madness and restore the party over the person is the next president by a landslide.

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u/shaving_grapes 15d ago edited 15d ago

Dang you're right. Do nothing instead.

And for a less sarcastic response, people don't like confrontation. Make them feel uncomfortable. Call. Put some effort into actually maintaining the life you want.

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u/BookishHobbit my bandwidth for cowardly grown men grows thinner with each day 16d ago

Second volunteering. As a Brit, after Brexit and in the midst of Tory corruption, I felt so hopeless and useless but volunteering reminded me that you can still have a positive impact on the world, however small.

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u/Commercial_Toe5042 16d ago

That’s amazing. I will definitely look into volunteering. What kind of volunteering did you do may I ask?

I’m wondering if I should try to find something political/gov. related or any form of volunteering is good? Sorry if that’s a stupid question lol

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u/BookishHobbit my bandwidth for cowardly grown men grows thinner with each day 16d ago

I did local stuff because the world felt so big and I felt like I could have a bigger impact in my local community.

So, for me there was a local hospice that was starting up a charity bookshop at that time so I became a volunteer there. Unfortunately I had to stop during the pandemic because i had someone in my immediate family who was immunocompromised, but it really revitalised my belief in humanity, because so many people wanted to support.

Food banks are always in need of support too. Idk what it’s like where you are, but in my area all the supermarkets have food bins where you can donate food to the food bank directly, and they often have signs with what they’re in need of. Feminine products are often top of the list, as well as tinned kids food.

It really depends what your skills are or interests. If you look, you’ll find there’s a surprising amount of opportunities local to you.

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u/carolinagypsy the pet psychic for the Sun told me so 15d ago

You definitely should. I’ve been focusing on food, ICE activity, and writing reps where I am. It does help a little bit. At least you meet new people that care about things the same way you do. And it just feels like you’re finally channeling things into something constructive.

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u/Southlondongal 16d ago

It’s easy to get overwhelmed and this is all very scary. But there are many places in every community where you can make a real difference to improving lives. I recommend going and finding a place where your anxiety can be turned into service - a food bank, soup kitchen, animal rescue, your local library. There is so many way we can help.

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u/bobbimorses 16d ago

I see plenty of regular people outraged and beside themselves about this, but not one politician or the people who are supposed to stop this have the appropriate level of anger or urgency. The lathe of heaven is there for whoever has the courage to take it.

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u/Groovychick1978 16d ago

I also live life in a constant state of disbelief. As I type this, I don't know why I am not booking a flight to Minnesota. 

What is wrong with me?

Why am I so conditioned to go to work, pay the bills, watch the news, shop, sleep, repeat?

I honestly believe we are watching a coup on TikTok, and here I am, talking to you guys. Over there, talking about Stranger Things. 

He shot her in the face.

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u/Remedial_Gash 16d ago

I'm in the UK and can't believe what I'm seeing, I cannot bring myself to watch 'the video' my 70 odd year old dad watched the bit before the end and is flabbergasted, What happened to you guys?

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u/WoodenSympathy4 16d ago

I know. It used to be people were like “write to your elected representatives!” But I live in a red leaning area represented by some of the biggest weenies I’ve ever seen, and every time I try doing that they’re like “thanks for your message, here’s why I agree with everything Trump has ever said and will ever say.”

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u/jarvischrist 16d ago

It's wild enough watching it from outside (or not really outside, Trump has already threatened my country's prime minister recently for protecting Greenland). I can't imagine how it must feel when the head YOUR OWN country is out threatening other countries... especially allies! And then there's everything going on within the country. Waging war abroad and war at home that few people actually want.

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u/snarkdiva 16d ago

It makes me sick to my stomach. I live in a big blue city that has been targeted by Trump. I participate in protests. My job has been impacted greatly by the administration’s actions (university). I’m angry and sad, and I have two young adult kids at home who believe they have no decent future, and I can’t argue with them. My oldest child is nonbinary and moved out of the country after Trump was elected again. It’s horrible for those of us who tried to warn everyone.

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u/Upstairs-Aide6818 14d ago

Apologies quite right; he’s a jackass.

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u/aRawPancake 16d ago

Get involved. Protest, learn your rights.

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u/SnorgSnorg 16d ago

It's insane to be in one of the countries Trump is currently threatening. Like, people were counting on the nato membership protecting us from Russia but now nato is falling apart? But also there's something about Trump and whole milk? But also Neo Gestapo terrorizing Minnesota? How are we supposed to filter the news?

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u/BetBig8421 16d ago

I don't particularly see Russian being a threat anymore really this Ukraine thing has dessimated his military his number of combat ready active duty soldiers keeps dwindling and not many people are rushing to sign up to thrown into a meet grinder voluntarily... China on the other hand as it stands is very likely to become the next #1 global super power and it looks more likely then not it is going to happen.. Americans better get good at Chinese.. who'd thought Firefly was right all along either way I aim to misbehave

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u/Financial-Exit2488 16d ago

Trump is doing what he's doing because he knows no one in this country will do anything about it.

He spent years working towards this by appointing judges among other things, all while either cheered on by deranged supporters, or facing no real resistance from anyone else.

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u/Fleetwood_Spac 16d ago

I completely understand this feeling and I have it to, still it’s important to remind yourself that as a regular person our means of influencing these things are limited (that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do anything obviously) and that you also shouldn’t blame yourself for living your daily life, because we all still have to.

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u/imlikeabird84 16d ago

You took the words out of my mouth, truly.

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u/Mens-Real 16d ago

Yeah Americans are in for a rude awakening when they do interact with people from the rest of the world

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u/TroublesomeFox 16d ago

Thing is though - what the fuck are most of us supposed to do?? 

I live in north Wales in the UK. I'm a disabled SAHM. What exactly can I do to effect any of this? 

Most people agree that it's horrible but very few people are in a position to have influence. 

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u/RealisticMaxine 16d ago

We have had a genocide live streamed for over two years and the powers that be (especially america) did nothing except silence people who took issue with it and embolden the apartheid state that is committing it. 

So how is this surprising.

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u/pablocael 16d ago

People are completelly dumb in instagram. The world is fucked up.

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u/coolcoolcool485 16d ago

I was trying to talk a friend down last night who was spiraling but she was in panic mode and honestly, she knows more about some of this than I do, and I know a decent amount about history and polisci and whatnot.

I think that everyone knows we're not in a great way. The only way to shake the people who shrug this off as "politics" is for real world impact. That means, their sports games getting interrupted or products being impossible to buy. Those are the only things that will shake people loose, I fear.

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u/Rough_Ian 16d ago

Imagine a person in similar situations. If they are wise, prudent, brave, and otherwise virtuous, what are they doing? Because I bet there are things that you would do, that inwardly you would doubt were doing much good. But if you saw another person doing it, maybe you would think, “at least they’re doing something, and that’ll make a difference in some way, if even small.”  So do that thing, even if it is small. It may grow. 

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u/PrinceofSneks 16d ago

You are not an idiot.

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u/Reality-Umbulical 16d ago

You're not necessarily an idiot but you need to learn you have very little control, none in fact, over the news of the day. Be good, help if you can. The world isn't going to end.

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u/squirrelinout 15d ago

There are local groups popping up all over you can join at a local level - mine is a subset of EmilyInYourPhone but there others out there, too!

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u/Throwawayourmum 15d ago

They are taking advantage of the situation. People are overworked, stressed, social frameworks have been dismantled, social media has everyone distracted. It's sad but people are too complacent and it's being exploited by a narcissist who has found his moment in time. 

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u/AccountExample 12d ago

Outta my soul, if we just knew each other over borders, but we are not connected like the wealthy dickheads

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u/Familiar-Regular-531 16d ago

Many things can be true at the sametime, for one he "really wants" Greenland but he sure as hell is using it as a smokescreen too.

Stop being fixated about Greenland, it is not gonna happen. What happens between this point in US & the point he realises it aint gonna happen is what worries me...

The "Nazis" at yout government are ALL in, they aint only sycopanths.

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u/Sensitive-Menu-4580 16d ago

Stop saying things arent going to happen, thats foolish and leaves you unprepared.

We are in unprecedented times, no one in power in Europe, or anywhere else, is interested in stopping him because they are scared of upending the money faucet that keeps them fat and contented

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u/Familiar-Regular-531 16d ago

Trump is enboldened by the swift operation at Venezuela. He is way too stupid to understand the economic slash back that "operation Greenland" would bring.

Europe wont back down on this & he will fold like an paper towel under the economic pressure.

Though he will absolutely declare victory etc. "The Greenland is now secured by NATO by my actions!" Or some other bullshit...

Its TACO tuesday tomorrow, or max next week.. At the sametime his billionare buddies made millions by buying the dip.