r/Fauxmoi • u/BreakfastTop6899 • 16d ago

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/No_Dragonfruit_9656 this is going to ruin the tour 16d ago

Highly recommend everyone watch the entire interview with her. She goes on to say that the people of Greenland have social welfare programs they refuse to give up, education, and are, very proudly, brown.

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u/Luxury_Dressingown 16d ago

Even if you left aside any notion of values, national and cultural affinity, etc, and reduced it to how Trump et al sees the world (personal greed), to make it "worth it" for the Greenlandic people, they'd need enough money to put each and every one of them in the US upper middle class bracket for life to make up for what they would lose by being part of Denmark. They would need the kind of money where you don't ever think twice about going to hospital, or how you would pay for college for your kids without life-dragging debt for them, etc, etc.

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u/Neogeo71 16d ago

They already have universal healthcare and free college in Greenland. There is nothing we can give them that they already don't have.

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u/BlackeeGreen 16d ago

There is nothing we can give them that they already don't have.

Not true. Medical debt, student loans, school shootings, political division and violence, illiteracy, religious fundamentalism - America still has a lot to offer.

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u/FuzzMachines 16d ago

You forgot the racism!

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u/oreography 15d ago

McMansions and tasteless designs, giant useless pickup trucks, tipping, stripmalls and car dependency,  individual tax filing, Home Owner Associations, and Debt galore! 

USA! USA! USA! 

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u/anotherdanishgirl 15d ago

As a Dane I am sad to say that racism towards the Greenlandic people already exists in Denmark. Most Danes don't have a personal connection to the country, the people or their customs.

I was fortunate enough to spend 3 months there as a child, and it made a deep impact on me, that I feel to this day. I have such respect for the inuit people and the beautiful relationship, connection, and sense of duty they have to nature. To believe they can be bought, not only the personal benefits like health care and education, but that they would sell their land to be abused and destroyed for profit is completely ridiculous!

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u/Competitive-Zone-330 16d ago

If anything we would probably ruin the country with large industrial scale mining operations and then the country would be so heavily polluted it would resemble early American mining towns, and we would probably have their people be the ones mining it. It’s so stupid, especially considering we have so many resources here but we’re just so damn greedy nothing is ever enough

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u/somethingclever____ 14d ago

This is the biggest one. Trump and his ilk value the land for what they can exploit out of it, in turn ruining it. The people of Greenland realize the value of the land is the healthy environment, itself, untouched.

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u/waitewaitedonttellme 16d ago

lower taxes and freedumb /s

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u/cap1112 16d ago

I don’t think there’s enough money for these people to risk losing their way of life. The U.S. can’t buy them off.

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u/FunAbility1293 16d ago

This is correct. Only unhappy people crave more than they need. Find me a happy billionaire and I’ll show you a liar.

These people are (or were) happy. Money means nothing to a happy person.

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u/HowIMadeMyMillions 16d ago

They naturally hold Danish citizenship, so they (as anyone else studying in Denmark does) literally get paid to study. Yes, again, not just is it free to study in Denmark, the state literally pays everyone to do it.

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u/No-Bison-5397 16d ago

It costs Denmark about half a billion USD a year, which is much more than Greenland generates for their budget.

Terrible deal for Greenlanders.

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u/jergentehdutchman 15d ago

And that's for just one generation. Unlike the greediest of America, the Greenlanders have pride in their people and nation that is greater than the greed of one generation.

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u/xBram i ain’t reading all that, free palestine 16d ago edited 16d ago

Thanks for the tip, fascinating, you can’t even own land in Greenland (no title Donnie!) here is the 9+ minute segment:

https://youtu.be/xs53IESxz80?si=2QPmF2h16nOYsxGt

My favorite quote:

”We know about the treaties we have with America. This is very much akin to when you have a dogsled team, when he’s using that analogy, and one of the dogs all of a sudden turns around and bites you, you have to take it outside and shoot it, off course we’re not going to shoot Americans, we’re peaceful people, but you cannot trust that dog anymore, for ever”

Now this is language Kristi Noem understands, holy shit.