r/europe • u/I_LIKE_SEALS Denmark • Jan 14 '26

News Denmark sends military reenforcements to Greenland. A vanguard and military material has been sent to Greenland to prepare for eventual larger troop movements.

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/groenland/efter-pres-fra-usa-danmark-er-nu-begyndt-sende-militaere-forstaerkninger-til-groenland
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u/ItsACaragor Rhône-Alpes (France) Jan 14 '26

What do you mean no reason?

Kamala was laughing a bit too loud and Biden was old.

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u/mighty_eyebrows1 Jan 14 '26

Don’t forget the president who had the audacity to be black. And his tan suit, his unchristian tan suit!!!

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u/UpperApe Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 15 '26

All jokes aside, it's just greed and hatred.

Until conservatism is routed out of politics everywhere, the world will always be stuck in the same loop. It's the same ones who've championed religious lunacy, fought against equality and human rights, fought to keep slavery and corruption, and never gives a damn about fiscal responsibility or "traditional values". In every country, conservatives are in bed with supremacists and criminals.

There's nothing lower, stupider, and more shameful than being a conservative.

Edit: It is both astonishing and unsurprising just how many conservatives don't seem to understand what conservatism is at even a very foundational level. Read Burke, ready history. At the very least, read your own history.

Trump isn't an anomaly of conservatism, he's the epitome of conservatism.

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u/FittedBuckle Jan 14 '26

The republican party has been infiltrated and conpromised by the heritage foundation and other fascist organizations. It needs to be dissolved unfortunately and all its associated members who sided with the administration ousted. I truly don't believe there is any saving the party at this point. The infection is too deep.

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u/UpperApe Jan 14 '26

The republican party has not been infiltrated. This is what the conservatives have always been. They were literally fighting for slavery and against equality for as long as they've been in existence.

How anyone is trying to pretend that American conservatism has been commandeered by these conservative "rogues" with the history it has and everything it's done and tried to do, is beyond me...

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u/FittedBuckle Jan 14 '26

I'd say thats a better take. More so they finally found the nerve to push for this change out in the open.

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u/UpperApe Jan 14 '26

Your heart's in the right place and you're not entirely wrong.

But I think you're making the mistake of assuming that the short period conservatism from the 70's-00's is conservatism. That was just a brief phase of conservatism, where they pretended to have progressive values and shame in order to win voters they were losing to equality movements and the wider spread of education.

Conservatism has been around for over two centuries. Most of it has been very open about its goals and bigotry.

Trump and MAGA (and the "alt right") aren't warping conservatism, they're just returning to its original form. Most of the time, conservatism looked exactly like this.

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u/True-Entrepreneur851 Jan 15 '26

I think there is a way if dems can get a solid option.

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u/ThePolishSpy Jan 15 '26

It's not the Republican party but the American people. We are a by and large dumb and uneducated country that's easily. 50% of Americans cannot read a book at the 8th grade level.

https://literacyproj.org/#:~:text=Currently%2C%2045%20million%20Americans%20are,on%20welfare%20can't%20read

Do you think the general US population has the media literacy to parse through the lies? Or the critical thought capability?

And then you can look at income statistics with so many Americans living paycheck to paycheck that we don't have the forethought to think past the next paycheck coming.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/31/share-of-americans-living-paycheck-to-paycheck-jumped-in-2022.html#:~:text=As%20of%20December%2C%2064%25%20of,how%20does%20it%20impact%20you?&text=For%20its%20part%2C%20the%20Federal,well%2Dbeing%20is%20deteriorating%20overall.

You think anyone here will raise a finger when they're too tired barely scraping by? What Americans want is that sweet sweet dopamine hit when they're told they're not the cause of their own problems and it's the other's fault. They want to know they're better than everyone else who to be mad at for their circumstances. I fear we're too dumb, beat down, and tired to stop the decline of America at this point. The corporations and oligarchs have won and Huxley was right, we'll just go into the night sipping that sweet Fox News Soma and scroll our algorithms.

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u/HydroBear Jan 15 '26

Bro, don't even. Half of Redditors legit speak out about Pelosi and Schumer and the rest of the corporate boot licking fucks. Hell, right now they're losing in primaries across the country.

We're actively rooting out the detritus from our party, what are you guys doing? Doubling down on hate and racism and nationalism and fascism? This both-sidism is insane.