Utopia Talk / Politics / Iceland will be our 52nd state

Rugian rank	Fri Jan 16 16:56:26 On Wednesday, hours before top officials from Greenland and Denmark were to meet with the US in the hope of warding off Trump’s threats to seize the Arctic island, the news outlet Politico said it had heard of musings regarding another Nordic island. “We heard that former Rep Billy Long, Trump’s nominee for ambassador to Iceland, joked to members on the floor last night that Iceland will be the 52nd state and he’ll be governor,” Politico wrote in its morning newsletter. The reaction in Reykjavík was swift. In a statement to the Guardian, Iceland’s foreign ministry said it had contacted the US embassy for clarification. “The ministry for foreign affairs contacted the US embassy in Iceland to verify the veracity of the alleged comments,” it said. In a petition calling on Iceland’s foreign minister, Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir, to reject Long as ambassador to the country, critics said: “These words, spoken by Billy Long, whom Donald Trump has nominated as ambassador to Iceland, may have been said in jest. Still, they are offensive to Iceland and the Icelandic people, who have had to fight for their freedom and have always been a friend to the United States,” the petition read. Within hours of its launch, more than 3,200 people had signed the petition, backing the call for the US to “nominate another person who shows greater respect for Iceland and the Icelandic people”. On Wednesday Long reportedly apologised for the remarks in an interview with Arctic Today, a news website that covers the region. The outlet quoted him as saying the comments had been made in jest as others were joking about Jeff Landry, Trump’s US special envoy to Greenland. “There was nothing serious about that, I was with some people, who I hadn’t met for three years, and they were kidding about Jeff Landry being governor of Greenland and they started joking about me and if anyone took offence to it, then I apologise,” the publication quoted Long as saying. Though Long said he could understand why the comments would have set off a reaction, he was adamant they were a joke and should not be taken seriously. http://www...rk-us-europe-live-news-updates
murder rank	Fri Jan 16 19:21:45 Why would anyone take it seriously? It's not like the US is actively trying to take Iceland's neighbor by force or coercion. -
murder rank	Fri Jan 16 19:22:43 We may take Iceland, Greenland, and Canada, but you can be sure that they'd never be granted statehood. -
Rugian rank	Fri Jan 16 19:37:38 Murder You know why California was granted statehood so soon after it was taken from Mexico? A massive immigration rush of white Americans (~95% of whom were males) overwhelmed the tiny native population and provided a new local citizenry that would be dependably loyal to the United States. I figure we can do the same thing with Greenland. Send 75,000 incels up there and we can get the statehood paperwork drawn up almost immediately after.
Forwyn rank	Fri Jan 16 20:06:37 "Greenland - Wikipedia With a population of 56,583 (2022)" Seems legit. Would only cost $100 million to offer $5k stipends to 100k people. Add 20% for transportation?
Im better then you rank	Fri Jan 16 21:39:04 -Rugian Fun fact most early Californians were Southerners who left on set of Civil War.
Habebe rank	Fri Jan 16 22:21:49 Did I miss us adding the 51st?!?! Is it Venezuela? I seen we sold .5 billion in its oil the other day, and for some reason we sent the money to Qatar bank accounts.
Habebe rank	Fri Jan 16 22:23:05 Oops, disregard. Read Iceland, was thinking greenland.
Average Ameriacn rank	Fri Jan 16 23:33:46 Now they think that it was a joke. Huge suprise soon!
murder rank	Sat Jan 17 01:33:40 Canada was supposed to be 51, but someone must have told Trump that we don't have a large enough army to hold it at this point. -
Pillz rank	Sat Jan 17 02:09:25 The Canadian Army has fewer active duty personnel than the NYPD
Rugian rank	Sat Jan 17 02:11:54 And the government has been progressively disarming the population. Give a good nuking to the five largest cities and the rest would be a cakewalk.
Pillz rank	Sat Jan 17 02:22:24 Guns in Canada is not something that's accurately captured in available data. Because the long gun registery was handed off to gun clubs & dealers and information provided was strictly voluntary. Obviously gun owners did not all sign it nor did they accurately disclose everything they owned. So the foundation of Canada's modern gun legislation and controls is simply smoke. Besides that, the only move that really impacted gun owners was the ban on 'high capacity' magazines for both rifles and handguns, but, again, who tf actually bricked all their magazines. Full autos, for example, were bought at US gun shows until the ban, and simply driven over the boarder both in bulk and individually by collectors. Essentially none were ever disclosed. So all available information, and accordingly the perception of, the presence and number of fire arms in canada, are built out of smoke and mirrors. To say nothing of the fact that hand guns, which sit in the top rung of restricted firearms, are rampant across the country and none of them originate from canada... All are recently smuggled over from the US.
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