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[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I think I figured out one reason Trump is going after Greenland. It looks huge on a Mercator Projection map even though it isn’t that large.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

That is genuinely stupid enough to be plausible.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Look at it, it's almost as bit as Africa! We haven't found who is the president of Africa, so we had to make do with Greenland though.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago (5 children)

There is one and only one reason Trump/US wants Greenland. With US out of NATO, it is a point closer to Europe to threaten Europe. Every other explanation is a disgusting lie, and of zero value to US.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (19 children)

It wouldn't be very strategically important to the US on its own, but it currently is strategically important to NATO and harmful to Russia.

Getting NATO out of Greenland is Putin's order.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

BlueAnon conspiracy theorists continue to only be able to respond to bad things Americans do by saying "this is secretly the work of a foreigner"

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[–] masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago

With US out of NATO, it is a point closer to Europe to threaten Europe.

The US has Britain, which is essentially a US client state these days.

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[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

pretty sure I’ve seen this joke like 6 times lol but I guess with Trump the dumbest answer is unfortunately often the correct one

[–] Yggnar@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

My guess is that it has to do with rights to the ocean floor.

[–] KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 month ago

Oh wow, this actually makes sense now

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago

It looks huge on a Mercator Projection map even though it isn’t that large.

In the Mercator projection it appears to have about the same area as Africa, while in reality it is about a 14th of it. But, I wouldn't say that "isn't that large": if Greenland was independent it would be (and Denmark is, because of it) the 12th largest country in the world.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

With Tump back in the office, soon enough they’ll be auctioning off federal lands and the postal service. Privatization is back on the menu.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (5 children)
[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How can you tell? (serious question)

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, for starters the billboard is only about 15' tall and goes over the road. That's not normal. Everything has a odd inconsistent blurry look to it and all of the smaller text is distorted and illegible.

Finally, the details on... well everything are wrong. Why does the white truck in the foreground have one giant door with a handle in the middle and a second handle on the truckbed? What is the traffic flow in this image? How many lanes does the road have? Why are all the lamps on the top of the billboard pointed so weirdly? What sort of neighborhood is this in?

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 2 points 3 weeks ago

I did not pay attention, dang.

I was thinking there were way too many lamps above that billboard but I don't know what highway billboards look like, they seem like a US thing.

But the oddly placed handles and doors are a surefire way to tell this is AI, I should look out better for those things!

[–] lemon@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To the extent that the billboard never existed while the image implies it did – sure.

I love the term ‘slop’. It’s one of my favorite new words along with ‘nontent’.

But this, to me, isn’t that. I think of slop as ‘unrequested, unconvincing, lazy, and lifeless’. In short, ineffective and unwelcome.

I feel like this meme gets the message across. It’s not great, but it’s not terrible. The AI tells are subtle enough: the multi lane pileup in the background and some poor small size text rendering.

Not sure why I felt the need to write this. Guess I’m of the opinion that just because something is AI-generated doesn’t mean it should be discounted immediately, unless it really feels like zero effort went into it. Have a nice day!

[–] Noobnarski@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, I feel like there isn't much of a difference between taking an existing picture and editing the text into it or using AI to generate a picture and editing the text into it.

Because I think the text looks way too good to be done by AI.

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[–] FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

that was close, almost upvoted.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I mean the message is good, but the medium is, well slop.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 month ago

Things you can do when you have fuck-you money to burn: buy a billboard.

I thought about buying / renting a billboard in a small town in Texas where a shitty family mistreated my partner's nephew when he did a cultural-exchange program (her family is Thai). It would be essentially this but about that family. I didn't go through with it because they got kicked out of the program via other avenues.

I did buy a discounted ad on a podcast to rail about how much I hate ads. That was fun. I think I paid like $175 or something. I don't have fuck-you money, but I do have low level fuck-around money.

[–] Kalladblog@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I'm out of the loop and also not American. Can somebody elaborate please?

[–] CuffsOffWilly@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Donald Trump has offered to purchase Greenland. He wants to take the Panama Canal by brute force and keeps suggesting that Canada should become a State in order to avoid his oncoming tariffs. Meanwhile, Musk 'donated' about 250,000,000 USD to Trumps election campaign helping ensure he won and now we are all watching the US become an oligarchy. (Effectively Trump is owned by Musk).

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Donald Trump has offered to purchase Greenland.

No, Trump has been saying, in a threatening way, that Greenland is going to be part of the United States. He hasn't suggested buying it, but he hasn't ruled out taking it with military force.

Effectively Trump is owned by Musk

No. Musk bought a little influence and so far hasn't pissed Trump off enough that he's been cut off. But, it's just a matter of time.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

He has asked to buy it several times, not sure where you have been.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/25/trump-greenland-denmark

Nice to see that Mush bought influence with Drump. I personally am not going to play the game of talking about them not getting along. These two clowns trying to play good cop bad cop when their are both heels is pretty stupid.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

It's both. He keeps asking how much for Greenland while suggestively saying it's necessary for security. So threat and purchase offer. Like a true criminal.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Elon Musk is the resident Nazi at the heart of the US government and is widely believed to have bought his influence with Trump. Oh and also Trump is President again after being a convicted criminal. No this isn't a joke.

[–] Kalladblog@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (5 children)

What makes Elon a Nazi? Does he promote genocide or racism? I've only seen one picture of him doing the pose but have no context. Also lol on Trump. I would've assumed people with such a track record wouldn't even qualify to work as teachers or any other job, let alone run and get elected as president lmao.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago

Musk is very pro apartheid in South Africa and Israel, as a model for "If all politicians love Israel doing what it does, surely America can do similar in US." Neo-naziism, mainstream right, in America is hateful of blacks, Muslims, and Hispanics. Genocidal ethnic supremacist, Netanyahu, says Musk cannot be a nazi because he supports Israel as much as all US rulership/oligarchy.

Rather than semantic definitions of nazi, we should focus on Supremacist apartheid ethno states being praised for democracy. That ADL/Netanyahu, and all politicians who pledge loyalty to Israel, support Musk, and thought Trump would be best for Israel, is the core problem in US/media rulership.

[–] Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Elon Musk has a well documented track record of supporting far right causes that mirror Nazi ideology. At the Inauguration he performed two Nazi salutes (one to the crowd and one to the flag). He routinely promotes the methods of genocides of trans people and Palistinians through both verbal parlance and through direct funding and uses well known euphemisms in support of white supremacy causes. He has authoritarian leanings tasked with removing from government service entire administrative arms that previously were not electable or apointable positions (because they were staffed with experts whose task is to stick to their guns of scientific or proven best practice and not simply be yes men telling the administration what they want to hear).

He also has never denied making a Nazi salute in the days since it's happened instead deciding to make Holocaust and Nazi featured jokes.

At this point what evidence can be put forward that he is not a Nazi?

[–] MonkRome@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

He has a long history of retweeting Nazis and agreeing with them. It's an indictment on our society that this is so little known even in the USA.

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 0 points 1 month ago

That's the neat part: Convicted felons ARE excluded from most public service jobs like being a teacher or a mayor. It was widely believed that this included the presidency until the Supreme Court decided it somehow didn't.

[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Watch the video. Don’t just look at the pics, watch the damn video. This is some sea lioning just asking questions nonsense that I can’t take seriously. His family left Canada during their civil rights movement to move to apartheid South Africa to enslave Africans in an emerald mine. He’s a fascist. He’s a Nazi. Call a spade a spade instead of instilling doubt. Defend a Nazi you are a Nazi.

I’m answering this half assuming good faith but this being the internet I’m heavily doubting it’s a good faith innocent question.

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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago

Ah yes, because the US has a history of just accepting no for an answer and absolutely does not use coercion and violence to get the desired outcome.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

As usual we've found an engaging distraction to play whack-a-mole with for a while. When we get bored with bashing Elon Musk we'll find another one, never addressing the core problem of how to take down the oligarchy. Because that will take methodical work and a huge amount of diligent research and objective thinking - assuming anybody ever gets around to doing it at all. Most of us just entertain ourselves with angry memes, created by the few people with enough motivation to do even that much. This is why aristocracy systems can keep perpetuating themselves - they rely on human inertia - most people prioritize entertainment over doing anything substantial. Bottom line, that's the real reason things are the way they are.

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

I'm more worried if Germany is for sale

[–] daveoss@aussie.zone 0 points 1 month ago

Boy in a candy store mentality, although surprised he knew how to zoom out on google maps.

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