The two sides here are

1: maybe-later-kiddo I support independence in theory but it just won’t work right now, sorry, we have to protect you from the Cheeto

2: frothingfash Yes, independence please. I don’t want my precious tax kroner to go to redacted-1 redacted-2

oh and I guess this whole thing is in reply to 90s pop singer Björk making an official statement supporting their independence, but who cares really

  • VILenin [he/him]@hexbear.netMEnglish
    46·
    1 day ago

    These are the same people who post in reddit-logo threads about US racism being like “uwu im a widdle europwean and I dont know what a racism is”

  • Krem [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    25·
    1 day ago

    Also note that you never heard a lib say “Yeah, independence is a nice idea but not possible right now, wouldn’t want you to be gobbled up by the US, sorry that’s just geopolitics” about Taiwan for example

  • huf [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    39·
    1 day ago

    wow, if greenland is so expensive for denmark, i wonder why they’re trying to hold on to it… curious.

    • BanMeFromPosting [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      12 hours ago

      There’s plenty of dumbasses here who are mad about the reparations we give to the inuit people. They’re also mad about the subsidies we give to Greenland - even though we extract more wealth from the country than we put into it.

      That guy can easily be some dumb dane. This country is filled the smarmiest eurolibs you can think of.

  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    27·
    1 day ago

    Give Greenland nukes

    In fact fuck it, I propose that the future People’s Republic of Britain become the production bed for massive nuclear proliferation as means of transition away from the financialised economy it currently has relying on London.

  • FuckyWucky [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    26·
    1 day ago

    Denmark giving transfers to Greenland increases demand for Danish goods themselves. It’s similar to Germans whining about them subsidising “lazy” Greeks. That’s not how capitalism works, under it spending of any kind can create employment, and imports by Greeks were financing Germany’s low fiscal deficit, since current surpluses were high while maintaining employment.

    So under capitalism purely looking from “selfish” economic perspective :

    1. Denmark gains demand for its goods form Greenland increasing its own output and employment.

    2. Greenland gets access to more goods and services than it would be able to if it were independent.

    This isn’t anti-independence, just that Greenland losing out on transfers will likely reduce its imports. But at the same time, Greenland having its own currency may also allow it to spend in ways it can’t currently ie improve productivity, employment so the loss of transfers may be somewhat offset.

    Quite different from say, USSR giving transfers to Cuba. Since USSR operated under a centrally planned full employment economy, any transfer meant loss of resources but no higher employment (since it was already at full employment). Very different from capitalism.

    In this case:

    1. The USSR lost access to oil and other goods which it could’ve sold to other countries for foreign exchange or real goods/services while not gaining additional employment.

    2. Cuba gained acesss to real goods from the USSR allowing it to have higher standard of living.

    • Coolkidbozzy [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      10·
      1 day ago

      Completely agree. Greenlandic people have a crystal-clear understanding of their situation. According to the people I spoke with, they overwhelmingly want to be independent but most acknowledge the need to develop local industries first for it to be sustainable

      Specifically, their natural resources need a lot more investment in exploration (which is ongoing!) to determine whether any can economically be exploited