The Trump administration is reportedly considering giving about $10,000 to each Greenland resident as part of its plan to annex the territory

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The Trump administration is reportedly considering giving about $10,000 to each Greenland resident as part of its plan to annex the territory

Archived version: https://archive.is/20250411133253/https://www.latintimes.com/trump-admin-considering-giving-10000-each-person-greenland-annex-island-580455

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  • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Fun fact denmark already sends more money than that so by accepting this deal they not only would they become american but also loose gdp. No matter how you look at it its a loose loose for greenland lol

    • Albbi@lemmy.caEnglish
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      16 days ago

      Just FYI, loose and lose have different meanings. Kinda like desert and dessert.

      • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        15 days ago

        Yes it was a typo. Sometimes when im tired in the morning or night my spelling gets funky. I have spelt english words in hungarian and hungarian words on english before, i think its because im bilingual.

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 days ago

    How about giving that to everybody who voted against you, for having to put up with four more years of your shit?

    • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      16 days ago

      which you’ll eventually need because you’ll stop going to the doctor for anything less that being literally seconds away from death.

    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
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      16 days ago

      Will that even be enough in Greenland, unless you live around Nuuk?

      This makes a good point - a country like Greenland without strong government and a strong security net would simply become uninhabitable for normal people.

  • AnonomousWolf@lemm.eeEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Get 10k now!!

    And all it will cost you is Healthcare, Education, Employee rights and self autonomy!!

    What are you waiting for, don’t miss out on this one time offer to get 10k!!

    • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      15 days ago

      10k*

      *minus dealer prep, handling fees, transaction fees, documentation fees, implementation fees, conveyance and escrow fees, and miscellaneous charges and fees.

    • futatorius@lemm.eeEnglish
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      15 days ago

      They’ll either kill them, force them onto reservations or kick them off the island.

      And, since Trump is involved, the promised $10k might never get paid.

    • Auzy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      15 days ago

      Yeah. As an Aussie, I can’t tell you how awesome free/cheap healthcare is

      Don’t forget Trump also wanted to get rid of generic medicine here in Australia, so it was also cost cheap medicine too

  • stephen@lazysoci.alEnglish
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    15 days ago

    But then all of the people in Greenland won’t work! Remember when the United States gave us all in the midst of the COVID pandemic and none of us returned to our jobs and now all live on yachts? This would be even worse!

  • middlemanSI@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    In this new era, these crooks will float an idead on the webs, then measure the response with AI fucking crawlers. I should just switch off wifi or something.

    • PapaStevesy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      16 days ago

      Nah, it’s the stupidest idea, it’s a massive waste of my tax money for something that no American actually wants or gives a shit about. Why can’t we just leave people alone, why is the only other option war?

    • fishfriedi@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      16 days ago

      Thats true but $10.000 is quite little compated to how they benefit from the current government. Free healthcare, free education just to name two.

      • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
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        16 days ago

        You have to factor in the cost of living under a fascist autocracy too, where you can get kidnapped and sent to a secret prison for life because you didn’t respect the leader enough, even though the leader is a corrupt moron. Which is a pretty damn high cost, and $10,000 doesn’t even begin to balance it out.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      16 days ago

      Yes, it is. The people of Greenland have repeatedly told him “hell no!” and expecting them to abandon their principles for the 2027 price of a dozen eggs in the US is selling them short, pun intended.

    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.eeEnglish
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      16 days ago

      Lol, yes it is. Greenland only has a pop a little over 55k people. Meaning that trump is offering a little over 500m dollars for an island who’s gdp is well over 3 billion dollars a year.

      Not only is he being incredibly stupid, he’s being super cheap about it at the same time.

      • TXL@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        16 days ago

        Might be hopping for some Brexit type stupidity where enough people heard somewhere that they get 10k if they vote yes.

    • Kirp123@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      16 days ago

      Greenland already receives around 600 milion Euro PER YEAR from the Danish Government. Trump wants to give them less, and as a one time payment.

      Greenland, as part of Denmark has free state funded education, with special grants for Greenlanders that want to attend education in Denmark itself. They have free healthcare and access to some of the best social safety nets in the world.

      As Danish citizens they also have access to the EU free travel zone which allows them to visit any EU country without requiring a visa or even a passport.

      There are more benefits that I’m forgetting for sure.

      Unless the Trump administration offers to match all of the above then Greenlanders would take a losing deal. Sure, almost everyone has their price, but this deal is like offering you 100 bucks for me to come live in your house forever afterwards, ask you for money if you wanna send your kids to school or you want to go to the doctor.

      • Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        15 days ago

        Okay, maybe Greenland should take the US. We can be their red white and blue land. It’s a pretty strategic location.

          • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
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            15 days ago

            The leprechauns.

            Who would I be talking about besides Greenland? In case you didn’t know, they are in the process of becoming an independent country.

            • MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io
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              15 days ago

              Thank you for the clarification. I didn’t know. I wasn’t sure if you meant Greenland wanting to leave Denmark, or Greenlanders wanting to leave Greenland…

              But desiring Independence whole nother ball of wax than wishing to be a vassal to different nation.

            • futatorius@lemm.eeEnglish
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              15 days ago

              They’re an autonomous region within Denmark, and they have some pro-independence and some pro-staying-with-Denmark parties. The pro-independence parties predominate, but seem to be playing the long game.

              There is no party that’s supporting joining the US.

      • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        15 days ago

        Yeah, the 10k per person would be about half a billion dollars one time. So it makes no sense to get less than that only one time.

  • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    16 days ago

    It seems as though they can’t understand why anyone wouldn’t want to be American, which is kinda nutty.