Donald Trump is doubling down on his plan to buy Greenland. A US takeover could weaken the country’s mining laws and ban on private property, aiding Trump tech donors’ plans to profit from the island’s mineral deposits and build a libertarian techno-city.

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    20 hours ago

    If they want a libertarian technocity they can build the floating one off Cali they’ve been pitching for like 20 years. Why do it in the fucking Arctic

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      9 hours ago

      Because they know the fucking Arctic will be temperate soon.

    • Ascrod
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      8 hours ago

      Billionaires decided that living at sea long-term kinda sucks.

  • MagicShel@lemmy.zip
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    22 hours ago

    Can we just stop treating this like a serious thing? Until we go full fasc and start invading folks, saying we covet Greenland is… somewhere between fantasy and drug-fueled hallucination.