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… The Bush era joke is still holding up:
Americans learn geography via which countries they (threaten to) invade.
… I guess it is just fully beyond a joke and is now just completely literally true.
“Not only will America go to your country and kill all your people, but they’ll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad.”
- Frankie Boyle
The 80s with their Rambo clones.
It’s named Greenland to fool the Americans out of invading Iceland.
And people think they’re immune to propaganda. Probably the majority read this meme and think Vance is just that stupid.
I mean he probably is that stupid, but not because of this particular instance of making a joke about the cold.
Yeah. I hate being a Vance supporter but this crap forces me to defend his obvious joke. Stop making me defend people I hate because you require tags. I HATE TONE TAGS!!!
Actually, he might be from Appalachia after all guys. He’s so rugged.
If it’s all ice then why is it called Green?
If Iceland is all green then why is it called Ice?
And you don’t see them pulling the same shit with Iceland. I guess the name trick worked in the end.
Another victim of Red’s og scam to get Icelandic vikings to move there
Bro never seen a world map
Just another reminder how stupid the people elected in US really are…
Yeah but some of them weren’t elected. America is due for a civil war
I still have hope for non-violent fix.
But that hope is melting fast…“I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed, it might be done.”
Vance is such a smoothbrain, he probably thought it’s called Greenland because of how lush it is.
Geography has never been my strong point, but even I know Greenland is the cold one and Iceland is the green one.
Calling it Greenland was always a branding exercise.
Vance in Las Vegas " Where the fuck are all the meadows?!?"
TIL what Las Vegas means. But apparently, there was originally some meadows there?
Las Vegas was lush and green when it was settled. As more people arrived, the spring water that kept it that way dried up
That would require learning a piece of a language other than English …. He’d be an illegal immigrant, hardened criminal, gang member. That mascara is a sure sign of Tren de Aragua membership
I like to think of it more that the old Norse had a good sense of humor.
I was taught in public school that they called it Iceland to keep the British away and Greenland because if that was Greenland Iceland must really suck. 🇬🇱 🇮🇸
Well the guy was banished from Iceland IIRC, so he had a good reason to hype up this new found land.
No, no, the newfound land is a scooch southwest
I think ppl in Greenland did that just to troll idiots like Vance. Same with guys on Iceland…
Epic 1,000 year troll!!! This guy should be a legend, a myth, a story that should have sagas written
I think we’ll never forget this guy named JD Vance who vent to Greenland and was shocked it was fucking cold there…
According to the Saga of Erik the Red, Erik spent his three years of exile exploring this land. … When Erik returned to Iceland after his exile had expired, he is said to have brought with him stories of “Greenland”. Erik purposefully gave the land a more appealing name than “Iceland” as “people would be attracted to go there if it had a favorable name”, per Erik’s own words.[19][20] Erik knew that the success of any settlement in Greenland would need the support of as many people as possible. Erik’s salesmanship of Greenland proved successful in…. as 1,043 years later a widely reviled politician who insisted he never he’d close personal relations with a couch, was quoted to exclaim in surprise “it’s fucking cold up there. Nobody told me that”
“Hey Donald, I’ve got new information, we should reevaluate this Greenland thing”
“have you heard about it? It sounds beautiful! Not cold or snowy like Iceland.”
USA education in a nutshell
Cold? Lol, they should live in russia, the regime they are loyal to. Experience the actual coldness.
Is this… is this like, for real? Sorry I can’t tell anymore…
Yes but he was obviously joking. Still a dumb joke.
Are you telling me Lemmy has missed an obvious joke?
That’s unheard of.
Having been on Lemmy for a year now, one stark contrast to Reddit is how much sarcasm just goes over everybody’s head here. Sarcastic comments are always down voted into oblivion, despite agreeing with the common consensus in the thread.
It is legitimately harder to tell in recent days what is real, what is fiction, what is sarcastic, what is satire. Such is the pathetic state of the world.
He is a Republican politician, in other words, he is dumb as a brick. Sentences like “It is cold here” when he is next to Santa Clause home turf are to be expected.
Bold of you to assume they believe in controversial hypotheses like “latitude”.
Hey Boss, did you know that Greenland is mostly covered with ice? Why we want it anyway? - JD Vance
Isn’t it like one of those “kids first geography fun fact” stuff that gets taught everywhere? Like you’d have to be actively disinterested in the world not to know it?
