PurpleSkull

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[–] PurpleSkull@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago

It was the r/the_donald exodus and I will fucking die on this hill. I was there. I saw it.

Reddit banned that sub and many of these boomers migrated to /pol/. Trump posting turned from being ironic to legit. You could spot the ever increasing facebook boomer memes and that was also the point where Twitter screenshot posting became the staple of the board. By being pretending to be retarded, /pol/ attracted and amplified actual retards who took over. 2016 is when that board should have been nuked but no one wanted to release the sewage onto other places.

[–] PurpleSkull@lemm.ee 0 points 5 days ago

Yooo that's like, your opinion man. I've often encountered some legit amazing stuff there. It really is the place where 80IQ and 120IQ people mingled, with the 120IQ people pretending to be retards and the 80IQ people pretending to be smart.

[–] PurpleSkull@lemm.ee 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I don't know. It's better here than Reddit which is why I drop by. But I think jannies here get ban happy when I break out the N word to basically say hi or close every statement with a request that the person I'm responding to may please kill themselves. Not the same.

[–] PurpleSkull@lemm.ee 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

You think wrong. 4chan's impact on internet culture late 2000s and the entire 2010s can't be overstated. And that includes getting Trump elected twice.

[–] PurpleSkull@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Fun fact, we didn't use to need that. Which is why millennials typically don't use /s outside Reddit. 90's and early 2000s forum culture required everyone to use common sense, a concept now entirely ethereal to zoomers. Back in my day...

[–] PurpleSkull@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

Societies change, as often for the worse as they do for the better. It also depends what you consider "normal". For many boomers growing up in the 50's and 60's this is fairly normal. We've used to shoot students protesting an actual invasion against Vietnam.

And then there are still a lot of immigrants here who fled really bad dictatorial shit holes. They look at headlines going "ICE deported 300 people this week" and go "It's not even a thousand and they were not gunned down in the streets and their families exterminated, what are you complaining about?". Perspective.

Fight it however you can, or don't.

[–] PurpleSkull@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

He's perfectly safe. All he did was take a deal for money from the official US government. Another administration can cancel the deal, but no one will seek retribution from him.

[–] PurpleSkull@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I guess if the people of Greenland accept a measly 10k soon to be worthless USD in exchange to join a dying empire, they deserve to be part of that empire. Maybe Trump is actually smart and this is a hidden IQ test.

[–] PurpleSkull@lemm.ee 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Eh, feels like he's playing up the stereotype of the eternal German.

"...WE DON'T DO ZIS IN GERMANY! YOU BUILD HOUSES WITH WOOD? WE DON'T DO ZIS IN GERMANY. YOU DON'T SEPARATE GLASS FROM RECYCLING? BUT WE DO ZIS IN GERMANY!!!!

I'm allowed to say that, I'm German myself. We are obnoxious and tone-deaf fuckers.

[–] PurpleSkull@lemm.ee 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There is a shipping route opening up that would enable Asian-Europen-American trade via a about 2/3 shorter route than currently possible. It would make any route through the Suez canals or around Africa pointless. This might not sound important right now, but it would fundamentally change the fortunes of countries and reshape the world.

https://www.thearcticinstitute.org/future-northern-sea-route-golden-waterway-niche/

[–] PurpleSkull@lemm.ee 81 points 1 week ago (23 children)

And...then?

  1. Greenland still belongs to Denmark even if you give 99999999 gazillion to each Greenlander

  2. I don't think anyone in Greenland is dumb enough to sell out their country for 10k to then live in a country where you will pay out of your ass in taxes, handing those 10k right back to the IRS in 5 years tops.

  3. Greenlanders would have to call themselves "Americans" henceforth, which is considered an insult and lower class of civilization world-wide.

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