• slampisko@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    This is the first time I’m learning about the USA’s second lady and I did NOT expect her to be what Trump would refer to as a DEI hire

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      7 days ago

      Even more interesting is that her mother (VP Vance’s mother-in-law) was instrumental in advancing DEI at the university she works at (UCSD).

      I would pay a lot of money to see a journalist ask JD Vance if he approves of his mother-in-law’s work in promoting DEI. Just knowing how awkward that next family gathering would be would make it worth it.

      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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        I would pay a lot of money to see a journalist ask JD Vance if he approves of his mother-in-law’s work in promoting DEI.

        Why do we care what Randi’s think about their mother in law’s? It’s not like this Vance guy is important or anything.

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      DEI is just something they’re using as a dog whistle. It’s always about class first.

      She’s rich, so he’s an honourary white

      Though, really shows what an absolute wanker JD Vance is, since under his administration is certainly going to be way worse be to of indian decent in his country.

      What a shit husband and father.

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      Don’t forget, his own wife is a dei import, dude can’t find himself a good American woman so he’s got to outsource. Irony is dead.

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      I am having such a hard time squaring that with how he talks and acts; unless he is bideing(bidding?) his time till the orange idiot is gone and is planning on an uno reverso, but it sure doesn’t seem that way.

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        It’s the same as good ol’ Mitch. He can hate others and not in one specific case. Being racist doesnt mean you have to be all the time.

        What I don’t get is how she could marry him. Who signs up or stays with someone who promotes hate for every aspect of yourself?

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          Right? How can she wake up and think “This is all okay, I’m good with this.” I mean, I have the same question for Melania too, but I assume that was all for money and what not.

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            6 days ago

            Then again you have female Republican voters and minority Republican voters, and farmer Republican voters… all who voted for their own destruction so I guess I shouldn’t be too astonished.

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    7 days ago

    “I want your land. Now welcome me like a hero”

    nobody want to welcome you

    Who would’ve have thought.

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      7 days ago

      Who would’ve have thought.

      me. I would’ve have thought. I totally would’ve have.

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        7 days ago

        This would have been the real power play. Greenland says they will roll out the red carpet and welcoming party of locals. On arrival, the locals are bears and the carpet isn’t red. Yet.

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      IMO this is way better. Being denied would have given them a great opportunity to complain about “the Danish government suppressing the will of the Greenlandic people to join the US”. The fact that they can come but noone there likes them is so much more devastating for their narrative.

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    7 days ago

    I like to think they didn’t want to meet the Vances because they were afraid for the safety of their couches.

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      Very close, but more likely it’s an made-up excuse because they realize it’s a bit uncertain if border security would let her back into the USA /s

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    He actually visited Greenland. I just saw it in the news. He just avoided the capital and only visited an army base.

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      He actually visited Greenland. I just saw it in the news. He just avoided the capital and only visited an army base.

      Space force base. And not “an” but “the”.

      Fucking chicken, his staff apparently were too afraid that locals would have pelted him with eggs.

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    I will repeat it: Greenlanders are very based.

    If you are ever in Denmark, spend an hour to visit the Greenland museum, a huge raised middle finger of an exposition reminding everyone of Danish colonialism, placed right in the middle of Copenhagen.

    They are not well treated by the Danes either, who only recently recognized them the right for translators in the Danish parliament.

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    Sorry, I think this was a mistake.

    I think it would have been better for one household to welcome them warmly, say they were proud to have them in their home.

    And when they showed up, sat down, had tea, had 100 greenlanders in with literal torches and pitchforks come in screaming obscenities of every kind and demanding they leave while streaming the whole thing.

    Bonus points if their as detail draw their weapons, which are banned in greenland, so they end up in jail as a diplomatic incident.

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      In trumps first week of his first term he invited a dictator here and his security beat the fuck out of American protesters on American soil.

      Nothing happened. They got on a plane and left.

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      Way too much. Just put a rug over the ice fishing hole in the living room and let the problem take care of itself.

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      You don’t think diplomatic immunity would apply? I’m sure the secret service would just sit there while a hundred people swarm. Enjoy your fantasy, but that would never happen irl.

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        Diplomatic immunity is in effect only for people invited to the country as diplomats. The ambassador of USA to Finland does not have immunity when he travels to Sweden.

        What I wonder: what are the laws regarding a person coming to Greenland in order to work there as a worker of a foreign company/organization? Did Vance enter Greenland as a tourist? Since he was working from Greenland’s soil without a work visa, was he an illegal immigrant?

        Three weeks with lights constantly on, amirite?

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        Diplomatic immunity applies to criminal charges.

        This is different, this is not diplomatic in any way, the only issue is that the government is bound to protect foreign dignitaries and foreign citizens.

        HOWEVER: a state of hostility can be interpreted, and since there is no formal diplomatic delegation this can be interpreted as a hostile incursion.

        In any case, since they have been asked not to come Greenland has 0 obligation to protect them in any way, and they have 0 diplomatic protection as persona non grata.

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    7 days ago

    what the fuck did they expect? a welcoming party to rival none other? With drumpf constantly going on about how he’s gonna take greenland? JFC. Fucking morons.

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    6 days ago

    I’m willing to bet they don’t understand why because the know “Everybody adores us”