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[–] 60 points 10 months ago (7 children)

In 1898 they annexed Hawaii by a joint resolution of Congress, after some business goons and Marines overthrew the Queen of Hawaii in 1893 and a few years of negotiations. The Hawaiians by majority did not want to be annexed.

Greenland is a territory of Denmark, a member of NATO, and they also don't want to be annexed so this is a bit different. Congress should vote to not go to war with NATO.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    I'm curious which countries have wanted to be annexed.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Mongolia wanted to get annexed by the Soviet onion. Texas wanted to be annexed by the us

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  • [–] 25 points 10 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 89 points 10 months ago (26 children)

    Greenland is going to be a state now?

    Did... anyone ask them...?

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  • [–] 39 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    Yes. An overwhelming majority do not want to join the US.

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  • [–] 39 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Meanwhile, Puerto Rico and D.C.: "am I a joke to you?!"

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  • [–] 38 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Puerto Rico is brown people and DC is a majority black so like yes they are a joke to these people

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Doesn't Washington DC host the largest and longest running clown convention on the planet?

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    If anything they're going to be a territory or something like that. There's no way they get two senators.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Oh no. Definitely not a state. Just a territory. The people there won't get citizenship or anything.

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  • [–] 37 points 10 months ago

    This dumb fucking ape is new to DC, after having been a MAGA terror in the Florida legislature for years. He just won some special election, maybe Matt Gaetz' old seat.

    He is all about slurping the butt of whatever MAGA is above him. In Florida, it was DeSantis, now it will be Trump. Expect lots of eye-rolling sycophantic behavior like this in the future.

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  • [–] 33 points 10 months ago

    Might as well just call this the "Notice me daddy" act.

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  • [–] 57 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    That's a stupid ass name. Everything with these people is stupid. The only reason Trump is doing this is to get the USA out of NATO for Putin. The reason he works for Putin is because Putin has some very compromising pictures and videos of Trump, involving children and possibly pee

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago

    Lol it's the GAS act.

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago

    American law name: Sunshine, Happiness, and Rainbows Act

    American law contents: There will be a $500 tax to look at a rainbow and the President is authorised to sell exclusive rights to sunshine at an auction to tech bros. Happiness is now a controlled substance and illegal possession of it without a prescription is now punishable by 30 years imprisonment. Also, strawberry ice cream is now banned, $50 million for a bridge in Indiana, and the salary of the Deputy Archivist is increased by 6% starting next fiscal year.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    So if they're going to be a state, do they realize that they would be a blue state by default? Like, they would make California look like a red state.

    And the rebellion there would cause need for millitary action. Which they would lose. This would be like vietnam, except you just forced them to have legal rights within your own government.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago

    Aaand of course the congressman submitting this is from Florida.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago*

    Please let me suck your orange cock harder, daddy Trump! As an additional kink: only the poor kids will have to face death from combat.

    -Representative Randy Fine (R-Fla.)

    Every day it feels like Republicans are trying to speed run to guillotines.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Mexico just claimed Europa and will be colonizing it on paper as soon as the printer gets new paper. Oh I misspelled republicans.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    What the fuck! I was promised Canada would be the 51st state!

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    Has anyone told these morons that there's a U.S. base on Greenland?

    What are they going to do have Delta Force go in and kidnap the President of the Space Force?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Contact your representatives, assure this bill goes no where.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Our Representatives don't care what its district wants. They only care what their donors think.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Do you always give up so easily? By the way in English it's "Our Representatives don't care what their constituents want." It's funny to me how many trolly folks there are around here, posting discouraging nonsense. Have a nice day.

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  • [+] -26 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    House dot gov link. Why is OP linking fascist propaganda? All gov links should be treated as sus.

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  • [–] 27 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    It is literally just the bill that was introduced, directly from the site of the senator that introduced it.

    Any news organization or third party source is gonna be pulling from this exact same source, because that's how all bills are initially found out about.

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  • [–] -4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Didn't realise it was a bill. The news has me on edge, and I saw red. Wish someone would do the right thing for once.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    The right things like actually looking at the link instead of just crying about it in the comments?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    People in general suck, they really do. I meant the news is shit and there is evil going around, and all the responses is more evil actions, in the world. Woman gets murdered in the open, and ICE starts door to door and increasing efforts as the murderer goes into witness protection. Meanwhile the governor says some words and warns, but does no actions, allowing the evil to continue marching. No one is doing anything to stop this fascism. And on top of that, misinterpretations on the internet is still king of perception.

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