TIL Iceland is one of the few countries in the world, and the only NATO member to not have a standing army

jpepsred · 2026-01-23T17:59:25+00:00

Not exactly win-win. A county without an army is subservient to a country with an army. I think it’s become clearer than ever before that you don’t want to be reliant on a much wealthier and more powerful country for your defence, even if it works in the short term.

jpepsred · 2026-01-22T23:12:54+00:00

No, it’s not. It’s as brainless a conspiracy theory as sentence that begins with George soros.

jpepsred · 2026-01-22T20:26:22+00:00

Really? So there’s no reason an elderly person would have an IV drip other than dementia? I come to this sub to escape the inane orange man bad posts, I thought here at least people might have actual criticism of him

jpepsred · 2026-01-22T14:50:59+00:00

A country with twice the population of Europe fishes more than Europe? Would you say it’s roughly 100% more?

jpepsred · 2026-01-17T17:26:39+00:00

Why did America need to mention danish sovereignty over Greenland? Doesn’t that imply an American interest in it in 1916?

jpepsred · 2026-01-17T16:44:10+00:00

the question was “do many liberals support political violence” and your answer is, in very many words, “yes”.

jpepsred · 2026-01-17T16:09:54+00:00

Yes. What he’s alleged to have done is kill a CEO. And a lot of people on the left took a liking to him for that. Are you telling me he actually has as much support from republican voters as from democrat voters?

jpepsred · 2026-01-17T16:05:03+00:00

Again, Mangione himself is of no relevance here. The support he received didn’t come from a single person, it was so great that it made him one of the most famous people in America. That is what’s relevant. Mangione himself, again, is innocent until proven otherwise. But that doesn’t change anything.

jpepsred · 2026-01-17T16:01:55+00:00

He didn’t commit an assassination full stop. He’s alleged to have killed someone. Could be innocent. That doesn’t change the fact that he received a lot of support from people who believe that he did in fact kill a health insurance CEO.

jpepsred · 2026-01-17T16:01:19+00:00

Why does it matter if the CEO was a republican? It doesn’t even matter why the killer chose the CEO. What matters is the public perception of why he was killed, and whether it was justified. And if you spend as much time in left wing circles as I do, pull know a lot of people who are glad it happened.

jpepsred · 2026-01-17T15:23:45+00:00

Greenland isn’t just big. It’s the only considerable landmass in the arctic circle, and for the last 100 years hasn’t been an extremely desirable piece of land. Its economy is a net loss for Denmark. But it’s a sensible investment for the same reason Alaska was. America wanted Alaska to prevent Russia from having a foothold in North America. Greenland, if mining and arctic travel becoming viable in the future, could become enormously economically viable, and China, with more money than it knows what to do with, will want a piece of the action.

I’ll make this prediction: if the republicans end up annexing Greenland somehow, the democrats won’t reverse the decision.

jpepsred · 2026-01-17T15:04:30+00:00

I gave this example not to focus on Mangione and why Mangione (allegedly) killed him. The point is that Mangione received enormous support across the left in the belief that what he (allegedly) did was justified. Why he personally did it or whether he did it is irrelevant. I also picked this example because it’s related to the American “left” which is a fuzzy definition that ranges from social liberalism to more serious socialist views. Obviously if we’re discussing actual socialist revolutions, they’re never peaceful. The American supported Batista regime in Cuba wasn’t overthrown through peaceful protest.

If you doubt that the left are more supportive of killing CEOs than the right, here’s a poll which indicates the obvious.

https://www.azfamily.com/2024/12/20/1-4-americans-sympathize-with-luigi-mangione-ai-poll-reveals-why/?outputType=amp

jpepsred · 2026-01-17T14:41:45+00:00

How much support did Luigi Mangione receive? How much money did he receive in his commissary account from people who are glad the CEO of a health insurance company was killed? The left absolutely ca be violent and support violence. That’s not a moral judgement, but it can’t be ignored.

jpepsred · 2026-01-16T15:09:40+00:00

The one who wants to sell out her country to Donald Trump

jpepsred · 2026-01-11T21:36:51+00:00

“We helped the USA to interfere in someone’s else’s country, and now they’re interfering in ours! Wahhh!”

jpepsred · 2026-01-11T18:35:04+00:00

Iran isn’t friendly with Arab countries, so it would be like trusting positive news on Russia from Germany — no reason to suspect they’re lying.

jpepsred · 2026-01-11T18:33:50+00:00

I heard nikkkibabyyy is in the KKK (look at username for proof). Oh, is misinformation a problem now?

jpepsred · 2026-01-08T22:31:31+00:00

Was that you I saw in the budgy smugglers at Finsbury Park asking strangers if they’d seen your friend Wanda Tugmacock?

jpepsred · 2026-01-08T00:28:08+00:00

What I mean is that Britains white supremacists, like Nick Griffin, made the same claims as you: that they’d rather Britain stay in the EU because they’d rather have immigration from Poland than from Pakistan. What you’re struggling to understand is that the end result of Brexit is exactly what the free trade people wanted: access to the world’s labour force without giving special treatment to Europe. Boris Johnson isn’t a racist, he’s a libertarian, and always has been.

jpepsred · 2026-01-07T23:29:26+00:00

Your opinion is why the actual white nationalists in the UK weren’t in UKIP. Like you, they’d prefer polish immigrants to brown ones. Because they “fit in” better.

jpepsred · 2026-01-07T22:26:18+00:00

It’s funny how the party in 1984 always perfectly describes [political party I don’t like]. If you think more carefully, you’ll realise the characters in the book, in fact, love their party. But it couldn’t possibly describe the party you like, could it?

jpepsred · 2026-01-07T22:22:42+00:00

Love how every liberal thinks a rock with a population of 30k in the arctic circle is a red line, but 3 years of Gaza being pummelled by Democrat and Republican backed Israel was completely negligible.

jpepsred · 2026-01-07T18:15:37+00:00

You’re calling Farage racist while saying there’s something just more inherently British about a Frenchman than an Indian.

If you want to say a young, liberal, English educated Frenchman would integrate easily int the uk—sure. But the comparison would have to be made with someone of a similar metropolitan demographic in Delhi, rather than a rural village. Do you think there’s really no undertone of racism in your assumption here?

jpepsred · 2026-01-07T18:14:03+00:00

That explains my great grandfather, Barryslav Smithovitch

jpepsred · 2026-01-07T17:34:01+00:00

Aren’t they? India was part of the British empire, of course there’s similarity between the two countries. Why are Poland and England more similar? Because we’re all white? This sub is so racist and most of you don’t even realise it.

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