Seems to me that by definition America is more Viking than the Danes as I’ve never seen Danes go raiding in my life while in America that’s a Wednesday.
Danes are the sons and daughters of the greatest monster slayer to ever have maybe actually been real, Beowulf. Perhaps they shall come to slay our “Grendel”, as their forefather did for King Hrothgar, so long ago.
Pretty sure the rest of the world wishes America would start behaving like some of their forefathers right now
Yes, exactly. To make America great again, Americans first have to take their country back from the oligarchs that are destroying it and sucking it dry. Noone else can or will do it for them.
Look, I’m not saying it would be right.
But if some Danish Viking girls want to sail upriver, plunder and burn my city, and carry me off as American war booty, given how this fucking country is going, I won’t object.
Which part of boycott do you not get? No Viking girls want your American ass 🤮
He missed that boycott includes “boy”
Boycotted. Girlcotted. Everyone cotted!
Sounds kinky, I’m in!
fuck, how did I miss that
Damn, I was hoping that theft was still okay, just not purchase 😔
Theft is the way, but most of us sailing the high seas are no hot viking girls, I must say. Sorry.
It’d take 6 Viking women just to pick your fat ass up off the computer chair.
No worries, I’m of the rare species of Thin American. I weigh less than, statistically speaking, the average Danish woman.
Calling Danish women “Fat mammas” is not earning you any brownie points.
I’m not calling them fat, I’m just saying I’m a waif who wavers in the wind, I swear 😭 I’m very liftable, lightweight cargo
Thanks for teaching me a new word: Waif I hope you’re doing better in the UK now. You left just in time my friend.
That’s the other Lemmy slut lol
Bingo, lol
In the UK? I’m in the US. I’m stuck here.
Sorry, my bad, too many beers tonight
It’d take 24 Viking women just to pick your american fat ass up off the computer chair.
Danish person here. Every single person in my friend group, and even my pretty apolitical parents are actively boycotting American products.
I’m in the UK, my wife mocks me daily for having a desire to understand what the US now is and to act on that.
I would say not a single friend or family member that I can tell if openly talking action.
It’s so disappointing but I’ll trudge on and hope they turn on eventually
Also in the UK and nobody I know really cares about anything so I am the only one boycotting things.
Albuerne oppe, mine venner
Love, Canada.
Make it hurt, Danes.
American who lives in Denmark: same and same with all my expat friends
I hate to hear that. 1/3 of us voted against this.
But I understand.
Why do you care? The oligarchs never shared their profit with you anyway.
I voted against this. I’m still thrilled to hear it.
Keep it up. The shit bags in my country only respect one thing the dollar bill.
American ingredients in domestic made stuff is the next target.
That and breaking the dependency on American technology.
“We want Torvalds back”
I almost bought a Microplane today, but the big “Blade made in 'murica!” stamped on it was very helpful at making me leave it at the store.
You mean a grater?
I mean a microplane. It’s also pretty much a generic term for a plane rasp with that specific style of teeth profile at this point, but this one was specifically one from them.
But yes, it’s a grater.
I expected an RC plane/drone with a name like that
Welcome to the party.
Signed, Canada
A danish news organization will have articles about what Danes think of tariffs. The same with a Canadian news organization, a German one, etc. Yet for some reason almost all of what American sources talk about is what citizens of other countries think.
I think the fact that American establishment publications put out more articles about what citizens of other countries think of tariffs than what Americans think of tariffs is part of the reason why Trump won.
The upper 10 percent of liberal America seems to think of themselves as citizens of the world, and seems to spend more time caring about anything other than Americans outside their hyper-specific socioeconomic niche.
The end result of this mentality is that Trump was able to make huge inroads with groups that were historically democrat’s bread and butter in 2024. Even if he was lying through his teeth, he and his team made real efforts to appeal to issues that were important for demographics.
I’m willing to bet you could find people from Hawaii to Mississippi altering their spending habits in fear of Trump’s tarrifs. Maybe the press should spend more time reporting on them.
Obviously, neither Trump nor MAGA is the answer. However there needs to be a way to talk with how out of touch so much of our establishment is without sounding like a Trump supporter.
End the concept of billionaires so they can’t buy all the media.
This is a news article published in the ‘world news’ community of a worldwide Internet forum, from one of the oldest and most respected not-for-profit news agencies in the world, whom themselves published the article in their ‘world news’ section. It discusses Danish people’s overwhelmingly negative responses to the American president’s tariffs.
And you somehow make this into “ugh why to the liberal elite always only care about what the rest of the world thinks”.
Maybe, just maybe, this article wasn’t written nor shared solely for the demographic of USA voters?
Quit it with this gaslighting shit.
The AP is headquartered in NYC. They write their articles in American English. They spend a wholly disproportionate time covering US news, and the closest relationships they have are with US institutions. The author of this article has an American education at a state-managed university.
The national language of Denmark is Danish. 15 percent of the nation doesn’t even speak English.
This is 100 percent an article meant for US audiences, from a primarily US news organization.
People from Denmark also all learn English during school and have done since at least the 60s, which is why you found that only 15% of them can’t speak English. Over 50% of Danes correspond in English for their work and are confident they can read English news according to 2013 survey. The proportion of US Americans that can’t read AP News stories is honestly probably higher, with the US now at 21% illiteracy.
AP News may be primarily US-focused news source, but they are a global news organization. They sell their stories via syndication to hundreds of other news organizations and newspapers worldwide, in multiple languages, and have done for a very long time. To decide that all their articles are automatically for US audiences is just wrong.
Gaslighting is repeatedly presenting information that’s untrue to convince someone of an alternate reality. Literally not possible to do in a single message, and nothing I wrote is not factual.
I only tried to let you see how Americentrist your response to OOP was, and your subsequent response is to weaponise victimhood to dismiss any introspection. I will not waste further time.
This is the repeated part right here. If this article was primarily targeted towards Denmark, it wouldn’t be written in American English. You danced around that point. English is a second language for Denmark. An article targeted at Danes would be in Danish.
You’re a manipulative POS.
Time for a raid on South Vinland.
The Berserkers were known for their anti-tariff policies
Trump’s term is like a ticking clock, berserker!
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