A lot of things are going on in Denmark right now to move away from American influence. You just don’t hear about it. I think we should officially condemn the US as well as Iran, but I’m not a politician. All I know is what I see in my day to day life and the general discourse in Denmark and that is that we are moving away from America. Actions taken in recent times have shown that we are ready to sever ties with America, we just do it slowly as to not upset the orange monkey, because if we go out and make ourselves too visible to America right now, there is a actual real chance that we will be invaded too.

I trust that my politicians know what they are doing, though.

Remember, we are a very small country and we are under real threat of a US invasion so there is a lot going on behind the scenes right now that most of us don’t know about.

That’s not how it went where I lived. People were actively protesting the Iraq war in the streets in my country and very vocal about our involvement in those wars. We are also the country that lost the most soldiers per capita to fight a war that didn’t have anything to do with us because America demanded it.

Which is also why it was a deep insult when Trump and Vance decided to attack Zelenskyj for the world to see, then subsequently threaten my country to give up Greenland and calling us shitty allies and starting a tariff war with Europe as a whole. We literally bled for them and gave up our dignity for them - it was a massive hit to the Danish self image to join the wars in the middle east - and the thank you we get is to be pissed on and for them to shit on Zelenskyj, piss on the rest of us and threaten to annex Greenland.

My distaste for America’s entitlement and arrogant tactics that we had to adhere to for years with the promise that they would help us if we needed them, was turned into a raging fire the second trump and vance did that to Zelenskyj. Every other thing that happened after that has just kept that fire alive, but I lost any and all respect for America when they invited Zelenskyj to the White House to act like a couple of high-school bullies.

I will never forgive and never forget. Ever.

Yeah, I guess I should have explained myself better, that my issue is that I have felt for a long time that my culture has increasingly been replaced with American culture due to the import of American entertainment. So our language has been altered and we have adopted American traditions while slowly phasing out our own and it has bothered me for a very long time. That isn’t Americans’ fault that we began adopting these cultural things, but if we end up separating ourselves more from America, then my hope is that we will also maybe start looking for cultural influence elsewhere and start embracing more of our own old traditions again.

Yeah, and in my weakest moments of anger this January, I certainly had some not so nice thoughts in that area, but honestly, I don’t think most of the people who voted for trump understood or expected him to be this crazy. Hell, I was fully preparing for him to pull out of Ukraine, which I thought was the worst thing he could do at the time, but with the Ukraine issue alone, the way he treated Zelenskyj actually pissed me off more than when he threatened Greenland for the first time. Anyways, I expected him to betray Ukraine, but he has done so much more than that in a fraction of the time I thought was possible. I couldn’t even in my most anti-American thoughts, have predicted or imagined the reality we currently live in.

So yeah, I’m willing to give many of his voters the benefit of the doubt. They probably believed he would help with inflation and secure jobs and yadda yadda. They probably truly believed he would be the better choice even if they didn’t agree with him on everything or just didn’t want to vote for the democrats or whatever. I imagine many have bitter regrets now. Especially the farmers who supported him, lol. But yeah. I try to extend an olive branch because this timeline is a total clown show.

Things will get better, though! We just need to strap in for the next couple of years, and then things are going to get better. It’ll probably take America decades to repair what trump has destroyed in less than two years, but am confident that something good will come from this nightmare for Americans as well. Big hugs!

If it is any comfort to you, most of us know that the people of America are largely decent and just want to live their lives and not bother anybody. My main issue with America has always been with the country and the culture, not really individual people. It would be foolish to hate on millions of people who have harmed nobody and just happened to be born somewhere.

In essence, my biggest gripe with America has always been on the pathetic excuse of a welfare system you guys have. You all deserve so much better and it pisses me off that you’re being taught to eat crow and not only like it, but express gratitude and pride for it. Many of you are smart enough to see through the bullshit, but all of you are stuck living in one of the richest countries in the world while having third world social conditions. I cannot express in words how disgusted I am by that.

As for all the geopolitical and media stuff, those are institutions I feel disgust towards.

I hope that no matter what happens in the future, that you and your fellow Americans will have better conditions to live under and better, more responsible leadership.

I am, however, still glad that my country as well as most other European countries are moving away from the USA. It was not an equal and fair relationship in many ways and both sides have been at fault to some degree. I think we are better off separate and I think that the US as a whole is also interested in this separation to look for new alliances. I for one, am thrilled about Europe’s future, even though this transition period is going to be tough. We will be stronger in the long run without the US.

As a Dane, I cannot underline enough how fucking done we are with the US.

I’m almost grateful that he’s being this obnoxious, because it means that we might have way less American influence in Denmark in the future and that is something I have yearned for since Bush.

A girl can dream.

Like you mentioned, many of those videos are doctored to make common Americans look stupid. I would even venture a guess and say that some of them are straight up fake with people probably being paid to act as stupid as possible.

As for Europeans’ ability to place countries on a map, I believe it varies in the same way it does in America. Some will be super sharp at it, others, probably most, will know some and then blank on the rest. Few will be entirely ignorant about geography.

I have a flags of the world app that I use once in awhile to train myself to recognize flags from different countries. There is an option to also try and place flags on the map and you work your way through one continent at the time. I absolutely fucking suck at placing flags in Africa and Polynesia. I have gotten to a point where I recognize most of their flags, so there is that, but I am still hopeless with the map part. I have a few blind spots in Asia and South America too. I am pretty strong with Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia at this point.

For me, I started practicing with the app years ago exactly because I realized how terrible my geography skills were even inside Europe. Later on it became a matter of rebellion when the Ukrainian war went into full swing and I wanted to give a big fuck you to the invisible wall that still stands between western and eastern Europe. Many people I know have always been geographically blind to eastern Europe, but that seems to be something many of us have worked on in recent years.

Now it is just a longterm goal for me to take some time once in awhile to practice. Can’t hurt to learn some basic bitch geography.

Ironically, the one thing I’m worse at placing than African countries, is American States, but they also aren’t a part of my flag app, so I haven’t actually practiced them. Similarly haven’t practiced the German States since I was in 7th grade so I only know a couple of those and blank on the rest.

What on earth does that have to do with the Danish election?

The Danish left had a pretty solid election this year. The reason why the Social Democrats have lost voters has more to do with internal Danish politics than anything going on in geopolitics.

The Moderates and Venstre (Left) were in government with the Social Democrats for awhile and people have grown tired with them for different reasons. Also, Venstre (Left) are a right wing party, despite the name and the Social Democrats are no longer considered a left wing party by most Danes, but more so a center party just like the Moderates. Their goal is to have a centered government and people are trying to pull them to the left now, because we need our government to focus on environmental and social issues at home.

Venstre (Left) had the worst election result in the party’s history because they have had farmers lobbying for them for decades, which has lead to our current environmental crisis in our country.

The Social Democrats have still won the election despite losing voters. They were the party who had the most votes out of all parties in Denmark and it is Mette Frederiksen’s job currently to negotiate what constellation of government we will have. If she and Lars Løkke of the Moderates decide to form a government with Venstre again, they will be fucking toast next election. The Danes want a red government - red is left wing in Denmark. We are done with the blues and we are done with their anti environmental politics.

When it comes to all issues relating to Greenland and Ukraine, etc, it is not relevant because no matter what government we would end up with, every party agrees on Greenland and Ukraine. The fact that international news are trying to drag Greenland into the election is just misleading clickbait to make ignorant outsiders think that the Danes are punishing our Prime Minister for going against Trump. Nothing could be further from the truth. Even the biggest MAGA dickriders in Danish Politics have withdrawn their support for him and are now trying to play the nationalist card and how we must stand together for Greenland.

Denmark is not the US. Not even close, and I would appreciate that people read up on it before spewing a bunch of irrelevant nonsense.

To me it looks like the democracy is working. Imagine if it was for a cause you are for. Then it’s nice to know you can have more than one attempt to get your cause implemented. That said, there probably should be a limit to how many times the same issue can be pressed before it has to be put in a sort of quarantine period for an agreed upon number of years. Maybe they already have that. I don’t know. I’m no expert on the matter.

I look forward to the rest of my life, where I get to witness in real time the longterm consequences of Trump’s second term. It wasn’t the fact that they want to take Greenland and used every mean word in the book to smear my country when we bled the most for them in their pathetic wars in the middle east. It’s how they treated Ukraine and Zelenskyj that sealed it for me. I will never fucking forgive America for Trumps second term.

Traitor nation. Karma will come for you.

Edit to add: I do still feel bad for the common American who has no say in all of this and will eventually be the ones to pay the price for the stupidity of others. That does suck and I don’t consider them as part of my little hate boner. I’m purely focused on the US as a nation and the idiots in charge who do a terrible job.

Literally all the Nordic countries have Christian crosses on them, duuuude.

Jokes aside, here is something I learned about religion from a friend whose extended family is from a third world country:

They are strongly religious, because they have nothing else.

They live in sheds made of scrap metal. They never get to dee doctors. Many can’t afford to go to university. It’s not a given that they will have food every day. The young people leave the country in droves to work in more well to do countries. Many never come back and will live their whole lives as glorified wage slaves in countries where they are second class citizens. In their home country, the government is corrupt and run by mafia types. There is nothing for you if you weren’t born into one of the few rich families or if one of your family members didn’t succeed in marrying a person from a well off country. You’re cooked, then.

It’s a level of desperation none of us can comprehend. When you’re in a situation this dire and nothing will get better any time soon, does it help to know that there is no God, no higher power that sees and acknowledges your pain and helps you hold on to hope for a better tomorrow? No. You have to believe that there is a plan. You have to believe someone is looking out for you and that you weren’t born into this hole in the ground for no reason. You have to believe. Else there is no point to living.

I live in Denmark. I have a cross on my flag (oldest flag still in use in the whole world btw and also the trendsetter for all the other Nordics having cross flags), I have a country peppered with empty churches that work more as museums than churches, but they didn’t appear by themselves.

They are tombstones from a time in my country’s history where the common man didn’t have much of anything in terms of comfort. Only a hundred years ago there were still people in my country, who lived in absurd poverty, who sometimes had to starve through brutal winters and who worked themselves into early graves.

They went to church. They prayed to God and they believed because that’s all you have when the winter is rough and the only food there is left is grain and water.

With the introduction of the welfare system, we slowly had most of our needs met as citizens. Education and healthcare were covered through taxes. We recieved the freedom to pursue careers and family dynamics that fit us rather than taking what we could get. And when you build a society where you aren’t in a constant state of survival, you don’t need God all that much. You can safely and without any cost to yourself, sit and ponder the meaning of life and come to the conclusion that there really is no evidence to prove that there is any meaning. No higher power. It doesn’t hurt to conclude that when you have all your meals, you have comfortable place to live and so on.

Religion is not the cause of suffering in other countries, but a symptom of social systems that don’t work. Religion can be used as a tool to survive hardship or it can become a weapon to control others, but at the end of the day, religion itself is nothing more than a symptom. If every country on earth had the same conditions as mine does, I think religion generally would become more of a cultural thing than something people live by and believe in.

We still have Christian holidays. Christmas, Easter, all that. Teens are confirmated at 14, it’s really popular here. Many couples get married in churches and have their kids baptized in them. It’s cultural. Many people in Denmark call themselves culture-Christians. I know several. We pay taxes to the church. You have to actively sign papers and seek out a priest to not be a member of the church when you’re an adult.

It is our culture and our history. We are a Christian country, but secularism is common because we don’t need to believe in God to function day to day. It is a luxury to not be religious.

I was baptized, but I rejected confirmation long before turning 14. I left the church at 20 and no longer pay church taxes. I have donated my body to organ donation and medical science after I die. I will probably not be buried by the church. I have to be a member to do that. That is the last true power the church holds in my country. They have an iron grip on death. I always pictured myself be cremated and tossed into the wind when I died, but thats probably not legal so eh. My death doesn’t belong to me, anyway, but to whomever may care when I’m gone.

I still have respect for religious people. My best friend is a deeply devout Muslim. I have gone to church every Sunday of December one year, just to experience what that was like and I enjoyed it. If I’d been more disciplined, I think I would have gone a few more Sundays the rest of the year. Because to me it is culture and its fun to experience it even if I have very little use for it in my day to day life.