Should California become Denmark's 14th county?

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Denmark has offered to buy California. Think about it, X Oblast (formerly the USA) doesn't have to contend with the commie liberals in CA anymore or their pesky electoral votes, the Californians get democracy and universal health care. Surely it must be a win-win? I'm sure Denmark can afford it, too, according to President Elonia and King Dump CA is a worthless state full of drug addicts, hobos, and trans people. I don't see any downsides. They speak good English in Denmark, too, so communication across county lines should be a breeze.

Only worry is California County might see a refugee crisis as people flee the American dictatorship in droves.
 
Norman Alexander said:
It's going to be a LOT harder to build the wall running down the Rocky Mountains.
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We can move the Great Wall of China there. China will pay for it.

Meanwhile, the Hudson River will make a nice boundary for the Independent Republic of New England. (New York State might have to cede the East Bank.) In a couple centuries it'll be the Hudson Strait anyhow.
 
Myriad said:
We can move the Great Wall of China there. China will pay for it.

Meanwhile, the Hudson River will make a nice boundary for the Independent Republic of New England. (New York State might have to cede the East Bank.) In a couple centuries it'll be the Hudson Strait anyhow.
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An easier solution is to build a wall along the Florida border, tear them off at the dotted line, and let them float out and sink in the Gulf of America.
 
Norman Alexander said:
It's going to be a LOT harder to build the wall running down the Rocky Mountains.
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The Rockies are the wall. No one will be able to tear it down, and mother nature ate the costs. Securing it to deter illegals wearing red hats will be as simple as tearing up rails and highways and demolishing tunnels.
 
Safe-Keeper said:
The Rockies are the wall. No one will be able to tear it down, and mother nature ate the costs. Securing it to deter illegals wearing red hats will be as simple as tearing up rails and highways and demolishing tunnels.
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Some of them may be forced to eat some of the others when the food runs out in the middle of winter... ;)
 
Jokes aside, apparently its some PR stunt by a Swiss activist.

And frankly, Washington and Oregon would be more suited to our climate. California gets way too much sun for our liking...

Edit: Oh, and it wouldn't become a county, as we lost those back in 2006. At best it would become a Region, whose responsibilities would include healthcare and public transport, amongst other things.
 
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And buy Minnesota while youare at it. It is not nicknamed "Scanadavic West" for nothing.
 
 
But why leave it at just California?!
Make America Denmark? (Justin Holzgrove on YouTube, Feb 3, 2025 - 14:05 min.)
Several Americans spent a weekend in Copenhagen, Denmark, to see what all the fuss is about. Turns out, we can see the appeal...
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It appears to be a small group of people from Seattle visiting Copenhagen - one day is actually spent in Malmö, Sweden - in January, one of the bleakest months of the year to spend in Denmark, in my opinion.

Towards the end of the video (13:11-->), it presents a 'fact sheet' comparing Denmark with the USA:
living conditions, happiness, quality of healthcare systems, life expectancy, income inequality, education, environmental performance, per-capita income, work-life balance, poverty rate, public safety, crime rate, incarceration rate, social mobility, gender quality, access to internet, childcare & parental leave, public transport infrastructure, urban green spaces, cultural access, retirement savings & social security, public trust in government.

It's almost enough to turn me into a nationalist, but that'll never happen.

It ends with:
Instead of antagonizing Denmark, the United States of America should be trying to emulate it.

But don't tell Trump!
It will only increase his desire to occupy Greenland and make him encourage Putin to bomb us.
 
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Not just California, but just the blue states:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1897705659329581482
This message is to Denmark.
You offered to buy us recently, and I know it was probably a joke, but there are 71 million of us that would absolutely love it if you could make this happen. You don't even have to buy the whole thing. We'll send you a list of the blue states, and you can just purchase those.
I would absolutely love to live in a country that has socialized medicine, socialized education, and treats its citizens with respect.
Please buy us!
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Finland, Denmark Issue Travel Warnings for US (Newsweek, Mar 21, 2025)
Denmark and Finland have revised their travel guidance for transgender individuals planning to visit the United States.
Newsweek has contacted the ministry for comment via email.
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Well, they are the two happiest countries in the world, so it's not surprising that they'd also like their transgender citizens to stay happy, I guess.
But they are not the only countries:
The move follows similar guidance updates by other European nations, including Britain and Germany, in apparent response to President Donald Trump's large-scale crackdown on illegal immigration and trans rights.
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dann said:
Instead of antagonizing Denmark, the United States of America should be trying to emulate it.
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So a transcontinental empire, comprising a diverse array of ecosystems, ethnicities, and economic opportunities, should try to emulate a relatively homogeneous island nation smack in the middle of a European trade corridor?
 
That's what the group from Seattle thought after their visit to Copenhagen. I assume that they are not unaware of conditions in the transcontinental empire. And since they also took a trip from Copenhagen to Malmö, they are probably not unaware of where in Europe Denmark is situated. And as I mentioned, they even looked up a lot of facts for their comparison of Denmark and the USA:
living conditions, happiness, quality of healthcare systems, life expectancy, income inequality, education, environmental performance, per-capita income, work-life balance, poverty rate, public safety, crime rate, incarceration rate, social mobility, gender quality, access to internet, childcare & parental leave, public transport infrastructure, urban green spaces, cultural access, retirement savings & social security, public trust in government.
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I recommend that you do the same.

By the way, ethnicities really aren't a problem that the USA needs to deal with. Racists are!
(We have those as well, but not to the extent where they are actually trying to make the country uninhabitable for everybody like they are in the transcontinental empire.)
 
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Americans know nothing about Denmark!
The Nightcap: What happened to Trump's promises to bring prices down? (MSNBC on YouTube, April 5, 2025 - 10:02 min.)
2:27--> It's not about getting cheap goods fast. That's not the American dream, but it is the American way, right? We are a country of consumers. Our attics are filled with stuff. Our basements are filled with stuff. Our living rooms are filled with stuff. What do we do? We go shopping. Costco is my favorite store. And this idea ...
- How big of a business are storage units?
- Which people put all their stuff in ...?
- I'm not saying it's great. I'm not saying it's healthy. But I am saying, this is how Americans live. We ain't Denmark, okay? Your apartment doesn't have two chairs and one pair of jeans with a little bit of pottery in it. But this idea right now, it does at your house, but this idea that suddenly they are saying, 'Consumerism is bad. We have to change the way we live.' That's great, in an academic ideological sense. That just ain't who the American people are.
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Carla Sands on X, June 10, 2022
I’ve seen this before [i.e. that people can't afford to pay for gas]. In Denmark, middle class people can’t afford to drive a car. They have a bike and take the train for long trips. My embassy driver would bike an hour in the snow to get to work. That’s the future team Biden wants for Americans. Is this what you want?
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Carla Sands, former soap star, was Trump's first ambassador to Denmark.
And even a guy like Michael Moore ...
 
Carla Sands was infamously clueless. I'm middle class, could easily afford a car if I wanted to, and yet I choose not to buy one, since I live in the city where the public transportation means I don't need one. The cost of owning a car for the handful of trips I take every year, where one would be useful, is money I can easily spend on more interesting things.
 
Ziggurat said:
Tell me you don't know American geography without telling you don't know American geography.
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True, I don't have an intimate acquaintance with it. But neither do most Americans.

And yes, now that I have taken a closer look, the new border wall for the Neue Weste would not run down the Rockies. And it would be another 2300 kms (metric, deal with it) of wall, the same length as the currently unfinished one on the southern border. Worth it to keep the woke out, though! ;)
 
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Denmark doesn't issue residence permits to foreigners so I expect California would become an unpopulated desert. But I guess they could continue the trend and ship them all to Sweden.
 
Clutch Cargo said:
Denmark doesn't issue residence permits to foreigners so I expect California would become an unpopulated desert. But I guess they could continue the trend and ship them all to Sweden.
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Who else would need a residence permit? And what does it have to do with this thread? Is it just another attempt to derail a thread?
How to apply for a residence permit (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark)
 
Thanks for the anecdote! Yes, I am actually "unaware that Malmö is filled with Danish residents who are married to non-European foreigners," because it isn't true.

Here are my own anecdotes + a couple of factual references:
I knew a couple, a Dane & a Cuban, who moved to Malmø because of her (the Dane's) age. She was too young, not yet 25, to be eligible for 'importing' a foreign husband to Denmark. That was 20 years ago. Back then, 19 percent of the 15,000 Danes living in all of Scania stated that they did so because their spouses couldn't get permanent residence in Denmark, hardly enough for Malmø to be "filled with Danish residents who are married to non-European foreigners," since Malmø is "home to over 700,000 people," according to Wikipedia, but I don't have the current numbers. However, Wiki also says that only 7,919 Danish immigrants live in Malmø. In 2016, 7,597 Danes lived there (DR.dk). 41,000 in all of Sweden, 2,000 fewer than in 2013.

These are the current rules in case any Danish residents in Malmø with foreign spouses want to move back to Denmark:
Apply for family reunification as a spouse (nyidanmark.dk)
I have known several Danish-Danish couples who moved to Malmø after the Øresund Bridge (Wiki) was finished in 2000 because rents were cheaper in Malmø than in Copenhagen. The ones I still know have all moved back to Denmark. I have met several Swedes working in Copenhagen because unemployment in Sweden is much higher than in Denmark.
 
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