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Greenlanders are mocking the USA on social media by acting like they are fentanyl addicts
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The US military isn't filled with Fentanyl addicts. They're brainless attack-dogs. Try mocking them, instead of the poor and the misfortunate civilians who want no part in invading Greenland/any other country.
They're not saying anything about the US military. They are commenting on US culture.
Europeans mock the US military too though, don't worry about that. It's just not the topic of this particular instance of mocking the US.
I don't think this is a nice way to do this. Why use addicts and victims of us system as props instead of mocking the ones that created the issue in the first place? kinda low ngl
True, it is not nice. We should not mock the people your society leaves to rot in the streets.
But again it is not instead of mocking other people, we mock them too.
They are well known for getting lost, even when the GPS is working, and have a reputation of being very full of themselves. Their navigational skills and hubris are therefore very highly regarded as a matter of jokes. For instance, there is the famous joke about a radio conversation between an American aircraft carrier ordering an unknown radar contact to change course to get out of the carrier's way, using increasingly severe threats, as the order is refused repeatedly, only for the unknown contact identifying itself as a lighthouse in the end.
Edit: Jokes are already starting, like the German equivalent of The Onion running a story about an American aircaft carrier showing up in Germany on the Elbe river, looking for Greenland, because there is a small village bearing the same name there
Did he touch a raw nerve ?