Elon Musk calling out labour

[lardy]

Re: Elon Musk calling out labour

the minerals reason might make sense if there's enough of it there, the trade one is bollocks, Greenland has a population of 50odd thousand, it would be like the USA being desperate to do more trade with Merthyr Tydfil.

the security thing makes some sense as it would give them control over the north Atlantic, but do we really expect anyone to try to attack them from there?

Greenland is part of NATO through Denmark, so the US already has full military access. If they can't bully Greenland into joining, the US would have to leave NATO first (not impossible) and then would take on all of the costs of running Greenland. But its already got what it needs in terms of military so doesn't seem much benefit.

[JamesWales]

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Any thoughts on his multiple recent tweets about the king dissolving the government, America invading and “liberating” us and promoting armed insurrections in several of the USA’s closest allies as a good thing?

Tweets that have been seen and received positively by millions of people.

Yeah, they are all bollocks. Or do you think we will be invaded soon?

[goats]

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Greenland is part of NATO through Denmark, so the US already has full military access. If they can't bully Greenland into joining, the US would have to leave NATO first (not impossible) and then would take on all of the costs of running Greenland. But its already got what it needs in terms of military so doesn't seem much benefit.

Is it directly in between USA and Russia as the crow flies? Or as missiles might fly? I reckon it’s for them to plunder all its natural resources

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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Is it directly in between USA and Russia as the crow flies? Or as missiles might fly? I reckon it’s for them to plunder all its natural resources

Well first of all, forget how you are accustomed to seeing the world as depicted on the Mercator projection.
Go onto Google Earth to answer your question and view the area taking in the polar region.

Oh, and when you do go back to looking at the world on the Mercator projection do bear in mind that the shortest distance between two points on the Earth (aka a Great Circle route) will be depicted as a curved line on the map. It's a foible of the projection concerned - and all map projections have their own distortions.

This is why the shortest flight from London to New York would actually involve flying over the south of Greenland.

[Rjk]

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Is it directly in between USA and Russia as the crow flies? Or as missiles might fly? I reckon it’s for them to plunder all its natural resources

perhaps they're planning for Global warming, when the southern states are inhabitable and all the ice has melted in Greenland it'll be prime real estate

[the other bob wilson]

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So, who’s got this right, this guy or Musk?

[Heathblue]

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perhaps they're planning for Global warming, when the southern states are inhabitable and all the ice has melted in Greenland it'll be prime real estate

I've had various podcasts on over the day, the minerals options seems to be the most believable. In getting ownership over them before Chyna.

[ninian opinian]

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So, who’s got this right, this guy or Musk?

Thanks for posting this Bob. Musk, the far right, right wing MP’s and the media in this country should hang their heads in shame.

[Wales-Bales]

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perhaps they're planning for Global warming, when the southern states are inhabitable and all the ice has melted in Greenland it'll be prime real estate

There is more chance of global cooling as the ice at the poles is increasing.

[jeepster]

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There is more chance of global cooling as the ice at the poles is increasing.

That is not fact.
The North is decreasing the South a slight increase.

[JamesWales]

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Thanks for posting this Bob. Musk, the far right, right wing MP’s and the media in this country should hang their heads in shame.

Far-right? Laughable.

[Eric Cartman]

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Far-right? Laughable.

Are you claiming that there is no such thing?

[JamesWales]

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Are you claiming that there is no such thing?

Erm, not really in the context of this story, no, and more generally no where near as much as it lives in some of your heads.

This is a story about the mass rape of children, many due to the race and class and potential cover ups that allowed it to go on for years. It wasn't the far-right doing it, even if you wish it was. Seeing some of you get furious over the people who didn't do this as opposed to those who did is pretty frustrating to be honest.

[ninian opinian]

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Erm, not really in the context of this story, no, and more generally no where near as much as it lives in some of your heads.

This is a story about the mass rape of children, many due to the race and class and potential cover ups that allowed it to go on for years. It wasn't the far-right doing it, even if you wish it was. Seeing some of you get furious over the people who didn't do this as opposed to those who did is pretty frustrating to be honest.

I tell you what’s frustrating is you and your ilk using the young girls who were terribly let down by the system to score political points. Labour meanwhile are getting on with bringing in the laws to help protect young people.

Musk the far right fruit loop and you hero is a danger to us all.

[the other bob wilson]

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Erm, not really in the context of this story, no, and more generally no where near as much as it lives in some of your heads.

This is a story about the mass rape of children, many due to the race and class and potential cover ups that allowed it to go on for years. It wasn't the far-right doing it, even if you wish it was. Seeing some of you get furious over the people who didn't do this as opposed to those who did is pretty frustrating to be honest.

Did you watch the podcast I posted? Whatever you call them, the journalist interviewed, rightly, said that there are politicians in this country and South African born.ignoramus' from America using this story for political purposes currently and a common thread is that they all fall into the category right wing. He also called out those on the left who, to some extent, enabled the scandal because they did not want to be called racist.