Mean what? It’s simple math. Whether it’s a good idea or not is a separate question. But the actual mechanics make it not as ridiculous as it sounds. Remember, Americans at the time thought buying Alaska was a mad folley as well.

As far as whether I think it’s a good idea, for $110 billion? Yeah, that would be a fantastic long term investment for the US. There’s the mineral and other resources on the island currently. And as the planet continues to earn, owning more northernly land is never a bad thing. I don’t support some colonial invasion to take Greenland by force. But its population is so tiny that just writing everyone a big check is possible.

I actually see the “buy Greenland” as the most practical of the territorial expansion claims Trump has floated. You’re not annexing big chunks of Canada or Mexico without committing some horrible crime. They’re unlikely to want to join willingly, and not even even the US is wealthy enough to offer some massive life-changing bribe to millions of Canadian or Mexican citizens in exchange for voting for annexation. So any expansion into Canada or Mexico would be a hostile invasion, and I do not support such a thing. I’m perfectly fine expanding the US if it makes sense for us and if the people want to actually join the US.

I mean, its population is small enough, that realistically, if we really decided we wanted it for geopolitical purposes, really wacky solutions do become possible. For example, you could cut a $2 million check to every man, woman, and child in Greenland, and the cost would be a $110 billion. That’s nothing to the US federal budget, and it would be a solid long term investment. You give every resident of Greenland enough cash to just straight up move to and retire in the US if they want to. And the cost would be minor compared to trying to seize it by military force, if such a conflict spawned a war with the EU. Even if us seizing by force just resulted in the EU applying a bunch of trade sanctions, straight up buying out the entire population would likely be far cheaper than doing it by force.

They are Ignorance and Want! They are the children of all who walk the Earth!

I mean, in theory, if we got him on the right hormonal cocktail, we could milk Robert De Niro…

Except that’s all been tried and promised before. The concept of SMRs is nothing new. It’s been tried again and again, every few years since the 1970s. It’s never panned out, and the promised savings from mass production of small reactors never materializes.

A nuclear booster’s excuse dichotomy:

If someone says, “nuclear isn’t safe,” respond “nuclear is heavily regulated and perfectly safe!”

If someone says, “nuclear is comically expensive,” respond “that’s only because of regulation!”

Obviously duhumanizing someone due to their race, religion, sexual characteristics, or other immutable properties is wrong. But we’re talking about someone who Damned themselves entirely through their own actions. No one took Thompson’s humanity from him; he threw it away willingly.

Make no mistake. When Thompson hit the pavement that cold morning, he did not stop falling. His soul tried to rise up to the clouds, but he could not. Looking down, his ghost found a shackle tied to his ankle. Bound in fetters to a pile of gold, an otherworldly representation of his own wealth and greed. As his spirit tried desperately to soar upwards, instead he sunk down, down, and down, the ground rising up above him like a diver beneath the surface of the ocean. And he did not stop falling until his soul reached the Pit of Hell itself.

Such is the fate of all men who take the lives of others for their greed. In the end, they all Burn.

And yet, every single civil right you enjoy now was only achieved through lethal violence. The powerful never give up their unearned privileges without at least a little blood spilling first.

Murder? Such strong language. Is CEO killing really murder? If someone has so thoroughly surrendered their humanity as Brian Robert Thompson did, are they really human anymore? You can only commit murder against humans. I think of Thompson more akin to a cloth sack filled with bloody dollar bills than an actual human being. Ethically, what Luigi did is like collapsing a cardboard box or treating mold on a bathroom tile. Technically a destructive act, but hardly murder. There’s no need to use such inflammatory language to describe the disassembly of an inanimate object.

I mean, aren’t they? The only real difference I can see between Kamala and Trump on Palestine is that Kamala prefers a more respectable version of genocide. She supports genocide, but she just wants it to be done slowly and quietly. Trump is on board with a fast and overt genocide. Their policies lead to the same outcome; Trump is just a lot more honest about it.