If Trump offered you £1 million to vote for your country to become part of US, would you?

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This is hypothetically one of the options available to Greenlanders.

We're Scottish. I say no, DH says take the money and move.

Sorry, for some reason I can't enable voting. I get a No Entry sign

Nope. Wouldn't be worth it for how much less safe and stable the country would be.

Exactly. A million pounds will quickly become almost worthless there. And you're under the rule of Trump, and part of America?

HARD NO!

He doesn’t have the money

Fuck that.

No. Not to him. Not to a rapist bully.

Good point.

Trump is notorious for stiffing contractors, not paying bills, changing his mind, not honouring contracts, lying and cheating. He has no honour.

Anyone making such an agreement with him/his regime would be a fool.

Absolutely not. Never.

No chance

The prisoners’ dilemma. It’s a thought experiment that means that the selfish choice is best individually but the collective choice is best collectively.

I don’t know a lot about Inuit (specifically Kalaallit) culture, although I have spent some time with other First Nations as an honoured guest on their land. Northern indigenous culture tends to collectivity. So decisions won’t be made piecemeal.

Have you seen America at the moment?

Not a fucking chance.

Absolutely not.

Fuck no.

And I wouldn't trust him as far as I could kick him, anyhow.

Definitely no.

And suppose it happened and you were a Greenlander with £million. Presumably everyone else would have a £million too. For how long would you feel rich when you all have the same?

No I don't hate myself that much or fellow inhabitants of Scotland or the UK as whole for that matter.

I’d like to say no, but in truth I would in a heartbeat.
I have dual citizenship. I’d take the million £, cash in all my current assets and have a great life in country 1.

No.

Besides the fact that neither I, nor my country is for sale, it would be an inflationary disaster.

Give me the money.

Money’ll come from Venezuela. It’s a tiny amount (0.1%) of the US’s GDP in any case.

But no I wouldn’t. Cost (jobs, education, healthcare) would easily exceed £1m in my kids’ lifetime.

I'd take the money but vote against him regardless. Making money off of promising one thing and doing the opposite is his modus operandi so it would only be fitting to do the same to him.

I heard the offer described as: a million pound cheque to each greenlander with a green card stapled to it and a condo in Miami.

I have no idea how Greenlanders would feel about it. It would be a great deal for the USA.

Wow, I don't think I've ever started a thread (under any username on any topic) that has got so many responses in such a short time.

I'm glad that, despite my not being able to activate voting, most posters seem to agree that the answer would be "Hell, no"!

Yep. I’d do an awful lot for money. We’re all different!

It would ruin Greenland completely if the citizens got hand of this kind of money.

And hell no I would change a Danish citizenship for an American these days.

Denmark allows dual citizenship but I don't those rules will cover the current situation if Greenland somehow comes under America.

The Greenlandic people are Danish citizens with the right to free education, free health care, free access to social services and free access to settle in Denmark.
Denmark pays an annual financial subsidy from the Danish state to the Greenlandic Government of around 4 billion DKK. It constitutes a large part of Greenland's budget.

Good luck getting the US to do the same for the years ahead and to respect Greenland's independence in the same way as the Danes.

Erm, right now? Yes. Because I really need that money. For genuine reasons.
So yes. 100%.