Danes sign petition to buy California from U.S.
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·February 11, 2025IncreasePosts
bufferoverflow
Or just borrow 10x on their margin account.
karaterobot
Great timing, go for them them just after they've suffered a horrible catastrophe. Still, the economy of California is remains like 8x larger than that of Denmark. Make an offer I guess, it can't hurt.
tzs
> Great timing, go for them them just after they've suffered a horrible catastrophe
What if Denmark helped cause the catastrophe to drive the price down?
They could be part of the "globalist plot to wage economic warfare and deindustrialize the United States" that Alex Jones claims the California fires were part of, and that Elon Musk said is true.
jmclnx
How about starting small ? People in my state would love to have our State sold to Denmark. As a bonus, I think it could be the closest or maybe 2nd closest state to Denmark!
Also I hear our politicians come very cheap.
dave333
Swap California and Greenland. Clothing optional beaches make more sense in California.
cpncrunch
Canada bagsyed it first. You might have a (very polite) fight on your hands.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/donald-trump-annexation-eli...
readthenotes1
It would be a war of attrition
dev-jayson
Coming up next: Californians petition to buy Denmark from EU
trilbyglens
That would be a good trick considering the EU does not own Denmark.
nojvek
And Greenland!
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eucryphia
Australia will throw in the state of Victoria.
whyenot
Does this mean we will get discount ozempic?
recursivedoubts
Unironically, peaceful secession is the best answer to the majority of the problems in the United States.
hollerith
I disagree: a big reason Beijing is so keen to unite all the Chinese-speaking (Chinese-writing to be exact) lands under its rule is that Chinese history shows that when China is divided into multiple polities, war frequently breaks out between them and rivals like Japan can keep China weak by playing one polity off against another.
readthenotes1
The trouble is the secession would have to be cities versus rural areas in the United States. There's no good State map
recursivedoubts
i think if you allowed states to secede, you'd see the rural and urban issue balance out
it's been ongoing for the last fourty years anyway
sadeshmukh
States are heavily subsidized by the federal government - I believe California pays in way more than it gets. You're going to have all the GDP walk away and be left with a ton of sorry states. It's entirely unfeasible.
vkou
Looking at what it costs to put a politician into your back pocket, I would assume that it costs way less than a trillion dollars to buy a country, let alone a state. 10-20 billion should suffice.
ossm1db
GDP is 4 trillion. It's going to take at least that to convince Musk to sell it. He's not in it to lose money.
ranger_danger
Careful... decreasing the number of states makes it easier for them to have absolute rule over something, don't give any ideas...
Considering the GDP of California is 10x that of Denmark's, it will have to be a reverse takeover.