I found this list of home ownership rate in the EU and EU-associated countries. If you order the list from most to least home ownership, the top 13 countries for home ownership are all former AES states. Even from beyond the grave, a socialist economy is improving life for the peoples of the post-collapse statelets.

They still put the powerful magnet behind the license plate though so it will be pulled up right behind the car in front of them.

Denmark used to have an institution named "the Supreme Presidium" headed by a guy whose official job title was "Supreme President". It was an office tasked with supervising local governments and processing routine divorce and custody cases in the Copenhagen area.

Anyone who unironically uses the term "superfood" can be safely dismissed as a charlatan, a rube or both.

If there's anything that doesn't contain "mystery ingredients" it's going to be pharmaceuticals. Very few things are as controlled and monitored as the formulation and production of medicine.

The average layperson can't understand what all the ingredients are or what they do but that is a consequence of having a society with specialisation of work and it's no more alarming than the average layperson not knowing how apple trees are pruned. Something doesn't become a mystery simply because understanding it takes some effort.

Keep NGO's on a short leash. Shut down any media, organisation or party related to the US security state, or at least innoculate the population against them by demanding full transparency about their funding and pointing out who pays them. Mobilize the masses to show support (has worked in Cuba). Treat members of your security forces well and weed out reactionary elements.

Most important: Do not be an incompetent and corrupt prick that people are genuinely fed up with. Do good governance, even though times are tough due to US economic warfare. Be as honest and transparent as possible about the priorities you make and the scope of the problems you face and be in constant connection to the masses so you know what problems they face and how your decisions impact them.

Listen folks, I've had it with Denmark, that failing little shithole pork country, very low energy country. America needs to own Greenland for FREEDOM and NATIONAL SECURITY but the haters and losers in the Danish government they don't want to sell it. Greenland, it's the largest island in the world, it's where penguins live. Did you know that? Many people don't know that. I knew that, I know Islands very well. But they don't want to sell it, even when I offered them real American dollars for it, the best currency in the world, they said no. Can you believe it? They turned down the deal of a lifetime! Very rude.

I had made an appointment with their Queen to tell her we should make the Greenland deal happen, she's very sleepy, well past her prime, still an amazing woman though, the most tremendous hats ever! I had made an appointment but the moment they heard it was about buying Greenland the radical socialist government of Denmark, total bunch of haters and losers, said no. "No" they said "Donald you can't buy greenland you can't do it!" And they cancelled it all. They cancelled me! Very rude, very disrespectful. Nobody treats America like that!

Now the queen is out and they got this new guy, Freddie they call him. Little running guy, likes sports, jogs a lot, not that bright. "Freddie," I'm going to say to him, "Freddie, you're going to make the deal, youre going to sell us Greenland! It's going to be amazing!" And If he's any smart he'll know that now is the best time to sell and say yes. Its Not like Denmark is doing anything with Greenland anyways, it just sits there frozen.

Because I'm telling you, I'm telling you folks, we need Greenland and we're going to make Greenland American again no matter what the failing Danes say about the matter. We need Greenland for FREEDOM, because Greenland has Santa's workshop. All the elves, all the machines that makes the presents, it's true folks, it's right there in Greenland. No DEI, no woke OSHA rules, just hardworking elves. And we need that elf technology, we need it folks, we need it to make America great again. If we don't take it, China will. And if China gets Santa's workshop they're going to put communism in the presents, radical left-wing woke communism. They're going to do it folks and they're going to do it because they are jealous and hate America.

And Santa, we're going to make Santa an American. He'll wear red white and blue. There will be no more presents for illegal immigrants or terrorists or anyone who disrespects America! It's going to be huge folks!

We're going to get Greenland no matter what folks. If they're not going to make a deal and sell we're going to take it folks, we're going to do it. And what are the nasty Danes going to do about it? Their military is a total joke, total basket case. They don't have any nukes, not even a little tiny one. What are they going to do? Throw Legos at us? It's going to be great, all the Christmas presents will be made in the USA and Greenland will get McDonald's, they will get amazing American healthcare, they'll get the second amendment right to free speech, they'll become part of the greatest nation on earth, we'll breed a penguin-bald eagle hybrid, a Very patriotic bird, and we'll make it their national bird. It's going to be great folks!

It was extremely funny last time. Normally Danish politicians takes pride in being Washington's most loyal little dogs but this time around the yank demands were too outlandish, even for them, and they had to grow a spine and say no which made them visibly uncomfortable.

Tom Lehrer wrote some funny songs?

Taiwan is a self-ruling democracy that Beijing claims as its territory.

That's some weaselly writing. Everybody, including the governments of China, Taiwan and the US agrees that Taiwan is a part of China. The only people who think otherwise are dumb western libs who are too lazy to investigate anything.

You can't deny that this is a lot more fun than the usual hordes of boring spin doctors and lobbyists.

If Icelandic succdems are anything like other Nordic succdems, which their stated intention of ramping up state racism suggests, then all those nice words about poverty alleviation and sustainability are going to remain exactly that. At best they will slap a woefully inadequate bandage on the problem and claim victory.

For years Ronald Reagan had a secret court astrologer who was consulted on every major decision.

No problem. I'll make you dinner if you ever end up in undisclosed large Danish provincial city.

Talks about "cults of personality" among the scary unscrutable non-westerners becomes extra absurd when you live in a monarchy. You have this one family that everybody is expected to form a parasocial relationship with, they're always presented in a positive framing, their faces are on the money, stuff is named after them, TV shows are being made about how good they are, children put up plays about them being amazing in school. When they show up somewhere crowds gather to cheer them. If one of them were to fart in public, people would talk about what a brave fart it was and how it demonstrated their deep and real connection to the common folk.

But if you tell people that they're doing the exact same thing they're accusing Koreans of doing they look at you as if it is the most absurd thing they've ever heard.

I used to be naive and think that even though my country's only left-ish party, the Red-Greens, are absolutely dogshit when it comes to antiimperialism, militancy and the like, at least they were good on social issues. That is supposed to be the deal with the western left, they get to go all in on the "woke" stuff in return for being useless on everything to do with economy and geopolitics.

I am smarter now. Recently, 70 percent of the delegates at an extraordinary party congress voted to expel the Red Left faction for being too radical and too supportive of Palestinian resistance. That is bad enough as it is. But the purge prompted some Red-Green guy who sits in a municipal council to write a really depressing piece in Arbejderen. I thought we could at least be spared from the culture war bullshit, but alas no. He started out by saying how good it was that everyone in the party was now agreeing to support "democracy".

Then he went on to say that now the baddies had been purged it was important to have freeze peach inside the party. He had been silenced, you see. What was he silenced for? You guessed it, transphobia. Apparently admins in party group chats had removed his posts about "defining gender biologically". He then went on to complain about trans women footballers and how unfair it was to cis women footballers that they were playing, consistently misgendering the trans players throughout the piece. And the guy calls himself a leftist and holds elected office for a presumably "revolutionary socialist" party.

Judging from his complaints he is at least being "silenced" by other party members but it is deeply fucked that he can even think that transphobia is a legitimate belief inside a leftist party.

First as tragedy, then as farce

Denmark Imposes Harsh Welfare Reforms Targeting 'Non-Western' Immigrants

Denmark’s rubber-stamp parliament, has approved welfare reforms imposing strict conditions on welfare recipients, disproportionately targeting racialized minorities. The new laws require some welfare recipients to work 37 hours per week for a paltry DKK 6,553 (USD 917) monthly before taxes—an amount woefully inadequate in one of the world’s priciest nations.

The reform, presented by the ruling Social Democrat-led right-wing regime, was passed with the support of regime-loyal far right parties. A spokesman from the fascist Danish People's Party, gleefully embracing the prospect of forcing unpaid menial labor on non-white minorities, declared, "We don't just see this as a political victory; we see it as a victory for Denmark, for Danes, and for fairness".

The reforms, championed by the Nordic hermit kingdom's minister of employment, the Social Democrat hardliner Ane Halsboe-Jørgensen, claim to link "rights and responsibilities" but explicitly target 'non-Western' immigrants, particularly immigrant women. White refugees from Ukraine are explicitly exempt from the new punitive measures. The legal framework carefully avoids overt racial language, relying instead on conditions such as residency and employment history—criteria that disproportionately disadvantage minorities—thus providing a thin veneer of legality for the regime’s actions.

People targeted by the new reforms will be required to work full-time doing activities that includes doing menial public sector work, unpaid internships with private employers, employment in subsidized-wage positions or attending language classes. Tasks proposed for the work obligation include cleaning public toilets and sweeping sidewalks. Failure to comply could lead to even lower payments.

Critics from the moderate pro-democracy opposition, like Victoria Velasquez from the Red-Green Alliance, argue that the reforms fail to address barriers like health, education, or language and could cause even more people to end up working as unpaid labor in jobs that should be filled by paid workers earning fair wages under collective agreements. The nation's independent labor movement shares these concerns.

An estimated 10,000 individuals—90% of them non-Western immigrants—will also see their welfare payments slashed under tightened eligibility rules. These cuts will help finance modest subsidies for children’s activities and medications, presenting the reforms as a zero-sum game where the most marginalized are made to fund improvements for others.

• Source: Arbejderen, December 20th 2024

Some brief news from Denmark:

• Source: Arbejderen, December 19th 2024

And you all laughed at Jordan Peterson when he called women chaos dragons