Over 200,000 Danish citizens Sign Petition to ‘Buy’ California From U.S After Greenland Dispute
9 months ago by HellsBelle to c/news
UPDATE -- I found the original website and it's even better than we thought.
Part 2 - This was started in Feb 2025 when tRump first proposed taking over Greenland.
What began as a joke on social media has snowballed into one of the most talked-about political satire campaigns in Europe this year. More than 200,000 Danish citizens have now signed a viral petition proposing that Denmark buy the U.S. state of California, a tongue-in-cheek response to former U.S. President Donald Trump’s past interest in acquiring Greenland.
Under the fictional proposal, Californians would be welcomed into the Kingdom of Denmark with a package of benefits that reads like a parody of Nordic governance. The petition promises “rule of law, universal health care, and fact-based politics” as immediate perks of Danish administration.
To underscore the absurdity, the organizers also pledge a lifetime supply of Danish pastries for all 39 million residents of the state. The petition’s website jokingly notes that while Denmark cannot solve every problem, “we are very confident about pastries.”
The satirical plan goes further, outlining a full cultural “Denmarkification” of the West Coast. Los Angeles would be rechristened “Løs Ångeles,” while Danish-style cycling infrastructure would spread across cities more famous for traffic jams than bicycles.
Even California’s most iconic institutions are not spared. Disneyland would be rebranded as “Hans Christian Andersenland,” a nod to Denmark’s most famous storyteller, Hans Christian Andersen. The petition cheerfully asks readers to imagine fairy tales replacing cartoon mascots, and even suggests that Viking helmets might become standard park attire.
As a WA state resident, we require inclusion in the deal. In fact, you buy 1 California and receive a complimentary WA state for free! Act now, and receive a special-one-time Oregon while supplies last!
No, too many Americans, we'd be a minority in our own country. I think we'd all be happy to visit Washington, Oregon, and California again and more often than before if it didn't require travelling to the US though.
An overland route between Mexico and Canada that doesn't go through the US, that could be interesting.
Would you be fine if we just made you EU members instead of a state? That might make things less complicated. And would piss Trump off even more.
The Californian Republic would definitely have the most interesting flag in the EU. Too many tricolors, not enough bears.
Where do I sign?!
Can other states join? Asking for friends.
I'll happily start learning Dutch Danish
I'm a dumbass
Why is it even part of the US? Just because some ships have been landed there? Well, danish has landed there too.
They should just sail a ship into Los Angeles and plant their flag.
I, for one, welcome our new Danish overlords!
You gotta keep the Bear.
Maybe have the bear and the swan both!
Don’t tempt us with a good time.
Also, can you take MA too? We have lots of neat bioscience stuff, tons of universities, and a similar dislike of orangeboi.
All sales of California include a complementary Washington State, and yes, it's mandatory.
Oregon and Hawaii too
a package of benefits that reads like a parody of Nordic governance. The petition promises “rule of law, universal health care, and fact-based politics”
That’s not even a parody, just daily life in the nordics contrasted with the US.
"Rule of law" and "fact-based politics" is just code for supporting existing power structures.
Turns out when you write the law, your rule is definitionally rule of law, and when you own the media, you get to determine what the facts are.
Both these concepts were used when the US sterilized mostly black women until... I think they're still doing it in some prisons, and when Denmark sterilized Inuits as recently as 2018.
Hey listen: California is vital for Denmark's security, for some reason. Also, the Danish prime minister was snubbed for the Nobel Peace Prize, so that means that they're going to invade us if we don't comply with the sale.
Yup. Just saw articles from Feb 2025.
Good thing is they're up to 285k now!
Count me in for being absorbed by Denmark!
Apparently I need to move to California.
California is one of the few states (most) Americans would not want to give up.
How about some of the Deep South?
I guess Alabama would be really expensive for us to pay you to take. Maybe Florida?
Alabama residents receive over $60 billion from the federal government—23% of all personal income.
These payments, known as transfer payments, include Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, veteran’s benefits, unemployment, Pell Grants, and others.* The report explains how an aging population and shrinking economic opportunities have shifted many communities into reliance on these transfer payments.
To put the $60 billion in perspective, Alabama’s four automakers generate $6.4 billion in total compensation, according to a report from Autos Drive America and the American International Automobile Dealers Association, as reported by al.com. That’s about one-tenth of the amount received from federal transfer payments.
In other words, a 10% reduction in these payments would have a similar economic effect on personal income as shuttering Alabama’s entire auto industry.
Alabama residents receive over $60 billion from the federal government—23% of all personal income.
This trend infuriates me to no end. It's one thing to subsidize underperforming states, but the fucking attitude these people have about "welfare" when their state literally would not exist without it in one form or another is just the worst. 1/4 of all personal income comes from other taxpayers in other states. The ultimate welfare program.
Not just Alabama, every southern "taker" state. I wish we could cut them off for a year to shut them the fuck up.
How about a trade? I mean, Trump really wants Greenland. That's about 2.2 million square kilometers.
Texas is about 0.7 million square kilometers. California is 0.4. New Mexico 0.3. Arizona is 0.3. That makes 1.7 million square kilometers.
So how about they swap? The USA get Greenland, Denmark gets all of the states adjoining Mexico. That swap is super favorable to the Americans (2.2 > 1.7, after all) and the USA even get a nice buffer state between themselves and those Mexican drug cartels they're so afraid of. There's literally no downside. Trump would be the greatest landswapper in all of history, if not more. I'm sure Denmark would even give him a Nobel Prize in Economy or two.
I don't know. Is there a country of Shreks out there somewhere? They might want to buy the thing.
Can we just put Florida up for sale?
Let's just push Florida into the Gulf
Maybe he'll just give it away then
Sold!
We'd like Hawaii for a First Round Pick in 2026 and a Second Round Pick in 2027
200,000, that's almost an entire suburb of LA!
Oh damn, don't tease me with a good time. I'm not a rich man, but I'd make a donation to help pay for the purchase.
California must be worried about the scourge of Mexico on the border. Let Denmark take over and mooth over the relationship and let free trade and immigration flow across the border once more. Further, Cali would instantly be the most populous Danish property over night.
I'm not sure you we should be subjecting Denmark to the people of Arkansas
As a "people of Arkansas", many of them aren't that bad, but just vote R for lower taxes. Their behavior can still be problematic, but they aren't intending to hurt anyone, even people they don't understand.
Now, some of them of monstrous religious zealots (often well-armed), and I wouldn't wish them on anyone, but I think the Danish system is just as well set up to deal with them and the American system.
... We should not inflict armed religious zealots on Denmark. No matter how many of them "aren't bad people"
I think you misread me. The "aren't bad people" are wholly separate from the "armed religious zealots", tho both appear in Arkansas (and most states, including California and New York).
Shit, wait for me to get there first!
Please buy all the west coast. We're like triplets and don't want to be parted. /puppydogeyes
I would give the Danes a bundle deal. Buy California and I'll include all the Blue States.
Gallows humour is the only way to deal with things sometimes.
You mean Denmark losing Greenland or US losing California?
Buy Florida? Forget it.
Let's try again:
How much are you willing to pay us for sailing three longships full of drones onto the beach at Mar-a-lago and claiming the land as ours?
(The boat-show is a useless but mandatory expense).
Euopean prisons are too good for him, and I don't care about justice at this point.
He should be placed in an American mental asylum for the rest of his days. A lobotomy and a few daily electroshocks would do good for his dementia and keep his mania in check.
Buy Florida? You'd have to pay them to take it.
I'm sure we can work out a decent crowd-source to pay, they get lots of fresh produce and a bunch of theme parks. Hell it has a ton of old people, just thrown in some healthcare, they might even go willingly
Yes...YESSSS
Why would we buy something we don't want?
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As a spokesperson for CA citizens, we'll take it! Please and thank you.
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