It's the Biden explanation for why poor kids aren't as smart as white kids(tm). According to Biden you need to leave the record player on at night to help develop your childrens' vocabulary.
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A few months ago Danish State Media ("DR") had two amazing pieces back to back in it's nightly programming. The first one was an austerity measure, where Denmark apparently had to cut some staff, as we had a hole in our budget worth about 1,5-2 billion DKK (or some other figure I can barely comprehend). The litteral next segment was a fluff piece about how Denmark was one of the most generous nations when it came to supporting Ukraine, as we had given them equipment for a grand total sum of 1,75 billion DKK. This was of course presented as a fantastic piece of news and showing how good and selfless we are up here in the civilized north.
Well, Denmark did the West Wing shit back in november and managed to have an election result in a coalition government that split power 3 ways. Our SocDem retained the prime minister position, with the newly crowned centrists of the Moderates taking the Foreign Minister post and with the tradional right wing party "Left" getting the position of minister of defense. While Denmark has a bunch of other ministeries, these 3 were the big ones that the coalition had to divide amongst themselves, which is why it somehow took about a month before we had any fucking government. Said coalition has then been speedrunning the austerity playbook and straight up removed a public holiday, tried to workshop a reform of higher education that would more or less cut a lot of programs in half, oh and they also managed to spend a shitload of public money buying artillery systems from Israel.
Anyway, after experiencing this amazing "not-polarized" coalition, most Danish people are at a loss for what to do next, since we tend to just kick out either the socdems or the centrist liberals whenever they do something stupid. We had a lot of talk from our big unions about a potential general strike, both as a result of the removal of the holiday, and also because inflation was skyhigh when it became time to do contract negotiations. Said strike never materialized, because our unions are cucked and at their weakest since the 1940s.
It was genuinely repulsive to look at. Everything from Søren Gade sounding like he never read the speech placed in front of him before, to Zelensky blabbering on and on about the shared democratic values of Denmark and Ukraine which I thought was grim when you remember what Denmark did to Greenland.
Z Poster would have gotten named in every single Defederate Hexbear post, and I presume would have picked a fight with them all somehow simultaneously.
Tbf I don't think Danish Pilot training includes anything on avoiding Russian air defence, so a longer training session probably won't be all that effective.
Danish State Media is going absolutely apeshit at the moment because Zelenskyy just walked into our parliament building since we agreed to deliver Ukraine some F16 fighter-jets. Big day for the Ukraine heads in the NATO founding country of Denmark.
Everyone knows that any form of dissent is actually brigading, and the more dissent there is, the more you're being brigaded.
The brigading claims get extremely annoying when it's made by someone who just posted something extremely wrong and is now getting corrected by a bunch of people with more knowledge of the facts.
Danish unions used to be quite strong, but ever since the neoliberal turn, they've become buried in paperwork and legal matters, rather than like in the US where you had them forcibly neutered at gunpoint. Also AFAIK neoliberalism didn't come to denmark until the "End of history" period of the 90s, so a lot of older union guys still think it's the 1960s and 1970s and haven't really caught up with the fact that our Social Democrats aren't really a working class party anymore, and that the union's relentless drive to get the SocDems in power is not going to benefit their members.