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.
https://apnews.com/article/denmark-greenland-california-75f1521f32871069e9840069e829e4dc
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.
88 Comments
aleph@piefed.social · 162 pts · 201d
As a spokesperson for CA citizens, we'll take it! Please and thank you.
Hylactor@sopuli.xyz · 75 pts · 201d
Only if they take Washington and Oregon too.
assembly@lemmy.world · 64 pts · 201d
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!
wheezy@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 200d
If it were up to me Canada would buy us. I heard their getting China EVs soon.
Someone@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 200d
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.
wheezy@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 200d
What if we only let the non Tesla drivers stay and purge the Tesla drivers from Washington? It would be a good filter and less people. Deal?
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 24 pts · 201d
An overland route between Mexico and Canada that doesn't go through the US, that could be interesting.
X@piefed.world · 13 pts · 201d
As a Washingtonian, yes please, and thank you for including us and Oregon. It is greatly appreciated!
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 9 pts · 201d
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.
Barbarian@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 201d
The Californian Republic would definitely have the most interesting flag in the EU. Too many tricolors, not enough bears.
Donjuanme@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 201d
Fuck that if they just want the bay area I'm in.
DrakeAlbrecht@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 201d
Where do I sign?!
Alatarius@lemmynsfw.com · 9 pts · 201d
I second that.
criss_cross@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 201d
Can other states join? Asking for friends.
bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 201d
I'll happily start learning
DutchDanishNotSteve_@piefed.ca · 5 pts · 201d
Unless I'm being wooshed, I think it might be best to start learning the actual languages spoken in Denmark unless you expect the Netherlands to outbid them lol
bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 201d
I'm a dumbass
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 200d
Colorado has introduced a buy one get one free deal with California!
gigachad@piefed.social · 75 pts · 201d
I think it's psychologically important for Denmark to own California
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz · 22 pts · 200d
Why is it even part of the US? Just because some ships have been landed there? Well, danish has landed there too.
cheesybuddha@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 200d
They should just sail a ship into Los Angeles and plant their flag.
Rinox@feddit.it · 1 pts · 199d
Mah, they should slop the photo with AI and say they did it
zbyte64@awful.systems · 9 pts · 201d
It's psychologically important for me to, the change would be of immense psychological benefit to me.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 69 pts · 201d
I, for one, welcome our new Danish overlords!
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 201d
You gotta keep the Bear.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 201d
Maybe have the bear and the swan both!
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 41 pts · 201d
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.
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 201d
UnspecificGravity@piefed.social · 34 pts · 201d
All sales of California include a complementary Washington State, and yes, it's mandatory.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 200d
Oregon and Hawaii too
GojuRyu@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 200d
That’s not even a parody, just daily life in the nordics contrasted with the US.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 199d
"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.
elbucho@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 201d
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.
P1nkman@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 201d
That was LAST YEAR!
HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 200d
Yup. Just saw articles from Feb 2025.
Good thing is they're up to 285k now!
Psythik@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 200d
I was about to say, "past interest"!? How naïve the article writer was a year ago...
ceenote@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 201d
Frankly, I'd like to move to Denmark or Greenland, but they'd probably be understandably suspicious of me.
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 201d
Apparently I need to move to California.
Quilotoa@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 201d
Canada wants to buy Minnesota. They seem like our kind of people.
rageagainstmachines@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 200d
Count me in for being absorbed by Denmark!
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 201d
California is one of the few states (most) Americans would not want to give up.
How about some of the Deep South?
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 201d
What will you pay us to take it?
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 201d
I guess Alabama would be really expensive for us to pay you to take. Maybe Florida?
https://parcalabama.org/alabamas-60-billion-question/
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 200d
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.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 201d
hmm, Give me a bit to open up a crowdsource campaign. We could stand to lose some red in the map :)
Jesus_666@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 201d
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.
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 200d
That's kind of the point
treesquid@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 201d
Texas or Florida would have been a much more appropriate choice. Trump doesn't even like California.
echodot@feddit.uk · 24 pts · 201d
No one wants to buy Florida.
WoodScientist@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 201d
I don't know. Is there a country of Shreks out there somewhere? They might want to buy the thing.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 201d
Can we just put Florida up for sale?
echodot@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 200d
We're prepared to take Cape Canaveral but the rest of it can be tossed. No one wants to deal with Miami
AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 200d
Let's just push Florida into the Gulf
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 200d
Maybe he'll just give it away then
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 5 pts · 200d
yea but I'm sure it's worth more than most states
Bluewing@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 200d
I would be inclined to listen to their trade offers of California. I would also offer Minnesota to Canada for a future draft pick.........
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 200d
We'd like Hawaii for a First Round Pick in 2026 and a Second Round Pick in 2027
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 201d
200,000, that's almost an entire suburb of LA!
thenextguy@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 201d
Sold!
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 201d
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.
SippyCup@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 200d
I will gladly move to California ahead of the purchase.
Quite honestly Trump could tout this as a win. Huge buyout and they get rid of a bunch of uppity liberals.
AlexLost@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 201d
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.
goombakid@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 200d
Take the whole west coast. OR and WA are sick of this BS too. Hell, take HI as well!
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 201d
I would give the Danes a bundle deal. Buy California and I'll include all the Blue States.
bss03@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 200d
Can they buy Arkansas instead? We need a state government that respects the bodily autonomy of women, and I'd appreciate operating under Danish national law rather than a federal government run by Trump.
cheesybuddha@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 200d
I'm not sure you we should be subjecting Denmark to the people of Arkansas
bss03@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 199d
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.
cheesybuddha@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 199d
... We should not inflict armed religious zealots on Denmark. No matter how many of them "aren't bad people"
bss03@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 199d
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).
razen@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 200d
I as an Asian support this deal. Please go ahead with it.
switcheroo@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 201d
Please buy all the west coast. We're like triplets and don't want to be parted. /puppydogeyes
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 201d
Shit, wait for me to get there first!
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 200d
I'm not sure about the countries and what they do. Is Norway running Denmark? Will this finally get trump the Holland Peace Prize? /s
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 201d
I see people are still treating this like the joke it very much isn't. I doubt many of us will still be laughing in a few months.
HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 201d
Gallows humour is the only way to deal with things sometimes.
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 201d
You mean Denmark losing Greenland or US losing California?
Minimac@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 200d
I should moving to Denmark because I’m part of Denmark so fuck America!!!!
blitzen@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 201d
I’m a Californian. Can I sign?
dhork@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 201d
No, they need to buy Florida. 2 Republican Senators, net loss of 12 Republican House seats. Lop Florida off the country and we have a better shot of pulling out of this nonsense.
bstix@feddit.dk · 16 pts · 201d
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).
dhork@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 201d
Can you abduct him while you are at it and bring him to the Hague? It's not that far for you guys
bstix@feddit.dk · 5 pts · 201d
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.
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 201d
Buy Florida? You'd have to pay them to take it.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 201d
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
Harmless@piefed.social · 4 pts · 201d
Can Switzerland buy Colorado?
Boiglenoight@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 201d
Yes...YESSSS
CalvusRex@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 25d
Honestly? They can fucking have California...
Minimac@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 201d
FrederikNJS@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 201d
Why would we buy something we don't want?