10 daysNorway of all places. The country with some of the best ratings for quality of life, education, safety and nearly every other metric.
The reason, I’ll bet, is that people who are happy and well cared for are more difficult to exploit, which is the only metric his psychopathic brain cares about.
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More like he still thinks Norway controls the Nobel prize and he’s still mad he didn’t get it.
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Imagine being so dumb you think you deserve a peace prize for funding a genocide, starting wars and having a lawless Gestapo kidnapping people and dragging them to concentration camps for minor civil infractions
having a lawless Gestapo kidnapping people and dragging them to concentration camps for
minor civil infractionsnot being white
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I visited Norway a couple years ago. It was a god damn fairy tail. Waterfalls and fjords everywhere. Pristine rivers, mountains and forests. Clean air and water. Amazing restaurants and public transportation. Everyone spoke English. I would live there…easy. My only complaint is it is a bit expensive but the quality of live trade off would be worth it.
Everyone spoke English.
I get what you’re trying to say but saying this feels wrong. It just bothers me when Anglophones present this as some measure other nations should strive for.
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I spent 12 most learning Norwegian. I never had to use it once. My grandfather spoke it, but was a bit stubborn so we never learned it. I was more stating basically everyone in Norway speaks the English, which is nice for many international travelers as it is a common denominator for communication. Norwegian is not very useful as a second or third language, but I did enjoy it.
If you were to move to Norway, knowing how to speak Norwegian would be socially beneficial. While just about every Norwegian can carry a conversation in English, it’s mentally taxing enough that side conversations between Norwegians are done in Norwegian soon enough. And then it’s only a matter of time until the main conversation is done partly in Norwegian.
I’ve seen a lot of international students feel left out, not because the Norwegians want to exclude them, but because it’s less socialy draining to talk in the same language you think in.
I doubt donnie dumbass even thought about it that hard or knows any of that.
He is just a man-baby throwing more ketchup on the wall because the black man got a prize and he didn’t. He will just never get over so many things - Obama having two terms and getting a prize that he didn’t being fairly high on the list.
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He couldn’t make dark money hand over fist in Norway, so he can’t understand why anyone would want to be there.
- Rothe@piefed.socialEnglish10 days
No, it is just because he didn’t get the Nobel Peace prize. He doesn’t care about that other stuff in the slightest, because it is not about him.
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Agreed, on a separate subject, who the hell writes a 1300 word mini essay on a micro blogging platform, have to be a complete lunatic 🤔 lol
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Ohh good point…the attention span required just isn’t there with dear leader lol
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- Grok as dictated by Donald J trump Or something along those lines lol.
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This guy’s hasn’t driven himself anywhere in 30 years #JustEpsteinClassThings
- Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.caEnglish10 days
Time to take him behind the shed and unload both barrels into him at point blank.
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I wish any reporter would ask Trump a simple question like, “Can you say a number between 500 and 1000?” or “What is the capital of the United States?” or “Name a country in North America.”
He already failed ‘who’s the president of the Virgin Islands*?’
e: sorry, I mixed this up, it wasn’t Puerto Rico, it was the Virgin Islands.
To be fair, it’s the same dumbfuckery.
- farmgineer@nord.pubEnglish10 days
I volunteer to go there and face the shitty conditions. … please?
(let me go back in there, and face the peril!)
Trump is such a moron 😂 Anyone would be lucky to be born in norway.
To this day, I still have no idea why my Norwegian friend became a US citizen and started living here in the US
The US is actually a great place to live if you are a wealthy white person.
- Sunflier@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
At least we provide our citizens with basic things like health insurance as a right.
-All Norway has to say.
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As a Norwegian, I would never call it health “insurance”. It’s just part of the social security that we pay taxes for.
- Sunflier@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
Well, the state is acting as a single payer for all health care its populace needs. The money is not going from you directly to the service provider. An example of that would be you paying someone to rotate your tires. Rather, the state is providing payment to the doctor for services provided to treat your health care needs. Thus, the state is acting as an insurer whose premium is the taxes you pay. You just get a whole lot of extras for the premium you pay (like road work, disaster relief, penalizing criminality, etc.). That is a textbook example of insurance.
No it’s not… it’s a textbook example of a social safety net. aka Social Security. aka what they said.
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I mean, the state provides public schools, free for all aged ≈5-18, but we don’t call it “education insurance.”
No but you could call it dumbass insurance, that would be pretty cool.
- Sunflier@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
but we don’t call it “education insurance.”
Did you not see where I said this?
You just get a whole lot of extras for the premium you pay (like road work, disaster relief, penalizing criminality, etc.).
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So all my taxes are going to insurance somehow?
Public transport insurance?
Public school insurance?
Public road insurance?
- Sunflier@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
Did you not see where I said this?
You just get a whole lot of extras for the premium you pay (like road work, disaster relief, penalizing criminality, etc.).
But, yeah, at a conceptual level, society is ultimately a safety net (synonym for insurance) when compared to the individualism from living pre-stone age.
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"**“He knows very well that the Nobel committee is independent,” **
I don’t think he is familiar with that concept.
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Honestly I was expecting Vance to already make his move by now. But I think he’s just so unlikeable that he can’t convince anyone else to side with him.
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he has no chance of magats rubbing off on him and gaining their support if he tries to grab power for himself.
Pretty sure that’s why Vance was chosen. Remember that Mike ‘mother wouldn’t approve’ Pence wasn’t subservient enough for trump and went against him in the 11th hour.
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It won’t work though. All Trump has to do is say, “I’m fine,” and he can act as President again after being removed.
I can’t wait until we don’t have to see his tantrums everywhere. One day everyone will forget all about him.
- PodPerson@lemmy.zipEnglish10 days
We had better not forget about him. Just like we had better not forget about all of the other monstrous people in our history and the monstrous things that they’ve done.
That wasnt even a fire back. Straight up tell him to shut his dumbass up. Thats a fire back.
- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish10 days
Oh hilarious, another American with an opinion about a country he has never seen.
Norway has their shit together. It’s a better Sweden.
Donnie dumbass is just butthurt that the black guy got a prize and he didn’t. It’s as simple as that.
So, are you saying that the USA’s healthcare and quality of life is worse than that of a shithouse country?
Because our healthcare and quality of life is inferior to Norway’s. According to… everybody but you, you blathering dingus
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Holy shit, we’ve come full circle.
Didn’t he use Norway as the example of the opposite of a “shit hole” country?
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Maybe in his mind there’s a significant difference between a shithole and a shithouse? I don’t want to subject myself to the insanity of trying to parse his irrational thoughts any further though.
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Trump made the comments while complaining to the audience in Port Huron, Michigan, that the Nobel Peace Prize was won by a “woman nobody had ever heard of.” “I said ‘What about me? Do they do two of them?’ Think of it, I settled, so I’m not in love with Norway. Frankly, Norway sucks. Norway has become a shithouse country, actually,”.
Thus in his mindset he’s worse than some unknown loser girl. Let’s give the orange one the benefit of the doubt. He’s indeed much worse. So who is she?
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law. Navi Pillay’s commitment to universal legal principles and her firm moral compass are constants in a long career. … Today Navi Pillay is a judge on the International Court of Justice in the case where Myanmar stands accused of genocide. Link: https://www.nobelpeaceprize.org/press/press-releases/nobel-peace-prize-for-2026
Ok sure, that’s an easy win. Besides sucking up to other genocidal maniacs in this World, Trump neither has a moral compass nor legal principles.
