Have You Met Amelia?

 

The socialist, Islamophilic British government, smarting from fresh criticism over arresting 12,000 of His Majesty's subjects for unlawful tweeting, launched a propaganda program aimed at British youth: 'Pathways', an online 'game' in which the main character, Charlie, is being subverted by a Goth chick, Amelia, (blue hair, black velvet choker, pink mini-dress, purple cardigan) into rejecting his new neighbors from third-world countries.   The game has students trying to help Charlie defend against the verbal assaults of the hateful poisonous far-right Islamophobic revanchist Amelia.

Oddly, reaction from the actual students to the program content seems to be that they consider Amelia's opinions and positions to be common-sensical.

Oops...

Overnight, content creators have materialized Amelia into a modern-day British equivalent to Joan of Arc, but the government can't burn this one.   To see what Babbage hath wrought, pop on over to YouTube and search for 'Amelia'.   Page after page of AI-generated videos of Amelia, appropriately costumed, delivering British patriotic anthems of ages past: 'Jerusalem', 'I vow to thee, my country', and more, pressing into service modern rock diatribes as well.   One video has Amelia confronting Keir Starmer: "How did we get all the way from Churchill to you, you git?"

This would be no story except for the fact that popular support for Amelia has gone into low Earth orbit.   'Off the charts' simply doesn't do it justice.   The British people, it now seems, have only been waiting for someone to give voice to their unspoken — and untweeted — thoughts.

Even better, there is now a Swedish version, Inga, and a German version, Maria, and there's said to be an Australian version, but I haven't seen it.   All over the Western world, Amelia has spread like an engineered virus.   Various governments are furiously trying to put the genie back in its lamp and failing, predictably.

If you had asked me three weeks ago what I thought of the UK, I would have told you that I was sure it was 'a lost cause' soon to be overwhelmed by third-world in-migration and becoming, itself, part of the third-world.   Now?   As Churchill once opined: "This is not the end.   It is not even 'the beginning of the end'.   But it may be the end of the beginning."

You go, Amelia!

 

The 'solution' to Greenland is simple.

 

President Trump wants the US to 'own' Greenland.   Denmark, its current 'owner', is opposed, as are many European countries.   The situation appears complicated; it's not.

Pragmatically, Denmark cannot defend Greenland from aggression.   It can barely defend itself.   At base, the same is true for many or most of the objecting European countries.   Should Russia or China make an aggressive move toward Greenland, only one nation could plausibly stand in their way: the United States.   When Trump boasts of this, he is — for all his boastfulness — telling the truth.

Greenlanders aren't interested in becoming our 51st state.   If such a proposal were posited, the issue would have to be put to the inhabitants of Greenland, who — if reports can be believed — would vote 'no' overwhelmingly.   The US wouldn't, as a matter of policy, provide for Greenlanders the sort of European-style benefits they currently enjoy, so there's that.   Denmark is currently shelling out $600M per year for Greenland 'maintenance, but gets approximately nothing from Greenland in return.   Why they wouldn't want to shed it is something of a mystery.

So, what is the simple solution?   Simply this:   Greenland needs to be an independent nation — not some nation's property — not 'owned' except by its own people.

Let Greenland make its own deal with whomever is interested in dealing for whatever terms they can negotiate.

I know someone who will give them a pretty lush payoff, and they won't have to become a state to get it.