always_never

I was 17 'somewhere in Northern Europe' in 1983. "Know that the wise man knows he's ignorant but cultivates more understanding" Timothée C.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Félicitations, Mette Frederiksen, pour le début de votre 3e mandat en tant que PM du Danemark.

Je me réjouis à l’idée de collaborer avec vous pour resserrer les partenariats entre nos deux pays, renforcer la sécurité dans l’Arctique et bâtir un avenir prospère pour nos peuples.

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Trump is now bragging over doctors being so concerned with his cognitive decline that he was given 3 dementia tests in a year and Obama/Biden were given 0.

Not the brag you think it is, Donald!

[ver. @cryeyesviolet_]

can someone tell americans that we, in europe, complain about CLIMATE CHANGE and not the lack of AC at our houses?

[🇨🇦 Jamie Carroll 🇨🇦 @jec79]

Abject idiocy.

[Dionisa 2.0 @frommontenegro]

Their entire “peace talks” were just trying to force Ukraine to surrender and it failed 😂😂😂

[Markus Valentin 🇩🇰🇬🇱 @marfus_valentin]

In front of the U.S. Consulate in Nuuk Greenland.

Chanting USA GO HOME

[benny 🇩🇰 🇫🇴 🇬🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @benny0692698414]

mayor in Kujjaleq greenland hands protest letter to usa ambassador in greenland On Thursday, Malene Vahl Rasmussen, mayor of Greenland's southernmost municipality, Kijaleq with 6000 inhabitants, delivered a letter with a protest to the American ambassador Kenneth A. Howery

She says that the citizens of the municipality are still marked by the aggressive American reports in relation to Greenland.

Malene Vahl Rasmussen says that she has not previously had the opportunity to deliver the letter with the protest - but she has now.

"I represent the citizens of the municipality, but I also represent my country and I will do everything possible to protect it.

- Do you still feel your country is in danger?

- Yes, answers a clearly touched and weeping Malene Vahl Rasmussen.

- It's not okay. That's not how you treat your allies," she said of the U.S. government's way of acting.

[Henrik Dahl @SociologenHD]

As a Danish and European politician, I am not accustomed to deliberate public falsehood as a political method. But it is probably something we will have to get used to.

Take, for example, Jeff Landry’s blatant falsehood that Donald Trump was the first major politician to truly place Greenland on the world map.

If we confine ourselves to this century alone, Colin Powell was co-signatory of the Igaliku Agreement in 2004 while serving as Secretary of State. John Negroponte, then Deputy Secretary of State, represented the United States when the Ilulissat Declaration was signed in 2008. John Kerry visited Greenland in 2016 while serving as Secretary of State. And Antony Blinken visited the island in 2021.

Greenland was also visited by Angela Merkel in 2007, when the purpose was to study climate change.

And the island has continuously received visits from American politicians who genuinely take an interest in Arctic affairs. The foremost among them is undoubtedly Lisa Murkowski.

So Greenland has long been on the world map - partly because of climate change, and partly because of the question of Arctic security. And Greenland has continuously been integrated into Arctic cooperation, not least as a consequence of the Igaliku Agreement.

There was a time when I read a great deal of Jürgen Habermas and believed that the norm of truth was an unbreakable norm among civilized people. I believed that, as Habermas put it, the better argument exercised a kind of “forceless force.”

What we lack today is a new Habermas for the twenty-first century - someone capable of describing the performative role of the lie.

Because the reality is this: to someone who knows nothing about Greenland, Jeff Landry’s statements sound perfectly plausible. But they are simply a fabrication. A good story. Something designed to generate support without any ambition toward truth. Harry Frankfurt argued that this is the very essence of what he called “bullshit.”

We no longer merely disagree about values. Increasingly, we disagree about reality itself.

Jeff Landry is part of the post-truth culture that permeates American politics. But it is also something we in Europe will increasingly have to adapt to, simply because of the influence the United States possesses.

It is difficult to say where this post-truth strategy will lead the Western world. But I will be honest: I have reached an age where I preferred the world shaped by the ideals of the Enlightenment - by truth as a moral norm and obligation.

That world is gone. Perhaps permanently. I understand that. But I cannot pretend to admire the replacement.

[Sari Arho Havrén @SariArhoHavren]

With such a respectful approach, what could go wrong?

[Orla Joelsen @OJoelsen]

If you walk through downtown Nuuk, Greenland 🇬🇱 you will likely come across red-and-white posters.

ASU’ means ‘STOP IT’ in Greenlandic.

[Kyle Orton @KyleWOrton]

Poland is the archetype of a European country that has done what the Trump people say they want in spending on its own defence and creating a military than can get things done, and Warsaw still gets treated dismissively by Vance and the rest.

[Orla Joelsen @OJoelsen]

Governor Landry, to Greenlandic children:

“—If you come to the Governor’s Mansion in Louisiana, you can have all the chocolate chip cookies you can eat.”

—DR

[Orla Joelsen @OJoelsen]

Thank you for speaking the truth and for your support for Greenland 🇬🇱 Rufus Gifford, former U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark.

[Irene_P @IPilipchuk87005]

I will always believe this performance was contender to win

[Irene_P @IPilipchuk87005]

He was hardly tanked by the running order and still scored top-3 with the juries and gave his country the best result since 2013. Denmark should be proud of Søren!

[always_never @alwaysnever16]

@actuallykaii A shared 2nd actually 😉❤️

[Truta | 🇵🇹 @truta_luis]

Well, I hope that in 24 hours we will be celebrating his victory! 🫶🏼✨ #Eurovision #eurovision2026

[Sasha 🇺🇦 @ArtSash]

Leleka 🇺🇦, Jonas 🇳🇴, Søren 🇩🇰

I love this friendship ❤️

[maggie 🇧🇬 ♡ @theswedenboo]

THIS IS EVERYTHING TO ME

[Kerem @Krm_H67]

Can‘t believe that from all the countries it was 🇩🇰 Denmark delivering THE banger of this year‘s Eurovision. Everything about this is pop perfection 🤩

#Eurovision #Eurovision2026 #ESC2026