Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries

Re:Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries by monero-xmr on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @12:37PM (#46695010)

You have it 100% backwards. The goal of Europeans is not to work. They have low productivity. The majority of the economy is tourism or bureacracy. It's just a decaying, old place. It's fine if you goal is to be a museum but as a 21st century economy they have enormous structural problems. They will continue to sell their crown jewels to the highest bidder, because no one wants to work. Look at the hundreds of thousands of young men and women flocking to Ukraine to die on the front lines... there aren't any! No one actually wants to do anything

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Re:Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries by epistasis on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @12:50PM (#46695216)

> The goal of Europeans is not to work.

What, would you say, all these entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley are doing here?

They are all trying to invent something so that they don't have to work anymore.

> They will continue to sell their crown jewels to the highest bidder, because no one wants to work.

Is this about Europe or the US?

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Re:Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries by monero-xmr on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @01:14PM (#46695601)

It’s like this: if Europe tried to seize Alaska, millions of Americans would fight to the death. But America is going to take Greenland with barely a fart from the EU. Because they don’t care. It’s a museum

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Re:Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries by epistasis on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @01:38PM (#46695950)

That idea has been so destroyed by current events that I can only imagine that you are trolling or have been living in a cave for a few weeks. Check the news!

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Re:Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries by monero-xmr on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @02:35PM (#46696709)

What? You think suddenly Europe is going to erode its safety net and actually sacrifice something? Impossible

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Re:Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @09:02PM (#46700304)

> idea has been so destroyed by current events

To be fair, has it? The EU is talking about activating its anti-coercion thing, which would anyway only kick off a year-long consultation and voting process before anything happened. To my knowledge, there have been no consequences to America annexing Greenland put forward that would hit before the midterms.

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Re:Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries by monero-xmr on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @12:26AM (#46701483)

I feel like no one has read anything I have said but you

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Re:Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries by tomhow on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @09:43PM (#46700533)

We've asked you before not to break the guidelines. Political/ideological flamebait is not what HN is for and destroys what it is for. You can discuss these themes in curious ways, rather than inflammatory ways; indeed, you must, if you want your comments to avoid being killed by flags. Eventually we have to ban accounts that continually flout the guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries by monero-xmr on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @11:46PM (#46701236)

In my circles nothing I said would be considered problematic. I’m expressing opinions that are scary

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Re:Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries by tomhow on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @11:52PM (#46701280)

HN is a community that exists for a specific purpose and that purpose is curious conversation. The guidelines are designed to keep activity aligned with that purpose, and HN is a place where people want to participate because enough people make the effort to follow the guidelines and raise the standards rather than drag them down.

What is acceptable in your circles is not relevant here. What matters here is preserving HN as a good place for curious conversations.

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Re:Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries by monero-xmr on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @12:00AM (#46701326)

Duly noted that telling the truth as I see it is too scary for HN. Ban me don’t care, who gives a fuck

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Re:Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries by tomhow on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @02:27AM (#46702239)

We don't need mini-sermons or defiant strutting. Just respect for the community and the groundrules that make this a place people care about preserving. The guidelines are simple, and have been in place and stable for nearly two decades. If we didn't uphold them, this site wouldn't exist for you to denigrate like this.

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