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There are 600-800 homeless people in all of Greenland... For the people it concerns, it's a great problem because of the cold climate, but it's not a huge number of people. Why would they target this extremely small group? Any thoughts?
Easily bought I presume. Giving free food is cheaper than handing out money to people who are in a better financial position.
Money is payment. Food can be spun as kind-hearted. "I just bought them lunch; why are you being so mean about it?"
Likely less informed as well.
Why the hell would homeless people in another country give a shit about another countries politicians which has had 0 impact on their lives
A greater crowd in attendance, even if they're there just for the food, lends an air of legitimacy.
It's all about appearances.
Yeah how the fuck is this not self-apparant? Do people really need this explained to them?
They'll also make the populace.. look like homeless people
Yeah considering how butthurt Trump got about how few people showed up to his first inauguration and then spending so much effort trying to change the narrative, this is exactly it. No matter how hard he fails it’s important that it looks like a success to the idiots that voted him in and are eagerly waiting for egg prices to dip
How is the reasoning here not self-apparant? It's crazy to me that people need additional information to put two and two together here.
Because they are clueless.
In their tiny, pathetic, syphilitic minds, every country must have the same problems as the U.S. It's inconceivable to these morons that Greenland wouldn't actually have a large percentage of homeless people, because the U.S. does.
The conversation probably quite literally went like this between two morons sitting in Mar a Lago:
"Hey, let's just get some homeless people to show up."
"Do they have homeless people in Greenland.
"Of Course they do! Look around. They're everywhere..." (Completely ignoring the fact that they're not actually in Greenland.
Besides, a homeless person probably wouldn't turn down free lunch.
They were the only ones that would attend ...