by rvnx | 2026-01-10 23:48:19+00:00
Disobeying a state that has power on you has very negative consequences, no matter if the majority agreed together to disobey.

For example, let's say you are in France.

Half of the people in France want to split in half.

For example, historically they found that there are common ancestors doing whatever what, some shared culture, heritage, etc.

Anyway, people in the south don't want to be part of the France of Paris.
They dislike Macron, and Macron enforces COVID-26 and support for the war in Ukraine.

Police barely give protection, social security is broken.

They don't care, they just want to organize on their own (it somewhat works) and eat salami, enjoy the sun.

So, majority of people in Marseille now, they agree all together with the people from the south to be the headquarter of that new region.

This is no war, just peaceful independence, "your system is corrupt, we stop paying taxes, instead we will pay to brother N who organizes better, leave us alone".

Next stage:

- Good day Sir, this is Mr X from the taxes authorities, we'd like to remind you to pay

- Good day Sir, it's time to pay

- Sir, you have to pay or we take it

- We took from your bank account, but we still need more, pay or we come

- knock knock it's time to make inventory of your stuff

- We take everything to pay the taxes

- Good day Sir, this is electric company, you have to pay, oh you don't want to leave ? here is the police.

etc etc etc

You invite few neighbors to help you contest. Then neighbors of the neighbors who are in the same situation, neighbors of the neighbors of the neighbors.

Regular police can't handle that, they call CRS (team that handle masses), but still, not enough, so they call gendarmerie (police forces of the army), not enough gendarmerie, so they call the other part of the army.

So, now you have hundreds of thousands people in the streets, burning everything, refusing orders, physically harming the police.

Then what ? Of course they will shoot back.

The organizers, they describe themselves as Resistants. The state calls them as Terrorists.

Two different sides of the same coin.

Well, in France, the backfire would be active strangul, in Denmark the backfire would be passive.

From the perspective of France, people pay taxes, from the perspective of Denmark, Greenland costs taxes.

Ok fine you don't want to be part of Denmark.

-> No passport, no grants for you (600M USD a year) and will make you to punish you with reminders, audits, and penalties, asset seizures, bank account freezes, or liens on property.

No money = Eroded public support like healthcare or infrastructure.

The main reasons this can go on peacefully is because Greenland is current a net cost for Denmark, so maybe they want to get rid of it, and avoid bad PR and they anyway try to get rid of it since the 2009 Act on Self-Government

But in all cases, this is "great", as the US can step in, and "save" Greenland from a destroyed financial situation (or bring better).

but it can totally also go the harsh way if people are protesting that their money and properties are seized and Denmark wants to fight it as they see it valuable.