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Culture War Roundup for the week of September 21, 2026

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Forget about money, they don't even have the manpower. With a population of around 60000, a large proportion of which are alcoholics, they have neither the numbers nor the skills required to maintain a functional modern society.

is that really heavy drinking? apparently, 60g of pure alcohol is equivalent to 3 pints. the NHS recommends no more than 14 units a week (6 pints) which i think would be around 112g of pure alcohol but also that is meant to be spread over 3 days.

Fair enough, calling that alcoholism was hasty of me. Especially considering that many countries, Denmark included, drink more than that. Looking into it a bit more, it seems that their main issues are currently with suicide and child(pay attention to table 4) sexual abuse. While these indicate real social problems, I suppose they technically don't provide evidence for incompetence.

"According to the most recent Greenland Population Health Survey from 2018–2019, 35% of young people aged 15–34 engage in heavy episodic drinking, consuming at least 60 grams or more of pure alcohol on at least one occasion in the past 30 days."

It's a very poorly defined bracket.

This amount of drinking seems total normal, even healthy for a young man. It's equivalent to what, 5 bud lights? That's really not much.

I'm more interested in the people who are having 10 drinks every day or are actually in some way reduced in capacity from their drinking.

Hell, if I'm living in Greenland, I'm having 5 drinks a lot more than once a month.

Another random aside. I learned that Greenland, despite my expectations, is not a super low IQ country like it would be if it were composed of Native Americans. They supposedly have a national IQ similar to that of the US.

The problem is, they lack the genes to metabolize alcohol. 5 bud lights isn't a whole lot when you can digest it, but for an inuit person that might get them completely wasted. Especially if they're drinking it as shots of hard liquor.

Your second link is a duplicate of your first link.

Corrected, thanks for pointing it out.

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