UPDATE – I found the original website and it’s even better than we thought.

https://denmarkification.com/

Part 2 - This was started in Feb 2025 when tRump first proposed taking over Greenland.

https://apnews.com/article/denmark-greenland-california-75f1521f32871069e9840069e829e4dc

What began as a joke on social media has snowballed into one of the most talked-about political satire campaigns in Europe this year. More than 200,000 Danish citizens have now signed a viral petition proposing that Denmark buy the U.S. state of California, a tongue-in-cheek response to former U.S. President Donald Trump’s past interest in acquiring Greenland.

Under the fictional proposal, Californians would be welcomed into the Kingdom of Denmark with a package of benefits that reads like a parody of Nordic governance. The petition promises “rule of law, universal health care, and fact-based politics” as immediate perks of Danish administration.

To underscore the absurdity, the organizers also pledge a lifetime supply of Danish pastries for all 39 million residents of the state. The petition’s website jokingly notes that while Denmark cannot solve every problem, “we are very confident about pastries.”

The satirical plan goes further, outlining a full cultural “Denmarkification” of the West Coast. Los Angeles would be rechristened “Løs Ångeles,” while Danish-style cycling infrastructure would spread across cities more famous for traffic jams than bicycles.

Even California’s most iconic institutions are not spared. Disneyland would be rebranded as “Hans Christian Andersenland,” a nod to Denmark’s most famous storyteller, Hans Christian Andersen. The petition cheerfully asks readers to imagine fairy tales replacing cartoon mascots, and even suggests that Viking helmets might become standard park attire.

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    1 day ago

    Can they buy Arkansas instead? We need a state government that respects the bodily autonomy of women, and I’d appreciate operating under Danish national law rather than a federal government run by Trump.

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        12 hours ago

        As a “perople of Arkansas”, many of them aren’t that bad, but just vote R for lower taxes. Their behavior can still be problematic, but they aren’t intending to hurt anyone, even people they don’t understand.

        Now, some of them of monstrous religious zealots (often well-armed), and I wouldn’t wish them on anyone, but I think the Danish system is just an well set up to deal with them and the American system.

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          … We should not inflict armed religious zealots on Denmark. No matter how many of them “aren’t bad people”

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            I think you misread me. The “aren’t bad people” are wholly separate from the “armed religious zealots”, tho both appear in Arkansas (and most states, including California and New York).