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Comment on The fifty most underappreciated movies of the 21st century in ~movies
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Comment on The fifty most underappreciated movies of the 21st century in ~movies
smoontjes LinkObligatory comment about my favourite movie missing from the list. Short Term 12 by Destin Daniel Cretton, starring Brie Larson as a young woman struggling with personal issues, working at a...Obligatory comment about my favourite movie missing from the list.
Short Term 12 by Destin Daniel Cretton, starring Brie Larson as a young woman struggling with personal issues, working at a psychiatric facility for teens and forming a bond with one of them, played by Kaitlyn Dever. Also starring Stephanie Beatriz, Rami Malek, Lakeith Stanfield, John Gallagher.
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Comment on The fifty most underappreciated movies of the 21st century in ~movies
smoontjes Link ParentPrimer comes to mind. If you need to search through external media or texts to understand a movie, or if it requires multiple viewings to understand it.. if it doesn't properly communicate to the...Primer comes to mind.
If you need to search through external media or texts to understand a movie, or if it requires multiple viewings to understand it.. if it doesn't properly communicate to the viewer what's going on? Then I feel like that movie is just bad. Or at least it's not a movie in the usual sense - more like a weird art experiment or something.
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Comment on How far back in time can you understand English? in ~humanities.languages
smoontjes LinkAlready 1500 is a problem. I can understand the words but can't fully understand the sentences. Cool website though!Already 1500 is a problem. I can understand the words but can't fully understand the sentences. Cool website though!
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Comment on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei killed in Israeli and American joint strikes in ~society
smoontjes Link ParentWell since you don't want to click the link here's a screenshot of how it looks. Just a few highlights like "EMERGENCY ALERT" and "đ¨", a moving banner on video with patreon donation link, ads...Well since you don't want to click the link here's a screenshot of how it looks.
Just a few highlights like "EMERGENCY ALERT" and "đ¨", a moving banner on video with patreon donation link, ads about their free app, video description with nothing but ads for random crap, and then a poll at the side where you can vote things like "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" and "RUNNNNNNNNNNNN"
yeah.. lol
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Comment on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei killed in Israeli and American joint strikes in ~society
smoontjes LinkSeems like all news sites I usually visit are filled with live feeds with no real context. So for others that have also been under a rock all day: Summary of developments so far (from 5 hours ago)Seems like all news sites I usually visit are filled with live feeds with no real context. So for others that have also been under a rock all day:
Summary of developments so far (from 5 hours ago)
The US and Israel have launched a joint military operation against Iran, prompting Tehran to fire retaliatory strikes against Israel and US bases across the Middle East.
Explosions rocked the Iranian capital Tehran, with satellite imagery showing extensive damage at the secure compound of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, though his whereabouts remains unclear.
Israel said its strikes targeted the Iranian regime leadership and military commanders, including Khamenei and the Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian. Iranian state media, citing Iranâs senior officials, reported that Khamenei was not in Tehran and was taken to a secure location, while Pezeshkian is safe.
Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian foreign minister who has been leading the nuclear talks for the Iranian delegation, promised that Iranâs army âwill teach aggressors the lesson they deserveâ.
Further explosions were reported in Gulf nations, including the UAE, Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait, all of which host US military bases. One person was killed from shrapnel from an Iranian missile in Abu Dhabi, UAE officials said.
Donald Trump described the US military campaign as âmassive and ongoingâ as he called on the people of Iran to âtake over your governmentâ. In a speech posted on Truth Social, he said the US would âraze [Iranâs] missile industry to the groundâ and claimed Tehran had refused to reach a deal with the US that would have averted war.
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said the American-Israeli attack could âcreate the conditions for the brave Iranian people to take their destiny into their own handsâ.
World leaders have urged all sides to de-escalate and return to the negotiating table. The UK, France and Germany issued a joint statement condemning Iranâs retaliatory attacks on neighbouring countries but it stopped short of complete support for the US-Israeli attacks on Tehran.
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Comment on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei killed in Israeli and American joint strikes in ~society
smoontjes Link ParentYeah nothing says legitimate news like all-caps titles, exclamation marks, and "#WW3"Yeah nothing says legitimate news like all-caps titles, exclamation marks, and "#WW3"
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Comment on TV Tuesdays Free Talk in ~tv
smoontjes Link ParentIt certainly was a disappointment but I didn't feel it all of it was badIt certainly was a disappointment but I didn't feel it all of it was bad
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Comment on TV Tuesdays Free Talk in ~tv
smoontjes LinkCan't recall when I last posted in these so here's just some ratings of stuff I watched the past few months. Your Friends & Neighbours - 6/10 Pluribus - 7/10 Peacemaker - 5/10 Patriot - 7/10 Steal...Can't recall when I last posted in these so here's just some ratings of stuff I watched the past few months.
Your Friends & Neighbours - 6/10
Pluribus - 7/10
Peacemaker - 5/10
Patriot - 7/10
Steal - 7/10
Halt and Catch Fire - 8/10
The Night Manager season 2 - 5/10 (season 1 - 8/10)
Veneno - 8/10
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - 7/10
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Comment on Lindsay Ellis - Is there still a very special place in hell for Matt Stone and Trey Parker? in ~tv
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Comment on What the troubling use of the term âghettosâ reveals about Denmark's attitude towards immigration in ~society
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Comment on What the troubling use of the term âghettosâ reveals about Denmark's attitude towards immigration in ~society
smoontjes (edited )Link ParentAlright so I don't disagree that there are structural issues, that there has historically been unacceptable things done to Greenlanders by Danish systems, or that there are still lingering very...Alright so I don't disagree that there are structural issues, that there has historically been unacceptable things done to Greenlanders by Danish systems, or that there are still lingering very valid tensions towards Denmark by Greenland.
However I don't agree about current times in regards to children being removed from Greenlanders who are living in Denmark. Mistakes are made for sure, and it's highly questionable how those could happen, but I would like to repeat the first thing I said yesterday: 6% of children in Greenland itself are removed. 1% in Denmark overall. So when Greenlanders migrate to Denmark and have their children removed in similar numbers as they do where they come from - that is not surprising. What would be surprising is if the numbers about those people suddenly decreased to where they now live. But they won't, because the extreme levels of trauma among Greenlanders don't disappear just because they emigrate. Rates of alcoholism and abuse are skyhigh there. It's just so obvious to me that victims of growing up in such homes are left with longlasting mental health problems as Keira herself admitted to having. And obviously someone with mental health problems is a lot more likely to be a bad parent. It has nothing to do with them being Greenlandic and while I won't dismiss that some subconscious racism still exists, that's not the main issue here. The main issue is generational inherited trauma and there are plenty of Danes with those background too - and those Danes have their children removed as well on the same grounds.
As for the testing, yeah psychologists unable to pass them themselves is problematic and it's good that they have now been changed. But that is not even close to the only thing that informs the decision to remove a child.
For the last part, Greenlanders are indigenous to Greenland, Danes are indigenous to Denmark - Greenlanders are not indigenous to Denmark. So yes, of course someone from a different part of the world is expected to integrate if they move to somewhere else in the world. Any immigrant in most countries would be expected to learn the local language. Especially after being here for years and years. Besides, she may well claim that she has difficulty with the language but from the interviews I've seen she speaks Danish fluently and barely even has an accent. She nitpicks at singular reasons why the child was removed while dismissing the core issues. So the only play she has left is the racism card.
I don't think it's racist to remove a child from someone that is clearly incapable of passing the simplest of testing several times over again across years. It's tough, and it's not her fault that she has traumas, or that she is mentally ill, or maybe Greenlanders face more scrutiny during these screenings and further testings.. but that's not racism. That's probably just looking at the trends from that country they are from and seeing that they are already 6 times more likely to have a child removed. And I'd assume they already know that if a mother has trauma from her own abusive childhood, the numbers speak for themself about the likelihood of those issues persisting into the next generation as well.
So to go all the way back to the initial question:
Doesn't Denmark also treat its Greenlander citizens as lesser and demand they "integrate" as well?
I don't believe so, no. Not lesser than any other immigrant at least.
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Comment on What the troubling use of the term âghettosâ reveals about Denmark's attitude towards immigration in ~society
smoontjes Link ParentSeems like we are talking about different things, seems that you are ignoring almost all of what I said, and it even seems that you think you know how my country works from across an ocean better...Seems like we are talking about different things, seems that you are ignoring almost all of what I said, and it even seems that you think you know how my country works from across an ocean better than I do?
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Comment on What the troubling use of the term âghettosâ reveals about Denmark's attitude towards immigration in ~society
smoontjes Link ParentSeems like you are making an argument against me agreeing with you.Seems like you are making an argument against me agreeing with you.
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Comment on What the troubling use of the term âghettosâ reveals about Denmark's attitude towards immigration in ~society
smoontjes (edited )Link ParentFirst of all, 6 times as many children are removed in Greenland itself compared to Denmark. Greenland also has much more widespread social problems. A fifth of Greenlanders have been sexually...First of all, 6 times as many children are removed in Greenland itself compared to Denmark. Greenland also has much more widespread social problems. A fifth of Greenlanders have been sexually abused and a third of them have been neglected. The percentage of removals staying the same for emigrating Greenlanders is not surprising.
The one from the article called Keira was reported about here too. Your second link says it black on white that she failed the most basic of testing like this example in the article of having to look your child in the eye, her excuse being she has never played with dolls. Her new baby was removed years and years after her other children too, but she still fails the tests again. It's also reported that "She has massive emotional difficulties and severely inadequate abilities to ensure stable conditions and offer her child a secure attachment and development, according to the assessment. The municipality also emphasized that the child's father did not want to participate in parenting." (deepl translation) So I'm just not convinced at all that this is some kind of structural or systematic racism, at least not in this particular case. We are also mostly getting her side of the story because the municipality and people involved in making the decision to remove her children cannot comment. Her argument essentially boils down to cultural differences, which to me it's pretty clear that's not even close to make up for all the other problems.
I will grant you that maybe some of testing mentioned in the third link was designed with Danes in mind, not Greenlanders, and those may be a forgotten leftover and discriminatory and inconsiderate of others, and that is of course also problematic that it took until last year to change it but I don't think it holds up to scrutiny overall because I had similar questions when I had to have my IQ measured at the psych ward and that staircase example reminded me of similar questions I was given that I thought were weird.
So while it might look like racial profiling to take them through testing, it is evidently per the third link only happening when there is already "welfare concerns" in which case it's a trigger to do further testing, which I feel is valid methodology? It's not just IQ testing either, it's "interviews with psychologists, meetings with social workers".
During my psychology classes some years back, one of the courses was about child neglect and we saw in class how the system actually works and trust me, it is extremely thorough and it truly takes a lot to take children away from their biological parents. Like, I remember thinking it was unfathomable how far it had to go for that to happen.
All of this said I am glad they are reviewing decisions made in the past, there's no reason to not do that and it's great that someone had her child returned to her.
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Comment on What the troubling use of the term âghettosâ reveals about Denmark's attitude towards immigration in ~society
smoontjes Link ParentNot sure what you are referring to? Unless you are talking past tense historically because yeah of course Denmark was like any other colonizing country.Not sure what you are referring to? Unless you are talking past tense historically because yeah of course Denmark was like any other colonizing country.
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Comment on What the troubling use of the term âghettosâ reveals about Denmark's attitude towards immigration in ~society
smoontjes Link ParentThat idea is not entirely true - they are definitely given more leeway purely for being white, but Americans here very much do get looked down on if they have been here for a while and still don't...That idea is not entirely true - they are definitely given more leeway purely for being white, but Americans here very much do get looked down on if they have been here for a while and still don't speak Danish or are not even trying to. I know several who went to classes and despite being well intentioned they later stopped trying because basically everyone can speak English so they think it's not a problem. However we cannot speak other languages except maybe small percentages of Swedish and German speakers.
Also Middle Eastern culture and American culture is nowhere near the same degree of difference compared to Danish culture. The entire western world regardless of country is very culturally similar, like all of Danish pop culture is basically American. So their barrier to entry starting point to integrate is very low.
I one hundred percent agree about the politicians part though. And again, the fact that one of the requirements to be labeled a ghetto is that those people are from brown or black countries is of course also racist.
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Comment on What the troubling use of the term âghettosâ reveals about Denmark's attitude towards immigration in ~society
smoontjes Link ParentI assume those friends of yours are in Copenhagen or at least another major city. Regarding your middle paragraphs, I don't necesarily think it's a bad thing either. You have immigrants accepting...I assume those friends of yours are in Copenhagen or at least another major city.
Regarding your middle paragraphs, I don't necesarily think it's a bad thing either. You have immigrants accepting next to nothing and you have immigrants leaving everything behind when they go to another country. I know that the US very much embraces cultural differences to a very high extent but here, that is not at all what is expected. It's of course only the fringe would want to erase identities and deport all foreigners etc. But the mainstream opinion is also to mostly assimilate - cultural differences are fine, but if your values don't match the generally progressive values of the country.. why come here?
That last part is why I wanted to comment in the first place actually - agreed fully. Like I said, it does not have those connotations here at all which is a bit telling that the author doesn't mention that difference at all? A professor of migration at a Danish university no less.
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Comment on What the troubling use of the term âghettosâ reveals about Denmark's attitude towards immigration in ~society
smoontjes LinkIn general, Danes definitely do have a harsh attitude towards immigration. It's either or. For the average voter, there's no real halfway. Assimilate and integrate or you're gonna have a bad time....In general, Danes definitely do have a harsh attitude towards immigration. It's either or. For the average voter, there's no real halfway. Assimilate and integrate or you're gonna have a bad time.
However the word ghetto on its own doesn't really have any problematic connotations in that sense. I believe the concept of labeling areas with a lot of foreigners a ghetto that is racist to be sure. But changing the term to parrallel society is even worse I feel. So there's been jokes that rich suburbs are also parallel societies.
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Comment on The right in the US is coming for same-sex marriage with an insidious new campaign in ~society
smoontjes Link ParentWell the most infamous pieces of evidence of large scale abusing is 1) Catholic church and 2) Epstein clients. It could be argued the latter is apolitical but I don't really know. However In...Well the most infamous pieces of evidence of large scale abusing is 1) Catholic church and 2) Epstein clients. It could be argued the latter is apolitical but I don't really know. However In comparison I don't know if I've ever heard of any organized abuse in left wing or lgbt+ groups. Not that they haven't or don't exist - they might - but it's not something I've heard of. So like another comment said, paraphrasing here: conservatism and religious extremism = patriarchal values = men in power abusing their power. So yeah, if that logic holds, that would indeed mean there's more propensity for being abusers there.
Probably both at the same time, leaning towards destroying you, then staying on your mind for days after.
Knowing you.. brace yourself and watch carefully. I also don't want to exaggerate though it was very impactful for myself in any case.