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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • simply being Greenlandic will be enough to get the attention of social workers.

    The tests cover attachment, personality traits, cognitive abilities and psychopathology, and take about 15-20 hours. It is almost impossible to pass them, says Nellemann; even he and his colleagues have failed to do so.

    I remember reading about this late last year, and I remember not trusting that social worker or the process one bit.
    I once watched a documentary about this kind of “social service” and some of their methods are 100% unscientific, and don’t take personality traits or just moods into account, like whether a person is extro- or introvert. I even posted about it on feddit.dk, but was met with much skepticism. One of the things I saw, was that if a baby doesn’t seek eye contact with a stranger holding it, it should be a sign that the mother doesn’t give the baby enough attention! Yes really it’s that stupid! When obviously it’s more likely the baby doesn’t appreciate a stranger.

    I can’t put into words how much I despise that kind of quackery! Because that’s what it is.
    But quackery is unfortunately standard procedure in social services. And social services even trump real doctors, meaning quackery trumps real doctors by law!!
    Quackery is illegal in Denmark, except in social services where it’s an everyday phenomenon.













  • The regulation is such an insane patchwork, sometimes people can retire earlier than the normal retirement age, if they’ve been working for many years. And if you health is bad there are special programs for that. (Yes as in multiple!)
    But clearly as you state, the system is made to benefit the rich more an more. The social democrats who are part of the government are no longer looking after the average Joe, but making things worse, and then they make special programs for propaganda purposes.
    A lot of people have been convinced this is necessary, as life expectancy increases, disregarding increased automation and wealth in our society.




  • Too bad USA doesn’t help Ukraine instead. USA even promised they would, when Ukraine gave up their nuclear arsenal!
    Even under Biden the help was only halfhearted. The amount was significant, but the abilities of the equipment Ukraine was allowed to get was very restricted. Obama too wasn’t any help in 2014 either, and let Russia take Crimea without issue!
    It’s not just Trump and republicans who are guilty of making USA untrustworthy. Democrats are part of the problem too.
    We need to kick USA out of NATO, and invite other including non Atlantic democracies to join instead. USA has stated they are not sure they will honor article 5 (The musketeer article), and if they won’t, they cannot be part of NATO anymore. Because that’s the whole purpose of NATO.