Here are some Q&As that have been languishing unattended:
Never heard of it but I looked it up and I’m very interested. Thanks for the recommendation!
You can get a very precise answer from doctors these day. They’ll tell you exactly how many eggs you’ve got left and what your prospects are. It varies from woman to woman pretty dramatically. If you are past 30, I suggest finding out ASAP because “I know somebody who gave birth at 43” might be completely irrelevant in your case. But until you lose the eggs, you are not too old.
If you are male and there’s a woman in your life who’s offering, go for it.
It’s propaganda, so I’m not interested. Russians are not gang raping toddlers and torturing 80-year-olds because they want “security guarantees.” I highly recommend saying something like this about any rapist (“he only raped these 16 women because he felt unsafe”) and observing the reaction. Only concerning the torture, rape and murder of Ukrainians is it acceptable to say things of such unconscionable idiocy.
Nation-states need history, tradition, roots. Even if they are completely invented, they are crucial. The British monarchy offers actual traditions and roots. People come together over the royal weddings, births, scandals. The royals are very cheap at the price for the value they provide. Even when people hate them and roll their eyes at them, they do it together.
The Spanish royals were interrupted by the long time stretch from 1927 to 1975, and they are unable to do as much heavy lifting as the British. If you are British, thank your lucky stars that you have this bunch of inbreds holding you together when other nations are scrambling to find at least something to do play this role. Usually, shared victimhood is an easy substitute. Let’s agree that is worse than the entertaining, funny royals.
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Rob henderson is good. He coined the term ‘luxury beliefs’ which describes lib behavior perfectly.
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“The British monarchy offers actual traditions”
The entertaining (wildly ahistorical and inaccurate as it was) series ‘the Crown’ did have its moments.
At the end of season 3 Elisabeth is hesitant about going through with her silver jubilee because it seems the country has fallen apart during her reign. Margaret (recovering from a possible suicide attempt) tells her to toughen up:
“It’s only fallen apart if we say it has. That’s the thing about the monarchy. We paper over the cracks, and if what we do is loud, and grand, and confident enough, no one will notice that all around us it’s fallen apart. That’s the point of us… Not us, of you. You cannot flinch. Because if you show a single crack, we’ll see it isn’t a crack but a chasm and we’ll all fall in. So you must hold it all together.
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What do you see as holding/bringing Ukraine together as a nation, pre-2022?
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Dude, that’s a big question. A big, excellent question. I’d say it’s something along the lines of “we don’t want to be like Russia; we want to be like America.” The idea of the Western civilization. Definitely the idea of freedom. The word freedom (“воля”) is ciphered in the national symbol, the trident. The shared attitude to food which (the attitude, not the food) which is like none other I’ve encountered. Also, and I don’t like this part but I have to be honest, the shared sense of historical 450-year victimhood at the hands of Russia.
Great question, thank you.
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Getting pedantic here but maybe its ok…why do you translate “воля” as “freedom” and not “will”? I speak Russian but not Ukranian, I’d always assumed the translation of freedom is “свобода”?
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Воля means freedom in Ukrainian. It has a different meaning in Russian, which is a different language. Свобода is not a word at all in Ukrainian.
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