Botond173
3hr ago
According to Wikipedia this seems to have been a mundane story:
While it's true that Serova, working as a hospital volunteer, met Rokossovski several times while he was recovering from a shrapnel wound in early 1942, it was not acknowledged. Frontline soldiers saw the two often travelling together.
And:
In March 1942 Rokossovsky was badly injured by a piece of shrapnel. It was widely rumored that Valentina Serova was a mistress of Rokossovsky during this time. [...] Evidence for their close relationship was found in the accounts of frontline soldiers.
It should be noted that this Serova woman was known to be courted by a renowned author, poet, playwright and wartime correspondent at this time who wrote one of the most famous Soviet war poems about her. I think it's fair to say that this makes it unlikely that she was openly thotting around. Traditional Christian mores were no longer the standard in these times in Soviet Russia but that doesn't mean that female promiscuity was accepted as normal. Another point that counts against this rumor is that the general provably had a mistress already who was unsurprisingly a female military doctor.
Botond173
4hr ago
Whether or not GPU sales to Red China is a nothingburger is precisely the issue.
I'm assuming you mean CPU sales?
Botond173
7hr ago
The average Western man in 1986 had a high school diploma and the overall ability to perform grunt work and not much of anything more complicated than that. The attributes he had going for him were that he was neither a cripple nor an imbecile, was not severely abusing either drugs or alcohol and was not an extreme wifebeater, and had an average job, a functioning cock and the ability to sire children. He had little to no understanding of female psychology and sexuality and only had a vague notion that society expects him to be a faithful husband and father,
In 1986 these attributes earned him the ability to have a middle-class lifestyle, a car, savings, his own home and a worthy wife. In 2026 they guarantee him precisely nothing, zero. I'm guessing this is what OP is referring to.
Botond173
8hr ago
There are two obvious problems with this.
One: legalizing prostitution would equal a tacit admission that the Sexual Revolution failed because the feminist proponents thereof argued that women want to have and enjoy sex as well and will become sexually available once the Revolution succeeds, thus rendering prostitution not necessary anymore. And I doubt that current British society is prepared to admit this to itself.
Two: the domestic supply of hookers is vastly outstripped by demand. It has been more or less the norm that families in abject poverty would sell their daughters into brothels; this is how the industry has sustained itself. But with the emergence of the welfare state this economic pressure on the poor has disappeared in the West. The result, as we can see in Germany for example, is that huge numbers of prostitutes get recruited from Eastern European and Third World wastelands which in turn fuels illicit human trafficking.
Supposedly the only 'proof' of his far-right politics is that he posted the Gadsden flag on social media once.
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