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Re: Experiences with American women -- a question from jen
« Reply #275 on: July 30, 2007, 11:37:26 AM »
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Re: Experiences with American women -- a question from jen
« Reply #276 on: July 30, 2007, 12:21:57 PM »
Your comments here seem to show that you just like to hear yourself speak. Maybe a shot of "get over yourself" wouldn't hurt from time to time. 
 Kind of like Senator Joe Biden ;)

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Re: Experiences with American women -- a question from jen
« Reply #277 on: July 30, 2007, 07:00:34 PM »
Interesting line in USA today:

"75% if American women care more about the size of their bank account than their behind size."  Thats just another symptom of why a great deal of us look foreign. 
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Re: Experiences with American women -- a question from jen
« Reply #278 on: July 30, 2007, 07:22:05 PM »
That's because for most of them their behind is much bigger than their bank account.  Maybe also because their behind is for the enjoyment of others while their bank account is for their own enjoyment.  :mooning:

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Re: Experiences with American women -- a question from jen
« Reply #279 on: July 02, 2021, 12:22:53 PM »
I saw that people were viewing this thread and thought I would post jen's latest
update.

Dear all,
 
One of you just prodded me for an update[2tallbill did this], so I thought I'd quickly check in.  As you can see from the previous posts in this thread/area of the board, I was active here several years ago, collecting some of your reflections for research I was doing at the time on international marriages. I haven't posted in a couple  of years since there are no new developments:  the two articles I mentioned above are my only publications on this topic to date, and in the past few years, I've moved on to a new research project on children's food and parenting practices here in the United States.  I continue to think about this international marriage research, though, and it is possible that I will have one more article come out in the next year or two. If that happens, I will absolutely update you here.
 
Regarding the existing articles, I'll reiterate that I can't post the pdfs here due to copyright issues, but I am happy to share them with anyone who'd like to read them. You can contact me directly at jpatico@gsu.edu if you are interested in that.
 
I hope everyone here is doing well, and I'll forever be grateful for the gracious conversations you had with me here. I welcome any updates.
Best wishes,
Jen

Here is a link to the Slavic Review. I would rather eat lawn clippings that
read or discuss the dry, pretentious, self-congratulating articles that academia
everywhere write that nobody reads. 

 
Does anybody want to read,
“To a Dog, a Dog’s Death!”: Naive Monarchism and Regicide in Imperial Russia, 1878-1884
By Daniel Beer

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Re: Experiences with American women -- a question from jen
« Reply #280 on: July 02, 2021, 12:32:56 PM »
Rather anti intellectual of you, Bill.


I used to read the Slavic Review rather regularly. Plenty of people read scholarly articles, and scholars often predict, rather presciently, what will happen in countries.


Daniel Beer is a serious scholar, and the piece you cite makes important points about how those methods of arrest/silence of criticism had an effect on the development of revolutionaries.  You could argue that a twist here/a turn there, and Russia would still have a tsar.
After the fall of communism, the biggest mistake Boris Yeltsin's regime made was not to disband the KGB altogether. Instead it changed its name to the FSB and, to many observers, morphed into a gangster organisation, eventually headed by master criminal Vladimir Putin. - Gerard Batten

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Re: Experiences with American women -- a question from jen
« Reply #281 on: July 02, 2021, 04:59:35 PM »
Rather anti intellectual of you, Bill.

Daniel Beer is a serious scholar, and the piece you cite makes important points about how those methods of arrest/silence of criticism had an effect on the development of revolutionaries.  You could argue that a twist here/a turn there, and Russia would still have a tsar.

I would argue they still have a Tsar.
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Re: Experiences with American women -- a question from jen
« Reply #282 on: July 03, 2021, 12:23:20 PM »
I am no fan of Putin, and I believe he is fundamentally weak (I mean his character), however, he is no tsar.  He can't even make appointments.  That's done by the Duma.
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Experiences with American women -- a question from jen
« Reply #283 on: July 03, 2021, 01:20:11 PM »
I am no fan of Putin, and I believe he is fundamentally weak (I mean his character), however, he is no tsar.  He can't even make appointments.  That's done by the Duma.

He can hire or fire any person in any position in the country.
He can tell the Duma to make him president for life, he can
tell them to change the constitution to fix his situation. He
can disappear anybody in the country, he can take anything
he wants.

He can jail or kill anybody who opposes him.

« Last Edit: July 03, 2021, 01:24:01 PM by 2tallbill »
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Re: Experiences with American women -- a question from jen
« Reply #284 on: July 03, 2021, 09:17:59 PM »
He can hire or fire any person in any position in the country.
He can tell the Duma to make him president for life, he can
tell them to change the constitution to fix his situation. He
can disappear anybody in the country, he can take anything
he wants.

He can jail or kill anybody who opposes him.

Sounds like the aspirations of a recent US president.

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« Reply #285 on: July 04, 2021, 10:24:32 AM »
Sounds like the aspirations of a recent US president.

You are doing the TDS (Trump derangement syndrome) thing again.

Who did he kill? Who did he throw in jail for opposing him? Did he make
the congress change the constitution so that he could run again? Did
congress do everything he asked? Who did he steal from? Where did
he get payola from?

It's the left who wants to be more like Putin. It's the left that wants to
pack the court. 

How many things have the left proposed that is totally unconstitutional.
1. Get rid of the electoral college
2. Make DC a state
3. Take voting laws away from the states
4. A Wealth Tax
5. Paying reparations to people based on race
6. It was Obama not Trump who told the American people that he had a phone and a pen.
7. Who sent the IRS after his political enemies
8. Who investigated and bugged a political rival?


« Last Edit: July 04, 2021, 10:27:50 AM by 2tallbill »
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Re: Experiences with American women -- a question from jen
« Reply #286 on: July 04, 2021, 10:39:22 AM »
He can hire or fire any person in any position in the country.

No, he can't.


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He can tell the Duma to make him president for life, he can tell them to change the constitution to fix his situation.
No, he can't.  He still has to be elected.  People don't have to vote for him.

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He can disappear anybody in the country, he can take anything he wants.
And that's different from powerful men in other countries, exactly how?

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He can jail or kill anybody who opposes him.

See above.

I am no fan of Putin, but he has been legally elected by a majority of the Russian electorate.
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« Reply #287 on: July 04, 2021, 11:07:11 AM »
No, he can't.

He can, he does and he did.

I am no fan of Putin, but he has been legally elected by a majority of the Russian electorate.

He has been legally elected to positions that he was constitutionally unable to
run for AND he made opposition candidates illegal AND he threw them in jail
regularly AND he corrupted the elections AND he made constitutionally protected
speech and protests illegal AND he killed any opposition in the media AND the
internet. 

You are arguing just to argue.

Udachi!

Bill
« Last Edit: July 04, 2021, 11:09:21 AM by 2tallbill »
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Re: Experiences with American women -- a question from jen
« Reply #288 on: July 04, 2021, 11:12:41 AM »
No, he can't fire anyone.  He can't "fire" elected Duma members, for example. 


As powerful as Putin is, he is there at the will of the Russian people.  When/if they tire of him, he will be gone.  Whether that power is manipulated by media vs a vs the population is a different matter.  Putin is no more powerful than an American president, although he certainly doesn't have the same media scrutiny or criticism.
After the fall of communism, the biggest mistake Boris Yeltsin's regime made was not to disband the KGB altogether. Instead it changed its name to the FSB and, to many observers, morphed into a gangster organisation, eventually headed by master criminal Vladimir Putin. - Gerard Batten

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Re: Experiences with American women -- a question from jen
« Reply #289 on: July 04, 2021, 12:12:48 PM »
No, he can't fire anyone.  He can't "fire" elected Duma members, for example. 

Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Golovlyov Sergei Yushenkov would disagree but they are dead.
Getting gunned down is akin to getting fired.
« Last Edit: July 04, 2021, 12:15:31 PM by 2tallbill »
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Re: Experiences with American women -- a question from jen
« Reply #290 on: July 04, 2021, 04:24:38 PM »
No, he can't fire anyone.  He can't "fire" elected Duma members, for example. 


As powerful as Putin is, he is there at the will of the Russian people.  When/if they tire of him, he will be gone.  Whether that power is manipulated by media vs a vs the population is a different matter.  Putin is no more powerful than an American president, although he certainly doesn't have the same media scrutiny or criticism.

He would be there even if the Russians didn't vote for him. He'll be gone when HE wants to be gone. No more powerful than an American president? In his own country he certainly is. Or outside his country when he wants to kill someone he considers a traitor.
« Last Edit: July 04, 2021, 04:45:09 PM by mhr7 »
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Re: Experiences with American women -- a question from jen
« Reply #291 on: July 05, 2021, 12:26:45 AM »
We can't know if Putin would be in power if Russians didn't vote for him.  While I am no Putin fan, I don't believe half of the things ascribed to him.


To get back to the topic, Jennifer Patico is a cultural anthropologist.  Here are her articles -


http://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Jennifer-Patico-79019092

I read the one published December, 2017, and it was very interesting. 
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