Turkey suffers from a chronic illusion of grandeur. A bubble inflated by symbolism, nationalism, and repetition.
Massive convoys for a football team eliminated without scoring a single goal. Endless boasting about NATO’s second-largest army - formidable against Kurdish guerrillas, invisible everywhere else.
A defence industry promoted as a revolution, yet Iranian missiles expose the gap between propaganda and power.
The rhetoric is imperial. The results are humiliating.
When a country has to remind the world every single day how strong and important it is, it’s usually because it isn’t.
Real power speaks for itself.
After Turkey - Paraguay match I decided to remind you something:
1/ 🧵 Here's a story almost nobody knows: the people who basically BUILT football in the Ottoman Empire — and who first carried its flag to the Olympics — were Armenians.
A thread on a lost chapter of the game. 👇
When my oldest was born, they refused to let me hold her because her oxygen levels were low. But I was persistent, and they eventually relented, allowing her to lay on my chest until the NICU nurse came to roll her away. When the nurse arrived, I asked that they check her oxygen levels one more time before taking her. They did. Oxygen: 100%. Perfect. The nurse shrugged and left. Our baby girl was healthy. She just needed me. My heartbeat, my warmth, my touch. She needed her mom.
Stories like this aren’t rare. Newborns need their moms to regulate their oxygen and heart rate. That’s why, when at all possible, most doctors and hospitals give baby to mom right away.
We know this when it comes to normal births, but when it comes to surrogacy - especially the kind when two men are purchasing a baby from a woman - the baby is immediately and intentionally taken away from his or her mom and given to two strangers. It is not surprising that these babies often undergo complications post-birth. Beyond that, we don’t fully know the physiological and psychological effect of robbing babies of their mothers at birth.
It’s worse treatment than we give puppies and kittens, but when it’s for “inclusion,” it’s celebrated.
Adoption is one thing - it redeems a broken situation. But surrogacy is another - it intentionally creates the broken situation.
Babies’ needs will always matter more than adults’ wants.
For over 50 years, 90-year-old Jerusalemite Armenian Hovan Bedrossian has rung the bells of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Holy Fire day.
This year, he won’t.
He’ll be forced to watch it on TV, like all the Armenians of Jerusalem, and all the other Christians.
Nos hemos acostumbrado tanto a que Leonardo DiCaprio entregue actuaciones descomunales que ya ni las valoramos como se merecen.
Todavía me cuesta creer que anoche tan poca gente lo viera como el claro favorito para ganar el #Oscar por su papel en ‘Una batalla tras otra’.
Feminism doubled the workforce and men's wages never recovered. Now every family is stuck in a two-income trap.
@Rach4Patriarchy "Mostly women do a lot of the same things they used to do in the home. They're nurses, they're early childhood educators, they're retail workers, they're cooks, they're housekeepers.
So now, instead of staying home with your kids and doing all these things for your family and for your community, you're doing them for a corporation.
And you're paying income tax. You're paying all the other taxes associated with having to work outside the home: gas tax because you're driving back and forth to work, payroll taxes, all that kind of stuff.
And you are away from your kids all day. Where do they go? They go to public schools, where the public school system then can dictate to them what the values should be, what the worldview should be, instead of the parents."
$60k/year:
I was hoping to connect over a quick coffee to discuss your work and perspectives on the team’s focus areas. Are you available anytime this week?
$500k/year:
let’s meet At 5. happy hour margz 👍