Abbie Chatfield's open relationship hell: Bachelor star reveals her boyfriend Konrad Bień-Stephen has slept with two other people while she remains on zero and admits 'I'm over it'
I was in that position too but with the difference that I did not mind sleeping with no-one while my partner had lovers. Ms Chatfield has missed the real peril of such relationships: Your partner might find someone she likes better than you and settle with him. That was my downfall eventually. My new lover is great fun however. She says she is "addicted" to me so losing her seems unlikely
Abbie Chatfield glumly admitted on Monday something had 'gone wrong' in her open relationship with boyfriend Konrad Bień-Stephen.
The 26-year-old, who confirmed the pair were non-exclusive last month, said on her radio show Hot Nights with Abbie she was annoyed her boyfriend had slept with two other women while she hadn't been with anyone else.
'Everyone's going to be very happy, but something's gone wrong,' she confessed. 'Well, it's not gone wrong. Everyone's waiting for the demise [of my relationship].'
'So obviously being open means we can sleep with other people. [That's the] whole point. Unfortunately, I'm not doing the second part. So I'm being monogamous!' she said.
Abbie explained that while she wanted to have sex with other people, her hectic schedule and growing fame had made it difficult for her to find a suitable partner.
'I wanted to and I still want to, but the issue is Konrad is the only one that seems to be able to get laid around here,' she laughed with her co-host Rohan Edwards.
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Is the West collapsing into nihilism?
Its most basic values have been replaced by insane ones
As Putin’s army continues its invasion of Ukraine, I am beginning to fear we are seeing Western society cannibalise itself from the inside out and it will put us at risk of being overcome by competing forces – à la China and Russia.
Instead of building on the tenets that have defined Western society since the ancient Greeks, we are deconstructing them. We seem to forget we have inherited the democratic society in which we live. We ought to remember that the age-old process of passing down traditions means we now enjoy the most egalitarian, free, inclusive, and economically prosperous society in human history.
One of the most clear-cut examples of this, as reported by World Vision, is ‘since 1990, more than 1.2 billion people have risen out of extreme poverty. Now, 9.2 per cent of the world survives on less than $1.90 a day, compared to nearly 36 per cent in 1990’. Despite the challenges Covid has caused, we are still on track to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030, which in just two hundred years has dropped from 94 per cent of the population living under those conditions.
This is just one of the many examples of capitalism and Western thought affecting changes that have transformed the quality of life for the majority of people on earth. However, this is not to say our current world is perfect – far from it. Believing such a thing would lead us blindly down a path of complacency and apathy.
Rather, in the spirit of those great men and women who walked before us, we should seek to continue the great democratic traditions of the past and develop them for the greater good of contemporary society and our children.
We are moving away from this approach and now a narrative has formed where a significant proportion of people propagate the notion that Western culture is flawed by greed, intolerance, and inequality. This is an easy story to believe but a lot of the objective data shows this notion is wrong on its face. I challenge people to name a time they would rather live in than right now.
This nihilistic sentiment has gained serious traction and is going to have dangerous repercussions if we continue to buy into it. It is anti-progressive because it is destroying the key pillars of a civilisation that have been built over two millennia and brought us to a point of unparalleled wealth and inclusion.
China must be watching us and licking their lips, because Western culture is doing to itself what the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) does to its citizens. Like those who question the CCP, people who go against the dominant left-wing orthodoxy are routinely shut down and de-platformed.
In the twenty-four-seven news cycle, we are repeatedly seeing scenes out of George Orwell’s dystopian nightmare, 1984. One of the most prevalent instances is the Two Minutes Hate, a daily, public period where members of the party must cravenly express their abhorrence for enemies of the state.
Today, this is a common occurrence, where people who offer alternative views face backlash from a ruthless mob calling for their head. The most recent example of this is Joe Rogan, who is receiving ferocious criticism for speaking with people viewed in the Orwellian terminology as ‘committing a thought-crime’.
The attacks accumulated to a public apology which was not so different from Otto Warmbier’s show trial, where he confessed his guilt and begged the North Korean people for forgiveness.
This, despite the fact Rogan hosts a wide range of people on his show offering different opinions on topics. We should all be striving to reach Rogan’s level of curiosity, openness, and willingness to grow through long, deep, and philosophical conversations. It is one of the best models for accelerating growth within society. One just needs to look at Plato’s Republic, which is proven to be one of the world’s most influential works of philosophy and political theory, to see the power of dialogue.
Even if the person is wrong, we are robbing ourselves of the opportunity to realise an idea should be avoided or to build it into something that can drive impact at scale. Overall, these are net positives for the world.
The most important innovators of humankind often faced rebuke when they first publicised their revolutionary thoughts. Instead of cowering, they bravely fought for their voices to be heard and were able to make the world a better place. Some of these include Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection, the earth revolving around the sun, the civil rights movement, diseases being spread by germs, the light bulb, the automobile, and the aeroplane — the list goes on.
Instead of exploring opinions outside of the norm, we now write them off as misinformation, which has become one of the favourite weapons of cancel culture. Through this, we are entering pernicious territory. Who are we to decide one ought to adhere to a viewpoint because it is unquestionably true? If history has taught us anything, the only truism is that nothing is ever absolute and universal truths are constantly shifting.
Besides, things that would see people banned from social media for misinformation 12 months ago are now widely considered to be fact. Look at the Covid ‘Lab-Leak Theory’.
Throughout time, it has been well documented how easily we can get things wrong due to the flawed nature of human perception, which is why I am so perplexed by this emerging culture of dogmatism and censorship.
The phenomenon has gotten so powerful that people are scared to admit Leonardo DiCaprio’s last Netflix film, Don’t Look Up was a terrible movie. A recent article about the movie genuinely frightened me. Published by The Independent, a piece entitled Don’t Look Up: It’s OK to hate it, assures us that we can think ‘something’s rubbish, even if it is about the climate crisis’.
This is alarming behaviour. It is essentially saying ‘it’s okay if you do not like this tribute to the zeitgeist. If you confess your sins and state your support for the movement but did not enjoy the film from an entertainment perspective, then you are not – God forbid – a climate denier’.
Again, it is not so dissimilar from what you would see in communist China or when the Catholic Church was at the peak of its influence.
Moving forward, the solution is simple. We must end this monolithic approach and return to harnessing the collective genius of the past, present and future. The answer is always in the middle and that can only be arrived at through hard discussions that take everyone’s viewpoints into consideration.
If we are unable to do this, we risk weakening our position of strength and authority. China and Russia can already sense this, which is why we will continue to see them disrupt the world order and become more brazen in doing so.
Our security is not guaranteed. It is time we acknowledge this and unite because we have a lot to lose.
https://spectator.com.au/2022/03/is-the-west-cannibalising-itself/
*******************************************To avoid Ukraine's fate, Taiwan needs nuclear missiles — now
Jeff Jacoby is being unusally Hawkish below
WHEN UKRAINE regained its independence after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, it had the world's third-largest stockpile of nuclear warheads. Had it remained a member of the nuclear club, it would not have lost Crimea to a Russian invasion in 2014 and would not be fighting now for its life against a massive and illegal Russian onslaught.
But Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons. Yielding to pressure from the United States and Britain, it signed an agreement in 1994 to turn over its arsenal to Russia. In exchange, Russia pledged to respect Ukraine's independence, sovereignty, and existing borders. Russia also obligated itself "to refrain from the threat or use of force" against Ukraine and promised that no Russian weapons "will ever be used against Ukraine."
With nothing to enforce them, however, those promises were worthless.
Ukrainians have inspired and united the civilized world with their tenacious resistance to Vladimir Putin's unprovoked attack, a war of bloody aggression resembling the Soviet and German invasions of Poland in 1939. As of this writing, on Tuesday, Ukraine remains free. But a 40-mile-long convoy of Russian armored vehicles is heading toward the capital city of Kyiv, burning homes and buildings as it advances, and civilian areas of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, are being shelled indiscriminately by Russian rockets. It is far from clear that Ukraine, fighting alone against a nuclear power, can win this war.
And if Ukraine falls, will Taiwan be next?
On the day Russia launched its invasion, nine Chinese fighter jets invaded Taiwan's air defense identification zone, forcing Taiwan's air force to scramble its own fighters in response. Two days later, China struck again, sending six fighter jets and two anti-submarine aircraft over the southwest corner of Taiwan's air-defense zone. China now does this routinely, deliberately acting to intimidate its small neighbor and keep it in a constant state of tension. On some occasions, it goes much further, firing missiles into the seas off Taiwan's coast or staging simulated invasions of the island.
Repeatedly, the communist regime in Beijing claims that Taiwan — a nation of 23 million people that has never been ruled by the People's Republic of China — has no right to an independent existence. It openly threatens to go to war to enforce its outrageous demand.
"We do not renounce the use of force" to prevent Taiwan from being recognized as a sovereign nation, President Xi Jinping of China has said. Under a sinister headline — "Time to warn Taiwan secessionists and their fomenters: War is real" — the Chinese Communist Party newspaper Global Times proclaimed last October that China's armed forces are making "preparations based on the possibility of combat . . . to use force against Taiwan." It vowed that there would be "military punishment" if Taiwan does not "reverse the current situation" and submit to China's control. "This warning is not just a verbal threat," the editorial ended.
With Russia engaged in a murderous assault on Ukraine, protecting Taiwan from a similar fate must be a top US priority. Under the terms of the Taiwan Relations Act, the United States is legally bound to provide Taiwan with all military equipment needed for its self-defense. But under the bizarre doctrine of "strategic ambiguity," Washington has never explicitly committed to fighting alongside Taiwan should it be attacked.
That ambiguity should have been abandoned long ago. A successful Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be an international catastrophe. Besides shattering global trade, it would endanger the whole Western Pacific and, as former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abecq said this week, directly endanger Japan as well.
Like Ukraine, Taiwan was once a member (or on the verge of membership) in the nuclear nations club. Like Ukraine, Taiwan was pressured by the United States into abandoning its nuclear ambitions. It is too late now to empower Ukraine with the nuclear deterrent that would have kept Russia at bay. But it's not too late to do so for Taiwan.
To safeguard the island from the invasion that Beijing keeps threatening to unleash, Taiwan needs a nuclear arsenal ASAP. Even a relative handful of missiles with nuclear warheads would suffice to change Beijing's calculus on Taiwan and deter an attack from the mainland. In much the way that the Reagan administration deployed nuclear-armed Pershing II and cruise missiles in Europe during the 1980s to deter a Soviet attack, the Biden administration should make nuclear missiles available to Taiwan now, making sure that China knows their purpose is to defend Taiwanese independence and sovereignty.
The regime in Beijing is evil but not irrational. It will not go to war to crush Taiwan's sovereign democracy if it will face nuclear-armed defenders. Proliferating nuclear weapons to another country is always a cause for concern, but a Chinese conquest of one of Asia's key democracies poses a far greater threat. Taiwan's fate is on the line, and there is no more time to waste.
https://jeffjacoby.com/26048/to-avoid-ukraine-fate-taiwan-needs-nuclear
*****************************************************Trump’s Linguistic “Kill Shot”: Is This His Most Powerful Line Yet?
Trump made lots of newsworthy points at CPAC. He all but said that he’s running again, got great news about his chances in 2024, blew the Democrats to smithereens, and gave a stirring speech on the importance of border security.
But beyond all those great things, he also said something that might be one of his most powerful lines yet, a quote that Wayne Dupree is calling a “linguistic kill shot.” It was:
“They indoctrinate your children to hate their parents while calling you a hateful racist,” he said, “They use big tech to censor you. They use the deep state to spy on you. They use the intelligence agencies to frame you. They use the media to slander you. They use the legal system to persecute you. It is a persecution. They use rigged elections to disenfranchise you and destroy you and ruin your lives.”
I’d bold the most important lines but, frankly, each and every word of it is important. That’s rare for Trump, who is normally far from laconic and a bit of a rambler, but it’s true here.
Trump, in a few brief sentences, summed up the left’s war on conservatives: they’re using every tool in their arsenal, from the indoctrination of your kids to pressuring the Big Tech platforms to censor you, to win the culture war.
That’s dangerous, particularly because of how effective it is. Yet worse, it’s something that few conservatives recognize; they think that each issue they hear about, whether it be Deep State corruption, leftism in the schools, or anything else, is an isolated issue.
Well, as Trump might say, “Wrong!” Each player might not be actively collaborating with the other players, but they’re all working collectively to win the culture war and crush people like you. That effort is as evil as it is powerful and effective.
Fortunately for us, Trump called it out, shaking apathetic conservatives into an awareness of what’s going on and how the left is trying to win the culture war.
That line was part of his larger message about how America’s most dangerous enemies are at home, a point he introduced by saying:
“As grave as the dangers are abroad, it’s the destruction within that spells our doom.
Our most dangerous people are people from within. These are people that must hate our country because they make us weak.”
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My other blogs. Main ones below:
http://dissectleft.blogspot.com (DISSECTING LEFTISM)
http://edwatch.blogspot.com (EDUCATION WATCH)
http://antigreen.blogspot.com (GREENIE WATCH)
http://australian-politics.blogspot.com (AUSTRALIAN POLITICS)
http://snorphty.blogspot.com/ (TONGUE-TIED)
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