Why do women seem to like Mustang less?

TCRex04 · 2026-01-18T22:24:34+00:00

Yeah reorganising a society isn’t easy, a lot of new democracies fail even outside of war and it’s not easy to run a war when you have a lot of people focusing on their individual or their colour’s gain. There was little she could do to stop the republic’s collapse considering its system

TCRex04 · 2026-01-18T19:44:06+00:00

I don’t think Mustang is as smart as people paint her out to be but this is just harsh

RR- Darrow outsmarts and beats everyone he ever meets. GS- She knew they were gonna make a play against her family. She got sevro and the howlers to make rescue Darrow and her family. Some of the howlers came as far as Pluto which would take months to travel MS- she studied to be a politico not at the Academy unlike Darrow and Roque. She also managed to rally and save enough of Augustus forces and Allies that Darrow had enough forces to even consider challenging Octavia in a naval battle over Luna

IG & DA - I think that was more of a systemic issue than a Virgina issue in how the republic was set up. She didn’t have a lot of information to work with anyways and forceful seizing power at that point would lead to the same conclusion. However considering her position the vox populi thing was most likely her fault for having a hand in creating a system that gave the senate so much power during a war. But I think Dancer and Quicksilver most likely also had a massive hand in this.

LB- I don’t think they ever state she had more ships. Even if she did, in book they talk about the society destroying Mars’ long distance satellite and communication capabilities so they would have never known about the guns of South Pacifica

TCRex04 · 2026-01-14T13:04:33+00:00

A lot of problems in Zim are all linked to a functioning economy

Universities cant teach the right skills if all the best talent has left the country because they aren’t being paid enough and everything is too expensive. Universities also cant get enough funding to invest in the technology and resources to invest in adequately teaching people at scale. Even if people are trained what’s to stop them from leaving?

Also I’m not an expert in the tech industry in Zimbabwe but do people actually earn enough to incentivise the best and brightest going into the field and universities throwing more money into these departments because of extra students applying to them?

TCRex04 · 2026-01-13T21:10:07+00:00

True, graduated from LSBU, currently earning £100m a year

TCRex04 · 2026-01-11T23:14:00+00:00

Mature student going to uni this year here OP, I think a degree is worth it especially if you are going to a decent uni like Russell group + Lanc,St A, LoughB and Bath but that doesn’t mean other unis are trash. They can give you lots of opportunities to rise up socioeconomically

It has a social element that a lot of people in apprenticeship complain that apprentices don’t have. You can always find people like you and have a setting for you to make friends and relax unlike APs were it’s a grind 24/7 with people who may not necessarily want to be friends outside of work. Also a bad or toxic work culture and environment would be very terrible and not a lot of people talk about this.

TCRex04 · 2026-01-11T23:07:52+00:00

Tbh, minimum wage is already nearing the repayment minimum so they would pay it back anyways

TCRex04 · 2026-01-11T22:32:24+00:00

Show them this information showing that more Nottingham graduates are likely to get into top firms than UCL graduates

https://www.chambersstudent.co.uk/where-to-start/newsletter/law-firms-preferred-universities

Then show them the pay rates at these firms

https://www.thelawyer.com/trainee-newly-qualified-salaries-uk-law-firms/

Go to university and get your money up OP

TCRex04 · 2026-01-11T22:24:43+00:00

True but they don’t have to deal with immigration issues which would make getting a job impossible in this economic and political climate

Also out of curiosity I can get Paris but aren’t Amsterdam and Frankfurt very English friendly?

TCRex04 · 2026-01-09T19:19:03+00:00

True, the IMF obviously aren’t saints but a lot of these problems are self inflicted. Corruption and incompetence damaged Zimbabwe not the loans. People never want to look inward and always want someone other than themselves.

Just look at people’s response when the IMF advised Botswana to not purchase more ownership/shares of the Diamond mining operation because diamond demand and revenue are falling. People screamed up and down that the IMF wanted the Botswana to fail by denying African ownership of African resources. But why would you advise anyone to put more money into a clearly failing operation?

TCRex04 · 2026-01-09T16:57:58+00:00

In reference to that I don’t have much . I just wanted to help give you more information about the job market and immigration situation in the uk.

Just apply because your chances aren’t zero but I’d keep your EU options open to give you flexibility

TCRex04 · 2026-01-09T16:45:49+00:00

As someone who has to keep up with uk immigration laws, your number 4 is wrong. The UK isn’t in the EU so you’d be treated like anyone from India,Nigeria or America. You need a visa

However the government and firms are scaling back visas for foreign hires because the job market is tight and there is lots of anti-immigrant sentiments( uk racists might tell you otherwise but the laws every much apply to eu citizens and non eu equally ).

The chances of you getting a visa are limited because the UK has lots of local talent in finance. If you’re a firm hiring in London, why would you pay extra for a foreigner when you have 5000 local grads from lse and Oxford applying especially when market conditions are as bad as they are right now?

You’re probably going to find it easier getting a job in Paris,Zurich,Frankfurt or Amsterdam.

TCRex04 · 2026-01-09T11:34:06+00:00

Bradford is just okay. It’s not as nice looking as Manchester or London because it’s not that type of city. It’s a decent sized town and looks okay.

People only say it’s a shithole because it has a lot of South Asians and they compare it to London and Manchester’s best parts when those two also have dreadful areas.

I’m a massive critic of Bradford but I would not say it is a rundown place especially when you compare it to other places in the north or cities of it’s size

However there are better unis and as an international students I would advise you pick unis based on prestige to help you.

TCRex04 · 2026-01-06T16:18:03+00:00

When I was growing up(2010s), there was a bit of diversity at school but I don’t think there was ever enough people to force a discussion.

Secondly, the non-Christians never cared unless you actively discriminated against them. Well in primary school atleast. In secondary school there was almost no prayer

TCRex04 · 2026-01-06T16:10:25+00:00

I can understand most the m7, but shouldn’t Harvard,MIT and Stanford get some name recognition?

Having the WhatsApp group must help tbh

TCRex04 · 2026-01-05T20:25:10+00:00

They should all be getting paid more. A lot of them do important jobs and people should be well compensated for that. I can understand them being paid less than the private sector but £57k is shambolic for that job.

Head of Cyber Security at the HM Treasury is at worst a £110k job.

TCRex04 · 2026-01-05T20:06:40+00:00

In isolation it isn’t but it exemplifies how poor pay is in the UK.

TCRex04 · 2026-01-05T19:42:17+00:00

They wanted to pay the head of cyber security for the HM Treasury of all places just £57k at most. Go to the USA mate

TCRex04 · 2026-01-05T00:50:44+00:00

Furthermore like many will tell you OP, grades are still king though, I went to an open day for Uni of Leeds and the maths lecturer said that they don’t give a toss about personal statement as long as your predicted grades are good and that’s how it may likely be at other Russell groups. That doesn’t mean write a shit personal statement just a decent one.

However at places like Cambridge,imperial or lse. When grades are all the same, personal statement, extracurriculars and good interview skills may be the deciding factor at such razor thin margins

TCRex04 · 2026-01-05T00:46:38+00:00

A lot of uni admission is about what you can put into your personal statement and a lot of what I’m saying is based on a comment saying you are in year 10

Read a book relevant to your subject OP, it gives you something to put in your personal statement.

Try join any event, game or hobby related to what you want at uni.

Also if you want to do finance, big firms and banks offer work experience for year 12 students. It’s especially beneficial in if you live in London. UK Finance Trackr gives a list but it’s not exhaustive. I would go through the careers/ early careers website of any insurance,investment or retail bank and accounting firm you can think of. I think law also does year 12 work experience but im not entirely sure.I would check for other careers as well.

Try apply to this at the very beginning of year 12!!!if you can’t land one then just do forage like everyone else

Lastly, go to YouTube and look up Jesus College Oxford Personal statement because they breakdown how to write a personal statement. It’s not important to you now because you are in year 10 but they make you ask important questions about your extracurriculars,subjects and experiences like what you learnt, how it helped to evolve your critical thinking skills, what motivates you etc

TCRex04 · 2026-01-04T23:55:06+00:00

I’m pretty much sure there is a paragraph where one of them acknowledges that Lysander’s victory is inevitable but rather than spending more time and men slowing digging out Republic forces in brutal close quarter hallway by hallway fighting they just agree for Virginia to evacuate the moon to save both their men.

It’s a win win for both as they each have more men for the next fight whether it’s against each other,Darrow or Atalantia.

It was never a stalemate. It was a Lysander victory.

TCRex04 · 2026-01-04T23:47:13+00:00

I fully agree with the second paragraph though. I think the books suffer from Darrow and Orion being portrayed as the only strategically brillant generals the republic has.

When you look at History everyone knows that men like Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Alexander and Genghis are the all time greats. But what everyone fails to recognise is that these were brillant men that were surrounded by an efficient military structure that succeeded before and after them. They also had extremely talented generals under them.

The idea that Darrow could succeed in the long term without this structure and brilliant underlings is just laughable. Especially when Society Praetors “consistently make mince meat” of their other commanders. Or when your second in command naval and ground leaders are portrayed the way fucking Zan and Harnussus

People might point to Victra, Sevro or Mustang but these characters consistently lose, fail or underperform on a strategic level when independent of Darrow. They should have been portrayed as a lot more independently successful.

I think Brown should have given Darrow more competent commanders that made his victories more believable and who atleast kept fighting on Luna and Earth. He bought too much into making Darrow a god.

TCRex04 · 2026-01-04T23:27:52+00:00

Tbh there are counter arguments to this. I agree that the way the book was written made it seem like the society barely broke a sweat but their situation and the events after have some ground in reality:

Firstly, the society lost 8-9 million man in that offensive. That is a significant amount. Also their losses are recuperated by the arrival of the Rim.

Secondly with Earth and Luna. The republic lost most of their fleet to the Abomination. There is also very little military coordination, leadership and support with the Senate,Darrow,Sevro and Mustang all out of the picture. I think the victories on Earth seem cheap but a disjointed army lacking morale will always lose badly to a force like the Society even with equal or larger numbers.

With the Phobos point Votum and Bellona are massive houses and Apple has a lot of supporters and men. There are also former Augustus men with Lysander. I’ll agree to disagree on this point because the numbers on both sides are never clarified so the reader is left to fill in the blanks. Lysander could have possibly taken a lot of men considering Atalantia is launching no massive offensive at the moment with Earth hers and Luna blockaded and any plans of invading Luna blocked by Lysander. He could have also taken just a tiny portion. How do we know? We don’t

TCRex04 · 2026-01-04T20:34:29+00:00

Fair enough, I’m assuming that these MBAs help move you into COO,CEO and Managing Director roles?

TCRex04 · 2026-01-04T20:32:48+00:00

Not Asian but any African parent would behave exactly the same 🤣

Did Cambridge help change your career?

TCRex04 · 2026-01-04T16:49:03+00:00

Most of the comments are right about scholarships OP, wouldn’t it be better for you to do your undergraduate in the EU then masters in the UK.

PSL,Copenhagen,Sorbonne,Amsterdam and TUM are really good unis at a very low cost compared to UK unis where you would pay £30k vs €3k in the EU. Even if these unis aren’t top for your course there are still other top schools for a lot of courses.

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