Genealogy / Angela Merkel is partially Polish. Her family name could be Kaźmierczak [208]


low skilled immigration also tends to stall innovation and keep prices artificially low (at one end, paid for by bigger taxes at the other end)

I'm not against all immigration (seeing as how I don't live in my own country...) but mass low-skilled immigration is a sign that things aren't working in either the sending or receiving countries (or both).

My immigration policy would be built around assimilation with priority given to those who want their children to be more like the children in the receiving country than their parents. This tends to be impossible as long as failed ideas like mutliculturalism hold sway though...

Genealogy / Angela Merkel is partially Polish. Her family name could be Kaźmierczak [208]


Don't believe the hype. If you look at the numbers immigration didn't build the country but filled out the population where it was already built. And the greatest era of US prosperity in the 20th century coincided with historic lows in immigration (aka the Great Compression) and high levels of immigration coincide with higher levels of structural inequality.


We're doing something terribly wrong if we need a steady supply of people (that other countries pay to raise and educate) to survive... That makes the US a cuckoo country. Not very inspriring.

Genealogy / Angela Merkel is partially Polish. Her family name could be Kaźmierczak [208]

Let me be clear, I hate the neocons behind those disastrous intervention worse than the nazis and communists put together but none of the countries were doing well before the interventions either - they just made really bad situations worse rather than making okay situations bad...

But none of those are the source of the biggest, most worrying migration now which is made up of Sub Saharan Africans almost none of whom have any realistic prospects in Europe beyond welfare, menial labor, flogging pirate goods on the street and crime.

Genealogy / Angela Merkel is partially Polish. Her family name could be Kaźmierczak [208]


that's the end result of globalization, there are winner places where everyone wants to be and loser places where anyone who can leaves, it's an unstable and unsustainable model but no one wants to talk about it...


Africa is a tiny bit better than it used to be when the US and USSR were busy overthrowing any government that showed competence but followed the 'wrong' ideology. But it's mostly still kind of crappy and it's mostly that way because that's what African values tend to lead to...

Genealogy / Angela Merkel is partially Polish. Her family name could be Kaźmierczak [208]

Which is exactly what Merkel et al's policies are based on, metaphorically trying to pretend it's not a huge problem.

Genealogy / Angela Merkel is partially Polish. Her family name could be Kaźmierczak [208]


Actually Senegal (peaceful and pretty prosperous for a Sub-Saharan country is a very big supplier of human trafficking customers. A lot of the migration is fueled by peer pressure. An improved economy tends to increase emigration in poor countries.

Law / Beware of this website called Polishcitizenship.pl [24]

But I would miss you! Your malevolence towards the country you want to recognize you as a citizen so you can have nothing to do with it is almost charming..... almost.

Genealogy / Angela Merkel is partially Polish. Her family name could be Kaźmierczak [208]


He doesn't have "arguments" he has slogans (that he mostly doesn't understand) though he's hardly alone here.

That said, Merkel hasn't had an original idea in how many decades now? She's all about 1980s answers to 2010's questions and they don't work anymore.

What's her endgame with the ongoing economic stagnation of the South?
What's her endgame with dealing with the fact that many, many, manor more people would like to live in Europe than Europe can reasonably accomadate?

What's her endgame on a bellicose Russia that's greedily eying its neighbors' lands?

She's all steady state and kicking the can down the road. It's time for her to say goodbye so that a newer generation of less fossilized leaders can take the wheel.

Law / Beware of this website called Polishcitizenship.pl [24]


Maybe you should try for German, Hungary or Italian citizenship to get you out of whatever sh1thole you're stuck in now...

Genealogy / Angela Merkel is partially Polish. Her family name could be Kaźmierczak [208]

I read a casual comment that she's spent much of her time in office knocking off potential successors to secure her position and convince everyone there was no better option (not to mention her habit of destroying the careers of those dumb enough to try to be coalition partners).

She's no longer any kind of asset she's a liability and the longer she's in office the worse the transition will be for Germany (and by extension for Europe).


Chancellors are not directly elected. And by this logic you're completely okay with Putin's and Erdogan's policies of becoming presidents for life. Term limits in functional countries help serve as reminders to the less functional

Genealogy / Angela Merkel is partially Polish. Her family name could be Kaźmierczak [208]

No. She should leave/be forced from office. No person should be the head of state for over 10 years.

Genealogy / Angela Merkel is partially Polish. Her family name could be Kaźmierczak [208]


To be clear I don't believe the nutty AH theory but what does marrying a Jew have to do with anything? What about Elizabeth Schwarzkopf (born in wha'ts now Jarocin, Poland). She joined the Nazi party, sang concerts in a Nazi uniform during the war, never really denounced the Nazis and..... married a Jew after WWI (who happened to be in a position to help her career).

Genealogy / Angela Merkel is partially Polish. Her family name could be Kaźmierczak [208]

What does this to do the theory that she's Adolf Hitler's daughter? (nb I don't believe that, but it's an idea that some people have)

Travel / Poland - never again [593]


Au contraire, most people agree that I'm a pure delight here, spreading sunshine and happiness. It's the phony non-Poles who foul the atmosphere....

Study / Poland student visa interview [27]


I think somebody took a wrong turn at Albuquerque....

Travel / Poland - never again [593]


you keep saying that and yet.... you keep hanging around, like a dog that everybody kicks but has nowhere else to go.

so sad....

Travel / Poland - never again [593]


thinking that you are a lying troll =/= hating your guts

thinking that you are a lying troll == almost compassion.... but mild distaste is the strongest emotion you can hope to evoke.... congratulations!?

Law / Beware of this website called Polishcitizenship.pl [24]


Anytime a citizen first applies for a passport they have to prove citizenship and the burden of proof is on the applicant, not the state.

What country automatically assumes people are citizens because of their names or some distant ancestral claim?

Travel / Poland - never again [593]


Cause you're not Polish, you're a sad, old fraud. Leave.


Just go sniff your nether regions somewhere else, identity thief.

Travel / Poland - never again [593]


anyone who's not a sad old fraud and a troll knows that when a gentleman 'kisses' a lady's hand the lips do not actually meet flesh.

Again, you've already been told. Leave here and don't come back you silly, useless, tiresome fraud before someone contacts the real person whose identity you've stolen.

Travel / Poland - never again [593]


cause you're an old sad, troll and a fraud. go away you tire me (and everyone else here) this incarnation has run its course, Mario, find another....

Travel / Poland - never again [593]


yeah...... that never happens.


Again.... that's wrong, he's supposed to bend at the waist and lower his head toward her hand, yanking the lady's hand around is definitely bad manners....

Travel / Poland - never again [593]


For once I agree with dirk, the hand kissing thing is definitely one of those things that people talk about far more than they actually do. I've only seen it a handful of times in real life (and that's being generous) and I doubt if the man was younger than 60 or so each time.

If anything I think it's a bit more likely to happen among politicians though they tend to do it wrong - dragging the lady's hand up to their pie holes rather than bending at the waist to lower their head toward the hand (and of course the lips shouldn't actually touch than hand either but stop a centimeter or so short)

Travel / Płock or Włocławek? Two-day visit by English-speaking tourists in Poland [6]


I thought it was mostly built after WWII which was supposed to be one of the reasons it was so boring... I dunno, I went through it by train a time or two but never got off (and don't feel the lack).

I do kind of like Płock and would recommend that (and Ciechocinek if they'll be in that area for the tężnie and the outdoor natural pool (if they still exist... it's been a while since I was there).

Travel / Płock or Włocławek? Two-day visit by English-speaking tourists in Poland [6]


I've never heard a single interesting thing about Włocławek (even from people from there, maybe especially them) but I've been to Płock a couple of times and it has some interesting things; it has great views of the Wisła from the upper town and there's the gothic Mariavite church (and maybe the original colony in Felicjanów) and was a nice place to spend a couple of days (no more than that probably)

I have no idea about what the level of English for tourists would be (I would guess it would be higher in Płock but you never know)

In nice weather the train ride from Kutno to Płock is very scenic.

USA, Canada / Bilateral Visa Waiver Agreement between USA and Poland [47]

I reall don't think that's possible. It's true that mostly Schengen/Poland aren't concerned about Americans overstaying their visas (or trying the non-existent 'reset the 90 day clock' trick) but if they do catch you, you could be in trouble. Isn't it easier to just try for the karta pobytu?

Travel / Poland - never again [593]


Cause he pays you.


yeah, freedom is a terrible, terrible thing,

Liking Putin and being in favor of human freedom are mutually exclusive.

Language / How to write an email properly in Polish? [49]


Good because you deserve no respect, you old fraud.

And Polish malls are not full of American stores, they're most full of European and Polish stores and food courts tend toward Asian, Midlde Eastern and traditional Polish which you would know if you'd ever actually been in Poland, you old fraud.

As a former president once said...spieprzaj dziadu!

Back to the topic of the thread (everyone) please

Language / How to write an email properly in Polish? [49]


Rather like a goat, you run around slamming your head into places it's not wanted... paying no attention to anything but your most basic bodily functions. What a horrible existence.

Just more evidence that you're a fraud, no one who didn't start off extremely rich could get ahead in the US since, despite some outsiders' misconceptions, people in the US have finely grained distinctions of politeness, not as overt as ty/Pani but just as important.

USA, Canada / Would you live in California, USA? [240]


growing up in a place doesn't make you a citizen, which is the question. At one level I'm completely okay with giving all the dreamers citizenship, but it opens up a whole bunch of new questions about the future because it encourages reckless and feckless behavior (cross the border illegally with your kids and wait for the government to crumble and give them citizenship).

I'm also in favor of ending jus soli as it's being degraded by birth tourism (China and russia are among the biggest offenders).