News / Poland's PiS government falls into its own trap on the issue of disabled children [12]


the term in Poland is 'written on the knee' (napisany na kolanie) which is how almost all Polish laws are written (leading to lapses in enforcement for reasons of sanity while they try to sort out the mess)

everything from PiS on this issue has been off key and tone deaf. No matter how popular at one point, people get sick of any ruling party after a time...

Law / Poland's residence permit after marriage to a Polish citizen [24]


But she's Polish and in Poland and is much better positioned to find out (on your behalf) what you need (and she knows how government offices work). Presumably she's highly motivated to help you prolong your stay in Poland so she won't mind making some phone calls or heading down to the migration office (or just doing web searches at the relevant sites)

Why trust a bunch of random strangers over your own wife?

Law / Poland's residence permit after marriage to a Polish citizen [24]


Surely your wife is the person to ask, or is better suited to finding out what is needed in your particular situation. What does she say?

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

Generation Z (the one following the millenials in the US is _far_ more conservative than any in living memory....

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]


I've read enough books about naziism, that was a 10 year fluke and there's nothing really to learn form it that can't be learned elsewhere. The only thing unique about the nazi period was the bureaucratization and sheer clear-eyed efficiency brought to processes that usually occur in a fever rage.

The potential problem with Germany is not a return to the nazi past but an eternal tendency toward extremism and ideological rigidity that cannot recognize antithesis and therefore can never reach synthesis. Germany is a like a Mercedes, it runs great but you can never downshift and so you have to drive it into a wall to stop it....


His version of original sin?

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]


In an incredibly dysfunctional way. WWII ended over 70 years ago and acting like resurgent naziism is a serious threat is stupid and prompts Germans to act in a way that could bring about different dysfunctional results.

Marxists are enjoying a resurgence of respectability despite a death toll in the tens of millions. Germans are still supposed to step on eggshells and be afraid to assert citizen rights? Dumb.

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]


Leave it to a leftist to be happy about a bunch of people with different opinions dying.


No one wants to integrate in the modern world. Willing integration (and assimilation) by large numbers of adults are essentially myths created by the success of American coercive assimilation in the early 20th century. how many of the merkel jugend have jobs? how many have passed German language tests?

Integration is not possible absent coercive mechanisms that multicultural fantasies make impossible.

And Germany is terrible, terrible, terrible at deporting people that have no right to be in Germany.

Germany does not have multiculturalism, it has imported a large class of welfare pets who will never be able to pull their own weight economically. Germany is probably economically strong enough to take on that kind of burden but it's insanity to think that poorer countries can.

UK, Ireland / Living in a Polish/Gypsy community in Poland. People don't like me there. [25]

Germans knew at least Poles were competent, every try to get gypsies to build anything?

UK, Ireland / Living in a Polish/Gypsy community in Poland. People don't like me there. [25]


Gypsies are among the most xenophobic people on the planet, other groups simply return the favor....

History / A Quote from Polands' Past [11]


Correct me if I'm mistaken, but

a) Morawiecki himself is very rich

b) he has ogne to some efforts to both conceal that and to not be taxed a bit more himself in the past

Another "do as I say.... now! dammit!" politician?

Travel / Białowieża National Park in Poland [461]


What's left?

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]


Then screw 'em. I'm sick and tired of the implicit neoliberal argument that everything should be decided by the market except for the price of labor. It needs to die the horrible death it deserves rather than have politicians bend over and facilitating it.

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

If there's a real labor shortage then a minimum wage shouldn't be so necessary unless German employers have succumbed to the neoliberal doctrine of employees as serfs...

How do you explain the decline in support of SPD?

UK, Ireland / Mixed feelings after moving from Poland to England [36]

no, they're two separate things, language learning is only the first, necessary step to integration

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

I'd say that the two main political parties have largely deserted working class Germans (the same thing can also be found in the UK and US) so they could throw in their lots with the elites.

Rational German voters realize that AfD (for all its faults) is the only political voice speaking up for their interests rather than the interests of bankers, E She's a party girl, politicians and random third worlders. Mass immigration and other policies have hollowed out the political center leaving poles that detest each other. Those with aspirations toward rootless cosmopolitanism and the native working classes.

UK, Ireland / Mixed feelings after moving from Poland to England [36]


Not American where it would always be 'the UK' (or casually "England")

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]


or.... rationality, es ist ihnen nicht gelungen die sache zu schaffen (wonky grammar but you get the idea)

UK, Ireland / Mixed feelings after moving from Poland to England [36]


Do you feel integrated into UK society? According to the BBC the modern UK is simply a place where lots of people with nothing in common live near each other and the only common elements are empty, undefined slogans....

Who do you socialize with?


What kind of efforts did you make? Lots of people put in very... misdirected and inefficient efforts and then when it doesn't work right away they give up. I take it your first language isn't slavic (since most Slavic speakers learn without much effort) so that means Polish would be more difficult but it's very doable though being a couple is a little harder (since you're already each other's primary company).

The simple fact is that any kind of migration is traumatic and will at times lead to feelings of alienation and not fitting in. Lots of things in the media try to portray it as a simple process with no emotional burden but that's a lie. Just recognizing that you've chosen a difficult path that inherently comes with occasional feelings of regret and second thoughts and alienation can be a help in dealing with those feelings when they arise.

The idea of assimilation was a way of dealing with those negative aspects of migration as it gave those moving a long term goal to work for, but no one is supposed to assimilate now because what can you assimilate to in the UK? It's like trying to carry water in a basket.

In Poland at least there are things to assimilate to (or integrate with). It's not easy but ultimately is probably more psychologically healthy.

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]


Some facts are very stupid, like the policy you cited. There's not a single good reason for it. Dumb policies should be changed.

Law / Polish child maintenance, possible Irish father, Polish mother [21]


Is it just me or is this Marino's newest incarnation?

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]


Exactly, from their point of view they were completely ethical. Of course idiotic fools who can't believe other people are.... different are trying more and more desperately to pretned that isn't the case.

Either you

a) view Pakistani culture as deeply depraved (in which case why let them into your country?)

b) surrender your values to Pakistani ones (in which case don't complain about Pakistanis sex grooming your daughters)

c) a or b , no wussing out now, which is it your multi-culti cred or your dauthers' lives...

Real Estate / Starting an English building company in Warsaw. [24]


I'm not understanding that either.... Does British construction enjoy a good reputation? First I've heard, what I've mostly heard from Polish people who've lived in the UK is how they didn't like the building/construction...

News / Officials in Poland are hailing an upcoming visit by Donald Trump [720]

And Macron's evidence is worth nothing and deserves to be ignored by the sane people of the world....

News / Officials in Poland are hailing an upcoming visit by Donald Trump [720]


two ideas, one smaller scale one more speculative...

they want it to go on because with various middle eastern factions are at each others' throats, they're distracted from Israel..

also... the world is undergoing a gradual change from the nation state model to the ...... state (different names, I've heard 'market state' 'fluid state' 'post nation state')

similar large scale political changes in the past were usually accompanied by vast destructive wars, a policy worked out during the Clinton administration is to keep a number of smaller scale conflicts going that neither end nor expand out of control... they want to keep Syria going to prevent a larger conflagration from starting

News / Officials in Poland are hailing an upcoming visit by Donald Trump [720]

Yes, let's make sure the war drags on as long as possible and the Islamic State is fortified!

A friend in healthcare did not believe the footage of people being 'treated' after the 'gas attack' (just splashing water on them in a crowded room would dispeerse the gas to all present...

Feedback / The Notices file [21]


who largely don't give a rat's @ss...

Real Estate / Starting an English building company in Warsaw. [24]

I'm not entirely clear on the concept of English building company... Building things in the English style (which I don't think actually has much prestige in Poland) just owned by an English person? Focusing on those who want to speak English to a builder (most of whom won't need anything built)?


Almost all those will be working through locals who will prefer traditional Polish builders (despite the inconveniences).


Getting past the language barrier is just the first hurdle, you also need to know _how_ to give orders or ask questions in Polish culture (it can be different from anything English speakers are used to).

To be brutally honest I would strongly advise against a big capital outlay before you know what you're dealing with (know the local market, work and building customs etc). You might want to look to something less risky in the beginning as you learn the local system maybe a rep for English building suppliers or something like that..

Contrary to modern buzzwords, it takes at least a year on the ground to learn how something works in a different cultural environment, risking a lot of money when you don't know how things work is a recipe for disaster. Poland can be a great place to live once you understand the system but it can and will chew you up and spit you out before breakfast if you don't...

Language / Help with Polish language - I'm confused by the noun change when a negation is added - genitive case [5]


long boring historical reasons.....

the upshot is that the accusative can't appear after a negative verb and it gets changed to genitive.. no other cases change like that, just the accusative after verbs think of it a little like English

Do you have some bread?

No, I don't have any bread. (why does 'some' change to 'any' in the negative?)

News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]


it's hubris to think so, as for integration... more hubris on the German side....

andrewhammel.blog/2018/03/where-theres-no-will-theres-no-way-and-vice-versa.htm

Travel / I'm Spanish, next week I'm going to be at Warsaw and Kielce, help! [21]


Not to mention Greece.... I'm getting a heavy Marino vibe here....