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Rich Mazur   
15 Oct 2018
News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

So asking a follow up question is now baiting?
Is the question I just asked also baiting?
Never mind.
Your statement "Complex issues don't need quick fixes:-)" was baiting in that it begged the question I eventually asked.
If that statement were made in good faith, you would have voluntarily provided the top six or so examples what those issues are. Instead, you just threw a grenade into the water to see what come up.

So, let's rewind this tape with you stating plainly, not in a rapid fire English, what those complex issues are and what is the best way to approach them. You could even number them for easy referencing. What you did is signal that you don't expect any coherent and fact-based answers.
Rich Mazur   
15 Oct 2018
News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

Yes

You didn't think things through before you typed that "yes".
That "yes" would make it possible for 15 EU members to outvote 13 (or whatever number it takes) and make the 13 a depository of everything the 15 do not want - refugees, nuclear waste, garbage, factories that pollute, and on and on. A total nonsense.

Complex issues don't need quick fixes:-)

Name one.
Rich Mazur   
15 Oct 2018
News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

Under that insane rule, if it is in fact there, Poland can be outvoted and forced to take ALL of the foreign garbage other member states don't want, for example.

I would appreciate a simple yes/no answer, not an essay.
Rich Mazur   
15 Oct 2018
News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

It was not Germany who let the refugees into the EU

So what? My question still stands: by what logic or the EU rules, the countries you mentioned have the right to impose the results of their stupidity on others, like Poland?

Isn't the EU supposed to be run by unanimous consent with veto powers given each state?

Further, if the problem has diminished lately, is it because the EU is better able to stop the invasion or as a result of other factors?
Rich Mazur   
15 Oct 2018
News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

I don't tread. I write exactly how I see things.
"Dangerous" to whom and how?
Just curious, why did you decide not to comment on the contents but rather express concern about my well being? What was your motivation?
Rich Mazur   
15 Oct 2018
News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

The refugees were there in any case.

Nonsense and a post-fact justification.
Nowhere in the EU documents does it say that any country can on its own admit and redistribute any number of OUTSIDERS who enter the EU illegally without prior permission. All people movements were supposed to be unrestricted only for the member countries, not Asia and Africa.
Rich Mazur   
15 Oct 2018
News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

Germany is one of the few countries that is keeping the EU together,

...and letting the hordes in is part of the EU rules. Did I get it right?
Was Poland ever told that the EU is more than an economic union and that whatever one country does in a fit misguided generosity, other members will be obligated to accept and participate in regardless of what harm it will cause them?

Why do I have this feeling that Poland was never informed it would be dealing with the German remorse and guilt almost a century after the fact.

Should the US abandon NATO because we cooked some Japs and now feel just terrible?
Rich Mazur   
15 Oct 2018
History / How do Poles feel about 10th anniversary of 9/11 [40]

There is nothing wrong with retaliation. What's wrong is letting it happen, which the US did. We had so many opportunities to prevent 9/11 but didn't. Even today, "profiling" is still a dirty word and hate speech. How many years did it take the US to reinforce the cockpit doors after Israel did theirs? Stupid people get stupid results.
Rich Mazur   
15 Oct 2018
Law / Need help about Poland's partner visa for LGBT [45]

I'm getting tired of them throwing this crap into our faces all the time

...and disgusted with all the lame attempts to make it "normal".
A simple test they so far didn't pass is how to explain to a 10-year-old what the man-on-man sex involves.
On the other hand, I could tell that kid what a man and a woman do in bed without any difficulties. I could actually do it here. Gay sex details would probably not be as cheerfully accepted. But somebody could try as a teaching moment for the rest of us.
Rich Mazur   
14 Oct 2018
News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

I'm not quite sure why you insist on downtalking the West at every turn.

Simple. The US and Europe are not sustainable. This is where it starts and ends. All else is entertainment. Change the time scale and you can say that Titanic was a great deal because they were serving free drinks in the last 20 minutes.

The US because of (1) Latino invasion changing us into the sh**holes these people are running from and (2) the runaway and unpayable debt putting a very big question mark over our Social Security and health care - all within my lifetime. Europe - mainly (1) except that your invasion is a lot worse. To me, Europe is irrelevant so I am just watching amazed.

To become what you fear China needs the money, the entrepreneurs, the traders, the builders, the inventors.

They already have that. Those people are already rich and happy. They own properties in the US, are free to travel and have fun. Why would they want to change the system?

I left Poland ONLY because my salary was a cruel joke. If I had a chance to be financially OK, I would have never left. Communism never bothered me and they never bothered me. Life was sweet, except that my starting paycheck would only cover trips to work and lunch in the company cafeteria. That's it.
Rich Mazur   
14 Oct 2018
News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

But there will be a time when the party leader becomes a puppet of chinese money...

The quoted sentence is very applicable to the US where it takes a billion to be elected president. China has no elections, hence, no need for money to stay in power. A couple of thousand loyal army men with real machine guns loaded with real bullets are a perfect substitute for elections. Remember 1989 and the tanks?

The party needs the rich traders, builders, entrepreneurs...totally contrary to their touted communist ideals.

To create wealth and pay taxes, not to give the communists power and the guns they already have, minus any real opposition.
When that moron, Nixon, hugged Mao and "opened the door to China", the US naively thought that the process you are hoping for will take place and soon. Nothing of the sort happened. Instead, China, by our own admission, has become a bigger threat to the US than ever.

Finally, why would the Chinese commies and anyone with them want a change? To turn China into the mess they see in the US and Europe, while they are getting everything they want and everybody falling over each other to appease them, including Google? What would those high ranking rebels want instead? They are, like the top, not stupid. Only we and Europe are.
Rich Mazur   
14 Oct 2018
News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

At some point the autoritharian one party rule will no longer be enough. Millions of people will be no longer obedient illiterate farmers!

I almost wish we could meet over a beer to have such discussions...
In the meantime, I will respectfully disagree. My view of such matters is that upheavals and uprisings need street crowds to be compelling and scary to the rulers. Happy and affluent people are risk averse and would rather stay home and watch sports than risk whatever they achieved. I am in that group and, my age aside, that is why I never did or will fight the "system". I am too selfish for that. Being married and having kids to feed reduces the desire to hit the streets to zero. The Chinese top knows it.

Western Europe has become rich. It also became more complacent rather than less, as with the refugees, for example.
Recently, things are changing in the right direction but it's too late to undo the damage. Preventing more damage? Maybe. We will see if you (plural) have the determination to stay the new course. Unfortunately, a couple of crumbs thrown at the right time and people fold. The wall in the US is a good example of that.
Rich Mazur   
14 Oct 2018
Travel / HW antics in Poland not for export - toll highways issue [3]

It's probably not only in Poland or it depends on the day of a week (weekend drivers etc ;).

Probably not only in Poland, but certainly not in the US.
I just took an 8000 km tour of 12 states and didn't have one solitary close encounter. No cutting in, no road rage, no tailgating. And no cops, either. Everybody going limit plus 5 at the most.

Love those United States of America and its president.
Rich Mazur   
14 Oct 2018
News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

China is applauding!

No, China is not applauding Trump. They hate Trump because he called them out on their predatory tactics and slapped tariffs on their exports. If the US and Europe quit feeding this monster, it would collapse. I don't want to start another prolonged war about tariffs but if tariffs were so bad for the US, in the zero sum world, they would be good for China. They are not.

The argument that tariffs start trade wars is as stupid, considering that we have been in trade wars since the beginning of time, as that the US landing in Normandy would lead to more casualties. I used this as an example, not because you are German. Nothing personal.
Rich Mazur   
14 Oct 2018
News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

But I for one are glad not to live in the West and not to suffer in China.

Me too. But does not make my claim untrue.
China today has a lot of happy and very rich people. It will take a while to get out of the hole China has been in for centuries.

To their credit, the Chinese commies looked at the USSR and how it imploded, and decided to create a new, and so far successful, hybrid of political monopoly combined with an economic system that is actually more capitalistic than what we have in the US and you in Europe. Today, the only question is when, not if, China will be #1.

They must be doing something right or we must be the biggest ******** ever for this to be even remotely possible.
Rich Mazur   
14 Oct 2018
News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

the overwhelming, truly incomprehensible changes to our entire planet with her mega population shifts and growth.

This sentence may apply to nature. Demographic changes are man-made, made by stupid men who refuse to see beyond the immediate gratification of feeeeeling good and the next election. That is why the China model of one-party, iron-fist rule is sustainable, and the Western pussy-soft way is not. Period. End of the thesis on the survivability of societies.

Rome fell because they got decadent and pussy-soft.
Rich Mazur   
14 Oct 2018
News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

And then I saw it. It was the FILTHIEST TOILET that I've ever seen in my entire life.

One reason: men habitually p*** standing. which is really stupid when you can actually sit down. Another benefit of pissing sitting is you don't have to aim it as precisely and you can wipe it dry when done. But, men are stubborn idiots in this regard. Guys, there are some thing we could learn from the ladies.
Rich Mazur   
13 Oct 2018
News / Three Poles beaten in front of family. The supects are American soldiers [36]

I also don't agree with the current mass emigration to Poland, but the majority seemingly have no issues with it.

...until they do, but then it's often too late.
Don't forget that the majority are really stupid people. In the US, the majority has 1000 bucks in cash as emergency money or less.
They usually support every imaginable evil because the majority has the vision that extends no further than the next meal or, at the most, next paycheck. Beyond that, it's fog and noise to them.
Rich Mazur   
13 Oct 2018
News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

nobody thought about these foreign masses proverbially dying to come to Europe.

???
The concept of doors and fences was just created? Why did we have them for centuries? You are a nice guy but that lame excuse is really beneath you.
Rich Mazur   
13 Oct 2018
News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

Beside borders, they will need draconian penalties for trespassers. Just as I have at my disposal at home - including the death penalty. No migrants, no rapes. Funny how it works at my place without ICE, Border Patrol, and asylum hearings.
Rich Mazur   
13 Oct 2018
News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

That's what most immigrants from "shi" countries face today too...

The obvious difference is that I came here legally while most of the s***heads do not. Secondly, with my arrival the average American IQ, income and quality of life went up. The s***heads are a drag. Huge difference.
Rich Mazur   
13 Oct 2018
News / "It's too late for Germany" (but not for Poland) [1798]

Poles were called dumb polak for decades in the usa. Now you dont hear that, do you?

I am glad you mentioned that. "Dumb Polack" was very popular as a put-down when I came here in 1967. My reaction, and I mean verbal, was very unpleasant to the offenders. That was the end of "dumb Polack in my presence at least. Later, as you said, it just went away. Poland being a loyal ally of the US, may have helped, too.