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


Why don't you just use your bank card? Bank machihnes aren't hard to find and all have English as an option...


How do you feel about Macedonia?

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

Name an extreme policy he has followed.... when you get past the hysteria he's not that extreme except to the most utterly conventional neoliberals or neocons neither of which have _any_ credibility left.

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

actually he is...

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


There are no good "moderate" candidates, any other republican would have been destroyed by Clinton. Trump won the nomination and the election with almost the entire republican establishment working against him.

Both the republican (and democratic) establishments are fighting the ongoing realignment, whichever party can stay out of the way will be able to set policy for the next 30 or 40 years... but it won't be neoliberal neocon creation, but a moderate nationalist populist like Sanders or Trump.

The best way to fight Trump is to find who can slip into the Sanders role before Hillary strong arms her way into the nomination in 2020...

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


I don't know if I'd go that far, but it's true that lots of Arabs don't stand out in a Polish crowd and a fair amount of the Arabs in Poland are only identifiable as such when they speak (unless they grew up in Poland in which case they're only identifiable if they identify themselves....

Unlike western Europe most Arabs in Poland had come for higher education in the 1970s or 80s and many found life here a more attractive option than going home.... and they are mostly not very religious (or are religious on their own time at home). They started with much higher educational and social capital than Algerians who went to France to do menial work....

That doesn't mean that Poland is or will be an attractive destination country for large numbers of Arabs or that Poland would do any better with the type that went to Western Europe for low skilled jobs or welfare benefits than Western Europe was.

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


Just another example of how little you have in common with modern Polish people.


The prosecution rests.

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

When Dirk saw the picture below he was really upset.... he was sure that if _he_ had thrown the tomato he totally would have nailed her

Food / How to cook Frozen pierogi? Boil or Fry? [90]

I cook frozen pierogies. Don't eat them all and put the leftovers in the fridge. Next day fry them in butter.

I don't think trying to fry frozen pierogies in butter would be a good idea they need to be boiled first.

Food / How to cook Frozen pierogi? Boil or Fry? [90]

Yes, yes you can.

Polonia / Ever been to Sweden? [185]


which is why Sweden is considering raising the retirement age...


tou---effin'-CHE!

Polonia / Ever been to Sweden? [185]

And you avert your gaze from the effects of the policies you endorse.... and no sympathy for the victim.... what a surprise.

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


just because it didn't work out doesn't mean it wasn't her plan....

Polonia / Ever been to Sweden? [185]


As long as you don't care about what's going on in the ghettos.... yeha, let them eat diversity.



the picture is from a gang rape that was livestreamed in Sweden....

Language / A mother yelling at her child in Polish [16]


I hope so...


I've heard lots of Polish parents call their child 'debil' (moron, idiot)... though that wouldn't fit the context the author is looking for

I like nieznośny in the context (more or less 'brat' in American usage but it's an adjective)

Polonia / Ever been to Sweden? [185]


But terrible with Swedish crime rates of 20 or 30 or 40 years ago.....

That's the important statistic.

Language / A mother yelling at her child in Polish [16]


You don't... I'm not a native speaker but I think something like "Jak mogleś!?" (how could you!) or "Co sobie myślałes?" (what were you thinking?!) or Oszałeś?! (did you go crazy) would work better (native speakers can polish them)

Polonia / Ever been to Sweden? [185]


A lot depends on money. As Tino Sanandaji points out (repeatedly) the upper classes are largely able to live in a bubble untouched by the violence and dysfunction in the poor unassimilated migrant areas and have trouble believing how bad it can get and since it doesn't directly affect them (the way it doesn't directly affect jon or delph) they don't really care. It's a lack of abstract thought and empathy, as long as they can display 'progressive' values they mostly don't care how those play out at ground level.

Polonia / Ever been to Sweden? [185]


Or can read.... there's always that, being able to read

spectator.co.uk/2018/02/violent-crime-in-sweden-is-soaring-when-will-politicians-act

Polonia / Ever been to Sweden? [185]

As long as you watch out for the handgrenades and don't have lady parts...

Polonia / Ever been to Sweden? [185]


That chant was largely caused by public intellectual jews (Bill Kristol, Brett Stephen) calling for the white working class in the US to be replaced with immigrants in the previous months.

The march and chant was a bad idea but it didn't come out of nothing....

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


Not how the US system works, I don't think it'll be a new party. Traditionally each party acts like a long term coalition of different factions, when a realigniment comes along (like back in the 1970s and .... now....) one or more key factions switches party to very big effect.

The current realignment is about diversity (Clinton, Cruz, Rubio et al) vs solidarity (Sanders, Trump).

Both party establishments are fighting it (just as in the 1970s)

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

That's all been a big nothing burger...

The point is that Americans (in growing numbers) are done with the neoliberal consensus of large scale unskiled immigration, foreign intervention, sucking up to wall street (invade the world, invite the world, in debt to the world) that both mainstream republicans and democrats (not least H Clinton) stand for.

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

a story in three parts:

Trump won the part primary by running against the Republican establishment and won the national election by continuing to do that (and running against H Clinton as an establishment candidate).

The Republican party establishment is bound and determined to continue policies that the American public doesn't want and Trump, being an outsider, doesn't have the leverage and/or know how to circumvent them.

If he doesn't get a wall built or stop foreign neocon military meddling or coddling banking interests he will be a one term president

As Shirley Bassey so memorably sang: It's all just a little bit of history repeating...

1976 / 2016 One party fields an outsider (Carter/Trump) who wins over an establishment legacy candidate (Ford/Clinton) who won the primary only after a bitter struggle against an intraparty insurgency (Reagan/Sanders).

1977-1979 The outsider is continually foiled by his own party and can't get his own agenda through (being an outsider and all)

1980/2020 The previous failed insurgent candidate takes the presidency and establishes a new political order? (Reagan/Sanders (or a new Sandersite democrat).

Both parties are fighting the realignment, the party that can get ahead of public sentiment (Repubs in 1980, maybe Dems in 2020) will be able set the agenda for decades...

News / EU confirms it will take action against Poland over court reforms [554]


In other news, the Polish government assumes that everyone in Brussels is a dithering idiot who won't see through their very transparent attempt to fool them.

And since he's not here, I'll supply Dirk's response: Poland will never let Soros backed migrants in Poland to subvert the Christian faith which I don't follow in the slightest in my continuing effort to stay away from Poland while I make money and drug myself into oblivion..... too harsh? nyah.

I'll save crow the trouble too: Serbia, Poland must help Serbia or the world is doomed, doomed I tell you!.... no that's too sane to capture the bats in his belfry

Life / Wroclaw - club scene [16]


comme toi?

and you talk an awful lot about drugs for a supposed defender of Christian values (and hater of migrants who are disproportionately involved in selling narcotics to feckless European natives....)

UK, Ireland / No Poles Allowed! - Latest Polonophobic Outrage Out of Britain [660]


The standard issues you'd expect between an established population that took pains to assimilate (at personal and psychological cost) and those who evince no particular respect for the local culture or desire to assimilate...

The thing is I'd expect the new arrivals to be more upset about 6. than those who've adopted British norms (unless you're talking about young gay people leaving Poland for more tolerant pastures).

Steve Sailer notes similar division between pre WWII Armenians (names ending in -ian) in California who tend to be respectable and law abiding and post USSR Armenians (names ending in -yan) who have a much higher percentage of grifters and thugs.

News / Hungary Veto on Poland Sanctions may not happen [108]


including Poland to a large degree.... so mr. Catholic tradition should remember what country he's in.

News / Hungary Veto on Poland Sanctions may not happen [108]


Who judges? What legal provisions does it point to, it's law by government decree

News / Hungary Veto on Poland Sanctions may not happen [108]


The problem is that PiS hates anything not under its direct control. Now they want to be able to block private charities from collecting money or to take the money over themselves...

forbes.pl/wiadomosci/rzad-przejmuje-kontrole-nad-zbiorkam-publicznymi/p2vy6wg

How can this be justified?

A government that hates and wants to take over an organization that raises money for sick children and/or take over the money it raises. Can you support that _and_ call yourself a catholic?

News / Hungary Veto on Poland Sanctions may not happen [108]


The problem is that PiS (and the EU for that matter) is selling a false dichotomy.... post-modern express to multicultual hell (hello Sweden!) or far right extreme nationalism (PRL with nationalism and catholicism instead of communism)

Don't buy the false dichotomy, there are a lot of other alternatives.

My priority is civil society (more or less impossible to maintain under conditions of extreme cultural and religious diversity) but also more or less impossible to maintain under the conditions that PiS are setting out.