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jon357   
6 May 2017
News / Which French candidate for president will be best for Poland? [512]

I bet the Russians did it.

They're certainly spreading it over twitter, with Russian language coding already found in their fake accounts.

Maybe his side did it to make it look like Le Pen was favoured by the Russians.

Don't be silly. 'His side' didn't release their own files. And Le Pen is certainly favoured by Russia which has financed her capmpaign.

It's laughable all this so called Russian interference in elections,

Very far indeed from 'laughable'. The opposite even.
jon357   
5 May 2017
News / Which French candidate for president will be best for Poland? [512]

Ask yourself what you would do if you and your family would live in a Sub-Saharan hellhole or in one of the drug and gang infested nations in South America.

Quite. When a certain type of people moan that they can't be refugees because their house hasn't been destroyed by war, they conveniently ignore the fact that if there's war or instability in a given region, its effects spread far and wide. The situation in Ukraine is a good example - most of those who've come to Poland aren't from Donetsk or Luhansk or even anywhere near that, however 20% of the country's economic structure is there and the knock on effect is huge. People who work in the capital city head office of industries lose their jobs, as do those in the secondary sector, they lose their jobs so don't spend in shops that close, don't take holidays, buy cars or decorate their homes and the effect goes on. It affects manufacturing, services, education, retail etc over a huge area.

In the regains where people left to move to France, the economy is even more fragile, the effects more deadly and the people more desperate.

A lot of France understands this. Evidently Le Pen supporters either don't get it or just don't care. Macron is the best choice.
jon357   
5 May 2017
News / Berlin terrorist attack -- Poland's ethnic homogeneity a true blessing [436]

Skt. Pauli

I found it slightly sleazy, albeit in an ok way. The Reeperbahn had a lot of tourists on the main drag and sports or other bars full of Middle-aged elderly Germans enjoying themselves and dancing to Schlager music.

There was a fair ethnic mix in both areas, especially St. Pauli, and no noticeable tensions.

The 'alternative' scene, sort of like Kreuzberg is now at Rote Flora and around, more or less on the same side of town as the Reeperbahn though not close to it. Plenty of people sitting in the park, smoking pot and listening to music. Also a reasonable mix of ethnicities. Something like that wouldn't really happen in Poland. Not so much because of homogeneity, more because it would end up being too organised and have a forced or commercial feel.

The closest in Warsaw were those bars in a squat in Powisle about a decade or so ago. That was nevertheless a bit too organised.
jon357   
4 May 2017
News / Berlin terrorist attack -- Poland's ethnic homogeneity a true blessing [436]

the North is staunchly Protestant

The north is 50-50 and the south is far from choc-a-bloc with balaclava-wearing prod-haters.

In Berlin, society is very multicultural. It's an open city. You can find tensions, as much between native Berliners and newly arrived Schwabians as between any other groups. Ethnic tensions are (excuse the pun) rarely black and white.

In Berlin, people get along, regardless of where they or their granny came from.
jon357   
4 May 2017
News / Which French candidate for president will be best for Poland? [512]

The luxuries in the prison system is what should be done away with. first and foremost.

Rubbish, Po. Prisons are not full of 'luxuries' and treating prisoners with dignity is a basic. The whole point of the justice system is rehabilitation rather than revenge. Maybe you think differently - I await the day you end up locked away in a dingy cell eating stale bread and rotten onions with Radio Zet blaring day and night and no proper mattress or pillow locked up with lowlife, once weekly showers and a twice monthly visit, all on a miscarriage of justice or momentary lapse of judgement.

Re. a two speed EU, the whole EU should constantly reassess the best way forward. Macron has talked about this. And above all it's down to the MEPs and national,politicians that you and I (or rather I since you can't vote here) elect to,public office.

The EU can frustrate some who don't see the point of countries working together. The French understand this well, so do the Germans, and in Poland most people strongly support the EU. Le Pen (who is certainly a neo-nazi) wants to gleefully take advantage of those who don't quite get what it's about.

Which is why Emmanuel Macron is the best person for the job and for Poland.
jon357   
4 May 2017
Language / Any good English term for lewactwo and derivatives? [16]

strongly disagree, agree, disagree or strongly disagre

That's a fairly full range of options. Adding a 'don't know' would cause problems in calculating an accurate result.
For the abortion example you give, I suppose the best answer to the statement would be either a strong disagree or strong agree.

I do find the way a lot of the questions are angled to be more from the left though

As far as I know, it's written by political scientists, and the result isn't based on a yes/no to one or two questions, more on a synthesis of reaction to a number of subtle statements.

Macron is actually for more right wing than Le Penn,

Indeed. Le Pen is a National Socialist, whereas Emmanuel Macron favours freedom and a market economy.

Interestingly (and closer to the topic) I did a Polish language one recently, partly geared to issues within Poland. I'll have a look later and see if I can find it.

edit This isn't the one I did, rather it was prepared for the last GE in Poland. But maybe worth a look: parlamentarny.pl/barometr-wyborczy-2015/
jon357   
4 May 2017
Language / Any good English term for lewactwo and derivatives? [16]

The website actually covers the whole range of left/right, authoritarian/libertarian viewpoints. If you look at some of the other ones, you'll find statements associated with right, left and centre. For each statement you can choose the extent to which you agree or disagree, thereby covering the whole political spectrum.
jon357   
4 May 2017
Travel / Pub Quiz in Warsaw? [19]

I don't have Facebook so can't check, however is this the English language quiz that's on tomorrow at Legends on ul. Emilia Plater?
jon357   
4 May 2017
Food / Making American cheeses (Polish and EU ones are terrible!) [100]

as in any other country, these cheeses are consumed mainly by foodies who make the effort to seek them out.

That may well hold true over there. In France, people are more likely to buy interesting cheeses as a matter of course and in Britain every town with a market and every supermarket have plenty.

In Poland the range in normal shops is growing, however most are still factory made.
jon357   
4 May 2017
News / Which French candidate for president will be best for Poland? [512]

Is it a wonder why the Socialist Left Marxists don't want her.

Nor do the conservatives. Worth mentioning that a chunk of her voters are people who once voted communist, basically people who make a protest vote or spoil their ballot paper.

Read up on socialism, communism and social democracy. You're talking gibberish.

Exactly.
jon357   
3 May 2017
News / Which French candidate for president will be best for Poland? [512]

they (along with their puppet Assange) had a role in the US elections and in Brexit and they're heavily influencing the French election

The extent of this is becoming clearer and clearer - sooner or later this one will really blow up. The French in particular won't let that one lie. If Macron wins there will be years of lawsuits. If Le Pen won, the situation would come to a head even quicker. Either way, we can expect all the funding details to come out as well as all the dirt on Trump and his cronies.

What's disturbing is the way that our American friends here see Yalta 2 as being perfectly acceptable.

It's something remote and abstract for them. Some couldn't find Poland (or France) on a map.
jon357   
3 May 2017
News / Which French candidate for president will be best for Poland? [512]

France is being destroyed by them.

The French don't think so.

"the French don't want her."

The polls in France are remarkably consistent and reliable. She will lose by a big margin.

best for France and Europe

Macron. The French voters strongly favour this. It's a shame in a way that it's between an ultra-right winger whose part was founded by ex-Nazis and the relatively conservative Macron, rather than someone more committed to the Workers controlling the means of production.
jon357   
2 May 2017
News / Which French candidate for president will be best for Poland? [512]

the terrorist won

And they haven't won.

massive deportations and serious border enforcement

That won't happen. The French don't want it. They want Macron.

Not everything in life boils down to your obsession with immigration.