News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]


He's bringing himself down through a phony election and massive repression against his own people. Only open enemies of Poland can support him...


Lukashenka is far worse than an enabler, he's scum who would burn his country down to hold onto power.

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]


Germany is an ally of Poland through both the EU and NATO. Poland does not betray its allies and only an enemy nation would suggest that it would.


I'm sure he believes that Lukashenka won 80 % of the vote last year.... he's a lost cause.

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]


Serbia is outing itself as an active enemy of Poland....

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]


And you fail! The truth comes out..... You are not the friend of Poland you pretend to be, you are supporting a country actively attacking Poland.

Down with Lukashenka loving Serbs!

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]


No one will criticize him for stopping his involvement in the modern slave trade (aka human trafficking). The flights were his idea.

Why do you defend Lukashenka (aka filthy human trafficker)?


Just admit you want them all let in... why do you hate Iraqis so much?

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]


That has been obvious for a long time, a raised the exact point a week or so ago... if the EU isn't already making plans for that entirely predictable option then it's not fit for purpose (or the leadership isn't).

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]


Will Europe be better off for it? I severely doubt it.... let's just hope for the best!

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]


The only option you seem to have thought of is letting them all in and hoping for the best... which is a very crappy option.

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]


Exactly how aggressive migrants want you to react.


But escalation has to be met with escalation.

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]


At some point aggression has to be met with aggression.

Migrants forcing their way past closed borders is physical aggression (especially since a non-trivial number of them go on to kill citizens once they reach Europe).

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]


Good point, if it were easy for Polish people to leave in the 1960s and 70s then Poland would be like Belarus (or worse) today.

Making Iraq liveable is something only Iraqis can do. If they don't want to bother, then what makes anything think they'll put themselves out for some new country?


Preferably not women and children.... but at some point force is going to be needed. More people want to live in Europe than Europe can let in (without becoming a third world dump as well).


Not with that attitude it won't.

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]


Good! They know what to do! It will cut Greek unemployment as well.


If there's a lack of hope in Iraq still.... then that's Iraq's problem and not Europe's.

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]


Marine barriers and patrol boats to send them back (by force if need be)


Lack of judgement, poor future orientation, in other words they have little chance of being anything but criminals or welfare recipients if they ever do reach Europe.

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]

The dysfunction preceded European involvement in Afghanistan and Somali which have always been ultra-violent, low trust, regressive religious train wrecks.

Iraq had more potential but at what point does a country become responsible for itself? If Iraqis can't make their country functional that's on them.


Doubtless in the 18th century you would have accepted the Atlantic Slave Trade as the new normal....

The International Human Trafficking Industry is pure evil top to bottom and a major source of human misery in the world today. It needs to be eliminated root and branch.

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]


Some level of migration has always been normal. The current human trafficking industry is not... and is not sustainable since it's about importing people from dysfunctional failing societies and not asking anything in return. How much failure can Europe import without failing itself?


Why should Europe pay the price for Iraqi and Afghani and Somali societal failure?

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]


It's an unsustainable model. It requires some countries to remain social basket cases so that the excess population can be transported like sacks of potatoes to new, better run countries.

But if recent history is any guide.... most of the new arrivals never really adapt and end up long term welfare pets (or wards of the state if that sounds nicer). Worse yet, they actively undermine and sabotage the process of their children adapting and being assimilated to the new country so that the welfare dependency becomes generational.

The better run countries simply cannot remain better run if they keep up the mass importation of culturally incompatible people. I would think this is blindingly obvious over the last 30, 20, 10, 5 years but those in decision making positions remain as willfully blind as ever.

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]


The threat to Poland now is not from Brussels but from slavic "brothers" Lukashenka and Putin - both of whom bring disgrace to the idea of slavdom.

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]


and what should Poland (or more to the point.... Germany) do about this?


Any migrant let in is encouragement for 10 more waiting in the wings....

Off-Topic / Ukraine, Belarus, Russia in EU in 2030? [105]

Russia hasn't moved beyond resource extraction... it has tremendous human capital but is stymied under the regressive corruption of the Putin regime.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


Given that PiS has a history of peculiar interpretations of the law... can anyone blame them?

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]


With those filthy twins Lukashenka and Putin!

And the filthy human trafficker Lukashenka wants to increase his bloody business bringing shame to all of Slavdom....

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


It is absolutely an issue with the abortion laws as mentioned by the unfortunately dead woman herself...

PiS has a history of poorly conceived laws and political actions that often lead to unforeseen bad results in the real world....

Off-Topic / Ukraine, Belarus, Russia in EU in 2030? [105]

The economic and social history of communism has been total disaster and even when a communist dominated society breaks free the damage lasts for decades.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

Too many are trying to blame doctors entirely or the idiotic ruling last year entirely.

This is obviously a perfect storm of fvkk-ups with lots of blame to spread around. The doctors should have been pro-active but who can blame them for being cautious given the unpredictable nature of legal enforcement?

PiS never should have forced through the decision (anything who doesn't think last year's decision was delivered upon request is seriously naive).

I blame the doctors and I blame PiS and I blame their phony kangaroo court.

Shame on all of them!

Now, the question is how to prevent this from happening in the future?

Travel / Roadside thing in Poland ~ what is this, please? [25]


;... you put on pants?

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [164]


Me too, I need to keep my mind occupied or I feel uneasy and weird.... but it doesn't have to be busy with work...

Language / Grammar - difference between "jaki" and "co" in Polish language [43]


That seems too much like a translation from English to me... many years ago a friend paid me a compliment on my grammar but complained that I used very weird structures which came from translating from English and a little German, which I'd learned earlier, in my head. For a long time I had a tendency to put infinitives at the end of sentences...


If I'm asking about function, I can imagine myself asking 'Do czego służy ten budynek?" (What's that building for?) or maybe even "Co robią w tym budynku?" (What do they do in that building?) not very elegant but... then neither am I....

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [164]


Well that's where I am and it's very relative. One thing I noticed back in the late 90s was that the inequality gap was much more visible in Warsaw than former Prussia - and the most wealthy in the latter (which I had some indirect contact with) were more likely to hide their wealth or try to blend in while the better off in Warsaw were much more into conspicuous consumption...

I'm not sure how valid that still is. I did read an article about mentalność wielkopolska (more German than usually found in Poland) but the conclusion was that after decades of attack and undermining in the PRL it's now really only found in Poznań (within the city limits).

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [164]

Short answer : No. They are traditionally more about working to live rather than living to work.

And due to generations of low wages and bad working conditions they're not especially hard workers absent sufficient compensation.
But when they are well paid and have decent working conditions they often work very hard.

Life / Has feminism and lesbianism progressed in Poland? [645]


Not priests, feudal lords, and probably a myth

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droit_du_seigneur