Study / Application to Gdansk University of Medicine [11]

Simply a cultural difference here, that's all. Suspected as much:-)
No problem, Paulina.

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]

Problem is that practically none of Trump's appointees to date are
qualified for their positions!

He and Vance seem to prefer sex offenders or avowed racists...or both LOL

While I don't necessarily expect central casting figures, being only a maverick
isn't always the answer.

Study / Application to Gdansk University of Medicine [11]

Just curious.

@Paulina, it's customary when someone applies to a particular university
program in another country to congratulate them, no?

@Metra, best of luck with your Polish. However, if your prof. is a native English
speaker, then I suppose it won't be necessary to know Polish.

Study / Application to Gdansk University of Medicine [11]

Congratulations, Metra!

Any plans to learn Polish?

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]

@Rich, I answered and re-answered your rhetorical question
more times than I'd care to remember!

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]

Rich, I never implied or stated that every gov't. program meets with my approval, did I?
No. Therefore, why throw the baby out with the proverbial bathwater??

As George Bailey said in "It's a Wonderful Life", to paraphrase, it's the middle class who
do most of the living and dying in our community! Is it too much to ask that they live and/or
die in some semblance of comfortable surroundings?

This thinking was prevalent during the immediate post-War years, up through the mid-'70's.
Then The Reagan Counter Revolution all but destroyed all of such hopes and dreams.

Frank Capra, above all FRD, must have been turning over in their graves!

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]

@Rich,
The US doesn't need a specific government body devoted to business efficiency!
The ineluctable eugenic conclusion of such thinking is that certain Americans are
simply born and bred entrepreneurs who will success no matter who's in office,
therefore, to hell in a handbasket with the rest of those deemed too slow or just
incapable of keeping up with "progress" or "regress" as the case may be.

This is all a direct result of Reaganism, a derivative of that EST (Erhard Seminar Training)
jazz I've already mentioned here ad nauseum. The question is not "Why aren't you a mega-
billionaire ten times over?", but rather, what is YOUR particular skill set and how can the society
make the best, most profitable, use of it. Everyone has a comfortable place in society as we once
had, be it the bagger at a Walmart or the CEO of Microsoft. Of course the earning scale will be
different, granted. However, need those less talented in all areas be made to feel as though their
contribution is worth nothing??

Not all Americans are natural born math genii or creative accountants. When ordinary folks began
being penalized for what they weren't instead of rewarded forwhat they were, this is when things started getting
dicey and "just plain folks" tragically started taking matters into their own hands, egged on, not by
inbred criminality, but by frustration that the United States was brazenly, smugly passing them by
in a brave new world order which marginalizes individual achievement, solely in favor of the Zuckerbergs,
Bezos' and the rest of those who ignore standard and quality.

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]

Musk and his D.O.G.E., not to be confused with the rulers of Renaissance Venice,
are as much a disgrace to America as the Felon-in-Chief himself!!

Elon Musk isn't even a US citizen, who sounds somewhat foreign when he
speaks, aligns himself with Germany's AfD ("unofficially", of course), and wants
to slash and burn at his boss' every whim.

Reminds me a little of that Al Dunlap character back in the '90's, or even
the late former Reagan appointee, Don Rumsfeld, so-called efficiency
experts, who eliminated entire corporate department for questionable
reasons and put uncounted Americans out of work. Many never found
jobs again, or at best, at pay far below their background.

Off-Topic / Why does Geddy Lee hate Poland? [105]

???? Co za bzdura mowisz?

Off-Topic / Why does Geddy Lee hate Poland? [105]

That explains it!

Since when is "Poland is about the largest of any country..." = Polska jest prawie najwiekniejszym krajem w Europie.." anti-Polish?!
Either there's a point of Polish culture which makes it insulting for foreigners to praise Polish size or you've got a screw loose (..czy
jestes wariatem). Probably a combination of both.

Thank you, Ron! At least you have some sense....in a way:-)

Off-Topic / Why does Geddy Lee hate Poland? [105]

Ahemmm, yo dude! 'Sure English is your first language? Or are you among the many trolls here on PF?

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]

@Rich, Roosevelt wasn't Jewish, not even close! Jews are hated for the reasons I clearly outlined in #98!
Please re-read, then translate back into Polish LOL

Off-Topic / Why does Geddy Lee hate Poland? [105]

@Alien, Poland's not little!
As you must be aware, alongside France and Spain,
Poland has about the largest landmass of any country
on the European Continent.

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]

...then why bother posting it?? LOL

@Marrakesh, you seemed to have missed the point! Roosevelt
decided not to bomb the railway connections to Auschwitz because
of a virulent anti-Semitic contingent in the US Congress, led principally
by the likes of Messrs. Breckenridge Long, Rankin, Bilbow and their cohorts
in the Senate.

An attempt had already been made on FDR's life in 1935 or thereabouts,
assassinating the mayor of Chicago instead. Roosevelt didn't want to
fall to the assassin's bullet a second time. He was between a rock and a
hard place; appease Hitler, and the Left would cry that he's kowtowing to the
Nazis, fight the Nazis, and the Right would have said he's succumbing to Jewish pressure groups, such as intimated by Norman
Thomas and the (original) America Firsters, among others. FDR was damned if he
did and damned if he didn't.

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]

Meddling, you call it

Without Allies meddling, Hitler might have won!

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]

Not the old German film with Ferdinand Marian directed by Veit Harlan, surely!! Marrakesh, you must be older than the hills, as
that film came out in around 1942.

If you read through the original agenda of the Wannsee Conference, you will see that Heydrich, Eichmann and the rest of the participants
PLANNED on killing off 11,000,000 Jews throughout entire occupied Europe. They only got away with around 6,000,000. Had the Allies not
forced Germany to surrender, the Nazis might well have achieved their horrific goal.

Rich, Jews have been hated throughout the millenia because they were seen as interfering with the
plans of Pontius Pilate to expand the Roman Empire, later, by the Catholic Church based on the myth
of the Jews murdering Jesus.

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]

@Marrakesh,
Once again, I draw your attention to the words "planned extermination"!
Furthermore, as I had an opportunity to witness first hand the original minutes
of the Wannsee Conference at the memorial site in the Villa Wannsee itself,
I'm clearly in a better position to judge the authenticity of my information than you.

In addition, I had the misfortune of having once watched the infamous documentary
by Reichsfilmkommissar Dr. Fritz Hippler, "Der ewige Jude" (The Eternal Jew), the
cinematic blue print for the Shoah, you didn't.

Therefore, I advise you to kindly refrain from commenting on matters of which you
have no knowledge! Who do you think you are anyway, Donald Trump??

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]

Look who's talking, Rich.
You're as nutty as IronLOL

News / How will Trump's trade tariffs affect Poland? [74]

Oh, sure. The Poles are known to be highly conservative.
Greepoint, Bklyn.'s full of Trump Republicans.

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]

Please explain precisely what you mean!
Once again your English fails you here. Pay
attention now, Ironside, you're in danger of learning something:-)

Perhaps I may help you. "Self-hate" = hatred of one's self because of
indescribable feelings of personal guilt. "Racist" = someone who capriciously
hates others because of their race, not that of the hater, neither of which monikers
applies in this case. Understand?

Like to see ya get outta this one.

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]

As long as it takes for the next generations, that is, the children of White Americans to expunge the guilt
of their ancestors for Wounded Knee and Tulsa, that's how long, Maf, Milo, and Rich!!

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]

I'M forgiven, Maf?? I fail to get the joke.

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]

If you bothered to read the article in the NYT, Musk said that Germans should "move on" with
their history and leave any guilt feelings behind!

Any thinking or feeling person would find this unacceptable and worthy of an apology.

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]

Admittedly, Musk might no be a full-fledged anti-Semite,
but his comments were offensive and completely unjustified,
period! As to that, there can be no dispute.

History / Curious facts about Polish kings and queens [12]

There was a considerable degree of intermarriage amongst all European
royalty, not surprising.

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]

@Marrakesh,
Don't know from which corner of the universe you are (although I have a pretty good guess) but
if you're selling "cultural relativism" as pitched by Germany's
revisionist historians, go peddle your propaganda elsewhere!

First of all, devious, indeed, ignoble as many acts of the US have
been throughout our short history, from the Indian Massacres
during the latter half of the 19th century up through the Tulsa Massacre
in the mid-1920's, nothing quite holds a candle to the unrelenting,
systematic sadism of the planned extermination of nearly 11 million
Jews, along with Sinti-Roma at the hands of the Nazis between 1937-
1944. Slavery here at home, horrible and unforgivable, did not involve the depopulation of
sections of the United States for the purposes of expunging an entire race.

While John Perkins's "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" does lay a large degree of
blame for 9/11 at America's doorstep as corporate provocateur, impoverishing much of the
Third World, especially poor Muslim nations, mere mention of same alongside the Holocaust
beggars comparison from a sheer historical perspective.

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]

Many years ago around 1968, Dr. Alexander Mitscherlich, a German psychiatrist,, along with his wife Margarethe, also a psychiatrist, wrote
a pathbreaking work which I had to the privilege to read, "The Inability To Mourn" (German
original title "Die Unfaehigkeit zu trauern: eine deutsche Art zu lieben"), an examination of the immediate post-War years during which,
in wake of the Nueremberg Trials, the Allies essentially rubbed Germany's nose in the horrors of the Holocaust.

As a result, Germans were faced with an international image of themselves as all Nazis, murderers or scared rabbits who buried their head in the
sand and steadfastly refused to acknowledge the crimes of Hitler, forever blaming such on "others" instead of taking that long, hard look at each other.

This gradually grew into both a deep resentment of foreigners telling them what and how they as Germans should have acted. Later on, it developed
into a sort of "empathy fatigue" vis-a-vis the Holocaust, Hitler, and anything connected with the Nazi period.

Musk seems to have tapped into this feeling and it's disgusting!!

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [120]

Oh, yes. The late Alexander Gauland was its founding member.