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mafketis   
17 Jul 2025
News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [396]

We have a deep, deep, debt before the people of Kherson.

You have a deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, deep, debt before the people of all Ukraine... to get out of Ukraine and to leave them alone to run their country as they wish.

russia has nothing positive to offer Ukraine (or any other neighbor).
mafketis   
17 Jul 2025
News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [396]

I refuse to believe that there is a unit on the Dnieper that uses Khersonian civilians as hunting exercises.

They don't hide it.... they publish the videos on telegram to raise money...

doing immeasurable damage to the cause.

What is the cause that neither you nor your dwarfish little tsarek can articulate?

the cause does immeasurable damage to the cause because it is intellectually and morally bankrupt.
mafketis   
16 Jul 2025
Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [595]

Any relation to Bruce ?

Ní chasann an domhan le buille druma amháin.
An rud atá ceart duitse, b'fhéidir nach bhfuil sé ceart do chuid daoine.
mafketis   
16 Jul 2025
Life / A warning to Poland: Germany's catastrophic immigration policy: 80-90% criminal manhunts are ARABS / foreigner [83]

This seems as good a place as any to put this....

x.com/Lou_obrien19/status/1945228568692199553

x.com/Telegraph/status/1945077170042225054

Let's look at some numbers...

x.com/jonatanpallesen/status/1945471745387008140

So theyr'e expensive, don't work much and far more likely to be inbred and commit sexual assaults than other migrants...

How is this sustainable?
mafketis   
16 Jul 2025
Life / A warning to Poland: Germany's catastrophic immigration policy: 80-90% criminal manhunts are ARABS / foreigner [83]

blame is on her and her CDU, not the people who came

The "invitation" was for Syrians, only a small majority of those who arrived were Syrian... I remember when they were in Budapest and a Syrian said only about 10 percent or so were actually Syrian (judging from language/accents).

If you're from Bangladesh or Iraq then you're not Syrian....

Unfortunately interpreters were legally forbidden from telling government officials that a person wasn't speaking Syrian Arabic...

High trust society - meet Low trust grifters....
mafketis   
16 Jul 2025
Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]

duck food is probably food that is utterly bland

No. It's a regional name for a dish that is very well-known in Poland (by a name that's different from how it's known internationally or in its country of origin) ... and one of my favorites when it's done well.
mafketis   
16 Jul 2025
Life / A warning to Poland: Germany's catastrophic immigration policy: 80-90% criminal manhunts are ARABS / foreigner [83]

Germans still need to find the balanced middle ground....

German's don't do balanced middle ground... they charge in one direction until they hit a brick wall (and they keep trying to go in the same direction even then).

Hard to believe the guy who came up with thesis/antithesis/synthesis was German because that plays so little a role in the way things are done....
mafketis   
15 Jul 2025
News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [396]

The richest and most nuanced tongue in the world

Nah.... I like American English just fine but I have little (or no) feelings toward "English" as an abstract entity... and overuse robs it of precision and clarity (both of which are needed for richness and nuance).

A particular variety of English can be nuanced but at an international level.... it doesn't work.
mafketis   
15 Jul 2025
News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [396]

Whether one uses British or American spelling is irrelevant

And 'emphasizes' is, in fact, the more correct spelling. The online Cambridge lists it first (giving 'emphasise' as a British variant)

dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/emphasize?q=emphasise
mafketis   
15 Jul 2025
Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [595]

you have so many varieties of food here which are all good."

Calling bvllshit.... I've never heard of Poles liking food in America (most of which has a chemical, processed taste). I was speaking with a young woman who visited family (I had warned her about the food). She complained my warnings weren't extreme enough for the ghastly reality...
mafketis   
15 Jul 2025
News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [396]

Certainly not.

Then why have they targeted so many civilian locations? They haven't had so much success because of Ukrainian alerts and air defenses but surely Bucha should have been a clue as to their goals...

Not to mention this oldie but goodie...

x.com/ne_vluchiv/status/1877711234922865117/video/1
mafketis   
15 Jul 2025
News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [396]

My theory is that they are trying to inflict maximum possible losses on the Ukrainians.

Esp civilians.... like a said, a death cult.... no pretense that anything worthwhile is being accomplished, just death...

And you wonder why I despise the russian socio-political system?
mafketis   
15 Jul 2025
News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [396]

this one from Maf (made on April 15th, 2022)

I was young and dumb then and didn't realize that for the russian government human life has no value whatsoever.... I know better now.

I have no idea how it will end but it's already done massive damage to Ukraine and arguably even worse damage to russia - which seems more and more like a death cult....

Not even your god-king tsar can explain what he's trying to accomplish and has long ago stopped even trying... your own explanations - nonsense about russia's place in the sun made minus sense.

What's the russian goal now? How many lives is that worth?
mafketis   
14 Jul 2025
Travel / Transport adventures in Poland [105]

pushing net zero

If Europe went to completely net zero it would have almost no effect at the global level....

When western European governments talk about that it's pure clout chasing.... they're not inconvenienced by their addlebrained idiotic policies and they don't care if it takes you 20 hours to get home as long as they can preen about how much they caaaaare.
mafketis   
14 Jul 2025
News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [396]

You worry too much about ordinary people.

Governments are collective projections of 'ordinary people'... cases of mismatch don't last long (see the PRL) while the russian kleptocratic thugocracy has stayed the same for hundreds of years, chaning labels but not structure.

I don't believe the fairytale about bad governments repressing good people for hundreds of years....
mafketis   
14 Jul 2025
News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [396]

So let's help them junk it.

It doesn't work like that.

Poles mostly hated the soviet system (like Czechs, Hungarians, Ukrainians, Balts etc)

russians were okay with it.

I had a friend who'd been in the Peace Corps and one of the first things they told recruits was "if it's not already happening, you're not going to make it happen". That is, you can only help people do things they already want to do and/or are already trying to do, some outsider there for a year or two isn't going to change and make safe drinking water or education or being hooked up to an electrical grid a priority for them.

I'd love to see russians junk their crap tsar and oligarch system but they like it and think Poles should like it too and are prepared to not care if millions of Poles are killed in an effort to make them like it.