Life / Do colored immigrants in Poland function better than in Western countries? [295]


Sometimes I get very angry but then....remember....she is an Ossi! She had no idea about West-Germany, its long grown political culture...the CDU was for her not so much different as the SPD or FDP back then...no bondings to the values, the history or the former leader at all...West-Germany was a foreign country for Ossis!

Maybe one shouldn't blame her to much, she led as she understood it, more from the gut than from the brain, with not enough schooled knowledge about a capitalist economy or a long standing democratic society...not so much like a common conservative leader should....but how could she? She just hadn't been born and bred into the same circles...

Maybe the real ones to blame here are the Wessis in the CDU, the party-politicians who nodded to everything, supported every crap she did or didn't do just because it got them and later kept them the power, the influence in Berlin...and not at least the money!

They surely knew better....and together they changed the former conservative CDU into a strange party, something the german lefties praised and cheered for.... but left millions of real conservative Germans politically homeless...but hey, whenever have non-voter really disturbed anyone in elections, right?

....but then came the AfD and offered a real alternative for them...and whooopsie!

Life / Do colored immigrants in Poland function better than in Western countries? [295]


Alien, even the most left-leaning media doubts that very much today.....as their life was so much easier before, without a rising AfD.

Probably the only one (beside you) who still stubbornly insists it was the right thing to do, is Merkel herself! 😕

PS: The next group of Afghans gets flown in today....and oh wonder, no cheering masses for them....no thrown teddy bears anywhere...one wonders what happened!

Off-Topic / Happy Independence Day, Ukraine! [21]

Even Polandball has it in its Calendar! :)



reddit.com/r/polandball/new/

History / 81st Anniversary of Warsaw Uprising [72]


....I guess this!

But usually many make also the distinction of "Soviet Russia"....and in Germany it is today often also "Putin's Russia....but you are right, it's rarely "Truman's US/America" and never "the Democrats"!

...curious!

Genealogy / Meaning of the Surname Scobel [17]

....they both know me to well! ;)

Genealogy / Meaning of the Surname Scobel [17]

AHEM!!! 😬

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]


Well....curbing immigration IS in Germany a rightist topic....even called far right....rightist extremist.....Nazi....from the left, that is!

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

Didn't you hear? In the CDU the mood is ****, denying Israel the military support is nothing short of a betrayal!

IMHO the conflict about the true conservatives and the Merkelists is coming to the forefront soon....I think that Merz has made one compromise for the SPD to much, that could have been the one step to the left to far!

People have voted for a change to the right, but they get the same leftist politics like before....and hence the AfD is gaining!


n-tv.de/politik/Der-Eindruck-verstaerkt-sich-dass-Merz-es-nicht-kann-article25960736.html

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]

Wow!


bild.de/politik/inland/umfrage-schock-merz-zustimmungswerte-stuerzen-ab-689b1abaeb14e20ada75a882

The first time the AfD is the strongest party, has overtaken even the CDU!

After the polls she is moving now to the 30%....a somewhat magical number....that would mean a third of the populace, every third one...(at least in polls)....

But Merz becomes such a disappointment for all conservatives...especially his betrayal of Israel, it could cost him his head!

News / Is Poland restoring its influence from Baltic to Balkan, with consent of Russia and USA ? [22]

The old "Pruzzen" (or Prußen) had indeed been a small baltic tribe....the later mighty Empire Prussia was rather a nice central/eastern european mix! Maybe the reason for its success? :)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Prussians

Feedback / I love this forum - It's so Polish: tolerant, inconsistent, amusing [337]

Of course 😎

Feedback / I love this forum - It's so Polish: tolerant, inconsistent, amusing [337]


AHEM *cough cough*

He was so Prussian! 😛

History / Anniversary of Soviet Invasion [116]

It just fits....somehow....

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Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 3 [645]


....such a park needs workers....and the Gazans need jobs! :)

Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 3 [645]

Since the video about the Hamas-Death Camp-Hostage is in all media the mood even in Pali-loving Germany changes....there is no peace as long the fat boys from Hamas rule the people...and I'm quite sure, as long as the Palis don't do their own part first and kick their fat oppressors out there will be no change for Gaza at all!

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

.....thing is....half of all Russians are muslim Asians....ask Bobko! Not to mention their bought and paid for support.

Do you want true North Koreans occupying Europe???

Genealogy / Meaning of the Surname Scobel [17]

Did you read that already...its about "Scobla":

lastnames.myheritage.de/last-name/scobla

Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 3 [645]


Absolutely!

I even think if Israel wouldn't had reacted as strongly as it did, the Arabs would still not had come to that long overdue conclusion....

Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 3 [645]


allarab.news/for-first-time-arab-league-nations-condemn-oct-7-demand-hamas-leave-gaza-while-calling-for-2-state-solution-at-un-conference/


Maybe the change is for real?

Genealogy / Meaning of the Surname Scobel [17]


Yeah...right? 😀

Genealogy / Meaning of the Surname Scobel [17]

I googled the german variant "Skobel"....also....there are 242,504 more people with that name, and the highest concentration of them are in Poland.

forebears.io/de/surnames/skobel

And this site is quite sure: nachnamen.net/nachname-skobel

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Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 3 [645]


Sure!

Those who kill women and babies to kill women and babies are more immoral than those who kill women and babies to get to and kill the enemie who kills their women and babies!

How could you even ask?

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [187]


I agree!

Still...'89 put us on different paths! The same man you blame for the end of the Soviets and the beginning of so much difficulties and adversity, Gorbatschow, is still admired and even revered by the Germans for that what he did (or better didn't do).
Gorbatschow let us go peacefully....I guess someone like Putin instead would had send the troops to help Honecker and Co. to stay in power....no matter the costs in blood!

Where do we go from there?

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [187]

I can only say in my memory GDRians didn't view the russian troops as enemies (more like poor sufferers like themselves), they hated and despised their own party leaders alot more!

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [187]


....oh my....that for sure sounds abit "rosy"! :)

But it fits somehow....there was no hate anymore between Russians and Germans, curious after such a war and it was an occupation of an enemy people after all.

Between the officials of course not, but also I don't remember growing up a hateful resistance or something like it....truly wondrous if one things about it...maybe it all ended with the "war-generation" retiring, the soldiers actively living through the war times going back home...maybe....

If one reads accounts from Poland or other Warsaw Pact countries from that time, the experiences there did sound quite abit differently!

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [187]


I agree with that....as will most Germans, I guess. That's why I don't see the AfD actively pursue that point, she has nothing to win with it!

Maybe we can leave that point during "What If" - discussions about what would happen if the AfD would ever be part of a gov...regional or national. The being part of the West, inclusively membership of NATO and US-troops stationed in Germany etc. surely won't change so fast!

What doesn't mean that they won't try for better relations with Moscow at the same time...which still will probably make Poland very nervous....

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [187]


But we LOVED the Tschapkas! :)

I remember my Opi buying me one very nice and expensive one (I was not even school-age yet)...with dark brown, gleaming outer leather and incredible soft-feeling fur inside...I was so proud showing it off during sledging in Winter ! :)

Hach ja....*gets all DDR-nostalgic*

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [187]


....yeah....maybe there is still the Ossi speaking....romanticizing the West-"Amis" abit, heh:)

Doubly interesting what a true-born Wessi like Tacitus would say about that....

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [187]


I just wonder if that would be a point for the AfD?

I could imagine that the parts of West-Germany where the US troops are based, had build a close economical and even personal relationship. They aren't seen as occupiers, I believe. Being "anti" would probably don't bring new votes or gain support....

Btw, the Left and the Greens own that position already (mostly) and it isn't really the big election winner!

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [187]

.....I guess a "Wessi" learns about it in school, hence my questioning Tac! :)