News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

Party Party Uber Alles, Uber Alles auf der Welt!

PiS shows those suffering from cancer just exactly what it thinks of them....



trans: MP Joanna Lichocka has a special greeting for all those suffering from cancer....

Law / Moving back to Poland - Healthcare [112]


Not sure if you can just move there.... there are a lot of restrictions on residency....

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]


A normal coping mechanism... far less alraming than the idea that all Germans forever should feel some kind of personalized guilt....

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


How's Jarek doing? I have the idea maybe they're not afraid of him anymore... which means the practical end as they're all far too venal and grasping to function without him keeping them a little in check.....

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]


Auschwitz was the most famous camp because there were survivors, some other camps were simple extermination points...

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


It makes them look like wimps... PiS voters don't mind the usual bezinteresowne chamstwo the party is renowned for (it probably helps them) but they can't stand weakness...

It would be a shame if more public gatherings by Duda are accompanied by loud protestors... I don't think Adrian's skin is nearly tough enough.

Though at this point I think I prefer the PSL candidate PiS has taken the countryside so maybe PSL can move into the yawning space for a sane Christian Democrat party (that PiS was advertising itself as back in 2015).

News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]


aka the ends justify the means.... aka prl, gratulacje towarzyszu witamy w partii!

News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]


You have a PRL mindset...

News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]


What about pan prezes? His supposed biography makes no sense whatsoever unless you posit that his familiy had a working relationship with relatively high ranking members of the communist party... (at which point it makes a lot of sense).

What about Piotrowicz? How have his 'crimes and treasons' been punished? Or do you believe his fairytale about secretly helping dissidents (roundly rejected by those who were there at the time)?

News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]


you like nazis, what's the surprise?

News / Modern F-35 bought by Poland. Good decision? [288]


It was successful against the mighty nation of Grenada in 1983.... and arguably against Panama in around 1990 but apart from that, just one big floparooni..

News / Modern F-35 bought by Poland. Good decision? [288]


Like I said it's party demographic (population size) and partly cultural factors (work ethic and technological savvy).

News / Modern F-35 bought by Poland. Good decision? [288]


If you read your books you'd know that it was the USSR that defeated Nazi Germany (all the other allies are maybe around 10%) the US major effort in WWII was in the Pacific.


It hasn't won a war in how many decades? It can't even keep sand pits like Iraq or Afghanistan under control.... not so impressive.

News / Modern F-35 bought by Poland. Good decision? [288]


The German problem! Germany is doomed to dominate any European structure it's a part of (through a combination of population size, work ethic and technological know how) and the rest of Europe is going to resent that.

The EU has not found a way around that beyond trying to pretend it's not a problem.

Germany is an extremely praiseworthy country in many ways but... it's not a team player and the EU ends up being something like the Luxembourg national soccer team but with Messi.... he can't raise the rest of the team and ends up looking like a hot dog (and the other players don't like being outshone either).

News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]


there is, it's called vote-buying and will not end well...

News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]


which he doesn't even understand... what a choad.....

News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]


"When you go low, I go high" has never been said by any member of PiS (or by any of their voters). So of course they couldn't wait a few days and swear in the judges that had lawfully been appointed and chosen two of their own - it had to be war against their enemies (which includes about half of Polish citizens) all the time.

It's bezinteresowne chamstwo all the way down.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


Which just guarantees that the next one will be more radical.... pushing more or less moderate populists out of the public space just creates less moderate ones.

But yeah, Adrian does not impress me with his sang-froid.... constant needling will drive him away from public events...

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

And "President of some of the Poles" doesn't have that same ring.... but he was elected when PiS was pretending to have reformed itself into a more or less normal Christian Democrat party... now the luster is off and it's neo-PRL patronage and party connections all the way and he's tied himself to that.

He hasn't broken character yet... but how much of this kind of thing can he take?

wiadomosci.onet.pl/kraj/andrzej-duda-wygwizdany-podczas-przemowienia/qq5eplg

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]


An...... air? port!?? what kind of strange infernal device is that!!!!

Food / Which foods are generally disliked/unpopular in Poland? Which non-Polish foods are slowly gaining popularity? [180]

very yummy... my favorite are maybe Hungarian though, very big, spicy paprika sauce and a big pile of sour cream... and they often serve it with extra sausage or boczek because who need arteries?

Food / Which foods are generally disliked/unpopular in Poland? Which non-Polish foods are slowly gaining popularity? [180]


originally turkish... or even further east...

in Bulgaria i've mainly had vegetarian versions which are a little blander...

in romania they make it with pickled cabbage (the pickle whole cabbage leaves or even whole cabbages) to mimic the tart taste of grape leaves... in Hungary they bake it with sauerkraut for the same reason... (and they're much bigger than gołąbki...)

by the time you get all the way up to poland the tartness has disappeared

Similarly I think traditional village kotlet mielony (which are small) are probably a northern version of Turkish kofta.

Travel / Why do you visit Poland? [223]


Go to Płock! One of my favorite places in Poland! Great views of the Wisła (Vistula) lots of interesting old PRL architecture (last time I was there) and...

I'm not religious but Płock is the site of a couple of the more uplifting and bizarre manifestations of Polish catholicism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries....

One branch of my favorite heretical strain of Roman Catholicism is in Płock! The Marjawici (Mariavites).

Now there are two branches, the one close to the river has an interesting church built in a very non-Polish style, there's little difference between them and mainstream RC nowadays but still interesting especially if

The more interesting (and radical) branch is neaby in the countryside in Felicjanów. They had female priests, married priests, didn't take collections (the church should support itself and not leech off the population). They were all ex-communicated (possibly after a RC mole wrote a series of sensationalized articles on them).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariavite_Church

Płock is also where Jesus appeared to St. Faustyna

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faustina_Kowalska#P%C5%82ock_and_the_image_of_Divine_Mercy

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]


Very true, it's a pseudo currency that helps the financial sector (which would gladly enslave you and me) It doesn't matter what it was designed as that's what it has become and half of Europe will be mired in poverty until it's fixed or eliminated.


Yes, the first step is to help Greece and/or Italy out of the Euro and to stop treating southern Europe as a cheap laborer farm.

And... maybe not cackling about Greek pensioners starving to death as an expression of how Great Germany is...

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]

What has Germany ever done that should make Poland trust it? (and vice versa to be fair, but Germany is by all measures the more powerful country the burden of trust starts with it).

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]


Merkel loves to roll over for any dictator... Putin, Erdogan, Xi...

It's a secondary characteristic of Germany - arrogant in victory and craven in defeat... so Germany likes to play tough with smaller, weaker EU allies and rolls over and gives dictators that despite it anything....

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]

I'd say it's combination of self-loathing and a lack of intellectual curiousity..... close?


Germany is a nouveau rich country, only interested in the outward trappings of posterity... which is why it's not producing any worthwhile art now.

Bye centuries of intellectual and artistis achievement, es gibt Geld zu verdienen!

News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]


He doesn't want Poland to be a 'państwo prawa', he wants a 'państwo partii'....

Life / Why oh Why do Poles drive so incredibly poorly [109]


In cross cultural terms, Ireland is pretty low on the "Uncertainty avoidance" scale and Poland is very high*.

This manifests itself (among other ways) in greater stress in everyday life in Poland (actually not bad for mental health some level of stress keeps the mind sharp) and occasionally aggressive behavior. It also generally correlates with worse driving... as drivers feel greater subjective levels of stress.

lower uncertainty avoidance cultures tend to be kind of boring and lethargic and the people in them constantly use caffeine carriers (like tea or coffee) to try to goose their nervous systems into action, the lower level of stress also correlates with people spending more time in their own heads and higher levels of mental illness.

*en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_avoidance

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]


A very good description, from a German no less! And a very good reason for Poland to keep its distance from such a merciless country!