mafketis
14 Oct 2019
mafketis
13 Oct 2019
News / "POLISH death camps" term used by "Parade Magazine" Anti-Polish Bigots [249]
And what do you know about modern Germany? Can you read or speak German? Do you live in Poland?
The only reasonable approach in accordance with your position is unremitting hostility to Germany and German citizens. Normal diplomatic relations are impossible with a country that you sincerely believe wants to invade and enslave you.
Is that what you want? Nutso.
not as sure as you are that Germans have truly learnt that lesson yet.
And what do you know about modern Germany? Can you read or speak German? Do you live in Poland?
The only reasonable approach in accordance with your position is unremitting hostility to Germany and German citizens. Normal diplomatic relations are impossible with a country that you sincerely believe wants to invade and enslave you.
Is that what you want? Nutso.
mafketis
13 Oct 2019
News / "POLISH death camps" term used by "Parade Magazine" Anti-Polish Bigots [249]
who were nazis, the overwhelming majority of Germans before 1935 or so and after 1944 would be repulsed and horrified by death camps
Insisting on always saying GERMAN is bein like Crow with his endless and pointles Balkan nonsense.
Do you never want peace or good relations with Germany? Then keep on and stay in the UK and leave the good people of Poland and Germany out of your ethnic hatred.
who were nazis, the overwhelming majority of Germans before 1935 or so and after 1944 would be repulsed and horrified by death camps
Insisting on always saying GERMAN is bein like Crow with his endless and pointles Balkan nonsense.
Do you never want peace or good relations with Germany? Then keep on and stay in the UK and leave the good people of Poland and Germany out of your ethnic hatred.
mafketis
13 Oct 2019
News / Poland Parliamentary Elections 2019 [93]
corruption of language, post-communism (it that which came after communism) is great and anyone who uses it as an insult is betraying their longing for a revival of the PRL
And I eagerly await the thousands of apartments and hundreds of kilometers of roads that PiS will now build...
Post-commies
corruption of language, post-communism (it that which came after communism) is great and anyone who uses it as an insult is betraying their longing for a revival of the PRL
And I eagerly await the thousands of apartments and hundreds of kilometers of roads that PiS will now build...
mafketis
13 Oct 2019
News / Poland Parliamentary Elections 2019 [93]
I could do with Biedron but I think Zandberg is someone to watch.
I'm actually quite surprised by the left's high result
I could do with Biedron but I think Zandberg is someone to watch.
mafketis
13 Oct 2019
News / Poland Parliamentary Elections 2019 [93]
I'm wondering how well the konfederacja results will hold up, it will be hilarious if the Euro parliament results are repeated... but even in that case PiS still should remain under 50%
PiS hasn`t won the ruling majority
I'm wondering how well the konfederacja results will hold up, it will be hilarious if the Euro parliament results are repeated... but even in that case PiS still should remain under 50%
mafketis
12 Oct 2019
News / Poland Parliamentary Elections 2019 [93]
The question is after Sunday will they ever have a chance to vote them out... their agenda is clearly a single party state.
JK is the only Polish politician I've heard who referred to other parties as "wróg" and speaks of creating a new nomenklatura (with another name). He's PRL to the bone and anyone who supports them is support a kind of neo-PRL...
Still the people voted them to power
The question is after Sunday will they ever have a chance to vote them out... their agenda is clearly a single party state.
JK is the only Polish politician I've heard who referred to other parties as "wróg" and speaks of creating a new nomenklatura (with another name). He's PRL to the bone and anyone who supports them is support a kind of neo-PRL...
mafketis
12 Oct 2019
News / Poland Parliamentary Elections 2019 [93]
Basic economic fact. If half of the charges they made against PO were true then Poland would have been in deep recession when they took power and have stayed there a year or two (at least).
PO is a fairly awful party (pure neoliberals by now) who are incapable of articulating any kind of positive vision for anyone who isn't urban and/or rich, that much is true. But credit where it's due they managed to keep Poland out of the worst of the Europe wide recession and helped bring about rapid economic progress that PiS gets to take credit for (and wreck with careless giveaways).
When the coming recession does hit Poland it will be amusing to see PiS try to blame it on PO.
At the movement there is no-one better i.e. some power that would make things better in Poland.
Basic economic fact. If half of the charges they made against PO were true then Poland would have been in deep recession when they took power and have stayed there a year or two (at least).
PO is a fairly awful party (pure neoliberals by now) who are incapable of articulating any kind of positive vision for anyone who isn't urban and/or rich, that much is true. But credit where it's due they managed to keep Poland out of the worst of the Europe wide recession and helped bring about rapid economic progress that PiS gets to take credit for (and wreck with careless giveaways).
When the coming recession does hit Poland it will be amusing to see PiS try to blame it on PO.
mafketis
12 Oct 2019
News / Poland Parliamentary Elections 2019 [93]
Publicly trying to dump Szydło five minutes after the election.
done and done.
Publicly trying to dump Szydło five minutes after the election.
done and done.
mafketis
12 Oct 2019
News / Poland Parliamentary Elections 2019 [93]
No one is stopping you from pointing out inaccuracies in what I wrote....
Feel free to list all of PiS's dazzling achievements....
maf too.
No one is stopping you from pointing out inaccuracies in what I wrote....
Feel free to list all of PiS's dazzling achievements....
mafketis
11 Oct 2019
News / Poland Parliamentary Elections 2019 [93]
Besides making sure they'e not subject to any oversight that they themselves don't control? They're doing okay there, but anything practical..... what a mess.
Have they actually succeeded in any long term project at all?
Besides making sure they'e not subject to any oversight that they themselves don't control? They're doing okay there, but anything practical..... what a mess.
mafketis
11 Oct 2019
News / Poland Parliamentary Elections 2019 [93]
I'm not complaining about that.... though it's true that if they followed any obvious principles beyond staying in power they'd be a bit more tolerable (even if wrong).
But as someone here said, passing entitlement legislation is easy, but they avoid starting any project that requires long term planning and expertise... or they fail miserably at it.... so it's back to the kiełbasa.
they've done a dismal job of passing actual conservative legislation
I'm not complaining about that.... though it's true that if they followed any obvious principles beyond staying in power they'd be a bit more tolerable (even if wrong).
But as someone here said, passing entitlement legislation is easy, but they avoid starting any project that requires long term planning and expertise... or they fail miserably at it.... so it's back to the kiełbasa.
mafketis
11 Oct 2019
News / Poland Parliamentary Elections 2019 [93]
A supposed supporter of family values who's never had a serious relationship with the opposite sex. In true communist fashion he is indisuputably the most powerful person in the country but has no legal responsibility.
He enjoys making other influential figures in the party compete for his affections and support and periodically humiliates them in public to test their loyalty.
He has no understanding of economics and has never held a non-governmental job (not 100% sure but pretty sure about that).
Has assembled a coalition of the elderly, the undereducated and the rural in order to sabotage the young, the educated and urban.
I calls 'em like I see 'em.
. Jarosław Kaczyński is a volcel cat lover, good catholic
A supposed supporter of family values who's never had a serious relationship with the opposite sex. In true communist fashion he is indisuputably the most powerful person in the country but has no legal responsibility.
He enjoys making other influential figures in the party compete for his affections and support and periodically humiliates them in public to test their loyalty.
He has no understanding of economics and has never held a non-governmental job (not 100% sure but pretty sure about that).
Has assembled a coalition of the elderly, the undereducated and the rural in order to sabotage the young, the educated and urban.
I calls 'em like I see 'em.
mafketis
8 Oct 2019
Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]
Like I said, I couldn't find the exact words anywhere (and the video without audible sound was played on US news...)
More likely the 'lust' reference as I explained in post #85
There was also a reference to "when I abandoned the United States" instead of "left" or "departed from"... does someone who knows Russian or Ukrainian now how that might come about?
you should have remembered what they actually said in Polish
Like I said, I couldn't find the exact words anywhere (and the video without audible sound was played on US news...)
sb didn`t like that Seymour?
More likely the 'lust' reference as I explained in post #85
There was also a reference to "when I abandoned the United States" instead of "left" or "departed from"... does someone who knows Russian or Ukrainian now how that might come about?
mafketis
8 Oct 2019
Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]
I remember searching a bit for that a couple of years ago and couldn't find anything. In the US they showed the puzzled reactions of the Polish diplomats on stage with Carter but no real audio.
As I said, it wasn't in the interest of the PRL government of the time to publicize the event and so most of the Polish public either never heard of it or simply forgot about it quickly.
Another reason for it becoming a thing in the US was the use of the word lust in the back translation to English. Carter had done an interview for Playboy magazine (actually well known for very good interviews of public figures) where he was discussing his Christian faith (he's a born again Southern Baptist IINM). He tried to explain that faith doesn't change basic emotions and explained that yes, he felt things like lust at times (the quote was something like 'lust in my heart' but that his faith helped him resist acting on baser urgers. The 'lust in my heart' part was taken out of context and many jokes were had at his expense....
forgot to ask about the Polish translation
I remember searching a bit for that a couple of years ago and couldn't find anything. In the US they showed the puzzled reactions of the Polish diplomats on stage with Carter but no real audio.
As I said, it wasn't in the interest of the PRL government of the time to publicize the event and so most of the Polish public either never heard of it or simply forgot about it quickly.
Another reason for it becoming a thing in the US was the use of the word lust in the back translation to English. Carter had done an interview for Playboy magazine (actually well known for very good interviews of public figures) where he was discussing his Christian faith (he's a born again Southern Baptist IINM). He tried to explain that faith doesn't change basic emotions and explained that yes, he felt things like lust at times (the quote was something like 'lust in my heart' but that his faith helped him resist acting on baser urgers. The 'lust in my heart' part was taken out of context and many jokes were had at his expense....
mafketis
7 Oct 2019
Genealogy / What are common Polish character traits? [425]
Because normal human beings aren't robots like you, only interested in communicating bare semantics, they enjoy expressive, creative and playful language usage.
This is true of all languages, you're the (statistical) freak with your abhorrence of expressive usage.
fancy explanation to crap talk
Because normal human beings aren't robots like you, only interested in communicating bare semantics, they enjoy expressive, creative and playful language usage.
This is true of all languages, you're the (statistical) freak with your abhorrence of expressive usage.
mafketis
7 Oct 2019
Genealogy / What are common Polish character traits? [425]
I associate 'know from' with the greater NYC area (pretty sure it's originally a calque from Yiddish) as an informal variant of 'know about'. I'm not sure if I use it or not... I can imagine maybe sarcastically using it "Yeah, like I know from X" (meaning I don't know anything about it)
"Know FROM" i
I associate 'know from' with the greater NYC area (pretty sure it's originally a calque from Yiddish) as an informal variant of 'know about'. I'm not sure if I use it or not... I can imagine maybe sarcastically using it "Yeah, like I know from X" (meaning I don't know anything about it)
mafketis
7 Oct 2019
Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]
I remember it being covered on American TV news (this before I knew three words of Polish) but from what I know about the PRL the government would not feel obliged to put that on TV or comment about it publicly so probably more Americans knew about it than Poles and so it never became a thing here...
an anecdote which was known in 1970/80s to a few people
I remember it being covered on American TV news (this before I knew three words of Polish) but from what I know about the PRL the government would not feel obliged to put that on TV or comment about it publicly so probably more Americans knew about it than Poles and so it never became a thing here...
mafketis
6 Oct 2019
Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]
One version is that the interpreter was very fluent in Russian and/or Ukrainian but had weaker Polish and when he had problems finding the words he quickly polonized Russian/Ukrainian words... I have no idea if that's actually what happened but that's an explanation I've read....
seeing how one could become the other...
One version is that the interpreter was very fluent in Russian and/or Ukrainian but had weaker Polish and when he had problems finding the words he quickly polonized Russian/Ukrainian words... I have no idea if that's actually what happened but that's an explanation I've read....
mafketis
6 Oct 2019
News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [280]
you tell me....
innpoland.pl/153327,wiemy-dokladnie-ile-drog-zbudowano-za-rzadow-pis-kierowcy-zatesknia-za-po
Like the communist prosecutor who's now a prominent PiS MP?
Was there a failure?
you tell me....
innpoland.pl/153327,wiemy-dokladnie-ile-drog-zbudowano-za-rzadow-pis-kierowcy-zatesknia-za-po
As I oft say in Poland a state is an enemy of it citizens, all institutions, laws, people crossed over from Soviet Poland untouched
Like the communist prosecutor who's now a prominent PiS MP?
mafketis
6 Oct 2019
News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [280]
When, to what do you ascribe their failure to build roads?
Spending less money doesn't equal less roads.
When, to what do you ascribe their failure to build roads?
mafketis
5 Oct 2019
Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]
It's been a long time since I read those... too brutal....
I come across them regularly in online comments.
It's been a long time since I read those... too brutal....
mafketis
5 Oct 2019
News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [280]
Bardzo uprzejmie proszę o przykłady....
They are investing into infrastructure
Bardzo uprzejmie proszę o przykłady....
mafketis
5 Oct 2019
News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [280]
Not quite exactly how I'd put it... I'd leave off the 'into' but yeah, it's infecting infrastructure with the many hundreds of kilometers of roads they've built and all the apartments they've built...
They've not gotten themselves in a position with almost no checks and balances and the only legal oversight is from party loyalists and PRL fans like you are fully behind them...
PiS is infecting into infrastructure and it shows.
Not quite exactly how I'd put it... I'd leave off the 'into' but yeah, it's infecting infrastructure with the many hundreds of kilometers of roads they've built and all the apartments they've built...
They've not gotten themselves in a position with almost no checks and balances and the only legal oversight is from party loyalists and PRL fans like you are fully behind them...
mafketis
5 Oct 2019
Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]
IIRC "Sajgon" refers to a place that's ben wrecked and "Meksyk" refers to general disorder... I haven't heard either in a long time.
One odd thing I think was/is the frequent use of the term "Mexico City" in Polish since Mexico isn't an English speaking country... but I haven't noticed Miasto Meksyk being used as frequently, much less Ciudad de Mexico or Distrito Federal ('federal district' which is what people in Mexico usually call it)
What situations are called Mexico/ Saigon by Poles:?
IIRC "Sajgon" refers to a place that's ben wrecked and "Meksyk" refers to general disorder... I haven't heard either in a long time.
One odd thing I think was/is the frequent use of the term "Mexico City" in Polish since Mexico isn't an English speaking country... but I haven't noticed Miasto Meksyk being used as frequently, much less Ciudad de Mexico or Distrito Federal ('federal district' which is what people in Mexico usually call it)
mafketis
3 Oct 2019
News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]
Well Poles love their gibs and PiS is the party of gibs.
who receives more local Polish votes
Well Poles love their gibs and PiS is the party of gibs.
mafketis
2 Oct 2019
News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [280]
No, it is not. Don't believe the hype!
It _says_ it is doing or intends to do that, but at ground level..... none of that is happening. JK even admtted that they've neglected healthcare recently (putting it on some kind of 'to do' list).
At ground level, here in Poland, and not filtered through the Polonia lens, it's just gibs for votes. Teachers and doctors mostly don't support PiS so education and healthcare don't get anything. Old people are more likely to support PiS so they get trzynastka (and now probably czternastka...)
Pis is puting more money into infrastructure and health
No, it is not. Don't believe the hype!
It _says_ it is doing or intends to do that, but at ground level..... none of that is happening. JK even admtted that they've neglected healthcare recently (putting it on some kind of 'to do' list).
At ground level, here in Poland, and not filtered through the Polonia lens, it's just gibs for votes. Teachers and doctors mostly don't support PiS so education and healthcare don't get anything. Old people are more likely to support PiS so they get trzynastka (and now probably czternastka...)
mafketis
1 Oct 2019
News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [280]
It worked for Greece.... what could possibly go wrong?
"Poland is milking the E.U. for all they can get."
It worked for Greece.... what could possibly go wrong?
mafketis
1 Oct 2019
News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [280]
Poland is largely outside the mainstream of neoliberalism (since it was communist for the first ten years or so of that system).
UBI is pure neoliberalism - using the government to create consumers... and it's devastating to those who receive it, it's welfare and welfare dependent communities quickly turn into hellholes..
Anti-neoliberal would be investing in things like infrastructure and healthcare and education, exactly the things that benefit everybody and that PiS is shying away from in favor of targeted patronage handouts so that the have-nots can go buy themselves something to pick up their day and remember who made that new pair of shoes possible on election day.
pis policies are the challenge to neoliberalism poland has been waiting for
Poland is largely outside the mainstream of neoliberalism (since it was communist for the first ten years or so of that system).
UBI is pure neoliberalism - using the government to create consumers... and it's devastating to those who receive it, it's welfare and welfare dependent communities quickly turn into hellholes..
Anti-neoliberal would be investing in things like infrastructure and healthcare and education, exactly the things that benefit everybody and that PiS is shying away from in favor of targeted patronage handouts so that the have-nots can go buy themselves something to pick up their day and remember who made that new pair of shoes possible on election day.
mafketis
30 Sep 2019
News / How could PiS better spend billions instead of 500+ ? [280]
You should be scared. PiS buying votes and destroying the budget (in the face of an oncombing recession) should scare you sh1tless and it should scare anyone who really cares about Poland (I exclude plastic Poles living abroad who only want to settle scores from the past or present).
PO is not really any better, they're completely unable to form any kind of positive vision for the country outside of the dominant neoliberal paradigm (that's headed for a cliff). I've given up on Tusk, okay for his time.... but that time is over.
Savini in Italy (for all his many faults. some of which are pretty bad) has articulated a citizenship based positive nationalism (which is why the establishment is devoted to keeping him from power despite his being the most popular politician in the country).
Kurz in Austria is similar, they deflated the far right by adopting the positions that most Austrians agree with (that the neoliberal left and right had been running away from).
Poland doesn't have that yet and there's no one on the horizon really, maybe Zandberg but he's only half-baked at present.....
You are scaring me no
You should be scared. PiS buying votes and destroying the budget (in the face of an oncombing recession) should scare you sh1tless and it should scare anyone who really cares about Poland (I exclude plastic Poles living abroad who only want to settle scores from the past or present).
PO is not really any better, they're completely unable to form any kind of positive vision for the country outside of the dominant neoliberal paradigm (that's headed for a cliff). I've given up on Tusk, okay for his time.... but that time is over.
Savini in Italy (for all his many faults. some of which are pretty bad) has articulated a citizenship based positive nationalism (which is why the establishment is devoted to keeping him from power despite his being the most popular politician in the country).
Kurz in Austria is similar, they deflated the far right by adopting the positions that most Austrians agree with (that the neoliberal left and right had been running away from).
Poland doesn't have that yet and there's no one on the horizon really, maybe Zandberg but he's only half-baked at present.....