News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


No one does....

And again... where would Israelis go in the unlikely event of Palestinian victory?

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


That's our brand!


Jordan? There's no real dialect line (one way of telling Arabs apart) between Palestinian and West Jordanian... and then there are how many other Arab states?

Many Palestinians would love to shake the dust from their feet and move but keeping them in Israel is more politically advantageous...

Where would Israelis go in the (extremely unlikely) case of the Palestinians being able to drive them out of the country?

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


On the whole Jews have been more willing to share than the "locals" were... which is not even taking into consideration that many/most Palestinians aren't from the area of modern Israel but were drawn there for economic reasons.

A similar situation in some ways to South Africa...


I have said (and believe) no such thing. What I have said is that conflicts of this kind usually end with the expulsion of one of the groups (any Germans in the Sudetenland now?) That's descriptive, not presciptive.

Neither side wants a two state solution and neither side wants a single secular state.

What does that leave?

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


Would they wipe out all the Israelis if they could?

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


How'd that work out with Gaza?


I've understood that perfectly for years. Both sides want all the land and neither wants to share (some Israelis are less against that than others).


They had a chance to do that before and failed and made sure they would never have the chance again... Arabs are bad at creating/maintaing countries.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


More proof that no head of state in office for more than 10 years is worth a crap. Ten years (give or take2 years depending on local circumstances) is the absolute limit before their priority turns inexorably toward enriching themselves or just holding on to power for the sake of holding on to power.

No counter-examples in the 21st century, only confirmation.

With dictators it's even worse because the longer they're in office the stupider their decisions become as they become more isolated from anything outside their dictatorial bubble.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


What evidence is there that Palestinians want to 'granted' a state by Israel? They don't want Israel to exist. How do you negotiate with that?

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


Their merchandise on the ground might think of themselves as 'freedom fighters' but the leadership living in the Gulf in luxury are entrepreneurs whose commodity is dead Palestinians (and a few dead Israelis as seed money).

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


Hamas is not a political or even relgious organization.... it is a money laundering scheme that uses civilian lives as a resource to keep the money flow going.

Once you accept that, everything they do makes sense.

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


Here are some russians not focusing on certain things....

x.com/albafella1/status/1927701547560980881

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


I'm not sure if I've heard it either (it was more described to me as something some people say....).

anyway, for feniks: what does it mean?

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


Think of Latin roots...

USA, Canada / What kind of American food do Poles like most? [119]


yes it is. Also, in the Southern US it's used as a generic term for any sweet carbonated beverage so you can hear people say things like: "What kind o' coke you want, Pepsi, 7up or Orange??


Hasn't been the same since they took the cocaine out of it....

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]


No, pimp and wannabe gangster Nawrocki would be worse...

News / AI rulez in Poland! The New Polish Open Language Model and AI Technologies. [13]


The purpose of AI is to eliminate jobs. That's it.

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


Was this before or after he became a sexual criminal (Pan Jerzy that is)?

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


they're helping Poland already by defending themselves against russia...

This is why I don't like PiS and Nawrocki (and Braun and konfa in general) they all have delusions of Poland becoming some kind of self-reliant North Korea or Albania and seem to think either Poland doesn't need allies or that the US is enough of an ally or that russia could be an ally...

That's all delusional sh[t.

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


How many times? When russia attacks Poland who should Poland go and ask support from?

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


How so? Cause I don't see carrying russia's water as having any benefits now or anytime in the future....

Any politician that sees a possible non-enemy in russia is an enemy of Polish interests...

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


By not realizing he'd been in a care home for months..... great support.

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


Thank you kindly. I must be crazy for thinking that the guy that wrote a book about a gangster and swindled an old man out of his apartment and who enjoys the company of hooligans could ever be a gangster wannabe.... Nothing says 'catholic' quite like stealing an old man's apartment....

And, probably to get support from Braun, his 'no NATO for Ukraine' line objectively helps russia, echoing russian puppets like Orban.


I'm an eclectic moderate functionalist-realist. I favor policies that work (in the real world to make people's lives better) over any ideology. I align with progressives on some issues and not others.

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


A slow horse race. He's not that great but better than a gangster wannabe whose willing to weaken opposition against Poland's biggest enemy (russia).

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


Zyn (little packets) based on the idea of Swedish snus..... (but while they contain nicotine they don't have any tobacco).

Not a plug of tobacco stuffed in the cheek (I grew up in skoal country... nasty stuf).


He's been trying to court the (very few and very insane) Polish politicians who are more likely to be pro-russian so... make of that what you will.

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [917]


Real woman or trannie?

Language / Use of "Pan/Pani" in Poland vs Other Countries [30]


In Polish, it's intrusive, like slapping the back of someone you don't know and getting in their face "Hey buddy! Do you like tripe??????"

Like someone raised in a barn.

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [917]


People are not isolated widgets.... who is coming into the country matters. In this case they brought the mentality behind the Rwandan genocide with them.

"something changed" in Rudakubana at the age of 13."

I'm assuming it's called 'puberty'... which lots of cultures have ceremonies and rituals for dealing with.

This account is notable for systemic failure that mostly seems to track back to a single variable... concern for him as 'vulnerable' that outweighed concerns for potential victims of his idealization and desire to commit violence.

He should not have been free. Involuntary commitment would have save some lives. The state's primary responsibility is citizen safety, not catering to the violent mentally ill.

bbc.com/news/articles/c78w7nlwz9po

Language / Use of "Pan/Pani" in Poland vs Other Countries [30]


What usually happens.... learner learns pan and pani as both Mr and Mrs/Ms/Miss and a polite way of saying 'you' to a single person. At some point they also realize something about the etymology and then they never think about it again.

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [917]


Being furious is a normal, healthy reaction. I'm not in favor of violence but again, a normal response to perceived government indifference and neglect and malfeasance.

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [917]


In my experience Brits have the hardest time integrating in Poland... some become completely unhinged at differences between the two countries and seem to think it's their mission to make Poland more like the UK. Not all by any means but enough that it became a noticeable pattern for me.

Language / Use of "Pan/Pani" in Poland vs Other Countries [30]


So you successfully coerced him into assimilating to your standards.


It would not help his standing to be heard calling some rando 'ty'... but as long as you're happy, who cares?