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Ironside   
12 Apr 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

"interfering in internal affairs"

Time you consider that concept seriously instead of making fun of it.

that's a Russian mantra

I think you know too much and at the same too little about Russia for that to do you any good. Comparing Poland and Russia? Russia never had any democracy and all that patients and they don't understand that concept.

It seems to me that PiS is like Putin

I guess maybe because you are clueless? Feelings and similarly sounding expressions doesn't automatically translate into sameness of the issues. Comprende?

And I'm afraid the EU may be our only hope

Just you wait, they will help you to become yokels of the German empire.

I hope they won't leave it be :/

I see calling for the foreign intervention into Poland's internal affairs you are just one of those people who doesn't deserve to be called a citizen. I'm deeply disappointed - expected better from you.

Enough I can't stomach more of your mindless drivel. You are talking utter tripe woman. Wake up and smell the coffee beans
Ironside   
12 Apr 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

PiS supporters

I say that absolutely doesn't describe me unless you are like one of those fanatics on the Polish political forums with their ass deep in their own backside to whom sombody who doesn't hate PiS and Kaczynski is automatically labelled as a PiS- supporter and an enemy.

sound like Putin's supporters in Russia.

Bah! Aren't we being dramatic a tad too much or just repeating BS from biased papers seeded there to stir emotions of the people?

Again - democratic opposition and protesters in Russia are called exactly the same and accused of exactly the same.

Well, there are a lot of significant differences that seem to be escaping your attention. Anyhow you are comparing apples and oranges here.
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The fact is that if significant par of the establishment in Poland, including political parties are slandering Polish government in the eyes of the foreign powers in this way their are endangering stability and Polish national interests.

That is clear to all people who know what what.

A very good post Paulina, you've hit a lot of nails on the head.

That would make a good carpenter but political savvy she isn't.

the non pro-PiS, non-right wing media in Poland are payed by Germany (and the Jews, according to the more anti-Semitic ones lol) and nowadays, according to them, probably by the rest of the EU lol

A lot of mush mash here.
There are some behind the curtain struggles and that is a fact. Including other undeniable fact that 80% of the press in Poland is in Axel springer hands - a one of the four huge German corporation which are working hand in hand. What says you?

the disruption of normal traffic

Let them protest and march as much as they want. Fact is there no coherent idea behind it all save for a denial that PiS has won a democratic election and that is what probably is annoying people.

PiS supporters didn't seem too bothered about the destruction of Warsaw during the Independence marches.

Sorry that is a very biased or a very ill informed sentence.

I've noticed here is disregard for democracy and autocratic mentality

Where have you noticed here? Different opinions are seen as high mark of free and democratic society and freedom of speech is another - should people have no right to freely speak their mind about KOD opinions and such?

It seem to be you cannot get your head around that concept and just because you side with the so called opposition and hence you take all critical voices as a sign of an oppression by the autocratic government. That is a pure BS. Has sombody been arrested or has been one of many KOD's march attacked?

Had the leaders being locked up their freedom of expression or their lives in danger? No and no and there is some more NO!
So what are you talking about? About your feelings? Are you offended that some people who have absolutely no afflation not only to the government but to any political party? Just because they express their unfavourable views on KOD?

Grow up and apply in practise what you preach i.e. democracy and tolerance will you?
I think that so called opposition is just a retarded constipating blast that need to go for Poland to progress and succeed. I'm entitled to my opinion and if you equate my opinion with actions, words and deeds of the Putin regime is simply nothing more but a childish hysteria.

I think I recall Ironside wrote something about killing people in the streets

Really? Care to provide a quote or at least tell us what is this 'something' that I allegedly have said rather than spread wild rumors and gossip like washerwomen?
Ironside   
11 Apr 2016
News / Throwing away the constitution in Poland? [626]

80,000

let's be realistic here 8 000 - maybe.

according to a draft report from a European legal advisory body

Why don't they suck on it - twiglets.

the Venice Commission's draft report found little or no merit in any of the government's steps.

That would be a lie. the VC found no merit in all the circumstances including TK and PO steps but it is not up for them to solve it, so in fact it is completely immaterial what they do or don't.
Ironside   
10 Apr 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

If men could get pregnant, this discussion would simply not be happening.

Wrong. Such a classic feminist slogan that makes even less sense than feminism itself. I really expected better from you than repeating such a cliché that might appeal to some brainless fools.

If men could get pregnant they would become females of the species with all that such a position brings to the table.
Ironside   
9 Apr 2016
News / New European Council's report: "Poland oasis of racism, xenophobia and homophobia" ... [343]

That is not difficult - all so called liberal western nation learned by hearth the right answer and the fact they actually are as racist, xenophobic and prejudiced as any given nation is but a detail.

Here an expected winning answer - a Black Muslim Roma (nice trap here Gypsy ha!) to top it all - a gay.
Thank you, thank you .....
Ironside   
9 Apr 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

As regards Poland it's a great shame that they don't seem to believe in referendums here.

A very good point Atch. I think that such a chance should be decided in referendum in ten years time.

In Europe, only Poland, Ireland and tiny places such as Malta, Andorra, San Marino ... are still denying basic rights to women

Yes, typical fallacy not an argument.

the ONLY person who will DECIDE

You are a sick in the head person whose every post contain a lie.BS.

in societies such as Poland (and other religious countries), people do not receive sex education so they don't know much about sex

Bollocks. Sex education in schools had been there for decades.

Or am I stating the bleeding obvious?

No you are playing on stereotypes and I'm sure you would be first to pretest if stereotypes you dislike were used against what you argue for. If you are talking about PF then I must add that PF doesn't reflect a real life realities or Am I stating the obvious?

It is just a matter of stopping with hypocrisy!

No, is anything but ... as you frequently miss the point being a girl that is a one brick short of the full load you have no chance in hell to grasp what it is all about.

Terrible the way women's rights

A what? Mr No-sparks contracting again. What exactly are those women's rights?
Ironside   
9 Apr 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

The problem is that if one doesn't have a legal option for abortion, they will have to try other means

So, if you cannot afford a nice car they will try robbery or whatnot? Yes, they do have a problem.

However, having a child and keeping it or not is a decision that does affect a person through their entire life.

Pretty much like having a cat. Although if you have a person in your life that affect your life and you don't like it you wouldn't just casually kill that person dead, or would you?

Also, many women in Poland are not educated on abortion

In this time and place if someone is not educated about something then it is his/her own damn fault.

It's very much an argument

Well, the answer to that would be of course - don't take chances if you are not prepared to face the consequences. Who wants a nanny sate and a big brother watching over your shoulder? Not somebody I would respect.

that the risk to women's lives from the home-done abortions

They live and die by the choices they have made. How many criminal die due to their criminal activity? - should those activities be decriminalized to save lives of few goons?
Ironside   
6 Apr 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

what I call a good old prudence and wisdom while dealing with complex issues.

I take it back. It is so called citizen initiative - meaning it was no less that 100 000 people that asked parliament to vote over this law.
Ironside   
6 Apr 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

With the abortion debate, it isn't in any sense about the ethics of abortion

It is for me. I'm not talking about legislation because it is relatively simple matter to resolve. It is up for Sejm to sort it out.

Whether religious and other groups have the right to impose their views

Well, they what democracy supposed to be about - majority impose their views on others. The crux of the matter is how far legislation can go to impose and regulate moral/ethical rules on all and what should be left to individuals which would allowed them to make their own choices.

I think that the current regulation is well balanced in this regard. There are other ways that need and could be addressed to minimalize percentage of women undergoing abortions - informative action is a one of many avenues a wise government could explore.

I think that both bishops and especially PiS top echelons haven't exercised here what I call a good old prudence and wisdom while dealing with complex issues.

Anyway we'll see what gonna happen.

government seems to thing that legal abortion is unacceptable while knowing full well that women are being injured or killed by home-made ones.

That is not an argument at all. It is as if you argue that prohibition is a bad thing because more people will be dirking alcohol from shady sources and more of them will die as a result. They make their own choices and know or should know risks involved. If they rather drink ...well.

Or people speeding and dying regardless of speed limit - are speed limits to blame?
Ironside   
5 Apr 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

but are you really suggesting that science has nothing to do with the medical profession's point of view?

I'm saying that science doesn't provide 100% correct and accurate answer for everything. If you know anything about science you know that. In this case there is a certain margin for an error and such a gap is enough to dictate caution to these who believe that human life is sacred.

In fact what is contested here are not scientific facts but the different sets of believes.

It certainly has nothing to do with the religious anti-woman point of view

Nonsense, if anything the religious point of view in this case give an apple opportunity to women to full realize they nature and their potential. Rather then succumb to the utilitarian hedonistic prejudice.

Who is anti-women then? Those who are pushing women to belie they nature, who want to curb and trim their nature to fit their narrow ideological perspective . Who aim to transduce moral sentiments of women into base and retrogressive forms that retard their proper development?

You are pointing your finger in the wrong direction.

Perhaps you've never heard of the Spanish Inquisition

Oh don't come up with this propaganda leaflets that have been long ago exposed for what they are.

[..] tell other people how to act in a moral way.

That is the purpose of the Church, sorry you missed that by a mile. To be a signpost for others. Doesn't need to be spotless to preform its function.

My first thought when I had a 'scare' in the past was abortion or RU-48 as a solution - I was 18,

Should have keep your .... in check. Boys and girls should learn there are consequences. This is not an argument.

both parties responsibly decided they weren't ready to have children and the children would have a much better and much more stable future if they waited.

Blah blah, typical excuses of those who wants to have a cake and eat it at the same time - boohoo!

Who decides if the legislator's conscience is the same as the peoples' - or even if it's right or not?

Reality on the ground.

As for the rest of you fear mongering crowd that post those pathetic posts above predicting PiS's doom and making much of nothing.
I don't think that that new legislation will become law. In fact I'm pretty certain naught will came of it. Same as with PO attempted to change the current law other way to suit their paymasters in Germany, they failed. PiS will fail as well.

to understand the issue fully he should volunteer to be raped

That the lamest of them all. Come on make an effort and think up or steal some proper argument. Maybe you should be aborted in the late stage of your embryonic life as you are now to comprehend what you are talking about?:D
Ironside   
5 Apr 2016
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Aren't you a stickler for prudence in spending of the public funds. I would believe you if not for the fact that you belatedly ignored all encroachments and misuse of public money by the previous government.
Ironside   
4 Apr 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

The anti-abortionists due to religious influence even believe that a cluster of cells with no brain or central nervous system is 'human life'.

Better save than sorry, right? After all the pro-abortionists due to ideological influence believe that they can determine in what exactly moment a 'cluster of cells' transform overnight into a proper human being.
Ironside   
4 Apr 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

I simply stating if the shoe was on the other foot, these pro-life men would be singing a different tune- or at least privately

Immaterial.

Abortion is said to stop a beating heart and it is killing 'life' - I don't think that's the argument

Nah, the argument is a sanctity of human life. Now, there are some exceptions/instances where that principle can be overruled but only some. However the principle on which the law regulates those issues should be based on the principle of the sanctity of human life.

Also each person is not a lone island, they are part of the society and principles and rules of the society often trumps/limit personal preferences of individuals.
Ironside   
4 Apr 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

Polish women travel to get abortions in other countries:

You are bringing forth a lot of immaterial stuff. So what? The same goes for your imaginary priest or PiS this or other.

Doesn't seem like adoption is totally viable Ironside...

Hey, read my stuff I don't support that new law but the current one.

with Down's Syndrome

Well, that is on parents and on their conscience - free will.
Ironside   
4 Apr 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

Why bother, brining your views to it logical conclusion it would even better if a few well placed devises should have wiped out all the humanity putting an end to its suffering.

Interesting to see that you support and condone criminal activities.
Ironside   
4 Apr 2016
History / Sarmatism in Poland [119]

Oh, for the 9th century we have a pretty good idea.
Ironside   
4 Apr 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

I am saying that poor women will have it much more difficult to keep a child.

She doesn't have to keep her child, she can give it up for adoption. It is only too easy nowadays.

A drone loaded with abortion pills is flying to Poland. Activists hope it'll start a trend

Should be arrested for smuggling. Both parties.
Ironside   
4 Apr 2016
History / Sarmatism in Poland [119]

Also,

Your map, those Vistulans were extended much more to the east that can be read on the map.
Ironside   
3 Apr 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

Perhaps because the number of maternal deaths occurring could no longer be ignored?

Perhaps, perhaps not, although I wouldn't use MATERNAL to describe such a cases.

but those women must have been desperate

That is an excuse that is used so often to disrobe criminals from responsibility for their deeds.

Presumably the government at the time thought that it wasn't going to stop and at least if abortion were decriminalized

Magical thinking? I presume that there were some other issues at play and argumentation put forth had been but a screen.

You might be right, but at least women were given the option to have abortions safely instead of risking their live

Still, deaths are occurring due to abortions or maternity. I don't see it as a huge improvement, after all more oft than not those unwanted pregnancies have been a question of choice. You make your choices you live and die by them.
Ironside   
3 Apr 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

The change in the abortion law in 1956 was largely due to high mortality rates of women undergoing illegal abortions.

As far as I know some of those statistic had been cooked.
Anyway I fail to see logic in the reason given for decriminalization of abortion. Who in his right mind would decriminalize a crime using as an argument number of criminals falling a victim to their own crime?

Unless someone believes it is not a crime at all in the first place. Meaning that alleged high mortality rate had been only used as an excuse to bring forward legislation closer to their ideologically biased views..
Ironside   
3 Apr 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

If I've understood you correctly you support the current legislation which was passed in 1993 and think the abortion laws should stay

That's about the size of it.

is this what you meant by your comment that not everyone in society adhered to the same moral standard?

I'm defending that law because I think is a nice compromise and there is not need to push it just to make the point.

it is not going to stop abortion

I don't know that and you don't know that. Anyway even if you were right that is not an argument you could use.

eh?

Yes, keep proving me right.

rather than a cluster of cells being removed at a hospital.

Bah, another blunder. Are you not tried of making them again and again?
Ironside   
3 Apr 2016
History / Sarmatism in Poland [119]

Some recent DNA researches suggest people living in Poland 2000 years ago have much more in common with modern Poles than with any other nation...

Indeed that would put all those speculation about Slavic late arrival on those lands in the file where all other failed theories belong.
Ironside   
3 Apr 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

No privileges make up for loosing control over one's body

What are you getting at?

And if you didn't notice for a long time we are more or less trying to make both genders equal.

It might have escaped your attention but you have been privileged by the society (both in law and in customs)all your life. Your definition of equality must be pretty strange or based on false assumptions if you really believe in that alleged drive to 'try' to make both genders equal.

I am a women and yet your equal.

If you stop raiding the wave of your feelings you wouldn't be taking it all in the wrong way.
You are my equal as a human being, as an individual you were caught trying to lecture me on what is and what is not appropriate in the given contexts. It has bespoken an attempt on patronizing me only because you didn't like my take on an overtly dramatic tone you have taken here.

That is you who obviously cant distinguish between pointing out facts or its logical consequences from lecturing and judging other people's views and expression in such a manner that belie equality.

I'm young enough that I have still many years in which I may get pregnant.

That is not a very logical stance.. might or might not, who knows what tomorrow will bring? Could be a war or a car accident, are you constantly worrying about those too?

For you I may seem melodramatic but for you it's more or less just theoretical question.

That has nothing to do with the issue debated.

For me it can become very real issue every month.

No, it is not.
If I were to defend existing law on this issue I would say (as I already did) that its a nicely cut compromise between defense of sanctity of the human life and contemporary society which doesn't consist only from people bonded by the same ethics.

I think that it is a nicely balanced law despite its flaws.

I also happen to disagree with tiny insecure "men" ... trying to tell women what to do with their bodies

Which proves that you are on of those brainless morons who should be kept in bondage for their own good.
Ironside   
3 Apr 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

Sorry but I have no idea what you are on about here.

What do you mean? I'm talking about certain privileges that are granted to you by the society ( law) by the token of your gender.

Certainly more than the Church in this situation

Name one thing she has done for poor women that wouldn't benefit it her otherwise?

After all she for sure wouldn't have any problems with paying for a visit in a nice clinic somewhere outside of Poland.

She is too old to have this kind of issues. Regardless she is doing OK partly because she was/is leading organization that is receiving grants from the international pharmaceutical company producing contraceptives and international non-governmental organization that is involved in the production and distribution of means for the performance of abortions. She is not an innocent bystander but has her hand in the cookie jar.

I can only assume that it's your failed and disgusting attempt at being clever and funny.

Nah, that was my adequate response to you being overtly dramatic and theatrical in your gloomy predictions. Now you are trying to lecture me on what is appropriate and what's not. Save it. I'm threating you as my equal in this debate if you cannot take it and you would rather be treated like a woman - you only need to ask me once.
Ironside   
3 Apr 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

However it's hard to deny that that law will affect women not men ergo women are more interested in it.

I don't see it this way after all it is nature that affect women more than men in this and a society balance it with a certain privileges being granted to women. Haven't seem them protesting much over that.

if I were a woman in Poland and got pregnant because [...] I was very poor

What being poor has to do with getting pregnant?

is the lesser of two evils

Really? So, according to your logic I should opt for morons that cannot keep up with argument or are contaminating people with their immoral standing should be eliminated because they endanger society with their stupid shyete? The lesser evil attitude is a slippery slope!

Apparently this picture is set as profile photo by more and more Facebook users

Someone has a medical problem methinks. :D

That's what Nowacka said- that this ban will hit poor women

Sure, and she cares so much about poor women that it kinda hits you in the face. (sarcasm)

I'm not panicking just yet but the vision of the future is getting scary.

What is that? Are you planning to sleep around without protection?

I don't think anyone can call it too lenient.

It was as they call it a comprise as not everyone in the society adhere to the same moral standard. Hence the reason I support it.

Before PiS came to power the morning after pill was available without prescription

Which in the way was against the law of the country. I would expect that those responsible should be persecuted for introducing such a law that allowed for that to happen..
Ironside   
3 Apr 2016
Genealogy / Are Sorbs Polish? Does anyone know about Sorbish enthnicity? [62]

I have only noticed that I haven't had answered the thread's question directly.
No Sorbs are not Polish. Yeah, I have heard that about those ten or five Serbs in the present day Germany that are all that remains of what's left from the Slavic tribes which dwelt between the river Oder and Elbe and were consequently conquered by the eastern marches of the eastern Frankish empire (what later used to be ruled by the Römisch-deutscher Kaiser - a strange fish if there is one).

Will they ever want to learn Gaelic properly?

You are confusing things here, Gaelic wasn't really a proper single Scottish language,(spoken in all four corners of Scotland) only some areas were using it.
Ironside   
3 Apr 2016
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

Women already get ****** off.

Don't try to change it into men versus women contests because it is not.

Keep at Muhammed, you certainly seem to know best :)

What's that mangina?