Law / Poland's citizenship by descent question. Polish great-great grandfather arrived in the USA as a kid. [76]


True, but only once they actually have citizenship. Permanent residence with a fast track to citizenship is quite generous enough (and sorts out those who are really interested in Poland rather than their own travel plans).

Law / Poland's citizenship by descent question. Polish great-great grandfather arrived in the USA as a kid. [76]


If he wants to come to Poland then he can easily get permanent residence and then citizenship and I completely support that.

A person who just wants a Polish passport as a personal souvenir or a ticket to green pastures is a different issue.

News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]


I'm not surprised by your choice of third person to refer to poles mr russki

News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]


More Kremlin party line. The standard Russian response to Katyn (or the Holodomor) is essentially "Hey, the Russian government killed even more people (some other example) so who cares? The Russian government kills lots of people. What are you gonna do? Nothing, we just have to accept it"

If you were once Polish, now you're Russian Zdravstvujte!

News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]


No! The filthy bast@rds were betraying the Soviets. That's all Poland has ever done, betray Russia, the cradle of Slavdom! It's a cruel and nauseating country full of the worst kind of dishonorable backstabbers!

News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]


Planted flowers and led happy singing and dancing and hoped to accept the love of the Polish people in return? Then the foul imperialist running dog Poles returned their many wonders bestowed upon them by the benevolent leadership of the CCCP. Horrible ungrateful people, Poles are, every last one of them.

News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]


you would be....

News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]


Actually, no, you couldn't. The idea was that you had to pay for the money but you couldn't buy more than the rationing system let you. You presented the ration card and paid and the store kept both. No more ration cards and you couldn't buy in state run stores no matter how much money you had, you had to go to the private market which was much more expensive.

News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]


Sounds pretty sweet, why did you leave? Ohn yeah, because soviet imposed communism sucked @ss, just like anyone who defends it.


Da tovarish

News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]


It imposed communism for 45 years mr jagoff

News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]


Russia has never had 'normal' relations with any country.

News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]


skazal muzhik putina.... (said Putin's bvttboy)

News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]


Not gonna happen unless Russia starts being a normal country rather than a kleptocratic dictatorship that's intent on looting its neighbors. If the Russian state is "Slavic" then decent honest people will want nothing to do with "Slavdom" (a topic of vanishing little interest to most Poles anyway).

The real problem is that Serbia refuses normal relations with Turkey, Balkan brati united by a former empire, if Serbia just allied with Turkey then it would serve Polish interests!

News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]


there was no referendum (that met any kind of standards of international law or simple human decency) in Crimea. the tendency of Russia to break agreements and its unremitting hostility to those around it mean it and Poland can never be allies unless it massively changes.

Sorry Srbija no Polish-Russian alliance for you!

News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]


They're not refugees in any real sense, their whole purpose is to work for less than Poles want to. The Captial Class often uses migrants to keep wages down because everything in the universe has to be decided by the market... except for wages.

News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]


I guess Krynicka is your girl....



best political photo of the year

News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]

gadzooks! What female witchery is this?!

News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]


"We're spending more money on the disabled!" is not a campaign slogan that has ever gained a significant amount of votes.

It's very amazing how poorly PiS has handled their very legitimate complaints and it's a little disgusting how the party-run media has tried to turn the public against the disabled...

That's PiS for you "If you're no use to us then spie.....cie!"

Language / "Putschke" - Please help me figure out a nickname my grandfather called me [30]


I assumed this was from Yiddish and the (now) General American 'putz around'. "I was just putzing around the house when she called."

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]


the funny thing is how quickly it has become clear that the flow of migrants into Europe represent anything but a massive liability (except to the people smugglers).

remember how funny it was when they were pretending that they would contribute economically? hilarious!

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]


Getting back here late (busy week) but to answer your question.... I'm incapable of religious faith so I'm not sure if 'believe' is the right word, but according to my experience and powers of observation

evolution (and the selection pressure of majority values) the former is about part of what makes different human groups different (on average)

different environments reward different behaviors (places with cold winters favored those who could think ahead, while physical robustness wasn't much of an advantage) places with lots of endemic disease favor those who display robust vigor (and planning ahead isn't rewarded or often possible at all).

the latter isn't about reproduction but about what types of behavior are rewarded or punished in different socieites. Being a free thinker in a conformist society wont' get you anywhere while being a conformist in a society that values innovation is also a dead end.

It's not a contradiction for me to say that all human beings deserve dignity and respect and to point out that putting people from very different physical and social environments in the same place (with no new ethos to assimilate to) is.... not a good idea.

genetic research is showing that groups of people (on average) differ far more biologically than is comfortable for the old Disney exhibit "It's a small world" and the differences are baked in and not amenable to well-intentioned government interventions....

Work / What Jobs are there in Poland for an Englishman besides teaching english? [70]


If you don't live in Poland anymore that should be 'was useful'...

News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]


Yes it is, unless you think moral agency doesn't enter into questions of morality at all.

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]


I don't necessarily believe in the unidirectional theory of progress (that all humanity is headed in the same direction with the same goal and some groups are ahead of others).

Nationalism is like everything else, it has its pros and its cons. The nation state enabled the most destructive wars seen on the planet but it also helped produce the highest living standards in history. Universal public education and lots of other things are inextricable from the nation state and it can't be junked without getting rid of them.

The UK is probably the farthest along in the specific project of dismantling the nation state and this includes the government backing off from things like providing healthcare, education, law enforcement, conflict resolution and other services.

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

historically everything leads to war.... nothing leads to war quite like peace, every single war? preceded by peace. Maybe peace should be outlawed?


dont' buy it, it's more that different societies have different majority prefences (the same range of behavior is found in all societies but what the majority in each society wants is different)

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]


Because it's full of Puerto Ricans who tend to be violent. Attitudes toward everyday violence vary wildly across countries and in societies where it's regarded as acceptable in personal relationships (Latin America, Africa) or as an expression of honor (Middle East, North Africa) levels of violence will be higher than in other places.

Bring a bunch of people from violent places to a calmer and guess what? They bring the violence with them.

The state of any society is first and foremost a result of the values and choices of the people living there. Migrating somewhere else doesn't change that (it can but it takes generations and perhaps forceable weaning them away from their original culture and can bring about alienation which has its own problems...)

Human nature isn't that hard to understand but people in charge of urban and migration (and lots of ofther things) in the modern world try to ignore human nature and the importance of cultural values and the results are what they are.

Life / The Art of Complaining by Polish people [47]


that should be psiakrew, what you wrote is "dogs of blood" whatever that is....

News / Roma community feels discriminated in Poland [43]


Some Gypsy groups classify sex within the group and with non-gypsies for money as two completely separate activities...


they also largely ignore each other... I saw an interview with a Poznan gypsy who said there were three or four branches in the city with almost nothing to do with each other...

News / Roma community feels discriminated in Poland [43]

Gypsies like lots of kids, a teenage pregnancy isn't a problem...

News / Roma community feels discriminated in Poland [43]


Not necessarily. The thing to remember about gypsies is they have something like a caste system and some of them support themselves partly from prostitution with non-gypsies.

Once in Bucharest in the middle of the street in summer I saw an adult gypsy woman very obviously prostituting a young girl (barely a teen) to someone in a car. Very unsettling. People with weak nerves don't necessarily want to know how gypsy cultures work...