News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]


An exaggeration, the 'confederate flag' was not used by the confederacy (it was a component of a couple of flags but the flag as it exists now was not a thing until the 20th century).

At most it's a flag of segregation, bad enough, but accuracy matters.

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]


Huh? Most white native born gun deaths in the US are suicides (technically illegal so categorized as 'gun crime'). Haven't you ever heard of the Smith & Wesson Retirement Plan?

Law / Work permit + national visa in Poland for India citizen [91]


That's true all through the Gulf countries where the local populations are lazy and work shy (they are essentially modern slavery cultures where work is seen as degrading). OT but I wonder where the current situation in Saudi is headed....

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]


That's a very good idea but the EU at present as far too reactive and passive to even think about telling third world countries 'No!'. The countries would call them racists and colonialists and they'd fold faster than the Flash on laundry day.

Law / Work permit + national visa in Poland for India citizen [91]


Whether you work in your own country is as bad a definition of 'remind' as I've ever seen..... But the employment situation is certainly of interest. There are at present many jobs in Poland to be had but they don't pay enough for a person to be able to make long term life plans so not that many people want to do them. So rather than raise wages to make the jobs worth taking for locals the classic neoliberal solution is to import cheap labor (and getting taxpayers to pay for the problems that that causes).

Poland has certainly benefitted from being a source of cheap labor so accepting some degree of cheap labor in return seems fair, the question is how much?

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]


See? That's the problem they are hopelessly out of date given the changes made in the world since then. They need drastic overhauling and a quick way to do that is for countries to refuse to get on board with their ancient and rickety (by now largely dysfunctional) rules.

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]


No, it's being unwilling or unable to distinguish genuine refugees fleeing war and persecution from opportunistic bounders that makes you a leftist. For every real refugee that's come to Europe in the last ten years there are probably 10 economic migrants.

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]


They're both dangers, and it's not the 7th century that's the danger, it's the very modern Saudi inspired Sunni convergence to fundamentalist values that is the problem. Both the rise of third world style Big Man leaders (Trump, Putin, Erdogan) and politicized Islam are symptoms of failure to adapt to modernity.

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]


No pendulum swings in one direction forever.... what we're witnessing now is the return to the other direction after 50 or so years of unfettered (often undisciplined and unhinged) progressivism.

The best way to limit the damage to pet projects is to get out in front of it instead of trying to keep pulling the pendulum after it's reached its peak....

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]


That was a phony referendum designed to keep those against independence out. In anonymous polling it's never gotten over 50%.


that only works when they cannot be reformed, not the case in Spain. The independistes (mostly SJWS and soys and crooks) just don't want to bother with actually doing the work.

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]


The Spanish constitution (approved by an absolute majority of eligible voters in Catalonia) forbid the referendum.

If a province can simply opt out then there is no rule of law, just rule of mob and strongman (which Spain has done much to escape the Catalan separatists are trying to destroy the rule of law and replace it with the rule of an angry mob which has never represented the majority).

Language / Polish language would look better written in Cyrillic Script? [212]


the amount of effort being put forth here to try to indicate something (for which there is no historical record) happened is ...... scary.

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]


not to mention dżdżownica (one of my favorite words for weirdness)

Maybe Węgorek came from fishermen who specialized in catching eels? Or cooks? How long has smoked eel been a delicacy in northern Poland?

News / Poland on course to end European winter/summer time [19]


I actually like that idea, the early dark is the main thing I dislike in the winter. Yes, cold and snow and ice are also pretty terrible but I got used to the cold much quicker than I got used to it getting pictch black at 17.00...

News / Poland on course to end European winter/summer time [19]


Maybe


How? In northern Europe it doesn't seem to affect energy use at all since for most of DST it gets light before people get up and stays light after they would go to bed

If anything I think having DST all year round would save a little more in the winter

Am I missing something?

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]


The problem is that departing from orthodoxy (that European countries must allow in and adapt to large numbers of middle eastern and african immigrants) is enough for the party to be labelled 'extreme'.

When did the idea that countries should prioritize the needs of citizens over migrants become so radical?

Language / Polish language would look better written in Cyrillic Script? [212]


But in this particular case.... that's the way to bet.

Language / "Poles" or "Polish people" - which is better to use? [200]

He must be very confused when people talk about one of their eye's or being referred to as a female sheep.

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

It seems that celebrations and pronouncements about the end of the right on the occasion of the election of a leftist president in Austria were.... premature?

As I predicted, nationalists are getting better in their presentation which makes (among other things) those who denounce them look unbalanced. The EU leadership is committed to a social and economic model that cannot work. Of course young people will turn away from it and freak the elders out.

I don't foresee any immediate or significant repurcussions for Poland (besides distracting the EU leadership away from worrying about Poland to worry about Austria.).

Language / Polish language would look better written in Cyrillic Script? [212]


Share examples of Polish in cyrillic before asuming that it's happened....

Language / Polish language would look better written in Cyrillic Script? [212]

Before it became part of the USSR Belarussian had been often written in both Latin and Cyrillic (probably more often latin). That Latin looked czech based (but with ł) wtih very weird vowels (since vowel changes are marked in the script unlike Russian).

Ukrainian also had a latin alphabet at one time but it never caught on widely (looked too much like Polish and writing Ukrainian in a Polish style alphabet makes it look like a Polish dialect rather than a separate langauge.....

The first slavic language written in latin script is apparently Slovenian (IIRC)

Language / Polish language would look better written in Cyrillic Script? [212]

Yes, I agree dhat sum reform of English spelling woudn't be too hard to acheve and woud make dhe process ov lerning to reed and rite much eesier for both nativ and non-nativ speekers. Won problem is dhat dhose dhat hav already lerned don't want tu make things eesier for dhose after dhem...

I also think it woud bee nice iff evry slavic language had both latin and cyrillic script versions

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


You haven't 'explained' it, you simply keep repeating it. I don't believe it.

If someone doesn't want an abortion I certainly think they should not be compelled to have one. I don't want to force other people to follow my moral judgements. You do.


Yes, in this case the Christians want to force people to follow their beliefs. Intolerant!

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


There is no such thing, except at the personal ethical level.

Religion has no place in the discussion on the moral status of fetuses. Enacting laws on purely religious grounds is a violation of the separation of church and state.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]

a fetus has no consciousness, so aborting one has less consequences than paying people to give birth to corpses..... hideous!

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


Slavery! Paying for a human life! Abominable!

News / Tusk turning his back to idea about Intermarium (New Commonwealth), seeing only EU as future for Poland [124]


Why didn't you like it? You're all about the authoritarian big man leaders, aren't you?

News / Tusk turning his back to idea about Intermarium (New Commonwealth), seeing only EU as future for Poland [124]


Well it's not like Putin is against muslim immigration (a fact many of his supporters try to ignore or rationalize away) there has been a bunch of immigration to Moscow (for example) by muslims from the caucasus and central asia and Putin does nothing to stop it.



Oh yeah, he's a defender of Chrisitan values...

News / Tusk turning his back to idea about Intermarium (New Commonwealth), seeing only EU as future for Poland [124]


Come back to Poland and tell people that. Please.


That is hilarious. Church going is all but non-existent in Russia and divorce and adultery are rife and the drug abuse and HIV rates are off the charts. And his patriotism is made up of aggression against supposed enemies (hint: Poland is an enemy to him).


I wonder sometimes what type of Pole helped sell.the country out to the CCCP..... ones like you who respect 'balls of steel' over progress and western civilization.

News / Tusk turning his back to idea about Intermarium (New Commonwealth), seeing only EU as future for Poland [124]


No. America was founded and created by settlers and pioneers. The immigrants came later. The idea that it is a country founded on immigration is a very new (and very mistaken) idea.


blah blah blah Serbo-Russki communist boilerplate propaganda.

America was (until the arrival of 'diversity' and 'multiculturalism' was a cohesive and coherent cultural and language community, quite distinct from other countries.