News / Roma community feels discriminated in Poland [43]


It would be an immediate failed state without non-Romany to actually run things. Traditional Romany culture (like orthodox Jewish culture) needs a host because there's too many things necessary to keep a society going that they won't do because they're too concerned with nonsense like ritual purity and maintaining tradition rather than improving their lives materially.

A better long term plan would have been to carve out a not too bad part of the Soviet union with compulsory bilingual education for a few generations.

News / Roma community feels discriminated in Poland [43]


Please, they are totally incapable of achieving (or maintaining) a state. They can't organize at any level higher than the extended family (or caste, if you will).

The Soviets tried to settle them and essentially failed.

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


Lack of power of abstraction. The idea of internalizing blame (things are bad because of choices I/we have made) is an almost exclusively post enlightenment western idea. For most of the world if things are bad then it's because you've angered the gods or enemies are practicing witchcraft and the like.

Unfortunately western intellectual ideas often work against themselves. For a westerner colonialism was a political phenomenon with bad and good features, for non-western colonialized people it's witchcraft and the cause of all their misfortune. Magic thinking.

Most of the people bringing primitive savagery like FGM to Europe or trying to impose and enforce blasphemy laws are no more able to make the connection between dysfunctional social practices and poverty than a goldfish can understand the idea of a fishbowl. Not because they're stupid because most aren't, but because they've never had the chance to engage in abstract critical thinking - and tend to avoid doing so when they have the chance by invoking multi-cultural nonsense.

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


the main difference (aside from quantity) is the idenitty of the victims.

Why is the holocaust the only genocide people are expected to still worry about (in a century of genocides small and large)?

Language / Issues understanding "to go" verb in Polish language [18]

The three big factors with Polish verbs of motion (which aren't that important in English) are

1. by foot or by vehicle (sometimes type of vehicle) iść vs jechać
2. is there a destination? (fex jechać (towards a place by vehicle) jeździć (go by vehicle but not necessarily toward a destination)
3. is/was/will be the destination reached? (jechał vs pojechał_

Language / Issues understanding "to go" verb in Polish language [18]


Also the Polish equivalents of a number of expressions in English that use 'go' don't use any verb of motion in Polish

I went to the doctor - Byłem u lekarza (I was at the doctor's)

We went to the movies - Byliśmy w kinie (we were at/in the movie theater)

Language / Issues understanding "to go" verb in Polish language [18]

The problem is with duo and not you. I've used duolingo but they are very erratic in terms of translations and very slow to correct mistakes (if they ever get corrected).

duolingo is best at helping you brush up on a rusty language or as a supplement to other learning materials, the interface doesn't lend itself to being a primary source

both walk and go should be accepted as translations (and both present continuous and simple present should be accepted)

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


No it does not. Poles feel no collective guilt for the holocaust and compensation has to end sooner or later. Where are the Jews standing up for compensation of property lost by Poles to the Soviet Union? Or by Roma? Poland has been generous enough with compensation.

Play another card, the collective guilt card won't work.

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

You probably can't unless a hospital wants to hire you (which they won't unless you speak Polish - the language of medicine in Poland).

Travel / Travel within Schengen using Poland's Karta Pobytu &/or US Passport [9]


they usually check passports if you're flying within Schengen (in Poland, again outside of Poland they can't tell the difference between a karta and a dowod)

Travel / Travel within Schengen using Poland's Karta Pobytu &/or US Passport [9]

Probably not. The one time I flew Ryan Air as a non-Schengen citizen they wanted to see my passport (and stamped the board pass I'd printed).

On regular airline flights I've checked always handing in the karta pobytu first and only showing my passport if they specifically ask for it. Once or twice they haven't asked for a passport but usually they do.

Outside of Poland (in Schengen) they can't tell the difference between a karta pobytu and a dowód osobisty and usually don't ask for a passport.

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

But havent' non-fatal violent attacks skyrocketed?

Genealogy / Polish surnames - Origin and Meaning [29]

I'm not a geneaologist (sp?) but I'd very surprised if they weren't.

There's also the possibility that they are the "same" name in different slavic languages (like Polish Trepka and Russian or Ukrainian (or something) Terepka)

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


you have a real problem with logical inference....

a fetus is not a moral agent, especially at the age in which most die (many without the woman ever realizing she was briefly pregnant....)

conception is a very poor benchmark for protected status - implantation would be better and natural viability is even better.

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


They're not fundamentalist Christians, many theologians wouldn't consider them to be Christian at all (they call themselves Christians but many disagree) they have some seriously weird rituals like the veil ceremony (filmed in secret and now available on youtube I highly recommend watching)

And mainstream Mormons no longer practice polygamy (there are some very small rebel offshoot groups that do but they're not officially Mormons)


Also not fundamentalist Christians. In the US context 'fundamentalist Chistian' refers almost exclusively to evangelical groups devoted to ideas like literal interpretation of the Bible, being 'born again' as an adult, tithing etc)

And crucially evangelicals have some influence as a voting bloc but no real power in practical terms. I agree there's lots of crazy on the fringes (like a group that wanted/s to base the legal system on the bible) but they have no chance of exercising real power.


A couple of different times, but IINM they reached their membership peak in the 1920s (slight revival as an underground terrorist organization in the civil rights era) but they've been close to having anything like real political power, racist institutional power in the South had other foundations and heavily depended on setting blacks and poor whites against each other...

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


roughly true but more true at the individual level


sort of, if you keep in mind that it's a pretty fuzzy category,

a more helpful way to think of it is that individual genetics set limits for certain behaviors and environment plays a big role in how much of that is actually achieved.

baby a with genetics that make genius level work possible (but born into an aggressively anti-intellectual and chaotic environment) might be surpassed in IQ by baby b with less promising genetics but born into a well-ordered environment that nurtures the intellect

and there are chance mutations as well and there's no predicting when and where they'll turn up (which is why you want to give a good shot at development to all children).

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


A quick look at Appalachia or the Ozarks should dispell that very silly idea, not to mention that in the heydey of the mafias the three big groups were all white (italian, irish and jewish)


define 'sizeable' and they don't actually maintain much in the way of violent social practices toward women (unless you think having to wear a lot of flower print dresses, keep your hair starched to a milimeter of its life and always smiling is violence...)

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


In the British Isles yeah, Americans have silly fantasies about it being extremely orderly and genteel when in actuality it's always been one of the most violent places in Europe...

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


Yes, and since dysfunctional English youth are not carving each other up with them they are pretttty irrelevant to the discussion at hand which is the British nanny state treating the symptoms (dysfunctional youth stabbing each other) and not the disease (neoliberalism induced dispossession and alienation).

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


..and the sex grooming gangs....


So.... the modern UK is 400 years behind the times? Hooo.... that explainst a _lot_!

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


Wouldn't it be better to address the underlying crazy rather than make piecemeal attacks against the symptoms?

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


A friend or relative calls up and wants to borrow a knife, they live about 500 meters away, too short to drive, but can you legally carry it?

What about scissors, won't outlawing knives just mean that the victims of US societal dysfunction will start using scissors?

The deep pathology in the UK needs to be addressed and enacting one irrational restriction after another is not going to do that...

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

There must be something deeply wrong with the UK, it sounds like a broken, defeated society. Teenagers running and carving each other up is a clear sign of collapse.

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


The standard Polish version is (correct me if I'm wrong, someone) Gdyby ciocia miała wąsy byłaby wujaszkiem...(if my aunt had whiskers she'd be my uncle)

I've also heard (quote approximate) "Gdyby ciocia miała koła byłaby bimbą" (if my aunt had wheels she'd be a streetcar)

back on topic please

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


Those chances don't live forever... it takes years of solid effort to develop the social and educational capital necessary to find and keep a job and stay out of trouble with the law etc, it's not something that they can decide to do quickly once they're past the age of 10 or so, it's a little like languages and the critical acquisition period...

My guess is that the youth busy stabbing each other to death come from cultures where education is not much valued and that idolize petty thugs over small businessemen


which is no fun if you're not among the richest part of the population...


but they have to compete with short term migrants from places like Poland who are willing to work for less (since they don't live there and will accept living conditions that natives rarely find attractive) the modern pattern of large west european metropolises is very stratified with low income natives at the bottom

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


To be perfectly frank, if their aim is good enough I don't care about gang members shooting each other, I only care when they hit civilians instead (unfortunately as most of them are blithering idiots wtih no areas of life competence that happens a lot).

My main remains, it's not the existence of weapons or efficacy of laws, it's the public.

Too large a percentage of the public in London has no realistic hope for any kind of decent life (party government policy, party their parents' and their choices).

Fix that and you'll fix the knife crime problem. Don't fix it and you won't....

It's not that hard...

News / Roma community feels discriminated in Poland [43]


They come from the Indian subcontinent (the language is related to languages of northern India). One theory is that they were camp followers who followed an army outside the continent were sold into slavery en masse and once they escaped kept going west rather than back east.


A completely roma/gypsy society is more or less impossible because there are too many jobs they won't/can't do (for reasons of ritual purity and the like) so they need a host culture to survive and flounder on their own, the worst roma/gyspy poverty is where they are most on their own.

News / Roma community feels discriminated in Poland [43]


the correct term is 'discriminated against' (or 'suffer discrimination'), sorry to be pedantic but it's one of my pet peeves...

Anyhoo, there is zero incentive for anyone to write that Roma/Gypsies don't feel discriminated against and maintaining a seperate existence is one of the main goals of Roma/Gypsy peoples so it's kind of a non-story, especially since the Roma/Gypsy population in Poland is so small compared to other countries in the area.

And as long as Roma/Gypsies eschew education nothing good will change for them.

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


Well unless we see information on the perpetrators it's hard to say that for sure.

And even if the perpetrators span all ethnic groups chances are that it's not normal proportional representation but a couple of groups are wildly over-represented.

What's important are the percentages which is just the information that the governmnet wants to conceal..


Well maybe that will inspire the unimpressive london mayor to do something beyond uttering fatuous blather.

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


Because I wasn't sure you were that deluded. Now that I am, there's no possible dialogue between us.

Go to church and pray to the god that kills between 10 and 20 per cent of all babies before they're even born... next to which abortion statistics are pretty mild.