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mafketis   
6 Apr 2018
Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

Then what the hell is wrong with people in London that so many want to carve each other up like Thanksgiving turkeys?

It's not about the weapons, but about the societal rot... addressing that is much more effective than restictive laws...
mafketis   
6 Apr 2018
Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

Most knives are already banned in the U.K. with stiff penalties, including prison, for carrying an offensive weapon.

So if you buy a knife in a store.... how do you get it home?
mafketis   
6 Apr 2018
News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]

Do you disagree with me on the issue of unborn children?

define children.... my own opinion is that the natural point of law should be based around the idea of natural viability (ability of the fetus to survive outside the womb).

For the sake of argument, abortion in the first four months should be freely available
In the fifth and sixth months (around viability time) there should be restrictions related to the health of the mother
7-9 months even more restrictions

I'm willing to discuss questions of timing and circumstance, I'm not willing to discuss with people who see no moral difference between a two week old fetus and a newborn baby...
mafketis   
6 Apr 2018
Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

the Afro-Caribbean community would be the one most associated with guns and crime out of the three

Is African-Carribean immigration to the UK continuing? If so, why? Comaprative rates of violent offenses seem like a very good factor to take into consideration when thinking of immigration policy...

. I don't know the exact stats for gun crime committed by black people in the UK or America

The per capita homocide rate among African Americans goes between 3 and 5 times the white rate depending on when you measure (there were peaks around 1980 and the early 90s) .

most Polish women who marry a black guy won't be choosing a gun toting gang member. If he's American, the Walmart manager is nearer the mark.

Yes, historically most Polish-black relationships (not that many end up in marriage since black men independent of national origin tend to avoid marriage or raising children) are wtih those that came to Poland to study...
mafketis   
5 Apr 2018
News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

It is though a known fact that Poland was a country with strong anti-Jewish leanings

Even if people were to accept that (for the sake of argument) having strong anti-Jewish leanings is not a crime and in no way shape or form supports your implied claim that Poles share collective guilt with nazi germany in carrying out the holocaust.

don't condescend to me.

you're the one who started condescending, if you stop p[robaboly others will...
mafketis   
5 Apr 2018
News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]

killing babies is bad, really bad

So remind us what punishments you want to inflict on women who have abortions?

An American conservative recently suggested treating it as murder worthy of capital punishment (he suggested hanging women who have abortions).

Are you in agreement? Think that's a little too harsh?
mafketis   
4 Apr 2018
History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]

Czechs or Slovaks. Why are they hardly ever mentioned here?

there used to be a regular poster who was (IIRC) half-Polish half-Czech (lived in the countries not the US or UK) but I think she disappeared a long time ago...

She seemed offended when I (humorously, I thought) referred to the Czech republic as Pepikstan.... (some people... nooooooo sense of humor.....)
mafketis   
4 Apr 2018
News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

your claim that Poland and the Church approved of killing Jews?

You clearly think you can reason with him on this issue. Disengage, he will never see Poland as anything but as a co-architect (or at least sub-contractor) of the holocaust. He's prepared to be magnanimous once Poland admits this but he'll never think anything else and no evidence can/will convince him.

Disengage, it's not worth it, he's approaching crow levels of insanity....
mafketis   
3 Apr 2018
Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

do they let these people in in the first place

it's impossible (for the time being) to stop gangs from coming to Poland, after brexit? but cultural and language barriers are enough of a deterrent

there are a bunch of different questions that people on both sides try to slough off with cheap empty slogans

security vs freedom (all else being equal people with legal guns are more likely to use them than people without)

the big problem in the us isn't guns per se, but widespread mental illness caused by 37 years of neoliberal policies that ultimately atomize individuals into mutually antagonistic competitors in the race to consume (crazy people with guns are more dangerous than non-crazy people with guns)

different rates of various types of crime by racial, ethnic or religious groups is another inconvenient fact that people try to wish away or ignore away....
mafketis   
3 Apr 2018
Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

should Poland take this into account when structuring its migrant policies

Every country should take this into account.

or is it too politically incorrect to even discuss this type of trend these days.

the entire point of political correctness is to make people stupid and keep them that way, if you don't keep track of racial, ethnic and religious background of social indicators like crime, economic and academic achievement then you're making policy in a state of ignorance.

pretty it up however you want, but it's ignorance. I don't like ignorance.
mafketis   
3 Apr 2018
Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

Dare I address the elephant in the room, but gun crime in London is confined to one or two ethnic groups

Caribbean? or South of the Sahara? Everybody is supposed to be very, very polite and not notice differing crime rates across different groups.
mafketis   
3 Apr 2018
Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

Your "gun facts" graph about the U.K. is ridiculous

Well the basic problem is that gun possession and violence arne't necessarily the same thing, London has topped NYC's murder rate for two months in a row! but no guns! stabbings.... yay????

Heck of a job Khanie, one. heck. of. a.... jobbb.
mafketis   
2 Apr 2018
History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]

Ha and what exactly has the West given Poland besides headaches, homosexuality, and threats

What else does Poland want?

They coulsnt even honor a defense treaty when Poland was invaded and send help... some 'allies'.

Yes, they didn't respond when Germany invaded while the Soviets liberated Poland! Long live the eternal friendship between Poland and the Soviet Union

friendship
mafketis   
2 Apr 2018
History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]

Traitor or a Kremlin Troll, same thing.

The type who would have convinced himself in 1944 that the Russians were Poland's future...

An ingrate who doesn't appreciate anything the west has to offer Poland (and despite its many flaws it has more to offer than Russia has because all Russia can offer Poland is a return to PRL style vassaldom...
mafketis   
1 Apr 2018
History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]

I'm Polish born and raised,

Meh... you don't live here and keep making excuses to not do so.... you're a plastic pole (as they used to say) who uses unearned and undeserved citizenship to make up for your lack of real commitment to the country (you mainly view as a vehicle for you weird ideological rants)
mafketis   
29 Mar 2018
News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

If they don't know about it, they can't be blamed for not caring (so they make sure to stay ignorant of it).

Lyzko should watch this movie, the visuals are authentic film taken at the time (computer colorized).

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powstanie_Warszawskie_(film)

It's on youtube for free (and it will help his Polish).

youtube.com/watch?v=wJbt638ZdwM
mafketis   
29 Mar 2018
News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

but you're ok accusing the majority of Poles of betrayal and antisemitism?

He wants Polish people to accept the same kind of collective guilt that Germans do, once they say "We're all guilty!" he's ready to be magnanimous.

He wants to be as kind to Polish people as he is to Germans... but he can't until they declare that all Poles share collective guilt for the holocaust.

It's kind of like church were God loves you and will forgive you.... as soon as you admit your sins and ask for forgiveness.
mafketis   
28 Mar 2018
News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]

for bearing the opinion that "transsexual" women are in fact not real women, but men without dicks

At the chromosonal level, she's completely right (no operation changes chromosones) But modern third wave feminism is all about retreat into traditional feminine pursuits like regulating social interactions (intersecionality, microagressions and the like) and maintaining that women are inscrutable emotional creatures whose communication requires careful interpretation...
mafketis   
28 Mar 2018
News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]

Will you please stop blaming the victim and justifying the assaulter, Lyzko?

He's not going to give up until you take on the new semi-official Russian line that Poland began WWII and therefore is ever more guilty than Germany.

He desperately wants Polish people to feel collective guilt for the holocaust, the fact that they don't drives him crazy.

Poland might well draw a lesson here.

So restrictions on free speech are good? What do you think about the dankula case?