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No true PolAm would so insult half their heritage like that!

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except all the politicans in europe you support are grimly determined to keep bringing in large numbers of people with no hope of integrating (if they want to)

Interesting link:
nationalinterest.org/feature/ive-worked-refugees-decades-europes-afghan-crime-wave-mind-21506?page=show

reputable publication the author has worked with refugees for years and is horrified at what's happening in austra - the buried lede: the 'reputable' Afghans in Austria help and support the sex attackers....

Still glad about the austrian presidential elections?

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the first step is to admit there's a problem and that sometimes diversity for its own sake is not an absolute good

as for detoxifying islamic theology - that's not a job that you or I can do anything about, only muslims can do that, and there are even some reasonable imams but they get harassed/threatened by the violent minority (that is de facto supported by the 'moderate' majority).

There's not a single European country that wants more muslim immigration, in Europe the first step is for governments to recognize and act on that (not by telling the majority that they're wrong). Stopping the inflow to a trickle of highly educated would be a start.

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country - not countries, which do you have more loyalty to the one you have citizenship in or the one you don't?

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They represent a very literal version which almost no 'moderate' muslims know how to argue against because virtually all modern muslim theology is based on the doctrine of koranic literalism.

Christians and Jews have mostly abandoned literalism*, but muslims haven't and it's why the muslim world lags so badly socially, politically and intellectually.

You can actually plot the decline of Islamic achievement when the doctrine of literalism decisively won a theological struggle. they turned away from science and most have yet to find their way back.

*it's just small freaky subsets, none of which are really mainstream

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No, neo- means 'new' PiS is creating a new nomenklatura and you're in favor of that. Let that sink in.

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Will not be solved by appointing a bunch of neo-nomenklatura party hacks!

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Actually the only real criteria are a Polish passport or tax bill (putting your money where your big mouth is).

Absent either, your rah rahing the systematic destruction of the rule of law is morally despicable.

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That's probably the best single explanation for the changes. To facilitate rule by party chairman for life JK


Do you tell them that you're not even Polish and you don't even pay taxes in Poland?

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A nice thought, can you back it up with citations from particular holy texts?

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dangerous rabble-rousers who do not represent the majority of people in Poland who support socialis...... PiS, that is they support Pis!


Sterling patriots and fearless truth tellers who are aware of the guiding role of the great and benevolent chairman and his unshakeable party line!

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Nope, the profile is clear. They blow off education in favor of drugs and partying and idle hopes of becoming a gangster (respect for secular education is low among muslim communities in Europe so the paretns don't mind them blowing off school) then become disillusioned with their choices, get back to religion (which they'd previously ignored) in a search for meaning and fall prey to radical imams. The radicalization is the result of their own, earlier poor life choices.

Liberals who are in favor of multiculturalism (or give lip service to same) don't care, as long as they can brag about how tolerant they are the human toll of immigrant failure doesn't really bother them (if anything they're glad as it's less competition for the dwindling number of jobs....).

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Good! Then they can stop trying to send any migrants to Poland! Win Win!

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Don't lie, they were not begging for Germany to give hundreds of thousands of people to cross borders illegally. They wanted help in stopping the flow, not increasing it.

But if it was such a great thing I'm sure no other country wants to steal the spotlight from her so she can keep all of them and Poland won't get any. Too bad, we'll just have to muddle on through. Enjoy them, they're on your welfare rolls!

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No. She didn't consult ANY OF THE COUNTRIES THAT WERE DIRECTLY AFFECTED!!!! Hungary, Austria, Serbia, Greece.... she tried to force them to follow her policy with zero consulation. Not the mark of a real leader (I could care less about the stinking drunk Juncker or the rest of his foul ilk.... but it would very hard).

So since she didn't consult the leaders of any other European countries before inviting a horde of unemployable and unassimilateable young men.... she's in no position to try to fost off her unwanted rejects. She's welcome to them!

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I don't care about the GErman public (well I care some, but a little less every day she stays in power). My biggest problem with her policy was that she did not consult any other European country with her policy to take on all comers and then wants to drag them into her mess to make the decison look slightly less terrible. I know she built her career by never admitting mistakes and finding other people to blame (she was from the DDR after all) but the time for European Solidarity is before you invite a million unvetted foreigners from the worst countries in the world into your country, not after.


They really so have the worst ideas (like the idea of using the ARab world as a catspaw to stop American hegemony - how's that one working out?) The irony is that thanks to computerization the whole justification of the Euro (problems with constantly shifting exchange rates) wasn't really a problem by the time the infernal thing was rolled out.

And it's evolved from whatever it was supposed to be originally into the Deutschmark writ large - so it works great for Germany and few others, is harmless to some other countries but deadly to southern service economies who have to deal with de facto German fiscal polcy while holding a simulacrum of sovreignty.


Well the real problems wasn't the Greek tendency toward patronage and small time dishonesty toward the government, for a few years the Euro created the illusion that high risk Greek bonds were as safe as German bonds (because they denominated in the same currency) and private investors glutted the economy with euros. When a Greek government finally told the truth about the debt all hell broke loose (So no government has an incentive to be truthful, unintended consequences that will doubtless come home to roost).

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I distinctly remember hearing politicians during the run up to the Euro say "of course the Greeks are lying" about their debt levels but it was thought that Greece couldn't do much damage to the Euro (with no thought given to the damage the Euro would eventually do to Greece).


So they're ending up like Venezuela with the Euro.... had they backed out of the Euro in 2010 they woud be in far better shape now. I think it's just national vanity,

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And underestimating the threat is just as uncalled for. Almost none of them have any real education or employable skills and they have not improved a single location where they've been placed.

What's basically going on in the mediterranean is a murky mix of ngos and human smugglers working together (along with some Eruopean governments) to ship warm bodies to Europe in exchange for European taxpayer money. It's profiteering off of ignrorance and anyone who doesn't want to take immediate steps to stop has no moral highground to preach from.

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Well the thing about the Greek government lying for years is that EVERYBODY KNEW THEY WERE LYING! But the governments of other countries pretended to believe them because they wanted that big roll out for the Euro (which wasn't even especially needed by the time it came into being, but that's another story).

It wouldn't have been nice diplomatic form to say "Sorry, we don't believe you. No Euro for you" but everybody would have been better off if they had. But their hubris was such that they didn't build any escape mechanisms into the Euro (quite the opposite). The architects of the Euro should be in prison for economic malfeasance.

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Austerity does not cure economic crises, it deepens them. The whole goal is to weaken the economy so much that the government has to sell everything. It's essentially a mafia bust out.

Greeks do have a lot to answer for but the policies recommended don't really address the big problem which is their horrible delusion that they can stay in the Euro. There are models on how to change currencies and Greek needs to dump the Euro as fast as it can. It's toxic and can never work for them.

Letting the diaspora vote (as required by the constitution IIRC but never employed by Greece's horrible politicians) would also be a step in the right direction as politicians would have to campaign on something other than direct patronage.

But in the Euro all Greece can do is borrow and hope that (somehow) it can become more productive than Germany or the debts will simply keep piling up (that is the math). Greece will NEVER be more productive than Germany (because who can?) so its future in the Euro will simply be more debt and austerity and selling more and more of the country to private interests.

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Yes, the right word for sheer economic brute force. But.... that's all Germany has at present. I wish that weren't the case, but it is.


No. I've known a number of Vietnamese in Poland who were alive and in Vietnam then (including a good friend who once had to hide in rice paddy while the Americans were bombing) who do not hold grudges about that period. Winning against the US might have something to to with that. I've also had colleagues from Iraq who were able to distinguish me from US military policy.


I think you'll find that Germany represents government benefits to the great majority of the Merkel-jugend who don't want to be stuck in miserly Poland when generous Germany is next door (with an uncontrolled border). How many 'refugees' have found work so far? Let me know when the number reaches six (or even five) figures. How many of them know the first thing about German culture (and how many of them will reject it completely when they realize how much pork Germans eat and how much alcohol they consume and how casual they are about nudity etc etc etc).

Her 'refugee' policy was a giant stinkbomb that German citizens will be paying for for decades and Germany can deal with the consequences of her poor judgement all on their own as far as I'm concerned. She didn't ask the opinion of any of her allies before opening the border so.... they're hers. All hers.

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Belgium was easily the most brutal colonial power. The Netherlands were not terrible overall but had their moments in Indonesia...

And Germany and Italy were also colonial powers in Africa.

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I'm ignoring anything before September 2015, because that changed things too much. I've personally seen the number of students learning German (in an insitution devoted to teaching many languages) fall by 90% or so over the last 10 years.

And again, how many popular German authors are there in the EU? Or movies or tv shows? Denmark and Sweden have bigger cultural footprints at present. All Germany has is economic force.


To me Economics are the hardest power going in the modern world.


Not sure if that counts because it went against Polish public wishes as well (it was a disaster for PiS domestically).


Demanded and enforced by Germany (which de facto overturned the results of two elections, which is as hard as power gets).

Greece lost 30 % of its GDP with not real prospect for recovery ever because the Euro is not a currency*, it's a loan shark scheme that benefits manufacturing and tax haven economies. It can never work in a service economy. Anyone who knew anything about economics knew that Greece (and Portugal and Spain and Italy did not belong in the Euro).

*and wont' be until there is a common fiscal policy (which no one wants) or monetary transfers from north to south (which Germany doesn't want).

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I'm considering an afternoon course in cattle management in Tierra del Fuego, I'm sure my visa will be accepted.

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Lyzko said something about how importan German is, but I can tell you that being in an academic environment dealing with languages in Poland.... German has become a niche language (though I remember when it rivalled English in popularity). I'm rather fond of German myself but I can't blame European youth for turning away from it.

The further point is that Germany has no cultural power, it's all brute economic force and your links about Germany's soft power are either before the Merkel Wave of Pseudo-Refugees or are about micro-endeavors (tied to economics) and don't translate into real soft power.

Finally, Germany couldn't afford Poish employees in 2004, fine. Poland can't afford German refugees in 2017. And Greece can't afford German austerity.

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Then Germany can go fvck itself and keep all its precious refugees to itself. When it starts showing concern to other EU countries maybe they'll return the favor and not one second before.


Name three GErman TV series people in Europe watch, name three German popular singers people listen to, name three GErman authors who are popular outside of Germany (or Austria/Switzerland).

No. Soft. Power.

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It's very strange. Germany is THE economic power in the EU (completely lopsided with not challengers whatsoever) but the Germany has NO cultural relevance or soft power*. It's all brute economic force.

To be sure, I wish it were different. But that's the real way things are at present. Try to go around different countries in Europe speaking German and see what kind of reception you get. Indifference at best and outright hostility as the norm.

This is not a healthy situation for the EU and Germany largely has itself to blame.

*apparently a cause of concern in Germany itself

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Who's the one living in Poland? After, Germany FINALLY AFTER 7 FRICKIN' YEARS had to give Poles free access to the German labor market (and which they were still against) experts were predicting a big rash of German language learning.... nope. Nada.

German has almost no prestige in Poland anymore. Had Gemany followed the UK's lead in 2004 then German might be challenging English as lingua franca of the EU but... nope. Own goal all because they wanted to keep the dirty Poles out of their labor market.

I know of a German teacher who can't get work in GDANSK. That's how many bridges GErmany burned with Poland.

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That's nothing to smile about.

And Germany finds it harder to get immigrants to speak a language with less prestige than English...

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That assumes they want to....