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mafketis   
8 Jul 2017
News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]

It is true that Sarazzin did a lot to highlight several problems with migration to Germany and he deserves credit for opening a debate about this

Is there any real indication that there is debate? I'm certainly not invested in Sarrazin and am glad to know mistakes he's made... But then people like Lyzko run and pretend that everything's fine and there are no problems whatsoever.

I'm not interested in ending all immigration to Europe but I am in favor of better policy than GErmany has at present (which is terrible in many ways).

men with Turkish backgrounds marry German women, a percentage that increases in future generations

A better indication of integration is percentage of women that marry German men. Any figures there?
mafketis   
8 Jul 2017
News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]

Maf, my whole point is that you're running the risk of judging an entire peoples by that "bad lot" in Cologne!

Why not let me worry about that...

The fact is that middle eastern cultures are the way they are and in their own contexts work (for some value of 'work'). But people from that cultural environment mostly deal poorly with the challenges of living in radically different cultural environments. No European country has been very successful with large scale muslim immigration - why not end the experiment? How many turkeys are you going to drop off the Empire State Building before realizing that they don't really fly?

Highly educated and secularly oriented muslims do muc better in Europe (partly because they're trying to get awa from their countrymen) and I'm fine with them. But muslim countries mostly have terrible education systems so the numbers of them are small.
mafketis   
8 Jul 2017
News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]

Change doesn't happen overnight. But it happens.

Yes, very gradually progressive westerners are coming to accept FGM and burkas (surely honor killings and domestic violence cannot be far behind)

dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/hitting-wives-a-beautiful-blessing-from-allah-says-sydney-muslim-womens-group/news-story/3f7ba05642ed2d399edd979d9624bfed
mafketis   
8 Jul 2017
News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]

are you forever going to hold against migrants IN GENERAL the heinous actions of a dastardly few?

Unlike you, I don't want honor killings, burkas or female genital mutilation in Europe, muslim immigrants (when they arrive in large numbers) bring all three and hold onto them quite tenaciously.

he whole point Merkel's making about the concept of "tolerance" and the like is that it's not worth beans if it's too easy to be tolerant

So immigration policy should be about bringing in the worst immigrants possible. Noted.

like Christian virtues

I'm not a Christian.

I personally think it's moraly reprehensible for Merkel to express her Christian values in a way that COSTS HER NOTHING! Random German citizens pay the price for her pseudo-moralizing. The government of any country should put the interests of citizens first, legal non-citizens next and then can worry about charity and do-gooding.

If Merkel really wants to do good then she can bail out Greece.

I'm no saint, neither are you, neither are any of us

How generous of you to admit it. But the point is that adults have their own agendas and migrants are not eager to be your playthings and status symbols so you can show off how moral you are. I actually respect the cultures of the migrants more than you do.
mafketis   
8 Jul 2017
News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]

You're arguing in terms of "facts" which don't enter into this type of discussion

Au contraire mon amis, facts about the perfromance of given immigrant groups should be the basis of future policy. If group B commits less crimes and starts more businesses and pays more taxes and has a higher graduation rate than group A then a rational immigration policy would favor group B over group A.

But apparently for all their logic Germans are incapable of thinking of immigration in any terms but charity and noblesse oblige (which will backfire badly at some time in the future).

The truth of the matter remains that compassion has no statute of limitations

So your future of Europe is New Year's in Cologne forever.....
mafketis   
8 Jul 2017
News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]

relativizing IS trvializing by its very nature!

I have no idea what you're talking about. I asked for examples of Sarazzin being factually wrong and you make a vague allusion to 'trivializing' (while allowing that it might be factually correct)

If you can't give examples of him getting the facts (not attitude) wrong, then... he's right (as unsettling as thight might be for you).

Don't lash out at me.
mafketis   
4 Jul 2017
News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]

Merkel will handily take the upcoming election:-)

You say that like you think it's a good thing: Here's a great article on the Merkel tendency to force German policies on EU countries, short story: What gets called "Anti-EU" sentiment is rebellion agains the incresingly authoritarian stance of Germany vis a vis the rest of the EU. If the EU does break up (or is drastically weakened) a lot of that can be laid at her door.

lrb.co.uk/v38/n07/wolfgang-streeck/scenario-for-a-wonderful-tomorrow
mafketis   
4 Jul 2017
Life / How are electric cars doing in Poland? [413]

I was just in London and saw a few of those roadside charging ports.

I recently saw a row of them at an upscale housing development in Poznan (City Park) about a half dozen and one or two were being used. I had no idea what they were at first.
mafketis   
3 Jul 2017
History / Film "Wałęsa" - historical reality vs myth - controvercies [110]

try to prevent Jarosław praying at his brothers's grave in Wawel Cathedral

I would never support such activity (the question of whether LK belongs in Wawel is a separate issue). I'm all in favor of letting people mourn, commemorate on their own in peace.

villainous disruption of i.a. a Poznań 1956 anniversary

What possible relation is their between Smolensk and the first Polish uprising against communist rule? I'm completely againt the forced penetration of Macierewicz's conspiracy craziness into ceremonies meant to commemorate separate and quite unrelated events.
mafketis   
3 Jul 2017
History / Film "Wałęsa" - historical reality vs myth - controvercies [110]

Are you deranged?

No, that's why deranged and insane people make me lose my cool.

someone wishing to pray at his brother's grave is politicisng things

Since when is LK buried on Nowy Świat? The Smolensk "commemorations" are about keeping the low information PiS voters worked up and angry because without their anger the party is over.
mafketis   
3 Jul 2017
History / Film "Wałęsa" - historical reality vs myth - controvercies [110]

why then you complaint at brat Jaroslaw`s deeds?

Cause all else being equal I prefer that non-deranged rational people be in charge of governments.

You want me, instead?

NO! STAY RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE! SRBIJA NEEDS YOU! (unless you're actually posting from Gopher Heights, Illinois in which case stay there).
mafketis   
3 Jul 2017
News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]

The f...ers deserved it.

I wouldn't quite that far.But Germans need to keep talk about German suffering during or directly after WWII to a bare minimum for pretty obvious reasons.

I'm able to sympathize with civilian casualties anywhere, but proportion has to be maintained, so German hunger after WWII has to get in line behind the victims of starvation in the Siege of Leningrad and Dresden comes behind Warsaw.
mafketis   
2 Jul 2017
History / Film "Wałęsa" - historical reality vs myth - controvercies [110]

Why would anyone protest or try to disrupt the smolensk commemoration?

Because it's become a morbid death cult exploited for political gain by a mentally unstable character who already has one coup attempt on his record? I don't personally wnat to disrupt it but I have no respect for those involved and won't pretend I do.

That just seems really disrespectful towards the dead and their families.

Yes, the monthly death porn orgies are very disrespectful toward the dead and their families.

It all stems from JK's guilty conscience since the whole misbegotten idea to go to Smolensk was his in the first place. He needs to be shamed to keep his rationalizations between him and his therapist and not out in the public for everyone to see.
mafketis   
2 Jul 2017
News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]

You should investigate what a Firestorm

Yes, they were terrible, but there is no way on earth I'm going to feel nearly as much sympathy for civilian casualties OF THE COUNTRY THAT CAUSED THE WAR IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!! with those of civilian victims of the country that bore the brunt of German aggression.

I can feel some sympathy ffor them but it's an issue the cool headed would be advised to not push.
mafketis   
1 Jul 2017
News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]

Germany remains the economic engine of Europe

And it was economic ignorance and policial hubris that made anyone think that a manufacturing giant could share a currency (with no transfers) with service economies in the south (and made it impossible to leave).

that which hasn't yet been outsourced to cheaper-wage countries

One of the reasons that Poland is doing well now is that it's become part of the Germany supply chain.
mafketis   
1 Jul 2017
News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]

Yet, ever since the Greece debacle several years ago

There's no "several years ago" about it. They've lost 30% of their GDP with no hope of ever getting it back (since they don't control their own currency).

Here's a hint: austerity does not cure sick economies, it makes them worse so that the government is forced to sell assets to foreign creditors. Germany has made out like bandits by sucking up Greek assets while lecturing them about their spendthift ways.

The Euro is not a currency (since it there's no common fiscal policy or transfers) it's a license for Germany to loot the south.
mafketis   
1 Jul 2017
News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]

Martin Schulz to spearhead the deeply fractured SPD

Oh yes, a petty tyrant who wants to bully oher countries about policy. A triumph!

The problem is that for all the nice rhetoric about European solidarity Germany has done everything it can to gain the maximum benefit and ensure that other countries get the maximum burden of the EU.
mafketis   
1 Jul 2017
News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]

Did she send her Stukas and paratroopers again, that naughty woman? :)

Worse, the toxic loan shark scheme known as the Euro (most destructive force in the EU today) There is no way for the Euro to work in such different economies as Germany and Greece and anyone who ever thought it could work is a moron who should be excluded from making economic policy.

Germany is listed as one of the top 25 most reputable countries

Germany is culturally destructive, Germans don't seem happy unless they're antagonizing everyone around to death and trying to bully them.
mafketis   
30 Jun 2017
News / Germany After the EU and the Russian Scenario - future of the European Union and Poland [310]

If Merkel wins come mid-autumn of this year, I'd say the EU at least has a future, not necessarily bright

With Germany assuming it's rightful place as the most hated country in Europe as it continues its grand tradition of interfering with other countried and antogonizing its supposed allies.... My own opinion of Germany (source of most of my DNA) has plummeted since Merkel's attacks on Greece and unfathomable generosity to hundreds of thousands of young men with no education, skills or hope for integration.

Electing her again puts it at the level of Putn's Russia - a constant source of strife and conflict in Euope.