News / Anti-Defamation League want Macierewicz (Poland defense minister) appointment withdrawn - GW [42]


They must be ashamed of having a donosiciel in the family....


commie kapuś talk, there were other ways of letting people know about the organization in question without encouraging people to become tajni współpracownicy

do you wanna report me?

News / Should Poland traitors face the death penalty? [105]


It's a debate on whether Poland is upholding agreements it willingly signed on to. The objective answer is that it is not. So you are saying that loyalty to the current government is more important than objective truth.


I can understand how someone who sees politics as a video game or soccer match might think that. I disagree.

News / Anti-Defamation League want Macierewicz (Poland defense minister) appointment withdrawn - GW [42]


I never figured you for a kapuś but hey, guess I was wrong.

News / Should Poland traitors face the death penalty? [105]


No! You are! Not me, you! No amount of sabre rattling and bloodlust for your political enemies will change that.

News / Should Poland traitors face the death penalty? [105]


Honestly, you don't want Poland in the EU at all, why would you care about Poland's status there?


But it's PiS that brought Poland to the ridiculous position it's in now - quickly becoming a pariah state in the EU


I think that's exactly what a bunch of people here want.....

News / Should Poland traitors face the death penalty? [105]


No. They did not "vote against Poland" they voted against a dishonest government that continues to break agreements that Poland has made.

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


Isn't their media reform coming up? How much of that is going to be cracking down on criticism under the guise of foreign ownership?

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


Well over twenty years..... how much time have you personally spent in Poland? And how fluent is your Polish?

The GUS data doesn't contradict what I wrote which is based on personal observations and discussions with Polish people over many years.

The biggest mistake the Catholic Church made after 1990 was making 'religion' a required subject in school, most young Polish people hated those classes (I've heard first hand for many years now).

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


The strength of Polish catholicism is vastly over-reported in the US which goes back to the Cold War.

The rough breakdown on the ground here....

15-20 % hardcore catholic
40--50 % nominal catholic (catholic to the extent they're anything - they want to be married in the church and their kids to be baptised but don't necessarily follow all church teachings)

20-30 % will say they are catholic if you ask but you would never guess it from their behavior
5-10 % something else (including a new but still very small us style evangelical contingent)

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


Except that Polish people on the whole really aren't that religious so it's doomed to fail. Most Poles only get excited about religion when it's tied to political opposition and this isn't that.

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


The funniest part is talking about closing stores so families can spend time together.... as if they couldn't now. Essentially PiS are saying that spending time with family is so terrible that people should be forced....

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


Yes, it was called communism. As I keep saying PiS is PRL2 the Duckening!

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


That's what they say now as a theoretical response, it's not necessarily what they'll say when most stores are actually closed.

Closed stores still make a lot of Polish people nervous (notice the mass buying going on anytime stores will be closed for a single day....).

News / Goodbye Sunday Shopping in Poland - Hello Electoral Reform [246]


That is clearly their aim. Those who do not speak out against it are in favor of it and are collaboratores.

In other news, Ziobro just fired the judge set to hear the appeal with regard to his father's death. Something new for the collaborators to try to justify.

Travel / Are Polish people as unfriendly as Slovaks? [84]

He's still big? I thought he was five years ago.... from that time I prefer this:

youtu.be/e40BYC-wW6s

USA, Canada / Poles Living in the Chicago Area [343]


A nice idea, but it would be more accurate to say they settled in areas that had jobs for them soon after they got off the boat and those areas were mostly in the industrial belt. Decent jobs that they could do were much scarcer in the South (which is why there was large scale Black migration from there to those same states), further west or New England.

The old northern industrial belt has long been the cultural capital of southern and eastern European groups that started arriving in the late 19th century like Italians, Poles, Greeks, Hungarians, Orthodox Jews etc.

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...