mafketis
21 Aug 2017
News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]
And how did they get that way?
These are not 'no go zones', they're Urban Priority Areas
And how did they get that way?
mafketis
21 Aug 2017
News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]
The question is which will be more important when push comes to shove.
Cbos polls show both are true
The question is which will be more important when push comes to shove.
mafketis
21 Aug 2017
News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]
Yes, but that's movement within the EU I'm talking about movement from outside the EU into EU member states and a lot of it is pretty unnecessary. What have Moroccans done for Spain lately beyond kill people for their religion?
People of north african origin have been heavily overrepresented in recent terror attacks - there's no reason for most of them being in Europe.
What I'm saying is that a single poll that finds 88 % saying they're in favor of the EU is essentially meaningless and could change if the EU keeps pursuing policies that are not in Polish (or EU) interests.
Freedom of movement has benefitted Poles enormously.
Yes, but that's movement within the EU I'm talking about movement from outside the EU into EU member states and a lot of it is pretty unnecessary. What have Moroccans done for Spain lately beyond kill people for their religion?
People of north african origin have been heavily overrepresented in recent terror attacks - there's no reason for most of them being in Europe.
What I'm saying is that a single poll that finds 88 % saying they're in favor of the EU is essentially meaningless and could change if the EU keeps pursuing policies that are not in Polish (or EU) interests.
mafketis
21 Aug 2017
News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]
Exacly, there are plenty enough native nutters. There's no need to activley import more.
Exacly, there are plenty enough native nutters. There's no need to activley import more.
mafketis
21 Aug 2017
News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]
EU policy could decide that parts of the world with greater than average levels of violent mental disturbances should not be a prime source of immigration.
t EU membership can't affect.
EU policy could decide that parts of the world with greater than average levels of violent mental disturbances should not be a prime source of immigration.
mafketis
21 Aug 2017
News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]
Do the mods even read the threads? The topic of mostly muslim refugees being settled in Poland against the wishes of the majority of the population is crucially tied to support for the EU.
To say anything intelligent aobut that it's necessary to give background information.
Stick to the topic everyone, please
Do the mods even read the threads? The topic of mostly muslim refugees being settled in Poland against the wishes of the majority of the population is crucially tied to support for the EU.
To say anything intelligent aobut that it's necessary to give background information.
mafketis
21 Aug 2017
News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]
I disagree with that, the muslim world was rapidly secularizing through the 1960s, that only started turning around in the 1970s through a bunch of events that people have mostly forgotten about (like the seizure of the grand mosque in saudi arabia - resolved partly through giving religous nut jobs more legal authority which is where Saudi funding religous crazies abroad started from).
The young nature of Islam isn't about particular beliefs but how rapidly they can change. A religion is like a pendulum that never stops swinging but over time the amplitude of the swing gets smaller and smaller (as in modern judaism and christianity) islam was set in motion more recently and so the swings are bigger between larger extremes.
But that's not Poland's job and nothing Poland could do would produce any better results for a muslim minority than in any other European country which is why Poland should resist efforts by clueless outsiders to create a muslim 'community' here.
Stick to the topic everyone, please
I think it's too young a religion for that.
I disagree with that, the muslim world was rapidly secularizing through the 1960s, that only started turning around in the 1970s through a bunch of events that people have mostly forgotten about (like the seizure of the grand mosque in saudi arabia - resolved partly through giving religous nut jobs more legal authority which is where Saudi funding religous crazies abroad started from).
The young nature of Islam isn't about particular beliefs but how rapidly they can change. A religion is like a pendulum that never stops swinging but over time the amplitude of the swing gets smaller and smaller (as in modern judaism and christianity) islam was set in motion more recently and so the swings are bigger between larger extremes.
But that's not Poland's job and nothing Poland could do would produce any better results for a muslim minority than in any other European country which is why Poland should resist efforts by clueless outsiders to create a muslim 'community' here.
Stick to the topic everyone, please
mafketis
21 Aug 2017
News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]
What I see (off the top of my head) are South Asian, East Asian and African in that order. A lot are probably working or "studying" in Poland. The South Asians are mostly hindu I think (more Indian at least)
The terror people worry about now is by disaffected muslims (who turn to religious based violence because they're failures and alienated from the societies they're living in). That's a very good reason for Poland to want to avoid growing a large muslim miinority on its own and to resist efforts by clueless outsiders to jump start one.
The one thing that could save the muslim minority in Europe is a massive turn toward secularism, abandoning alienating customs like hijab, not fixating over trivia like halal meat and the sexes mingling, pursuing secular education and keeping their religion at home and the mosque. A don't see that happening, instead the rolling disaster that is muslim dysfunction in Europe will get worse until something drastic happens...
Looking like damn Islamism - I sure hope it is not the case.
What I see (off the top of my head) are South Asian, East Asian and African in that order. A lot are probably working or "studying" in Poland. The South Asians are mostly hindu I think (more Indian at least)
the vast majority of terrorism in Europe is carried out by EU citizens, and has been that way for many, many years
The terror people worry about now is by disaffected muslims (who turn to religious based violence because they're failures and alienated from the societies they're living in). That's a very good reason for Poland to want to avoid growing a large muslim miinority on its own and to resist efforts by clueless outsiders to jump start one.
The one thing that could save the muslim minority in Europe is a massive turn toward secularism, abandoning alienating customs like hijab, not fixating over trivia like halal meat and the sexes mingling, pursuing secular education and keeping their religion at home and the mosque. A don't see that happening, instead the rolling disaster that is muslim dysfunction in Europe will get worse until something drastic happens...
mafketis
20 Aug 2017
History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]
There is nothing brave about a bunch of bimbos being manipulated by a guy....
Brave people like Pvssy Riot
There is nothing brave about a bunch of bimbos being manipulated by a guy....
mafketis
20 Aug 2017
History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]
I wrote in the third person... Poles and Russians, them and them.
So out of the curtesy you could say what you are, before voicing you views.
I wrote in the third person... Poles and Russians, them and them.
mafketis
20 Aug 2017
News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]
Well that's already going on. It is presently impossible to walk around a large Polish city (at least Poznań where I live) for more than 5 or 10 minutes without seeing people who are visibly not Polish but who appear to be living here.
Being okay with that is a very far road away from letting Angela frickin' Merkel determine Polish migration policy and accepting her second hand refugees.
Poland will have to choose. It's either being part of the EU and accepting the influx of other cultures
Well that's already going on. It is presently impossible to walk around a large Polish city (at least Poznań where I live) for more than 5 or 10 minutes without seeing people who are visibly not Polish but who appear to be living here.
Being okay with that is a very far road away from letting Angela frickin' Merkel determine Polish migration policy and accepting her second hand refugees.
mafketis
20 Aug 2017
History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]
When Poles control their own affairs, the model is (flawed) democracy. When Russians control their own affairs the model is a big man absolute leader.
The surface changes, the water underneat remains the same.
There was once the great First Rzeczpospolita fr
When Poles control their own affairs, the model is (flawed) democracy. When Russians control their own affairs the model is a big man absolute leader.
The surface changes, the water underneat remains the same.
mafketis
20 Aug 2017
History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]
Nothing will change. Russia has had the same system for hundreds of years, absolute rule by a big man (whether tsar, party chairman or whatever title Putin has at present), supported by a coterie of ogligarchs, a suffocating bureaucracy and no concern for the masses (who cannot envision any system beyond supporting whatever big man is in power at the moment). There are brief periods of unrest between different big-man-in-charge systems but the overall pattern remains the same....
the Soviet Union, apparently the generation must change, so that something will change in this.
Nothing will change. Russia has had the same system for hundreds of years, absolute rule by a big man (whether tsar, party chairman or whatever title Putin has at present), supported by a coterie of ogligarchs, a suffocating bureaucracy and no concern for the masses (who cannot envision any system beyond supporting whatever big man is in power at the moment). There are brief periods of unrest between different big-man-in-charge systems but the overall pattern remains the same....
mafketis
20 Aug 2017
News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]
Well isn't Poland lucky about that? How long before Poland gets its own 'crazy muslim religous fanatic drives a truck into a crowd' event?
If a Spanish-Moroccan, French-Algerian or German-Turk decides to settle in Poland, nobody can prevent that.
Well isn't Poland lucky about that? How long before Poland gets its own 'crazy muslim religous fanatic drives a truck into a crowd' event?
mafketis
20 Aug 2017
History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]
"There's no business like Shoah business" (title of an article about the book IIRC)
a Jewish processor Norman finkelstein wrote a book on literally titled the holocaust industry
"There's no business like Shoah business" (title of an article about the book IIRC)
mafketis
19 Aug 2017
History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]
No, because your points are all wrong/irrelevant.
The fact is that the holocaust is dying as a thing that people get worked up about. Why should people born 50 years (2 generations) after the end still be concerned? It had a good run, but it's over.
No tragedy concerns people forever. Remember Kampuchea and the Khmer Rouge? Rwanda? That was just over 20 years ago and the world has forgotten.
you didn't understand what I was driving at
No, because your points are all wrong/irrelevant.
The fact is that the holocaust is dying as a thing that people get worked up about. Why should people born 50 years (2 generations) after the end still be concerned? It had a good run, but it's over.
No tragedy concerns people forever. Remember Kampuchea and the Khmer Rouge? Rwanda? That was just over 20 years ago and the world has forgotten.
mafketis
17 Aug 2017
News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]
like Barcelona?
Great deal! Where do I sign up?
including sharing responsibility for demographic change
like Barcelona?
Great deal! Where do I sign up?
mafketis
17 Aug 2017
News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]
Conditional on the money coming in and the Merkel jugend staying out.
And the straight answer is that 88% of Poles support membership of our EU
Conditional on the money coming in and the Merkel jugend staying out.
mafketis
16 Aug 2017
News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]
tha'ts a gricean answer in poland, not indicative of much
what is interesting is that no matter how you do the numbers at least hafl of those supporting PiS also support the EU
tha'ts a gricean answer in poland, not indicative of much
what is interesting is that no matter how you do the numbers at least hafl of those supporting PiS also support the EU
mafketis
11 Aug 2017
History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]
I would actually like to see some old traditions die before agreeing to this. At present it seems that those who hold on most firmly to their old traditions (no matter how dysfunctional from a western civil society viepoint) are doing better than those spurning the dust.
As The Internationale says in its glorious lyrics: "We'll end to day the old tradition, we'll spurn the dust to win the prize".
I would actually like to see some old traditions die before agreeing to this. At present it seems that those who hold on most firmly to their old traditions (no matter how dysfunctional from a western civil society viepoint) are doing better than those spurning the dust.
mafketis
3 Aug 2017
History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]
video not available in poland
of course a putinista wouldn't know that...
some insights from holocaust survivors:
video not available in poland
of course a putinista wouldn't know that...
mafketis
3 Aug 2017
History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]
What do Russian trolls have if they don't lie?
The fact that the komuchy in PiS hate Bartoszewski ( a true Christian ) says everything.
So don't lie, Gregy, don't lie.
What do Russian trolls have if they don't lie?
The fact that the komuchy in PiS hate Bartoszewski ( a true Christian ) says everything.
mafketis
2 Aug 2017
News / Will America send troops to fight a Russian invasion of Baltics and/or Poland? [283]
The chances of the US doing more than protest and suggest diplomacy against anything other than a full scaled military invasion is kind of ludicrous. The US is simply not a very reliable ally (I say this with sadness).
it's likely that the Americans will agree to a UN-supported ceasefire
The chances of the US doing more than protest and suggest diplomacy against anything other than a full scaled military invasion is kind of ludicrous. The US is simply not a very reliable ally (I say this with sadness).
mafketis
1 Aug 2017
News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]
Seems pretty harsh on the refugees, real refugees have suffered trauma and just plumping them down in a culturally alien environment isn't necessarily helpful. Knowing that they're not wanted won't help and Poland doesn't have the resources to deal with helping them process and get past trauma...
People that are insistent that Poland must accept middl eastern refugees are morally posturing and do not have those refugees' best interests at heart.
Poland has a duty to take in some refugees
Seems pretty harsh on the refugees, real refugees have suffered trauma and just plumping them down in a culturally alien environment isn't necessarily helpful. Knowing that they're not wanted won't help and Poland doesn't have the resources to deal with helping them process and get past trauma...
People that are insistent that Poland must accept middl eastern refugees are morally posturing and do not have those refugees' best interests at heart.
mafketis
30 Jul 2017
News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]
The type that would think that allowing prosecutors to appoint their own judges is a good idea....
Hard to imagine what kind of person would willingly obtain top grades in such studies.
The type that would think that allowing prosecutors to appoint their own judges is a good idea....
mafketis
30 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]
No entirely, there's a broad range of reform possible but PiS's ungodly abortion violates all western civilizational norms.
Remember, TANSTAAFL! (There' ain't no such thing as a free lunch!) for Poland this means (in exchange for the masses of money poured into the country already) voluntarily making sure that the legal system runs without a fairly broad legislational corridor.
But JK (aka "The imp") has never been a good faith bargainer, he has a history of trying to back out of deals the second they're made.
The justice system and social affairs are outside the EU's purview
No entirely, there's a broad range of reform possible but PiS's ungodly abortion violates all western civilizational norms.
Remember, TANSTAAFL! (There' ain't no such thing as a free lunch!) for Poland this means (in exchange for the masses of money poured into the country already) voluntarily making sure that the legal system runs without a fairly broad legislational corridor.
But JK (aka "The imp") has never been a good faith bargainer, he has a history of trying to back out of deals the second they're made.
mafketis
30 Jul 2017
News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]
So? So did Jarosław Kaczyński. There's no way he could have studied anything in the PRL (the only place he studied) without making such an oath.
Those judges swore their oath of allegaince to PRL (communisti Poland, defence of socialism and "our Warsaw Pact alliances"
So? So did Jarosław Kaczyński. There's no way he could have studied anything in the PRL (the only place he studied) without making such an oath.
mafketis
30 Jul 2017
Life / What is Poland's view on obesity? How healthy, fit are Poles? [166]
this is basically true
My analysis would be not so much what they eat as _how_ they eat. Polish food is not noted for being "healthy" or "light" but traditionally overweight people were far less common than now.
But.... the traditional Polish pattern was three (or three and a half) meals per day and no between meal snacking. In the US many people can go weeks or months without really having a meal in the traditional sense but rather a series of small or larger snacks throughout the day. A sandwich here, a slize of pizza there, some potato chips somewhere else... (IIRC this used to be called 'grazing' by social scientists)
I'm also wondering if things like increasing car ownership play a role. Many Polish people want cars because.... beats me, they seem generally overrated. More driving equals less walking.
Every year I see more obese first years in the university intake
this is basically true
My analysis would be not so much what they eat as _how_ they eat. Polish food is not noted for being "healthy" or "light" but traditionally overweight people were far less common than now.
But.... the traditional Polish pattern was three (or three and a half) meals per day and no between meal snacking. In the US many people can go weeks or months without really having a meal in the traditional sense but rather a series of small or larger snacks throughout the day. A sandwich here, a slize of pizza there, some potato chips somewhere else... (IIRC this used to be called 'grazing' by social scientists)
I'm also wondering if things like increasing car ownership play a role. Many Polish people want cars because.... beats me, they seem generally overrated. More driving equals less walking.
mafketis
28 Jul 2017
Genealogy / Are Silesians people German/Germanic? [178]
just remember
robust hips = more likely to deliver babies safely
fashion model hips = more likely to accompany lots 'o death in childbirth (moms and/or babies)
Idk if I would exactly consider 'robust' to be an attractive quality in a female
just remember
robust hips = more likely to deliver babies safely
fashion model hips = more likely to accompany lots 'o death in childbirth (moms and/or babies)
mafketis
28 Jul 2017
History / Lusatian-Sarmatic obsession of Poles [153]
When it comes right down to it, wouldn't it have made a lot more sense if Kennedy said "Ich bin ein Sarmater!"?
people who are either Luzatians or Sarmatians
When it comes right down to it, wouldn't it have made a lot more sense if Kennedy said "Ich bin ein Sarmater!"?