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Joined: 2 Dec 2023 / Male ♂
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Torq   
20 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

52% of Poles are against the Israeli attack on Iran, and 17% support it

... 14% don't care, and 16.5% haven't heard of it:

wiadomosci.onet.pl/swiat/ponad-polowa-polakow-negatywnie-ocenia-dzialania-izraela-w-iranie-sondaz/d6qzh0n

Typical.

every fanatic harbors a secret doubt (...) The real granite (...) anchored as hard as concrete in those moderate ones that we own

You're like a fountain of wisdom today. Well, you usually are but this is just amazing. It's a perfect beginning for a larger work, or even a library of works. I'm thinking... Moderate Manifesto, The Centrist Revolution: Please, Let's Not Get Carried Away, The Middle Path: Marching Boldly Toward the Center, Radically Reasonable or The Tweed Blazer Uprising.

I want these books and I want this revolution! :)
Torq   
20 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

Thanks, kiddo, all your feelings are entirely reciprocated.

As for "unusualness", I don't think anyone can beat Crow in this aspect. When all the wars are over and the world enters again into another era of Kumbaya singing and "end of history", I am definitely getting him drunk during the inevitable PF Meetup. :)
Torq   
20 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

This, however...

you are simply an extraordinary individual

... worries me, Major.

It means that your psychological profilers tell you that I am susceptible to compliments. Fire them, they're useless. ;)
Torq   
20 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

Addressed to everyone else.

I'm sure others, with very few exceptions, realise it too. PFers are Internet Old Guard - we are not that easy to be incited to hatred (with some exceptions ;)).
Torq   
20 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

you people must understand that these Muslims are not very different from us

Oh, but we understand it quite well. Ordinary folks all over the world are by and large all right; it is people in power who sometimes become corrupt and evil (and we don't have to look as far as Iran to realise it).
Torq   
20 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

Say what you want about Putin, but his people do not toss out the lifeless bodies of teenagers along the highways

Perhaps not, but people who present a threat to his regime don't end up well either. If he's not quite as cruel as the shah, it's because he's Slavic--senseless cruelty is alien to our nature.
Torq   
20 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

his intelligence services would kidnap and disappear anybody that presented a threat to the regime

Horrible. I can't imagine what sort of people could ever support this kind of evil regime. No... wait a minute... ;)
Torq   
20 Jun 2025
News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [428]

Right from the beginning of the strikes...

rp.pl/polityka/art42542041-szef-msz-o-sytuacji-polakow-w-izraelu-blagamy-a-i-tak-jada

... it's as Sikorski said: "we are begging them not to go but they go anyway".

husbands and wives who were partners of polish citizens were not allowed on the plane

Evacuation is for Polish citizens and number of places is limited, so Poles first. Logical.
Torq   
20 Jun 2025
News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [428]

charging polish citizens fleeing the war zone in israel and iran 500 euro to get on the plane home

Only applies to those who went there AFTER the Foreign Ministry issued the warning not to do it.

Proper f*cking order.

The same rule should apply to retards who go hiking in the mountains in winter after several warnings against it issued by GOPR. They should pay for every second of the rescue missions.
Torq   
20 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

What do you think of the suggested plan to federalise or split Iran?

Well, Persians never acknowledged the partitions and, especially in intellectual or literary circles, expressed sympathy for Poland, seeing Poles as fellow victims of Russian imperialism. Later, during WW2, they accepted and took good care of tens of thousands of our refugees, so it would be inappropriate for me to support splitting Iran. Countries can't have the memory span of a goldfish, can they? We should just get rid of the evil regime (like in another country a bit further up north) and make peace with all the lovely Iranian (Russian) people.

Two regime changes for me, please, and balance will be restored in the Universe.
Torq   
20 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

Tell that to the people swinging from ropes in Iran.

Exactly. Time to sing the f*cking bumper sticker song again...

1

youtube.com/watch?v=YgJJoYCBkvM&list=RDYgJJoYCBkvM&start_radio=1

... ehhh, kurwa... życie.
Torq   
19 Jun 2025
Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [215]

The woman attacked by this ciapaty is dead (and has been for a few days)

Fake news.

And 'ciapaty' refers to Indians, Pakis and Bangladeshis (more rarely to Arabs) not to South Americans.
Torq   
19 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

what will happen to the cause of Ukraine America gets involved in war with Iran

Well, Iran will definitely have less weapons to aid Russia in their war effort.
Torq   
19 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

Religious extremists never do.

How many people would you say follow the teachings of an extremist? 1% of a given religion members? 5%? 20? Would you say Rydzyk is an extremist?

the worst of them all

The worst or the best, depends how you look at it. :)
Torq   
19 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

Extreme voices are best ignored.

Well, perhaps I should have said "genuine" or "zealous", not "extreme".

Who do you think influences more Catholics in Poland, has more money and power: Rydzyk or Boniecki? In the same way I bet the likes of Mizrachi have a rather large following in Israel and diaspora. Same goes for Muslim imams--those who advocate love for the entire world and tolerance are rather in minority, aren't they? That's why people should use tools like YouTube to stay informed and vigilant.
Torq   
19 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

What a combination.

... an absolutely brilliant combination. Living in Poland I would never have the opportunity to listen to the most extreme Orthodox rabbis or Muslim imams, and I might fall for all the ecumenical love, hand-holding, kumbaya-singing nonsense. Thanks to YouTube I am well informed and warned. :)
Torq   
19 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

Yosef Mizrachi is an idiot who thinks there are over 6 billion idol worshippers in the world who deserve death penalty, but he noticed a disquieting thing...

youtube.com/shorts/6eew3Tp4Cpw

... does this mean that God is angry at Israel and might withdraw his protection from them? Interesting...
Torq   
19 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

lady recently went to a million dollar a plate dinner at a Trump fundraiser, and the same week her son was released from jail following a presidential pardon

I can understand why Putin despises Trump so much.
Torq   
17 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

they NEVER deliver

Exactly!

I wish people would learn from all that painful history for once...

People don't really seem to learn from history. There are always those who claim that "the real communism" is oh-so-great, and that there "never was a real communism anywhere in the world" and that "next time it will definitely work" etc. etc. Half-wits, yes, but dangerous half-wits.
Torq   
17 Jun 2025
Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [215]

it's hard to say where he's really from and what his real name is

Not really.

He's a Venezuelan and his mother works in a restaurant in Toruń, close to the bar where the victim worked. She's been living in Poland for quite a while and her son came to visit her in February and stayed at her place without working anywhere, just playing console games most of the time and leeching off his mom. Doesn't sound like a horrible Islamist terrorist to me.
Torq   
17 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

Who are you referring to?

People who matter.

You seem to be part of some unusual circles or cult-like groups.

Thank you, Iron. You always know how to amuse me.

seem indifferent to the war; their main dilemma is whether to go on holiday to Egypt or not

Cattle, or walking digestive tracts, yes - you explained their dilemmas rather accurately. I was, however, talking about people (i.e. thinking human beings).

Communism is an economic policy.

It is much more than just that. It is a repressive and criminal system of government, and even if it's not inherently repressive and criminal, then it invariably turns into exactly such political system anywhere in the world where its applied.
Torq   
17 Jun 2025
Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [215]

Is this a mitigating or aggravating factor in Poland?

The law changed and nowadays it's an aggravating factor but in PRL times it used to be mitigating.

By the way, the guy is not an illegal migrant--he came legally to visit his family.
Torq   
17 Jun 2025
Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [215]

The details of this murder are also completely omitted, and the crime itself is mitigated.

What? It is all over the internet and the newspapers. It even provoked anti-migrant protests in Toruń and Bydgoszcz.

Where are your balls and where is your heart?

Nothing wrong with them. The rapist is 19 years old and his life is pretty much over. The police caught him very quickly (in about an hour), so in a way he was lucky. He will most likely spend his life in prison, and this life will be neither easy nor probably very long.

In Russia, Muslims

I doubt the guy's a Muslim. He's a Venezuelan and had 1.2 ‰ BAC when caught.
Torq   
16 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

pretty big anti-regime demonstrations

Say what you want about Bibi, but when he does regime change he does regime change.
Torq   
16 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

A myopic view.

You see, that's what I'm talking about. Difficult words. And then you're surprised people don't reply to your posts.

Poland is a natural partner for Iran (...) There are historic ties between Persia and Poland

Quite right.

Our Persian friends, however, would seem to have chosen the side of God's eschatological enemies in the final battle of Armageddon. This is not a wise choice. Not wise at all. Luckily, not all is lost and if our man Bibi Netanyahu can pull off this regime change operation, a lot of new options and opportunities may open. Поживём - увидим, as our dear Russian brothers say.

I am not graced with the same talent as Mr. Mazur.

When you write something, first copy/paste it into ChatGPT and ask for a dumbed down version. Don't thank me.

Anyways, as our friend and dobri brat Crow says - all is well in the Universe, as a little bird told me. :)
Torq   
16 Jun 2025
News / The Iran war and Poland [826]

@Bobko

I'm not old enough to remember that but my Dad used to tell me how in 1967 and in 1973 the entire Poland (well, not the troglodytes but the entire thinking Poland - people that matter) were celebrating because "our Jews were f*cking up their Arabs". There is a bit of this elation in the air these days too, only this time our Jews are f*cking up your Persians.

Well, of course, things are a bit more complicated than that - majority of the current generation of Tzahal and intelligence services have their roots in Russia, not in Poland, but they had good masters who taught them well. They fight the good fight.

עם פולין חי

... and all that.

Nobody responds to Bobko posts :(

Your posts are too long, too complicated, and they contain difficult words.
Torq   
15 Jun 2025
Feedback / I love this forum - It's so Polish: tolerant, inconsistent, amusing [337]

Don't insult the US, Russia

You keep insulting Europeans generally and Poles specifically, not to mention members of LGBT community, so you are in no position to lecture people about avoiding insults. Say what you want and deal with the response--that's what internet boards are all about.

I would prefer if you kept posting on issues that you have something interesting and valuable to say about, like abortion, and refrained from posting about issues you don't understand, like European history, but it's not such a big problem for me. People have been talking nonsense online ever since the Internet was invented.

after they called me a moron and traitor

They are wrong about the former - you are not a moron (well, not technically anyway), and might have a valid point on the latter (all your attacks on Poland and Polishness are, frankly, despicable considering your ethnic background). However, at your age it is not very likely that you will either become more civil or repent of your treason, so f*ck it, we don't have to love each other as long we are at least moderately fair in our online discussions.
Torq   
15 Jun 2025
Feedback / I love this forum - It's so Polish: tolerant, inconsistent, amusing [337]

and there will be no 10 bucks a month until Novi's spamming is all on one thread

Sorry but it's an unreasonable condition. If Novi's behavior merits a warning or a ban, he will be warned or banned no doubt. Until then he has the same rights as any other member.

The forum is moderated very liberally, that's true, but the same rules apply to all users and maybe we should appreciate the freedom of speech that we have here a little bit more.