mafketis
3 Apr 2025
Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]
Reverse riddle: For non-Americans only....
Jestem z Missouri
Reverse riddle: For non-Americans only....
Jestem z Missouri
mafketis
2 Apr 2025
News / Building regional alliance to stabilize Eastern Europe. [236]
An idea whose time has come!The sooner the better!!!!!
NATO in Sevastopol?
An idea whose time has come!The sooner the better!!!!!
mafketis
2 Apr 2025
News / Building regional alliance to stabilize Eastern Europe. [236]
Who doesn't understand post WWII Germany in the slightest...
He didn't realize or didn't care that his insanely stupid invasion was something Germany couldn't ignore (apart from a handful of vvhorish politicians he owned).
Germany no longer has imperial ambitions and does not support others' imperial ambitions.
Stupid man does stupid things and russians are helpless...
utin is a huge Germanophile.
Who doesn't understand post WWII Germany in the slightest...
He didn't realize or didn't care that his insanely stupid invasion was something Germany couldn't ignore (apart from a handful of vvhorish politicians he owned).
Germany no longer has imperial ambitions and does not support others' imperial ambitions.
Stupid man does stupid things and russians are helpless...
mafketis
1 Apr 2025
History / Why American military aid to Europe and Poland is important to America itself? [227]
The CW is that Trump wants it as a hedge against the sino-russian axis in the artic (and he trusts no allies) as part of the larger scenario of the upcoming war with china in the Pacific....
If you don't think china wants war, then you need to get with the program.
The other CW is that Trump is willing to throw Ukraine under the bus on the off chance of splitting up or at least weakening the sino-russian axis...
I don't think there's much chance of that.
At any rate, within a few years there will be a global conflagration killing millions of people because the west had its collective thumb in its zhopa and didn't come down hard on russia in early 2022.
WWIII is getting more baked in every day and its the sino-russian alliance pushing it.
Greenland can't possible gain power as power is being spent in trying to acquire i
The CW is that Trump wants it as a hedge against the sino-russian axis in the artic (and he trusts no allies) as part of the larger scenario of the upcoming war with china in the Pacific....
If you don't think china wants war, then you need to get with the program.
The other CW is that Trump is willing to throw Ukraine under the bus on the off chance of splitting up or at least weakening the sino-russian axis...
I don't think there's much chance of that.
At any rate, within a few years there will be a global conflagration killing millions of people because the west had its collective thumb in its zhopa and didn't come down hard on russia in early 2022.
WWIII is getting more baked in every day and its the sino-russian alliance pushing it.
mafketis
1 Apr 2025
History / Why American military aid to Europe and Poland is important to America itself? [227]
how many NATO troops were/are in Ukraine?
Dude... the truth is russia invaded Donbas in 2014 and drove the part it controlled into the dirt... even Girkin complained about russian mismanagement
then russia invaded the rest of Ukraine in 2022 with the aim of destroying Ukrainian statehood and language on phony 'nazi' charges that only the congenitally retarded could even pretend to believe.
Ukraine is not russia, Ukrainians do not want to be governed by russia.
Everything that has happened is downstream from russians denying reality.
If your miserable misbegotten army had just stayed in its own country almost everyone in Ukraine and russia would have been better off. _That_ is the truth.
Thank you for recharging my 'russophobia' batteries with your russian world nonsense...
Enoy the view
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we were not fighting Ukraine but the combined NATO.
how many NATO troops were/are in Ukraine?
Dude... the truth is russia invaded Donbas in 2014 and drove the part it controlled into the dirt... even Girkin complained about russian mismanagement
then russia invaded the rest of Ukraine in 2022 with the aim of destroying Ukrainian statehood and language on phony 'nazi' charges that only the congenitally retarded could even pretend to believe.
Ukraine is not russia, Ukrainians do not want to be governed by russia.
Everything that has happened is downstream from russians denying reality.
If your miserable misbegotten army had just stayed in its own country almost everyone in Ukraine and russia would have been better off. _That_ is the truth.
Thank you for recharging my 'russophobia' batteries with your russian world nonsense...
Enoy the view
x.com/GirkinGirkin/status/1907077629792178535
mafketis
1 Apr 2025
History / Why American military aid to Europe and Poland is important to America itself? [227]
[quote=]n the spring of 2022, P and Z were ready to sign and prevent this war[/quote]
Are people who post lies like this slvts or vvhores?
A vvhore is at least getting paid by the russian government
A slvt is just doing that because they get off on lying.
I wonder which is the case here...
[quote=]n the spring of 2022, P and Z were ready to sign and prevent this war[/quote]
Are people who post lies like this slvts or vvhores?
A vvhore is at least getting paid by the russian government
A slvt is just doing that because they get off on lying.
I wonder which is the case here...
mafketis
1 Apr 2025
History / Why American military aid to Europe and Poland is important to America itself? [227]
And what is that truth?
ssia will prevail because we have the TRUTH,
And what is that truth?
mafketis
30 Mar 2025
History / Heil Poland!.....? Poland is a pro-Nazi state? [187]
My opinion is that ideology doesn't create actions but character does. Those who kill in the name of an ideology wanted to kill all along and use the ideology as an excuse.
Ideology does not kill people. Its people driven by an ideology kill other people.
My opinion is that ideology doesn't create actions but character does. Those who kill in the name of an ideology wanted to kill all along and use the ideology as an excuse.
mafketis
28 Mar 2025
News / Building regional alliance to stabilize Eastern Europe. [236]
Again... his great dream is for Poland and russia to team up and go to Serbia and commit genocide against Albanians....
He even admitted it once (not using the word 'genocide'....)
Behind the quirky unintentional humor is a heart full of hatred and evil.
We didn't bomb them nearly enough....
He usually babbles.... but it's funny.
Again... his great dream is for Poland and russia to team up and go to Serbia and commit genocide against Albanians....
He even admitted it once (not using the word 'genocide'....)
Behind the quirky unintentional humor is a heart full of hatred and evil.
We didn't bomb them nearly enough....
mafketis
24 Mar 2025
News / Will Chinese soldiers be stationed in Poland and Europe in 10 years? [67]
enough for what?
military adventurism will/would cause a lot of mortality among the younger generations (and China desperately needs young people to work for the burgeoning aging population.... rather like Germany).
China can't fufill Xi's endless ambition (if he's still in charge which is anything but certain) but it can do a lot of damage trying....
This is enough.
enough for what?
military adventurism will/would cause a lot of mortality among the younger generations (and China desperately needs young people to work for the burgeoning aging population.... rather like Germany).
China can't fufill Xi's endless ambition (if he's still in charge which is anything but certain) but it can do a lot of damage trying....
mafketis
24 Mar 2025
News / Will Chinese soldiers be stationed in Poland and Europe in 10 years? [67]
I dunno... a recent Chinese internet trend is people pointing out that formerly crowded place are now empty...
No one seriously believes the official population statistic of 1.4 billion... IIRC two separate countries put demographic experts on the job to figure out the real population and they both, independently, came up somewhere between 800 million and 1 billion (probably closer to the former).
The economy is complete crap since stupid communists creating a stupid housing oversupply that has gobbled up savings and they have a terrible age distribution (thanks to stupid communist 1 child policy0.
Almost every day people are setting fire to factories because they're not getting paid. and 'ruin the nation' (sabotage) is a new movement.
I'm sure the PRC has huge ambitions and would like to dominate East Asia and the Pacific (including NZ and australia) but it's not clear how much they can actually do given realities on the ground.
They'll take over east Asia first.
I dunno... a recent Chinese internet trend is people pointing out that formerly crowded place are now empty...
No one seriously believes the official population statistic of 1.4 billion... IIRC two separate countries put demographic experts on the job to figure out the real population and they both, independently, came up somewhere between 800 million and 1 billion (probably closer to the former).
The economy is complete crap since stupid communists creating a stupid housing oversupply that has gobbled up savings and they have a terrible age distribution (thanks to stupid communist 1 child policy0.
Almost every day people are setting fire to factories because they're not getting paid. and 'ruin the nation' (sabotage) is a new movement.
I'm sure the PRC has huge ambitions and would like to dominate East Asia and the Pacific (including NZ and australia) but it's not clear how much they can actually do given realities on the ground.
mafketis
22 Mar 2025
History / Why Poland is not Russia [260]
two colloquial expressions in English (at least the US, can't speak for other places)
the sh+ts, the runs (I think it has more to do with.... consistency.....) so the first time I heard biegunka I immediately understood it : )
The official word for diarrhea is "biegunka"
two colloquial expressions in English (at least the US, can't speak for other places)
the sh+ts, the runs (I think it has more to do with.... consistency.....) so the first time I heard biegunka I immediately understood it : )
mafketis
22 Mar 2025
Off-Topic / Serbia etc. thread 3 [437]
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22 Mar 2025
Off-Topic / Serbia etc. thread 3 [437]
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mafketis
20 Mar 2025
Polonia / Polish bus crash in Croatia. Is there a fate? [229]
Why you gotta hate like that? Greece has a terrible, terrible political culture but I very much like being there. The Aegean (Greek Islands/Turkish Coast) is one of my favorite spots on earth.
IIRC an absolute majority of modern Greeks are actually hellenized Albanians... which explains a lot....
Greeks .... sewer of a country
Why you gotta hate like that? Greece has a terrible, terrible political culture but I very much like being there. The Aegean (Greek Islands/Turkish Coast) is one of my favorite spots on earth.
IIRC an absolute majority of modern Greeks are actually hellenized Albanians... which explains a lot....
mafketis
20 Mar 2025
Polonia / Polish bus crash in Croatia. Is there a fate? [229]
Known by sane people as.... Macedonia.
Northern Macedonia
Known by sane people as.... Macedonia.
mafketis
19 Mar 2025
Off-Topic / Serbia etc. thread 3 [437]
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19 Mar 2025
Off-Topic / Serbia etc. thread 3 [437]
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mafketis
18 Mar 2025
Language / Polish vs English tongue twisters [45]
Many/most people pronounce that szejset much/most of the time.
Again, szejsiąt is a frequent abbreviation....
Makes it a bit easier....
sześćset
Many/most people pronounce that szejset much/most of the time.
sześćdziesiąt
Again, szejsiąt is a frequent abbreviation....
Makes it a bit easier....
mafketis
17 Mar 2025
Food / What Polish foods do foreigners generally not take to? [140]
My ultimate gołąbki (mix of different practices that I approve of).
Whole pickled cabbage leaves (romania).
Kasza rather than rice (where?)
Spicy paprika tomato sauce (Hungary or Romanian Hungarians)
Big dollop of sour cream on top (ditto).
I don't have the skills or time to make gołąbki myself but a closeby store has pretty good ones. I serve them with passata (paprika added) and sour cream on top.
Always nicer with kasza than rice too.
My ultimate gołąbki (mix of different practices that I approve of).
Whole pickled cabbage leaves (romania).
Kasza rather than rice (where?)
Spicy paprika tomato sauce (Hungary or Romanian Hungarians)
Big dollop of sour cream on top (ditto).
I don't have the skills or time to make gołąbki myself but a closeby store has pretty good ones. I serve them with passata (paprika added) and sour cream on top.
mafketis
17 Mar 2025
Food / Polish dishes with foreign origin in the name [99]
With the proviso that 'tea' includes lots of powdered fruit drinks that end up being served in the same kind of traditional tea glass with no handle...
the dominant drink in Turkey is... tea.
With the proviso that 'tea' includes lots of powdered fruit drinks that end up being served in the same kind of traditional tea glass with no handle...
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mafketis
17 Mar 2025
Food / What Polish foods do foreigners generally not take to? [140]
gołąbki are a northern version of dolma, which can plainly be seen when you go north from Turkey and pickled cabbage replaces grape leaves (Romania) or sauerkraut is added to the cabbage rolls when they're baked (Hungary) to the blander Polish version with no strong acidic taste.
You can draw a similar route perhaps with Greek tzatziki through Bulgarian tarator to Polish mizeria or chłodnik (the version without beets).
I think choucrout and bigos are more independent creations that have some similarities.
gołąbki exist in their own way in many countries
gołąbki are a northern version of dolma, which can plainly be seen when you go north from Turkey and pickled cabbage replaces grape leaves (Romania) or sauerkraut is added to the cabbage rolls when they're baked (Hungary) to the blander Polish version with no strong acidic taste.
You can draw a similar route perhaps with Greek tzatziki through Bulgarian tarator to Polish mizeria or chłodnik (the version without beets).
I think choucrout and bigos are more independent creations that have some similarities.
mafketis
16 Mar 2025
Food / Polish cookbook - down to earth hearty Polish cuisine [33]
Devilled eggs (in the US at least) don't use a sauce. The yolk is scraped out of hard boiled egg halves and then mixed with mustard and paprika (and/or other things) and then the mixture put back into the eggs. I used to love them but they're a lot of work, now I just smear some mustard (dijon is my favorite) on hardboiled eggs and sprinkle some paprika on top.....
Are you thinking of devilled eggs?
Devilled eggs (in the US at least) don't use a sauce. The yolk is scraped out of hard boiled egg halves and then mixed with mustard and paprika (and/or other things) and then the mixture put back into the eggs. I used to love them but they're a lot of work, now I just smear some mustard (dijon is my favorite) on hardboiled eggs and sprinkle some paprika on top.....
mafketis
16 Mar 2025
Food / The most typical ingredient used in Polish cuisine [40]
How does she feel about that?
they eat Angel Delight
How does she feel about that?
mafketis
16 Mar 2025
History / Why Poland is not Russia [260]
There's an old saying: Adversity doesn't shape character, adversity reveals character.
I think it's more accurate than not both at the individual and collective level.
The values are different indeed, shaped by different historical circumstances,
There's an old saying: Adversity doesn't shape character, adversity reveals character.
I think it's more accurate than not both at the individual and collective level.
mafketis
16 Mar 2025
History / Why Poland is not Russia [260]
russian values =/= Polish values
russians accept anything and everything the government tells them (was there any real russian resistance to the Soviet system?) and Poles don't
russians think they exist to serve their government (which owes them nothing in return)
Poles think the government exists to serve them
most/all of the other differences come from that
ask why Russia is not Poland?
russian values =/= Polish values
russians accept anything and everything the government tells them (was there any real russian resistance to the Soviet system?) and Poles don't
russians think they exist to serve their government (which owes them nothing in return)
Poles think the government exists to serve them
most/all of the other differences come from that
mafketis
16 Mar 2025
Food / Polish cookbook - down to earth hearty Polish cuisine [33]
Not sure if I heard of that, but I like eggs in horseradish sauce. Weirdly I like horseradish in Poland but nowhere else... I'd always hated it before living in Poland and I don't like it in any other country but Polish horseradish, I like.
Eggs in mustard sauce was allegedly popular in communist times
Not sure if I heard of that, but I like eggs in horseradish sauce. Weirdly I like horseradish in Poland but nowhere else... I'd always hated it before living in Poland and I don't like it in any other country but Polish horseradish, I like.
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mafketis
16 Mar 2025
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1440]
...you know what you did.....
the Wurst Käse scenario.
...you know what you did.....
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mafketis
15 Mar 2025
News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]
What about those giant protests against your current, terrible government?
under the wise guidance of Belgrade
What about those giant protests against your current, terrible government?
mafketis
15 Mar 2025
Off-Topic / Serbia etc. thread 3 [437]
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