News / Dirty deeds of foreign guys in Poland [128]


I suppose everyone wins.

The Polish budget doesn't have to support the needs of a Ukrainian convict.

Ukraine can mobilize him straight out of jail under their new laws.

So in a way... Zelensky probably wants Ukrainians living in the EU to engage in a massive crime spree.


Is Bloomberg also lying? Are Ukrainian newspapers lying?

I think it may be the first time Zelensky is mentioned, but over the past few years a lot of his ministers have made similar noises. This is an old story with a long background.

It also makes complete sense. Why do you find it so unbelievable that Zelensky would want more taxpayers and more manpower?

News / Dirty deeds of foreign guys in Poland [128]


It is because I am not lying. I read about this just today, in Bloomberg.

Countries like Poland and Czech Republic are saying they won't send anyone back as long as the war goes on.

The Czechs even said their construction industry will collapse if they do it.

Source: bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-20/ukraine-zelenskiy-wants-refugees-to-return-host-countries-want-them-to-stay

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News / Dirty deeds of foreign guys in Poland [128]

A recent article on the subject:

forsal.pl/kraj/bezpieczenstwo/artykuly/9535266,szokujaco-bezpieczna-polska-lawinowy-wzrost-imigracji-i-silny-spadek.html

Headline reads: "Szokująco bezpieczna Polska: lawinowy wzrost imigracji i silny spadek przestępczości. Fenomen?"

This is for all the people that hate immigrants so very much :)


Disgusting behavior from Poland. When Zelenksy asks Poland to send the men back so they assist in the war effort - Poland says "sorry, no". Because Poland is in desperate need of these working hands.

The Polish government is not stupid, and understands that 80% of Ukrainians in Poland support themselves with wages and pay taxes. It understands that Ukrainians are critical workers in many industries like construction and transportation. So it does not want to give them back to Zelensky.

But if a Ukrainian commits a crime... then "please take him, he is yours". You bastards.

News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [540]


Wealth is a relative thing.

Last year, Germany's economy was the only one out of the G7 to contract.

In the second quarter of this year it shrank again. The forecast for the entire year is growth of 0.2%. Compare that to US growth of 6% - which is simply in a different league... a different galaxy!

Germany's GDP per person, declined from 89% of the US level in 2017, to 80% in 2023.

Meanwhile, the UK - which was the "Sick Man of Europe" just recently - is having an unexpected growth spurt under Starmer's Labour which places it near the top of Europe in performance. Who could ever believe this, before the war started?

For twenty years Germany seemed absolutely unbeatable. It was bailing out entire countries, seemingly without much strain. It exported more than China, for long periods. Now its clout is rapidly diminishing, and nobody bothers to dispute this.

This has been a huge reversal, and there's no way around it.

News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [540]


I explained with simple examples how blowing up the pipeline has done zero good for Ukraine.

It did a great deal of good, however, for their primary patron - the United States.

Perhaps this was the nature of the quid pro quo. You help our energy supermajors conquer Europe, and we'll aid you in your war with Russia?

If Zelensky did not blow the pipeline up, the war would be in the exact same place it is at the present moment. It has not changed a single thing, except making Russia and Germany massively poorer, along with a slew of smaller Central European countries.

I don't understand how making Russia and Germany poorer helps Ukraine? Russia will find money for the war in Ukraine - no matter what. Even if it means cutting spending on social programs, and all other expenses.

I suspect we won't have to wait long to see if blowing up the pipeline was a prudent thing to do.

News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [540]


Germany's economy went from being the engine of all European growth, to one of the worst performing ones in a period of just three years. Now even the UK has an economy in better shape than Germany's. How low the mighty have fallen...

There are a multitude of reasons for this. Among them: a botched post-pandemic recovery, falling exports to China, stupid insistence on avoiding increased debt, structural demographic problems, and underinvestment in infrastructure.

But there is also another very important reason, and that is the loss of access to cheap hydrocarbons from Russia. One example is BASF's chemical complex in Ludwigshafen - which is the largest in the world. It employs 40,000 people directly, but also allows millions of others downstream in the supply chain to produce other goods. After losing access to Russian gas, Ludwigshafen is now on a slow road to collapse. Then there are fertilizer producers. Metallurgists. Even those companies that manufacture inputs used in the renewable energy industry - like Siemens - are suffering from hugely increased energy costs.

What Zelensky and Co did is take bread off the table of the German worker, and then showed up the next day asking for handouts. Because the Germans are big blubbering vaginas - they still gave money to these racketeers.

Poland is also obviously involved. 1000%.

Tusk telling people to shut up, and others saying that those divers should get medals - is a big mistake.

The explosion of the pipeline's most direct result has been handing the European energy market over to the United States, from which they have already earned hundreds of billions of dollars (and people had the balls to accuse us of blowing up our own pipeline for three years!!!!).

It did not stop Russia's invasion. It did not curtail the Kremlin's ability to find money for the war. It has not made Russia more willing to negotiate - but rather the opposite. It played no role in motivating Ukraine's allies to donate funds and weapons.

All it did was p!ss off Germany - Ukraine's largest and most generous ally after the United States. Great job Zelensky!

History / Historical look at various civilisational differences between Russia and the West [159]

@pawian

Not sure how to even react to this gibberish.

Russians are looking for a more stable guarantor than the Kremlin?

I know you think of us as a mafia gang, but on the scale of a continent... but this is too much.

Who will China protect us from? Do we have to transfer all nuclear weapons to China, or will China have a puppet that has 20X more nukes than China itself?

News / If Russia liberate Scotland, what would happen with Polish workers in Britain? [60]

Saw this thread on the main page, and my first reaction was - "WTF". Then I noticed that it was Crow's thread, and immediately regretted my initial skepticism.

While I never considered the possibility of Russia liberating Scotland, and likely 99.9999999% of the rest of the population did not either - now I consider it absolutely necessary.

News / THE ARMY OF POLAND - THE REALITY [493]


Good puppy!

Here, have a treat)

History / Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [380]


Welcome to debating with Poles.

History / Why American military aid to Europe and Poland is important to America itself? [212]

@Ironside

Poland is investing mostly in artillery and armor.

To me, it means Poland imagines it will be the battlefield of this future war.

Can you imagine Poland beginning to resemble Ukraine? With no electricity, broken logistical links, and an emigrating population?

I thought Poland might want to escape its historical role, and buy some ungodly amount of precision munitions for an overwhelming preemptive strike?

If you are getting ready to slog it out with Russia conventionally - that's probably a very bad idea.

Food / What exactly is Polish Bread? [91]


Sorry, looked like salo.

In general, your plate looks like a traditional Russian "zakuska" for a good vodka session.

What you are missing is some scallions and herring.

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Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]


No, there's no point in that. It will be tailored for you specifically.

Food / What exactly is Polish Bread? [91]

It actually looks like a solid meal.

The sausages on the left look like French merguez.

The sausages on the right look like what we call in Russia "hunter sausages".

Some salo, of course.

Some Russian Salad (Оливье).

Black bread.

Pawian is Russian!

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]

@Alien

It has to be something niche, but expensive) In general, everybody will get tailored ads.

For example, I like scuba diving. Google knows this. Google sees I go to PF.com a lot. It could show me some new diving computer from Garmin or Suunto, and I would have no choice but to buy it.

Those ads are the most expensive. Garmin could pay Google $50-70 for my click. PF would get a nice chunk too.

For you, I know you like shoes!

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]

It is very nice to see, it's true.

Less than two weeks in, and we're a quarter of the way there!

But now comes the interesting part... will it become more democratic? Taxation must be accompanied by representation.

Can people vote, for example, on whether or not the website needs an ad banner to supplement the donations?

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]

Hehe we're at $550 now!

News / A Polish Feminist Found in a Forest [133]


Paulina 😂😂😂

This was most unnecessary, hahaha.


A short book, with not many words, but many pictures.


O kurwa....

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]


I struggle to understand what the hell you are doing here?

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]


I spend more at the bar, in one sitting, than it takes to support this forum for a month.

Better for my health than finding other ways to f*ck my brain.

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]

If OpenAI didn't skim all the data on this forum and Polanda for free, you could one day sell the data set for a model to train on. It wouldn't be much money, but you could produce a bot with exquisite knowledge of Poland.

But this train is past, the data has already been collected - for free.

The value is in the domain name, and what could be done with it.

Forums are coming back amongst the kids :)

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]


Alhamdulillah! Allah Akbar!

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]

Well, at least the first month or so is covered! Thank you!

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]


The domain name alone represents something interesting. If you own this place, you can do all you ever wanted with it. We're not talking crazy sums, but what one might spend on a used car, heh.

People don't use forums as much, but that may be temporary. This forum is in dire need of change. Many things could be easily implemented which over a 12-18 month time frame might bring 10,000s of recurring visitors.

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]

@PolAmKrakow

This guy, he should own it :)

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]


Who told you this information?

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]

@Bratwurst Boy

I will support this forum myself if everybody wants to be a little flower that can't act.

Then your forum will be Russian - how would you like that?

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]

I think the Admin should hop onto this thread.

He's been such an enigmatic presence for so long, but now it's time for him to help guide people towards the best solution.

Our admin seems to be shy.

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]

Yes, cheers for PolAm - but these guys worked for twenty years...

They deserve more than just giving it to somebody for free.

I appreciate PAK's offer, but I would love more for this to belong to nobody and be supported by its readers/writers.

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]


The admin tells me it's not so much - $200 a month.

$2,400 a year to keep this place belonging to all of us.

Don't have to say goodbye to everyone.

Don't have to live with JR owning this forum (which would be the death of it anyway).

It's not much. One guy with money, could easily close a quarter of that, for the price of his annual news subscriptions. Others can send $5-10 or whatever makes sense.