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jon357   
11 Oct 2025
News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [573]

Kirk's grift was to monetise discontent something snake oil salesmen have been doing for a long time

He was riding a bandwagon like Horst Wessel.

They want their three weeks vacation. They

Five, not three and of course people do. Why wouldn't they; this is normal across the developed world.

Americans in general are willing to work two or three jobs to get ahead financially, not take time off

That is not a positive thing.

out compete everyone. Competition is the environment

The world is not an everyone for themselves place; developed societies grow from third world level to societal prosperity by cooperation.

I hire an Ivy league graduate

The idea of an Ivy League graduate going for a job at a closed cafe in Krakow once run by a dodgy guy is quite surreal.
jon357   
11 Oct 2025
Classifieds / Need Food And Clothes [82]

He is a

Or simply someone who took advantage of something available to him.

Attack the politicians, not the ordinary people. You are better than that.
jon357   
11 Oct 2025
Classifieds / Need Food And Clothes [82]

stuck under the plane

Not in Kętrzyn.

Hopefully he will have found some support. The church is quite good at helping those in need and there are also secular voluntary organisations who do a lot.
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11 Oct 2025
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10 Oct 2025
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10 Oct 2025
Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 3 [600]

USSR was a zionist

Rubbish.

Marx

Died decades before it was created.

jewish agenda of white European genocide

You OK, hun?

Catholic state

The tens of millions of Protestants would foil your dastardly plan.
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10 Oct 2025
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10 Oct 2025
News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [573]

Charlie Kirk created Turning Point, worth tens of millions

That is not a positive thing.

no correlation with wealth

It very much does.
jon357   
10 Oct 2025
News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [573]

Wealth of counties correlates strongly with education levels

Of course; look at Switzerland, Luxembourg, Singapore, etc..

There's another aspect too, one ignored by some. It's also about giving extra support to the kids from the poorest families, making sure all kids are well fed at school regardless of their families' ability to pay, and providing good healthcare and social services support so as few children as possible are disadvantaged.

Wealth is created by people with ideas, and ideas have absolutely nothing to do with education

Our recidivist hasn't thought this one through very well. Take the wealthiest and poorest 5% out of the stats since they are outliers (basically the extremely rich and the homeless) and you will see a definite correlation between educational attainment and wealth.

there would be no farmersboy Einstein in the history books!

Exactly. There isn't a farmer's boy Einstein in any history book of course. His father was an engineer who co-owned a factory called Elektrotechnische Fabrik J. Einstein & Cie with a family member. Until they sold up and moved to a palace in Italy. Einstein attended a decent school in Munich as well.
jon357   
10 Oct 2025
Off-Topic / Habemus Papam / The New Pope [103]

redistribution of wealth, helping the poor etc

More centrist than anything.

That and the fact that both the church and moderate politics are informed by the teaching of the gospels.
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9 Oct 2025
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9 Oct 2025
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9 Oct 2025
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9 Oct 2025
News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [573]

Do you know any other "influencer" like this? No, you don't.

Yes. His name was Horst Wessel.

core values

Core values like not stealing, forging, embezzling.
jon357   
9 Oct 2025
Language / Polish slang phrases - most popular. [630]

a connection between pot smoking and the ancient Slavic God.

Very good too. It was interesting to read.

nstead of leading the nations to success, they stumble around in a pot-induced stupor

More likely booze back then.

as old as humanity's practices

Those started with the apes.
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9 Oct 2025
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9 Oct 2025
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9 Oct 2025
News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [573]

So why are you telling Europeans to wear red

Perhaps he likes the colour of Socialism.

a US political party

And of course diddlysquat to do with Europe.
jon357   
9 Oct 2025
Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 17 [806]

It's pathetic that a bunch of knee jerks are suddenly concerned about gay rights or anything other than their own egos.

It's less about anyone's human rights (some of them have suddenly become fanboys of that lowlife bigot Kirk now he's the MAGAT movement's Horst Wessel) and less about the geopolitical intricacies, history and conflicting/competing power struggles around the Middle East than it is about their own particular inadequacies.
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8 Oct 2025
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8 Oct 2025
News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [573]

If that is a popular demand

It isn't. It's whipped up by their regime like the rest of this.

A very useful distraction.
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8 Oct 2025
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8 Oct 2025
News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [573]

Kirk went to both the Oxford Union and Cambridge Union and got his arse handed to him at both places

He got slaughtered and it's no surprise his team tried to conceal that.

When push comes to shove, he was just some YouTube student demagogue.