News / Attacks against healthcare workers in Poland [142]


Probably neither drink nor drugs (though excessive use of both does put people on a downward spiral).

I suspect such attacks are nothing new, just in the news right now due to the tragic murder of that doctor.


That's like my home in the U.K., near a big cluster of prisons. Some of the people just needed a job and signed up, plus of course it's public sector with a reasonable salary, lots of overtime and a good pension, as valuable as gold when the region's main industries vanished.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1301]

@Tacitus
What are people saying in the west and south of Germany about the votes in the northeast for AfD?

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Somehow your surreal suggestion seems highly unlikely, in part due to an aversion among decent people to murder in large numbers.

News / Attacks against healthcare workers in Poland [142]


Tackle the causes of crime of course, as well as focusing on rehabilitation rather than revenge and containment. There's actually very little point in long sentences or inhumane conditions since they do not serve as a deterrent. If they did, then countries with harsh penalties for crime would be crime free, wouldn't they, eh....

Otherwise you just repeat the mistakes of before.

News / Attacks against healthcare workers in Poland [142]


I've worked in one (briefly and not as a prison officer) plus visited them due to an interest in prison reform and hated every second of being there.

The only officers I didn't dislike were the ones who'd come out of the army and didn't know what to do, or were police who had to leave the force for health reasons or were third or fourth generation guards.

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Logistically bizarre too of course due to planes able to carry a significant number of people needing pesky inconveniences like permission to land.

Not that the haters think about actual details.

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There are good ones, even many however the job is so unappealing that it appeals wither to people who can't get much else in t( way of work or even worse, the type of people who love order, discipline and uniforms.

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What could possibly go wrong......


The UN convention on asylum which trumps local laws does not mention "safe countries". And of course if the U.K. were to do that as well, there would be a few million more people in mainland Europe for y'all to deal with than now.

News / Attacks against healthcare workers in Poland [142]


Probably not new, however once an egregious case is reported and gets clicks, the media report more cases that otherwise they'd not bother about.

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???

Some people always get the wrong end of the stick.


Good in theory, not so straightforward in practice. People will always head, legally or otherwise, for places where they can earn enough to send back. However much authorities try to spread people around, it never quite works.

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Usually sort of beige.


It doesn't. Don't lie.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1301]


Indeed, and the world would be a better place if people read and understood a certain short book that He wrote together with Engels. They don't even have to follow it slavishly as extremists do; just understand the bits about labour and expropriation.

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It's more that crime chooses them.


If only it were as simple as that. The causes of crime are myriad.

Of course defining crime is another question.


And this is sad, since fascism exists whatever people call it.

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I don't use twitter and you have to log in nowadays before you can see the stuff there.

Some individuals are sucked into crime, usually due to exclusion, inequality. peer pressure, desperation and lack of hope however this has always been the case in German and other cities.

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What does that mean?

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1301]


Desperation, so it's the strongest or the worst who go. Basically a self fulfilling prophecy that racists bring upon themselves.

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They aren't migrants..

Riots and crime happen anyway, and migration will only increase.


Something I've never seen. The worst street violence I've personally come across was in Warsaw when the fascists started rioting over nothing.

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It's not an either/or.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1301]


If policies mattered more than spin and self interest, the world would be a very different place.

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Very.

A better name for fascist is corporatism since their nasty authoritarian and nationalistic tendencies are not unique to them.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1301]


Have you spent much time in the UK, Sweden or much of the Arab world?


Maybe sometime, fascists should reflect that some faceless 'investor' is making more money from their job than they are and getting 'profit' from their housing and food shopping too...

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You seem to think that the only alternative to unrestrained capitalism is east European communism.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1301]


Generally the screaming comes from fascists.


Or maybe applying the law...

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That's surprising given the authoritarian distortion of economy and society there.

Odd that the pond life minority who vote for fascists want that back.

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It really doesn't.

When organisations or political parties promote hate and division, they need dealing with.


Why would they, since her comments are positive?

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If that impacts negatively on society and causes either a spike in hate crime or discrimination in public life then of course.

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Of course fascists, like 'AfD' and similar do exactly that; they are ruled by emotion, primarily fear, hate and a sense of inadequacy.

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Gdyby tego chciał, byłby pierwszym Orangemanem w historii, który by tego chciał.

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Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [698]


That would make sense in the U.K. too.


Very often, but it can also be someone who is secretive about their personal life or has had some big news that they chose not to share.


Mine too. It looks like a senior moment while writing. Always see a man about a dog.

That one reminds me of some of the cruder things you hear in Yorkshire. Sometimes when kids ask their mum what's for dinner or tea, a reply can be "shıt with sugar on".

There are cruder ones than that though....

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