History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


It's not a competition, or at least a competition anyone wants to participate in.

The gentleman asked me a bewildering question regarding why Russia's labor force only amounted to 73M.

I tried my best to answer it, without being too snarky.

History / Recommended Poland's history books [191]


The current Thai King appears to be a not so moral person.

Germany has not affected him well.

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News / How strongly are Poles sure that president Duda defend Poland's interests ? [251]


Milton Friedman used to say that, "Nothing was so permanent as a temporary government program."

But I joke, of course.

Life / Differences between Irish, British, Polish, American and other nations culture, tradition, music - loose talk [239]

@Alien

That's a funny story.

Not as funny as one that happened in Chicago a few years ago, however.

Famous French-American gay black actor, Jussie Smollett, claimed he decided to walk several blocks at 2 AM in the dead of winter, to buy himself a Subway sandwich. Tragically, on the way he was accosted by two white men, wearing MAGA hats. First they insulted him, by asking "Hey, aren't you that fagg0t nigg*r from Empire?", and then they proceeded to pour bleach on him and beat him up for good measure. As they left, they yelled "This is MAGA country!"

Hoot! As JR would say.

Subsequently, the nation was enraged. Such a thing should not happen in the 21st century!

But then it emerged that Jussie had hired two Nigerian brothers, who were his work acquaintances, to stage the attack.

The brothers, Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo, had worked as extras on the set of television drama Empire, in which Smollett was a cast member. It is not known how their political views align with Donald Trump's.

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]


Ah, so then Morawiecki's premiership of several weeks, will not yield any important appointments.

Noted.

Will check back with you in a few weeks.

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


Why do you think so badly of me?


Yes?


I'm quite sure. This is data from the World Bank's website. Do you know that there are actually many more, secretly working for Russia somewhere? It sounds like you do.

One reason our country has such a tiny labor force, as you say, is that we lost almost 30 million people recently - in part, because we were defending your ass.

Estimates for what Russia's population would be had it not been for the world wars, range from 200M to 300M+. However, I think it's a very strange question to ask me, and also strange that you think there's something about it that would offend me.

Outside the war shocks, Russia has a demographic picture which is pretty typical for Eastern Europe.

News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [359]


The reason the Zloty has recovered so much in the past month, is because investors expect PiS to be replaced by a government led by Tusk.

The hope is that Tusk will mend relations with Brussels, unlocking 37 billion euro in EU aid that was blocked over the judicial scandal.

Beyond EU aid flows being restored, there is a general hope of an improved investment climate.

Another way to look at it, is that foreign investors were so fed up with PiS, that the market priced in a "fair price" for the Zloty that was discounted to a far greater degree than even the fundamentals would indicate. In this interpretation, the strengthening of the Zloty is just a return to its fair value - again, because PiS has been voted out.

It's hard to overemphasize how bad PiS was for Poland's image among the global investors.

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]


Well - the topic is sort of sarcastic to begin with. This Morawiecki fella, is all but certain to lose his post in a matter of weeks.

PiS is doing some strange things, in a bid to extend their hold on power.

You can appoint a lot of people to various unelected positions in two weeks, and then it may take years to get rid of them.

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]

Wishing to congratulate dear Polish members on the appointment of Morawiecki as the new prime minister of Poland, by Pan Duda!

Wishing many years of successful rule to Pan Morawiecki over his loyal serfs!

May all power accrue to him and only to him, and let his opponents all be vanquished.

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

@Atch

Thinking of Russian history, I can't think of any leader in modern times that I could "trust".

Gorbachev - I suppose - was trustworthy in delivering to his Western overlords on the promise of selling Russia down the river. So, he was trustworthy, but unfortunately an idiot. I don't know which is worse.

Yeltsin was also somewhat trustworthy, or rather - he was sincere. But he was weak, and fully compromised by his family and his alcoholism.

Russian history seems to teach that trustworthy guys are somehow unreliable.

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]

@Alien

Russia has a labor force of 73M people. If you count war casualties at 250K, that results in a minuscule reduction in the size of the labor pool, which cannot account for the statistics provided.

The Russians that fled the war, are still Russians and are still counted.

What accounts for much of the reduction is massive hiring by MIC companies, and competition of the private sector with the army for labor.

So you are partially correct, the army does account for a large part of this reduction, just not so much through the dead.

A good article on the subject:

aljazeera.com/amp/opinions/2022/10/26/russias-military-keynesianism

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


If not invading countries, led to ever rising living standards - then Bhutan and Lesotho would be quite developed.

Spending on war, can be economically stimulating - as I'm sure you must know.

After all, your country emerged from WW2 as a superpower, though it entered it whilst still in recovery from the Great Depression.

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News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]


Quite funny when people try to make barbarous savages out of Algerians.

Probably more polite and educated than your average Mexican.

Also, respect to those guys for kicking the French out.

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]


Amen. Every Connor fan I met in my life was suspect in terms of moral qualities.

As God is my witness, there is no champion but Khabib.

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]


His whisky tastes like p!ss.

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

@Atch

Why is Connor McGregor firing the protesters up from the safety of this Twitter perch?

Is he an idiot?

Off-Topic / Ukrainian language [50]


Probably correct.

Real Estate / Would you rent from me? [24]

Please don't ruin this person's perfect business plan.

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [638]


Ebonics, as spoken by American negr0es, is further removed from standard English, than Surzhyk is removed from Russian.

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [638]


You do understand - right - that Surzhyk is a pidgin version of Russian?

Surzhyk is what illiterates speak, when they try to speak to their superiors.

History / Recommended Poland's history books [191]

@marion kanawha

How about, instead of writing your middle school book reports, you give us an actual opinion?

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [638]


Mhmm.


This is some especial Polish sadism.

Off-Topic / Ukrainian language [50]


1) Is it true, that Ukrainian has its roots amongst the transgender community of Ancient Rus?

2) Is it true, what they say, that the first book translated into Ukrainian was Mein Kampf?

3) Why does Ukrainian borrow so many words from pig dialect? Specifically phrases like "Oink!" and "Oink oink!"?

4) Why do "cat" and "whale" mean the same thing?

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [638]


It will take a long time for Ukrainians to learn English, French, and German. It will take an even longer time for them to forget Russian.

Perhaps you were arguing that there will be a massive wave of immigration from Great Britain, France and Germany to Poland?

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [638]

Wait until Russian becomes the second most popular language in Poland.

Then we will come for you, for trampling over the rights of your Ukrainian minority.

It will be like 1654, all over again.

History repeats itself in a devil's loop. Don't be friends with Ukraine, don't play with fire.

We Russians are practiced in taming this mistress, but she's certainly too much for you to handle.

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [638]

Serbs support Russians.

Belarusians support Russians.

Rusyns support Russians.

Slovaks support Russians.

Montenegrins support Russians.

Bulgarians support Russians.

Macedonians support Russians.

The four perennial weirdos that don't support Russia, are: Poles, Czechs, Slovenians and Croats.

The four clown races of Slavdom.

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [638]

Vladimir Mayakovsky's, one of my favorite poets, wrote: «Змеиному народу - змеиный язык.»

That is, "to a snake-like people, a snake-like tongue".

Russians call Poles, "Psheki". It's because they always make the hissing "pshhh" sound, like a rattlesnake slithering through a bed of dried leaves.

The Polish snake-like tongue, is a reflection of their snakelike nature.

Cold-blooded, unlike normal Slavs. Reflecting their betrayal of everything Slavic. Every Slav can understand each other, but not Poles! Their language is based on the Latin alphabet, though every proper Slavic language is written in Cyrillic. Their religion is Catholic, though every proper Slav is orthodox.

Poles are the serpent, in the Slavic Garden of Eden.

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [638]


Bless this child.

At least someone has the balls to point out that this is an unnatural, serpent's tongue.

History / Chances of Moscow becoming part of Poland again? [102]


In the same way, I can tell you that an attack is not a discussion.

News / Polish "Rambo" in the forest [42]

@Alien

The Russians made Rambo into who he was. As an undisciplined and slightly "hippy" soldier, he was on no one's radars. After the Russians had some time with him, he became the international sensation we all know and love.

Just as Solzhenitsyn had to be molded within the art of suffering, before he was ready for the big time, or Dostoyevsky had to be subjected to a mock execution before he started writing worthwhile things - Rambo was in need of Russian coaching. As with our writers and gymnasts, the results did not take long to develop.