History / Why Poland is not Russia [260]


Interesting choice of analogy.

Pericles lost Athens the Peloponnesian War. His foolish policy of gathering all the population behind the walls of the city, and relying on the navy to punish the Spartans - led to overcrowding and then a plague. The plague wiped out the citizenry, including Pericles himself.

Sparta (stupid Orc Sparta, no ships, no money, just meat) won the war, and then started the period of Spartan hegemony. Fans of Pericles do not like to remember this.

Many Russian specialists and Sovietologists in the West also liked to understand the Cold War as a battle between Athens and Sparta.

History / Why Poland is not Russia [260]

Poland is not Russia, because it is Poland.

Why does no one ask why Russia is not Poland?

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [669]

@pawian

What you said could be said by any Russian, from any point in history.

"We are poor; and we are neck deep in sh*t, but we have the Truth".

Truth with a capital T.

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [669]


Wow, such a Russian point of view!

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


Hahaha, oh man... this is good!

Off-Topic / Why does Geddy Lee hate Poland? [105]


You certainly know about this much more than I do, so I have no choice but to trust you.

A tale most sad.

Off-Topic / Why does Geddy Lee hate Poland? [105]


No.


Oh my dear sweet summer child....

Not only people that hate Poland cannot give a sh*t about Poland.

Those that hate Poland constitute perhaps 1% of the total mass.

Off-Topic / Why does Geddy Lee hate Poland? [105]


Yes of course you do - but is Rush obligated to give you this recognition? Why not some musician in Buenos Aires or in Bangkok?


Again, this is possible... but is it Rush's cross to bear?

Off-Topic / Why does Geddy Lee hate Poland? [105]


Hahaha! Best to stop at "thank you for your music". Artists are human beings too.


This is a crazy idea... but have you considered the possibility that the members of Rush simply do not give a sh*t about Poland?

As a Pole, this must be a difficult concept to wrap your mind around, but it may help you feel better, and not as if Rush has a personal hatred for you.

Off-Topic / PF members MEETUPS.....everyone welcome! [122]


There is nothing "hating" about this.

Sometimes I think you are the bigger nationalist than Iron or Polonius.

Off-Topic / PF members MEETUPS.....everyone welcome! [122]


What language do you use to speak with them? French?

Off-Topic / PF members MEETUPS.....everyone welcome! [122]


He's an engineer - that's number one.

Number two - he really has been exercising extreme levels of agency, seemingly since he's been a teenager.

The dude decides to do something, and then he goes and does it. Lo and behold, this crazy thing he decided to try - it actually works!

This would give anyone a sudden sense of control over their life.

You have to be born a Russian to understand that control is a childish illusion.

Off-Topic / PF members MEETUPS.....everyone welcome! [122]


Maybe he's crazy, but not in the ordinary sense of the word.

I asked for him to send me his book, and it was crazy. I told Rich as much. A book written by a man with no filter. But the love he feels for his family, and his daughters, was palpable throughout.

Rich reminds me of my grandpa - he lives in a very scary world! My grandpa was also trying to scare the bejeezus out of me, throughout my childhood. Now I understand this was done from a place of care, but back then I only thought he was paranoid.

News / Time to clean the swamp - dePiSification of Poland [324]


Why is some Saxon (Augustus) or some Hungarian (Stepan Batory) a 100% Kosher King, but some totally Slavic person is a Russian puppet?

News / Time to clean the swamp - dePiSification of Poland [324]


Stop these lies.

You had many strange people on the Polish throne. Before and after.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]


Please don't put me in "intellectual" basket.

I am much more comfortable being a toilet-stealing orc.

News / Time to clean the swamp - dePiSification of Poland [324]


Scum is for one day - but Poland is forever.

News / Time to clean the swamp - dePiSification of Poland [324]


If PiS helps make Poland join Russia, we will promise to close all investigations into their party members.

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]


This is true, but Polishness is different from Russianness.

We have Yakuts and Buryats (Northern Peoples, like your Inuits), with names like Ivan Ivanov or Roman Petrov, and everybody - except for some idiots - fully accepts that they are Russian. Same with people from Khakassia, or Tuva, or Karelia...

These are people that mostly speak only Russian, have Russian names, are often Orthodox, and have ancestors that have been Russian citizens going back hundreds of years. But they are not white, blonde, blue eyed Russians.

Russianness is, as many authors have stated, a state of the soul. Its not like being American, but its also not like being a Pole.

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]


... and if Russia is down to a population of 40 million people one day - how the f*ck will it defend what is still the largest country on Earth?

I think if you take a time machine, and talk to Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Alexander the Liberator, or even Joseph Stalin... and ask them -

"What is more important - that people respect our historical cultural output, or that Russia exists as a powerful and sovereign state able to chart its own independent path?"

- they would all answer that "If Russia no longer exists, nothing else matters".

In order to preserve Russia, in its current war, we have Russian white supremacists entering brotherly relations with Muslim Central Asian migrants that they used to spit upon. Preserving Russia is more important than ethnic identity, religion, or culture.

Being Russian, and Russia being a powerful state, are two things closely intertwined.

Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]


The number one country in the world that deserved an apology from Germany was the USSR.

The German occupation of the Soviet Union was the most brutal and destructive occupation of any country in Europe, including Poland.

According to Nazi plans, the Soviet Union's Jewish population and all members of the Communist Party were to be eliminated, the Slavic population significantly reduced through the Hunger Plan, and the country's economic resources expropriated or destroyed.

Citing from the Nuremberg Trials, here:

"During the occupation of the Soviet Union, the Nazi invaders totally or partially ruined and burned 1710 cities and townships and more than 70,000 villages, burned and destroyed more than 6 million buildings and 31,850 industrial enterprises, rendered around 25 million persons homeless, and caused great damage to the infrastructure and public services."

This all is before one begins to look at the numbers of dead.

So... very strange then that neither the Soviet Union, nor modern Russia ever insist on any kind of apology from Germany. Stalin put an end to all that, all the way back in 1945 - when he said "Hitlers come and go, but the German people and the German state remain."

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Polonia / Elon Musk tells Germans to "move on"! [247]


That's only one theory, regarding why the Western Empire collapsed. It's not even the most popular one.

The Eastern Empire continued to receive huge amounts of people, especially from the Slavic world, and somehow managed to last until the 1450s.

I would argue demographic collapse poses a much larger threat, than immigration ever could. In East Asia, in the early 1990s, there were ten working age people for every retiree. By 2060, this proportion is set to change to a 1:1. The World Bank and IMF, project that productivity growth has to be double of what it is right now - for countries like Japan and Germany to maintain their current living standards.

Who's gonna care about immigrants, when a grandson hates his grandpa's guts for the mere fact of existing? Any fellow young person from Nigeria or Syria, will be an ally in relieving the burden that old farts generate on the system.

In Britain, already, no white person wants to take care of his stinky and bedridden parents or grandparents. Instead, nurses from Jamaica and Pakistan take care of all the old white people nobody cares about. Imagine how the picture will look when there are as many, or even more, old people as there are young people?

Only one thing can save us all from this impending collapse, and that's the rise of some superintelligence which will make work unnecessary for the overwhelming majority of people, while simultaneously resolving resource scarcity.

If AI takes care of all the work, maybe we can learn to live in a world of old farts. However, if people will still actually have to work, and pay taxes into large welfare systems that support non-working people - then we are well and truly F*CKED.

So I'm pro-immigration, because numbers give power, numbers generate wealth, numbers provide vitality.

Russia - my home country - has too small a population for its size. Instead of 150 million people, we should have at least 400 million. But because Russians refuse to start families, and refuse to have babies, the only way we're gonna get there is opening the gates to Central Asia, Africa, and the Subcontinent.

History / Why Poland is not Russia [260]


Your dirty mouth cannot pronounce the name Adam Mickiewicz.

That is a true patriot of Poland.

You are some pathetic imitation.

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [333]


It was fighting a third world country.

It had a huge coalition supporting it.

It was not sanctioned.

It still lost.

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Russia is fighting one of the largest countries in Europe, with a massive industrial base.

No country other than NK has provided us overt assistance.

We're sanctioned more than any country in history.

We're still gonna win.

News / Will Poland help defend Greenland against US Imperialism [333]


It's only trotted out against countries that the US struggles to "manage".

For dear friends like Israel, it does not exist.

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


It's a free country - I sit where I want.

However; bonus points for Boguslaw Linda.

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


Many things, much stranger than this, have happened throughout the history of our race.

In the end - the universe does not give a sh*t who is a Pole and who is a Russian.

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


Тебе того же, брат

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


There is still a deficit of around 1 billion cubic meters. It is not very much, and it's possible that Ukraine closes this gap by importing from the West through reverse flows. I have not read enough on this subject to say much.

What should produce a bigger impression on you, is the magnitude of the Ukrainian collapse.

They went from 70+ billion cubic meters to just 19. That is, their economy was big enough at some point that we sold them more energy than we did to Germany.

Now they are trying to make a virtue out of consuming so little, like so many little Greta Thunbergs, but they don't explain to people that their consumption collapsed because their country collapsed.

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


That's not true.

Even after half the population left, and the economy stopped working... Ukraine still consumes 19 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year.

There is still a deficit.

At one point Ukraine was our number one customer. As recently as 2005 they consumed more than 70 billion cubic meters a year.

Back then they had one of the largest steel industries in the world, and lots of other large industrial enterprises which still worked.

Not a big loss, however, because the assh0les never paid in full, and instead stole a large part of the shipments.

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