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Posts by gumishu  

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gumishu   
10 Feb 2021
History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

It's about academic freedom to publish testimonies of survivors regardless of what they say.

the libel was on the part of Engelking and Grabowski - and was justly rectified - academic freedom doesn't mean you can write anything about anybody

Very critical af the government's shoddy behaviour.

what's wrong with supporting a libeled person
gumishu   
10 Feb 2021
News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]

2 bn for TVP,

stopping the leaching of the budget by crooks who used state-subsidied pharmaceuticals with the e-recepta and the laws surrounding it will probably give 4 billion PLN yearly - of course PO government couldn't do it (or maybe they didn't want to)

Sorry Gumishu, but you really have to rely on different media than that run by PIS.

I never said all of the PiS programmes have been funded by the growth of VAT income (just 500+) - and I thoroughly realize that 13th and 14th pension for those retired are an expensive bribe - I also see why the government is not entirely unhappy with the price hikes of goods and services (but I don't believe your exaggerations delph)
gumishu   
10 Feb 2021
News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]

the pay rise for politicians?

members of parliament actuallly lost 20 or 25 per cent of their money - after the 'nagrody' presumed scandal - I was thoroughly supporting the nagrody - a goverment that curbed down humungous VAT fraud really earned them - it's just Polish people who are idiots

It's simply not true that the VAT revenues cover 500+. The Ministry of Finance's own numbers proved that.

so you haven't read the article - I am not surprised at all
gumishu   
10 Feb 2021
News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]

I knew from the beginning that 500+ was a mistake that Poland can't afford and that it will bite us in the ass

you here repeat the lies of Rostowski - and you also prove you read nothing outside your own information bubble - all of the original 500+ programme has been covered by the rise in VAT (not counting the fuel akcyza tax) incomes in Poland -all of it - it caused certain deficit in the budget in the first year (2016) but not later - also Poland experienced unprecedented growth in the year before coronavirus - read here: wpolityce.pl/gospodarka/430887-w-ciagu-ostatnich-3-lat-wplywy-z-vat-wzrosly-az-o-52-mld-zl

which is pro-PiS nowadays

it isn't pro-PiS - it is trying to be objective - which shows just how prejudiced (and probably misinformed) you are
gumishu   
10 Feb 2021
News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]

I knew from the beginning that 500+ was a mistake that Poland can't afford and that it will bite us in the ass

you here repeat the lies of Rostowski - and you also prove you read nothing outside your own information bubble - all of the original 500+ programme has been covered by the rise in VAT (not counting the fuel akcyza tax) incomes in Poland -all of it - it caused certain deficit in the budget in the first year (2016) but not later - also Poland experienced unprecedented growth in the year before coronavirus - read here: wpolityce.pl/gospodarka/430887-w-ciagu-ostatnich-3-lat-wplywy-z-vat-wzrosly-az-o-52-mld-zl

the rise in the VAT incomes for the Polish budget was mainly because of curbing of VAT fraud which PO seemingly could not accomplish
gumishu   
10 Feb 2021
History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

"A libel suit,

simple libel suit - if you want to write history stick to facts - like for example testimonies of the survivors of the Holocaust who said the man accused of helping Nazis helped them survive - and the Polish court agreed that this was a case of a libel
gumishu   
10 Feb 2021
History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

You're trying to change the subject.

what I wrote was very relevant to the subject - I wrote about an article on Jedwabne pogrom by IPN - and you dismissed it as not neutral - and I asked what do you base your opinion on IPN - and you said - oh even Wajda said IPN is baaad - to which I replied about Wajda's past - capisci?
gumishu   
10 Feb 2021
News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]

doesn't want to admit to us that the tax will punish independent media,

how much does airing of a 30 second spot cost and how much do they charge advertisers for it - care to enlighten me - what is their margin
gumishu   
10 Feb 2021
History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

Stop trying to change the subject; your PiS-like distraction techniques don't work here.

you haven't even noticed that my posts are relevant to the subject of your prejudice against IPN whose article on Jedwabne I was reffering to - so what do you base your prejudice against the IPN: the words of Wajda ?
gumishu   
10 Feb 2021
News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]

The persecution of independent media by the authoritarian PiS regime

what persecution - please be factual about it

wgospodarce.pl/informacje/57517-skok-wolomin-to-dzielo-agentow-wsi
gumishu   
10 Feb 2021
News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]

dotyczy.pl/skoki-afera-wszechczasow-pochlonely-juz-ponad-5mld-zl-eksperci-twierdza-ze-to-nawet-nie-polowa-strat/445c
człowieku ty nie umiesz samodzielnie myśleć : man you cannot think for yourself - the article claims that PiS didn't allow SKOKi to be supervised by KNF (State Financial Supervisor) - the point is that the problems with SKOKi started during PO rule (according to the article itself) - also if PiS was involved with the affair why didn't PO start a investigative committee in Sejm while claiming so you are just a very bad case of morbidly prejudiced

read this - your article is not factual about SKOK Wolomin - wgospodarce.pl/informacje/57517-skok-wolomin-to-dzielo-agentow-wsi
gumishu   
10 Feb 2021
News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]

which part of this article is factually incorrect?

there were a couple of SKOK's who just simply went bankrupt - others have thrived - what's there to misunderstand
gumishu   
10 Feb 2021
History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

Even Andrzej Wajda said so.

Andrzej Wajda who in one of his films promoted the myth that Polish cavalry in 1939 would attack German armor with sabres and lances - or who filmed an eulogy of the crook Wałęsa? - I don't hold him as any kind of authority to be honest
gumishu   
10 Feb 2021
News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]

SKOKi

there was just one single SKOK that was a scam and that was a SKOK Wołomin which was run by ex military intelligence people - more or less anybody could establish a SKOK

GetBack has nothing to do with PiS appart from the fact that the scandal surfaced under their rule

do you think 5% tax on every złoty earnt from advertising is affordable for them?

yes I believe they can afford them - printing an add that pays 100 PLN costs perhaps 5 PLN
gumishu   
10 Feb 2021
News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]

What's the problem with a 5% tax?

what's the problem the income from advertising is huge compared to the cost it takes to publish the advertisements - (except maybe from niche media but I can't think of such at the moment) - also I believe (or maybe just hope) that the tax is aimed mainly at Google, facebook and similar
gumishu   
10 Feb 2021
News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]

'charges' that 500+ has more or less been swallowed by it?

you probably can't count or your favourite pastime is exaggerating and spreading histery on web forums

the proposed tax on addvertisment in media is 5 per cent (on the income I guess) so what's the problem
gumishu   
10 Feb 2021
Off-Topic / This is why I say Poland is so far behind in tech [29]

menorization in usa but actusl thinking.

if you write your CV's and motivation letters like you do here it's no wonder they don't want you around their businesses
gumishu   
10 Feb 2021
History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

however the IPN investigation

Not known fo their neutrality though...

and you base your statement (on the alleged IPN non-neutrality) exactly on what?
gumishu   
9 Feb 2021
History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

to be honest I have never read Gross's books (including the one on Jedwabne) - what I heard about it is from the sources close to Polish nationalists - I believed that the crime of Jedwabne was perpetrated by a couple of dozens of Poles (this is what the 1950's trial established and what initial Polish critics of Gross maintained) - and I was perplexed how a few dozens of people without firearms managed to cattle 1600 people (as Gross claims) into a barn to burn them alive
gumishu   
9 Feb 2021
History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

Not known fo their neutrality though...

yes - only Jews are known for their neutrality - or maybe experts on everything like yourself
gumishu   
9 Feb 2021
History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

so while Gross is not a historian

however the IPN investigation doesn't agree with Gross on the number of victims if this is consolation to anybody
gumishu   
9 Feb 2021
History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

okay - I didn't know enough about the Jedwabne pogrom - I just read a paper by IPN which for the most part agrees with what Gross stated and it made sense to me (in the context of what I read before on the internet) - so while Gross is not a historian (and Princeton can kiss my ass about it) what he wrote (even if it was mostly one man's account of what happened there and the documents of the trial from 1949) was mostly true
gumishu   
9 Feb 2021
History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

He's a very distinguished academic.

he studied sociology both in Poland and in the US - in my book this is not an educated historian - that Princeton made him a history professor is only because of the juice
gumishu   
9 Feb 2021
History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]

Gross's book is in no way a historical study

It's a serious historical study

Jan Gross is not even an educated historian as far as I know
gumishu   
9 Feb 2021
Food / Is brain-damaging vegan fad growing in Poland? [176]

Did you ever see animals destroying their own habitat systemetically, because other animals had pieces of paper they said had value?

introduced species destroy isolated ecosystems routinely - also read how elephants in South Africa destroy bush and turn it into savanna - East Africa could also probably be a forest if elephants didn't tear through higher and not spiny vegetation