History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


It's about a dead person with the same name as someone else in his village, and it's sponsored by a government proxy. That's censorship.


This relates to the period after that, as you well know.

News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]


No you haven't.


Yes there are, this is about independent media.


Like TVPiS tries to do? In your 'opinion', is media obliged to align their editorial policies to whatever your personal view is of 'national interest'?

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


So in fact you don't believe in:



Not there, they weren't. It was under fascist occupation.

News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]


Why?


They can and do pay tax on their profits. So do all their staff on wages. They also pay for broadcasting licences in the case of broadcasters.


Read the thread title before burbling out rubbish.

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


Why? They weren't involved at the time, nor are they in office now.


What exception. You're bizarrely contradicting yourself as usual.

News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]


And should be.


No other administration since 1989 has tried to shut down independent media,


It's irrelevant who owns it. And yes, they do pay tax if they make a profit..

Love / Is it true that Polish women are very busty? [71]


Or down ul. Poznanska if covid hasn't finished them all off. Used to be 20zl, and not many of them much under about 60.

History / Polish nobility - what is the status of princes and aristocrats in modern Poland? [33]


My opinion too, though 50,000 hectare estates impress many people

There's also still the House of Lords with 84 hereditary aristocrats sitting and the others being people awarded a title due to (usually) very distinguished service. Like an unelected Senate, and here in Poland, Senators impress. They're expected to be trustworthy people.

One reason to regulate titles if the exist at all.

News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]


That much is very clear.


Those who can will certainly already have been discussing contingencies of they are practical.

Off-Topic / This is why I say Poland is so far behind in tech [29]


There are plenty of those here. Tons of them.

History / Polish nobility - what is the status of princes and aristocrats in modern Poland? [33]


It usually does for people from places where they're regulated and often connected with ownership of huge swathes of land and who have to protect their reputation (or it gets in the newspapers).

I've come across people using them here when they want something. In all but one case it was people best avoided.

History / Polish nobility - what is the status of princes and aristocrats in modern Poland? [33]


And therefore open to abuse and largely meaningless.


It's an issue when people use spurious titles to build a false image of respectability.

News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]

The first thing that needs doing is to stop TVPiS from both taking taxpayer's money as well as selling advertising to compete with the free media

At the very least, this dodgy "advertising tax" should apply to both state-controlled media as well asindependent media. Otherwise it gives state-owned media a clear advantage.

News / The Mayor of Warsaw Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz cuts down 150,000 trees in the Poland's capital. [84]

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Tree-felling in Poland

This is almost becoming an obsession. Trees are cut down on often spurious health and safety grounds. The latest outrage is in Jarocin, where 124 mature trees have been cut down and the Mayor claims "it's only temporary".

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Life / Poles turn their backs on organised religion. [148]


What war?


Rome is an irrelevance to many Christians, not to mention the majority of people in the world.

Life / Pączki Day--do Dunkin Donuts or Krispy Kreme count? [39]


I've never seen them here. The first I saw were in America and the Middle East.

There was a Dunkin' Donuts that opened in Warsaw Station, I went there to see what it was like (this was maybe 18 or 19 years ago) and there weren't many people there. You can get a pączek doughnut for only a few pence (and people like that kind a lot here) so buying several of a different kind of doughnut for a lot more money and sitting down to eat them didn't really appeal to the market here.

A quick look online suggests that the last one vanished from Warsaw in 2018 because the franchisee couldn't make money on it.

There are local specialist doughnut chains like Stara Pączkarnia and MOD, however every bakery in Poland sells plenty of them too.

Life / Pączki Day--do Dunkin Donuts or Krispy Kreme count? [39]

It's come early this year.

I said I wouldn't have any pączki due to a healthy eating kick.

Then I said I'd maybe have one, just for the sake of it.

Now we've got a box of 16....

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


The thread is about the lawsuit, and no, it wouldn't be.


The issue is still very much ongoing so there may well be developments to whet it again.

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


Yet you're posting in a thread about it...


Is academics freedom important or not?


Don't be obtuse. It doesn't reflect well on you.

Life / Poles turn their backs on organised religion. [148]


Scepticism is general. It isn't about "any institution". An increasing number of Poles, including almost all younger ones are certainly cynical about a particular institution which only 9% regard positively.


That in Poland, as the figures show, is now ending.

Life / Poles turn their backs on organised religion. [148]


What does that mean, and does it require engagement in religious activities?

If it does, then there's not much here given the plummeting church attendance.


Can a person of 'faith' not be sceptical of some things they hear and observe?

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


Didn't you see who sponsored the lawsuit.


Really?

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


The work in question was published by academic historians. Nationalistic organisations are abusing the law by sponsoring a lawsuit to attempt to restrict academic freedom.


Is largely irrelevant.

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


That should never be a paradigm restricting academic research.


They don't get to call the shots. There are no grounds for "taking it personally" within research and historiography.

Genealogy / Am I of Polish or German descent? [10]


No. It depends on ethnicity. In any case, Poland has always existed as a nation, just not always as a state.


For citizenship/passports however there have to be clear rules, or Poland would potentially have an obligation to hand citizenship to thousands if not millions of people in other countries who don't speak the language and have to 'trace their relatives' in order to establish a connection.


Remember Poland has never been an island and the modern borders are relatively new. Due to many, many factors, ethnicity has always had blurred edges here. Before the 20s/30s, not everyone (especially rural people in the borderlands) considered themselves to be Polish. Some did, some didn't; it depended on the family/individuals in question, however descendants of people who left over a century ago aren't a priority for the government when it comes to handing out citizenship that carries Schengen residency rights, access to healthcare/welfare etc.

Life / Poles turn their backs on organised religion. [148]

@Mr Grunwald
Do people need a formalised perspective?

Stats show that's not working well here.

Other than healthy scepticism and either "hatching, matching, dispatching" done in one religious context, a choice of religious contexts or a choice of religious or secular contexts?

History / Malinowo: Polish-Nazi Supression? [447]


Such people exist. The problem is when people pretend they don't.


And the danger is when nationalists believe that the behaviour of some reflects on all and try to manipulate the narrative.

Life / Poles turn their backs on organised religion. [148]


Do you think that's related to the decline of religious influence? As a society, Spain is a healthy one.

Perhaps they could all become nuns...

Life / Poles turn their backs on organised religion. [148]


Do you think that the only alternative to religiosity is atheism?


They went too far.


Both countries doing very well indeed.

News / Previous Poland's government corrupting the media. [125]


Very much so, but can it be done without gagging the media?


Who is playing the long game.