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I would do the same to you, if you decided you'd prefer to sit in the trench while I go on an assault.

I'm likely gonna die - meanwhile you'll only have to wear a bucket on your head.

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Ah - the imperial Chinese model, with a distant emperor.

Yes, it worked for 2,000 years - and now China is the greatest country in the world.

Not a bad idea. Examinations for all public officials. Can't pass the exam - go home packing.


It really won't. People like to get excited about these things, as if it makes any difference at all - but in the end, the personal decisions they make will affect them 1,000X more than any decision by the government. Nothing Trump does will ever really affect you. What will affect you - is what Jay Powell does, who is the Chairman of the Federal Reserve (an unelected position). But for some reason, nobody except for professionals cares to tune in to hear the minutes of the Fed.

When your normal day to day life is concerned - the head of the Polish national bank should worry you much more than the president or prime minister. After that - who is your local police chief. Next, the director of your local public school.


People call us slaves and orcs - but maybe Russians just understood earlier than others, simply not to focus on certain things. They are irritating, lead to blood pressure rises, and provide no satisfaction.

Much more interesting to troll foreign populations, still engaged in the myth.

A cynic might say - we live democracy vicariously - through the Polish and American electorate :)

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@Torq

I think you should get used to the idea that people that are disgusting to you personally will rule over you.

There are many other things to focus on in life.

You are not black. You are not Jewish. You are not gay. You'll probably live just as you live - regardless of who is in power.

Go sit in front of a waterfall. Read some good book.

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This graphic below, published by the New York Times last week, should remove any doubts about who votes Trump.

They vote against their self interest - and even grit their teeth and suffer through tariffs - because he is THEIR MAN.

He could be a literal ape - as you say - and they would still vote for him. Well... maybe if the Democrats didn't try to run with a senile man that has cancer and then replaced him with a political nobody - they could have beat Trump - but history does not like "what ifs".


Historically - some of the most competent governments were oligarchies. Florence, Venice, Holland, etc.

That is - not just one rich guy, but many rich guys competing with each other.

For many reasons, however, the average people find it easier to accept a monarch or an elected leader, over an unelected group of super rich guys.

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The above is also why I never buy the line that "Russia delivered the victory" for such and such a candidate.

It's impossible - what they claim.

It means to deny the agency of hundreds of millions of people - that go out and vote.

It's a crude oversimplification, of very complex and very real processes that are happening in almost every country.

Russia can't elect Trump, Le Pen, Alice Weidel, Silvio Berlusconi, Nawrocki - or anyone - if the American, French, German, Italian, and Polish people do not want them.

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Based on the exchange here - I think Kaczynski still has excellent political instincts.

Mentzen is often called the Polish Trump by foreign media, but its Nawrocki that has secured Trump's endorsement, and who got Kristi Noem to stump for him.

The same ideological sub-currents must be operative here, as elsewhere.

The American lumpenproletariat (despite being ultra religious) does not care that:

1) Trump is a divorcee

2) A several times bankrupt failure of an entrepreneur

3) A potential crook

What they care about is that he makes the gay nerds from the big coastal cities squirm. They love that all snobs that look down on them as second class Americans are running terrified for the trees. They love that he promises to deal with all the dirty/smelly immigrants that they actually have to live with - and that no one in Manhattan or Beverly Hills every really deals with.

The more the left hates Trump - the more the right loves him. "If you're taking a lot of flak - it means you're directly above the target" - their favorite thing to say.

So... Kania - you are very naive if you think that hammering away at prostitutes and old men that lost their apartments will get you anywhere. This is a culture battle - and the lines are already drawn for all but the most academic types - such as yourself.

Trump once said at a rally in Iowa - "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK? It's, like, incredible."

He understood something, and Kaczynski understands something - that you still don't seem to grasp.

Nawrocki and Trzaskowski are not "people", to be judged and understood. They are avatars. Canvases. Canvases onto which the "people" project their wants and desires.

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I think when a hotel provides prostitution services - it's called a brothel. So yes, obviously hotels do not normally provide prostitutes.

At the same time - every single hotel has certainly seen its fair share of prostitutes. I am sure prostitutes have been brought to the guest houses of the Vatican, and have stayed overnight at Blair House where guests of the White House stay.

I am also certain that the Swiss Guards or US Marines keeping watch in those instances, didn't say a word to anyone about what they saw.

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What the Polish press writes, is that Nawrocki precisely sat in the middle - catching the arbitrage between odlaty.pl and what guests of the hotel were willing to pay.

From the point of view of hotel staff - it makes no difference if you now work through a website. It's still completely within their power to deny you entrance, or create a big scandal. If you want them to play ball, they'll still have to get their taste.

I suspect the existence of this revenue stream is a big part of the draw of the job - not the official salary. Further - I'm sure the hotel is aware that staff are earning this money, and doesn't give a damn. More than that - I think being a person with... shall we say "flexible" morals, is an important qualification for the job.

If you put some Puritan in that position, god knows what will happen.

Nawrocki did not finish a theological seminary, but a history PhD. That tells me he is a big drinker and has an appropriately wide perspective on the full range of the human condition.

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I have already totally debunked this claim.

What Nawrocki was doing, is what has been done by every doorman, concierge, and security guard in the history of the world.

People away from family get frisky - and unfortunately everybody else around them has to deal with it. If you forbid a guest from bringing prostitutes to the hotel, you may very well lose him as a patron. So you accommodate people, and their petty vices - but not without a price!

The price you charge, is the price for inconvenience (after all - families stay at the hotel too), and the price for confidentiality. Not the price for a woman's body - because you don't get to keep that - that goes to the girl and her pimp.

I challenge anyone to find me a hotel security guard that has not been involved in helping guests procure prostitutes.

I'm sure if you dig deeper, then you'll discover Nawrocki turned a blind eye to the sale of marijuana on hotel property. Then, he'll be not just a pimp - but a drug dealer too.

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The lengths one has to go to, to defend the good name of pro-peace candidates.

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Foreign press tells me the mayor of Warsaw has trouble with his left-leaning/progressive electorate, because him and his Daddy Tusk did not manage to rollback PiS-era abortion restrictions. This may hurt him at the ballot box.

How important is this to Polish voters from the big cities? For you, Lenka/Paulina, does this count as a mark against Trzaskowski? The failure in the fight against abortion?

Are you upset that he has walked back a lot of the LGBT positions he adopted earlier?

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I think if they were helping Russia with something, and then the United States sanctioned them for it, or better yet - destroyed the facilities (remember, we are talking about an ongoing war between the US and Russia) - that this would incline them towards assisting Russia even more, with all the means at their disposal.

If America can bomb your country whenever it feels like it, like Israel bombs Iran, or the way the CIA killed Bin Laden in Pakistan.... It leaves a very bad taste in the mouth.

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Bingo!

This story is far from over, and it still retains the potential to blow up in everyone's face fantastically - not least because a desperate Ukraine may start to do desperate things.

Trump is unpredictable. He may look like a dove in comparison to Biden now, but he also could easily do a 180 and escalate the war to a level Biden never dared to approach. Risking looking like he had his bluff called - Putin could very well pull out all the stops to instead make Trump back down.

A showdown between Trump and Putin on the subject of "who has bigger balls" - will be a great gift to the world, surely. Because these two people are known for making all their decisions with cold and logical calculation. Its consequences will also be only flowers and candies for all - I'm sure.

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Putin surely understands, that the best way to guarantee Russia has an absolutely sh*t 21st century - is by starting World War III with an attack on NATO.

Russia has suffered too much, for far too long, to plunge itself back into hell. We need time to recover, and live as a normal country - if even for a short while.

A war like that, I don't think even Russia can ever recover from. It will have absolutely unpredictable consequences, and will almost certainly suck in every single other industrialized country on the planet. I am sure neither Russians, nor Europeans, nor Americans would pay any attention to jurisdiction or borders when it came to hurting each other. Whether a facility is located in Brazil, or in India, or in China - it would represent a legitimate target if working for the benefit of the enemy.

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If you are like me, and you don't believe Russia will attack a NATO or EU state in the near future... it opens up a lot of interesting hypotheticals.

Armed to the teeth, but with no Russian invasion forthcoming - what will the Western Europeans do? Satisfied that they deterred the Russians, do they just start to disarm again? Surely not.

So if they don't disarm, what to do with all the weapons and all the conscripts? The higher state of militarization may start to dictate its own logic.

Some hypotheticals:

1) Strengthened in their capabilities, Europeans take a more aggressive approach to North Africa. Under pressure from the Italians and other Mediterranean states, Europe sends forces into Libya - to prevent Islamists from controlling the country, and to curtail refugee flows.

2) France, smarting from being pushed out of places like Burkina Faso, Mali, CAR, etc by Russia - may begin to pressure its European allies for a larger scale commitment to West Africa. They may get support for this from Spain and Portugal. The goal would be to demonstrate an ability at defeating the Islamist insurgency that has eluded the Russians, and regime change (removing people like Mr. Traore).

3) With their large Muslim populations, Western Europe may try to drive a harder line in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Right now Israel only listens to America, because Europe doesn't represent anything from a security point of view. A bulked up Europe, could be able to make life more complicated for Israel. For example, by working closely with Syria and Lebanon, and applying pressure on Israel to deoccupy stretches of Southern Lebanon and the Golan Heights. In the same way, Europe could offer Yemen a way back into the 21st century, conditional on decoupling from Iran and not attacking Israel. For this, Yemen would likely require assistance in ending its civil war.

4) The most far-fetched thing I can think of, is that Europe may begin to compete with the United States for influence in the Pacific. Japan, Korea, and others are shocked at their treatment by a supposed ally, and are worried about being caught between two fires. Europe may offer a third way, where one does not have to be a vassal of either China or America. For this, it needs to be able to provide a credible security umbrella. So maybe Germans can replace Americans in Korea, and French in Okinawa. But this is fantasy land.

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My father put me in our neighborhood club, at the earliest age they would accept me. Then at school, we had extracurricular chess also. This is how the Soviet chess combine was built.

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Insulting again, for Russia. I am a student of economic history from an American university, and you compare me with people who studied Poland throughout their entire life.

Moscow State University link for "Polish and Polish Literature". Admittedly very outdated page in comparison to that of every other faculty, but read about its history!

philol.msu.ru/~slavphil/polon.html

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Very nice. I only touch 1800 on occasion, and this means - playing sober, well rested, and not getting tilted after a loss. Standard chess. Stopped playing blitz, because I watched a video with Nakamura where he said it teaches amateurs bad habits. I really did feel it on myself.

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What's your Elo?

No need to share if it is embarassing :)

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I don't know - look at me.

I don't have a summons. I am not a criminal. Am not bankrupt. Do not have access to state secrets. Do not work for the FSB. Am older than 18.

Such a strange, and atypical individual I am.

The fact that the Russian government doesn't give a **** about my movements, seems almost like an insult - now that you have mentioned it.

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Basil, here's his entry on Wikipedia:

"Originally an apprentice shoemaker, he went to Moscow when he was sixteen. There he helped those who were ashamed to ask for alms, but were in need of help. He adopted an eccentric lifestyle of shoplifting and giving to the poor to shame the miserly and help those in need. He went naked and weighed himself down with chains. He rebuked Ivan the Terrible for not paying attention in church. Vasily was said to have the gift of prophecy."

A retard - clearly. Also a criminal. But.... he did it with an especial Russian flare - and for this all is forgiven.

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You don't know my professors. The type of people that taught my type of history, were as far from "woke" as Genghis Khan is from Greta Thunberg.

There are different types of history, and consequently different professors.

If you are a major in "Women's Studies" or "Decolonization" - you'll get the according professors. But if you study Gomulka-era Poland, you get people like my Polish professor, who gives exactly zero ***** about gender issues. If you study the Spanish Civil War, then you might get an Austrian professor who most suspected of fascist sympathies for Franco.

Different types of history.

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People that make jokes at the expense of genuinely retarded people, are retards themselves. The 95% of the rest of us should be left alone, since we mean no harm.

To our American friends - please don't view this as a dig against your current president, who had famously made fun of a disabled journalist at one of his rallies.


Wow! Idiot is ok? Thank God!

Seriously - who is "retard" offensive for? I think the only people it is offensive for, is the people that are involved in their active care. For the retards themselves, it makes no difference. You can call them Hitler, and they'll kiss you in return.

In Russia we have a long tradition of adoring retards - I mean real retards. The Russian word was "Blazhenniy" - or literally touched by God. The cathedral on Red Square is named after a retard. Translated directly from Russian, it translates as "Cathedral of Basil the Retard".

Russians have for a long time believed that retards are able to communicate with forces, which a normal mortal cannot contact.

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Speaking of retards - this man is not a retard. Still - he is not "for" me.

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Literally the first thing a professor taught us at Columbia, in our first year as history students, was that history is a very poor predictor of future events.

All history does, is track change over time. This can be just as important.

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Again, proof that the only way to stay clean in politics - is to stay out of it.

Nonetheless, I plan to one day become President of Russia.

My plan for my first day in the Kremlin:

1) Grant state awards to every prostitute who can prove she has been working for more than ten years.

2) A pocket aquarium for every citizen above the age of 46.

3) Full subsidies for all Orthodox priests wishing to evangelize in Afghanistan

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uhmmm, no? The graph shows Business Administration has an average IQ of around 110. It also has a disturbing amount of women (half).

Business Administration is to Economics, as a Trabant is to a Ferrari.


No. In fact, I grew up around my grandpa's retarded brother - and he was my best friend (no joke).

When I say retarded, it is aimed at people that behave *as if* they were suffering from a major mental disability.

Mind you, Mr. Word Police, retarded was brought into circulation to replace the deprecated "Mongoloid", which in turn replaced "Idiot".

What do you call people that are behaving stupidly, if "cretin", "idiot", "retard", and "mongoloid" are no longer politically correct?

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Let's critically examine Kania's claims, again.

From Wikipedia we get the skeleton:

Morawiecki is an alumnus of the University of Wrocław (history, 1992) - as an "historian" myself, allow me to say that the history faculty always has a high concentration of retards. In contrast to say, the Astronomy or Physics departments.

Wrocław University of Technology (1993), Wrocław University of Economics (Business Administration, 1995) - Business Administration is famous as a degree for retards. It's evident he could not manage the course load for straight economics.

University of Hamburg (European Law and Economic Integration, 1995-97) - bullshit degrees

University of Basel (European Studies, 1995-97) - worse than African Studies.

While at the Wrocław University of Technology, he studied abroad at Central Connecticut State University - never heard of Central Connecticut State University. Makes me wonder why someone would travel from Europe to study there.

Completed an advanced executive programme at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management - it is a well known fact, that "executive" programs at business schools are a cash cow for the institutions. Any retard can get in, if he pays $80-200K for the pleasure.

Attaching a graph below showing just how stupid "Business Administration" majors are, on average.

In conclusion, I find that there is not enough proof to overturn Kania's claim that Morawiecki is a retard. More evidence will need to be supplied by defendants.

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I would argue with you, but the existence of Duda gives me pause. Perhaps there is something to it...


Yes, reintroduce the Roman consular system.

The Poles can then abandon the Gregorian calendar, and use the Roman Republican style:

Anno urbis conditae MMMDCCLXXVIII, in consulatu Dudae et Tusci.

alternatively:

Sub auspiciis magni Dudae et senex Tuscius, duumvirorum periculosissimae rei publicae Poloniae, anno sacratissimo MMXXV.

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Shhh... don't tell the Poles, but a large percentage of Russians receive their US visas in Warsaw.

The US embassy in Poland even maintains a page in Russian, aimed at providing guidance for applicants.

Source: pl.usembassy.gov/pl/visas-pl/nonimmigrant-visas-pl/foreigners-rus/

The General Consulate in Krakow has only English and Polish speaking staff, but the Embassy in Warsaw has Russian speakers (according to the page above).

Warsaw processes more visas for Russians, than Astana (Kazakhstan) or Tbilisi (Georgia).

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Well... in Romania some kind of alien reptiloid mathematician won the presidential election. The guy even took first place at a Math Olympiad.

He has the charisma of a turnip, and is - I'm quite sure - autistic. Nonetheless, he beat the Pro-Russian, former hooligan, and ultra orthodox candidate that replaced the one that was banned.

What killed the chances of our pro-Russian gangster, was the moment when he actually opened his mouth at a televised debate... and everybody quickly realized he may be retarded. This was a big mistake, letting him out in front of cameras, but oh well!

What gives me more hope with Nawrocki is that he is not quite as retarded. After all, a retard cannot become head of the Institute of National Remembrance. He seems to be able to string a sentence together, and is able to look somewhat "presidential". Perhaps this might be just enough for the voters tired of Tusk and Co.