News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [812]

Biden at least has the guts to remain a proud pro-choice Catholic even in the
face of such outright closed-minded ideologues as Comey Barrett and Cavanaugh!

Trump most certainly did pack his Congress, Rich!! Whaddya call Bannon, Spicer and the rest of that bunch?

Love / How do Polish men feel about gender equality? [780]

Can YOU, Ironside, that's the question here!

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [812]

Just remember, folks, among the first things Hitler did when he seized power (albeit democratically elected!!!) was to
abolish all trade unions aka workers' rights protection, pack the court system with his own people, and bring into line the
wheels of government to fit exclusively HIS beliefs and his alone. He neither brooked opposition or criticism of his ideals.

Sound familiar?

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [812]

The two do tend to overlap, you know:-)

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [812]

Yo, Rich! Sleepy Joe did pretty spiffy last night, pal!!
He's alive and in control...ready, willing, and able to trounce Trump back to Queens where he belongs:-)

Biden's nepotism pales before Trump's misdeeds. If ya pay off the Feds, anything's goes.
What Biden did takes place every day of the week, in and out of the Oval Office.
Some former presidents were simply better at covering their tracks.

Love / How do Polish men feel about gender equality? [780]

What's the matter there, Ironside? Afraid ya might learn something if you read it?
Would you understand what you're reading?

Love / How do Polish men feel about gender equality? [780]

Read an article in today's NYT about that retired football player, Kelce's his name, I think, who
openly wept when he announced his retirement the other day.

I was reminded how openly Polish men whom I've known, completely straight men built like linebackers,
will cry at the drop of a kapelusz, if their history or identity is impugned, particularly by the foreign press!
Other nationalities such as the French, Germans or Italians, will react to such ignominy with anger, perhaps
even violence, sometimes with irony and dismissive laughter. Only the Poles whom I've experienced will respond
unabashedly with tears.

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [812]

Clearly relations would worsen, perhaps irreparably so, Alien!

What a cruel irony (Treppenwitz) indeed that the single nation which successfully defeated
Faschism and Nazism might decide to "elect" a man who doesn't even believe in or understand
the same Democracy for which his fellow Americans fought and died.

Trump doesn't care about checks and balances; he believes only in an Executive Office in
which the Chief Executive answers to nobody but himself.

Biden still has a fighting chance. Never heard anyone complain about Trump's ramblings, have you?

Genealogy / What are common Polish character traits? [425]

At work, we often have many younger visitors, both from the UK
as well as the Continent and those from Great Britain in particular
tell me that the capital has become so multicultural there's practically
little to any trace of the past in terms of what Americans especially
consider "typically English":-)

I do try to keep myself updated as to what's au current in Europe
these days.

Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]

Had you been there, Ironside, you would have been on my side.

Language / Polish language test, NATO Stanag 6001 format. [8]

Much appreciated, jon.

Off-Topic / How to get some smoke [16]

Thanks, you guys!

Language / Polish language test, NATO Stanag 6001 format. [8]

Figure I can download it.

Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]

In my experience, the majority of youngish and middle-age Poles whom I've
encountered tend to attempt a solid imitation of an educated Britisher.

Those clodhopper, caricatured "Polish accent" heard among uneducated
Polish immigrants has become a thing of the past, I think. For example,
in Greenpoint Bklyn. not far from where we live in Fort Lee, NJ, one typically
hears people who speak English so influenced by their native Polish pronunciation
and sentence structure, idiom etc., it's often difficult for me to understand them.

They seem to understand my Polish better than I am to understand their English.
I only say that because whenever I respond in Polish, they in turn answer correctly in Polish as well,
giving the impression that I made myself crystal clear.

News / NATO expansion in northern Europe - great news for Poland [137]

As Sweden's in, Finland's sure to follow.

News / NATO expansion in northern Europe - great news for Poland [137]

My position is simply that Sweden has historically always been a solid
international citizen and therefore deserves membership! About Finland,
once again, I'd be most interested in the opinion(s) of my fellow posters
including yourself!

News / NATO expansion in northern Europe - great news for Poland [137]

Then kindly re-read #82 and get back to us:-)
It's a question in the form of a statement, really a conjecture.

News / NATO expansion in northern Europe - great news for Poland [137]

Colorful as they may be, what has your comment to do with my question?

News / NATO expansion in northern Europe - great news for Poland [137]

An even more contentious issue is whether nor not neighboring Finland ought to be allowed in to NATO's ranks! Considering
her strained and problematic relationship with Russia, probably her vote will be rejected.

Off-Topic / How to get some smoke [16]

Is vaping also popular in Poland these days?

News / NATO expansion in northern Europe - great news for Poland [137]

Well, Hungary finally gave Sweden the green light to join NATO! Took 'em long enough.
At least Kristersson's gov't. backs Ukraine.

History / What do Poles owe to Germans? [451]

Invasion, Rich??

Think of the countries in the world "invaded" by rough-hewn US expats.
throwing their weight around and expecting to be treated like royaly,
in Mexico, for example. Ever heard of the Ugly American?!

History / What do Poles owe to Germans? [451]

To which nation(s) are you referring, furthermore,
kindly prove that the proverbial rough slap in the face
actually solves the long term problems you're trying to solve.
"Shock treatments"?? Give me a break.

Germany needs the AfD about as much as the the US needs Trump
or the (Bitter) Tea Party of acrimony and out of control mean spiritedness!

News / Reactions in Poland to Alexei Navalny's death [128]

Ethnocide would only apply to the genocide of another race,
although perhaps I'm splitting hairs here.

Nonetheless, the analogies with Hitler beggar comparison;
Putin seeks only the (re-)acquisition of Ukrainian territory
rather than world domination.

News / Reactions in Poland to Alexei Navalny's death [128]

@jon,
The consideration here is that Putin would ideally like to "Russify" the Ukrainians,
to bring them into line with Russian requirements! Hitler had no such desires as
it came to the Jews. They were simply to be eradicated and their indigenous culture
rooted out, destroyed root and branch. Even the ultra-assimilated were felt
unworthy of being considered truly "German". Only with certain Mischlinge or so-called
"half breeds" was some small degree of latitude granted, and even so, not always willingly.

News / Reactions in Poland to Alexei Navalny's death [128]

Aha, correct jon! But Putin doesn't believe there's a separate Ukrainian identity,
Hitler believed with all his heart and soul that there WAS a separate Jewish identity
which he and his cohorts deemed was completely and unutterably incompatible with
"German", read "Aryan" identity!!

Putin couldn't care less about such rubbish; he be believes that Ukrainians and Russians
are (Slavic) blood brothers, who share the same language, the same spirit, the same dreams.

How different from Hitler can you get!

History / What do Poles owe to Germans? [451]

@Rich, I don't see your point here.

News / Reactions in Poland to Alexei Navalny's death [128]

@jon & Mafketis, yet by doing so, he'd be destroying his very own, as Ukrainains,
like Russians, are of course fellow Slavs, barely indistinguishable from another
both physically as well as religiously, save for the differences in their mother tongue!

Hitler's war against the Jews was that of a people completely different in appearance, by
in large, religious conviction, even historical language, don't forget, all Jews originated
in the shtettl prior to moving to the towns, and their first language was YIDDISH, not German,
Polish or Russian.

The analogy is again, convenient, but hardly accurate.

News / Reactions in Poland to Alexei Navalny's death [128]

Good show there, Rich! Your pride is much appreciated.
:-)

History / What do Poles owe to Germans? [451]

Tusk and von der Leyen. What a tender scene LOL