News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [874]


Then there but for the whim of god you're not the one with the rifle.... and you would be in slightly different circumstances.

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [874]


"a bind" suggests they're unhappy.... I find no evidence that most russians are unhappy with the current situation.

They hypothesis: "russians are either indifferent to or enthusiastic about invading other countries, killing random civilians and stealing their resources" is still intact... I wish that weren't the case but if wishes were fast trains to Rome I'd be in Florence by now....

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [874]


russia's war against Ukraine stopped having any particular goals a long time ago.

russia's new normal is war (killing and destruction) for the sake of killing and destruction... no aims, no end goal, no victory that would make them happy and want to stop, just endless brutality and violence....

this video sums it up extremely well - killing for the sake of killing.....

x.com/gitelregiona/status/1967842210139029874

Meanwhile drooling idiots keep yapping about "but NATO expanded!" or "russia's not the enemy"....or like Trump think that the profit motive will stop them..... russians are used to living in grinding poverty and they don't mind if they have a goal - kill other people and destroy their stuff

It is what it is.

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [874]


And monkey's might fly out of lavrov's zhopa.....

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


They're not gonna stick you around!

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [917]


How many people saw the post in the three hours it was up?


How so? Which part is not true?

theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/16/grooming-gangs-in-uk-thrived-in-culture-of-ignorance-casey-report-says

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [917]


So you're okay with British ensh|tification.....

Here, just for you: A very good description of why there's no bottom.... things will get worse and worse in the UK and people will just accept it.

x.com/kunley_drukpa/status/1968040089105338479

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [917]


dude.... migration is not gravity...(a physical law of the universe) and it is not like breathing oxygen (a non-negotiable feature of human existence).

migration is a series of choices....

Allowing unvetted Afghans into the country is a choice.

Allowing Pakistani led grooming gangs to brutalize thousands of young British women is a choice.

Allowing Albanian drug dealers and "Turkish" barber shop money laundering operations are all choices.

Putting a woman in prison for a social media post that was up for three hours is a choice.

Arresting Graham Linehan was a choice.

Governments are not powerless, they are choosing to facilitate all of the above.

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [917]


What war is going on in Albania? Dude....

"From 2018 to 2024, nationals of six countries accounted for 70% of all arrivals - Iran (17%), Afghanistan (15%), Iraq (12%), Albania (10%), Syria (9%), and Eritrea (8%)."

Are there wars going on in any of those?


Only if European governments allow it.... which most of them are at present.

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [874]


lukashenka is far smarter than putin (the potato moose personality is an act he uses to get away with humiliating/sabotaging putin while still getting money from him).

word is that he's thinking of a 'transfer' of power to his son

He's also seen Washing throw goodies toward Azerbaijan and Armenia and probably wants to get on that gravy train so he's pretending to soften (releasing a few prisoners) in exchange for some moolah...

It's just possible that he's spilling a bunch of info to the Americans because, contrary to popular belief he doesn't want the country to be absorbed into russia.

we'll see....

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [917]


It would save money in the long run.


The "Dublin mechanism" failed catastrophically during its first stress test and is for all intents and purposes dead.

Try something else.

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [917]


In the short term.... in the long term it's far, far more expensive.


Do you have any counter evidence?


How much counter evidence is there?

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [917]


Take them into custody (jail, closed centers) and keep them there until their case is resolved. In the long run that would be cheaper. Let them know that their case is closed (against them) at the first infraction.

Give them the burden of proof for why they should be allowed to stay rather than assume the state has the burden of proof as to why they should not.

The only reason no British government can come up with workable plans to stop the flow is that they don't want to stop the flow (no matter what they say).

The purpose of a system is what it does.

The current British system is about abolishing the middle class and turning the country in Brasil (tiny rich elite amid masses of the poor).

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [917]


A person arrives at Heathrow or whatever airport..... border control decides they have no right to enter the country. Do they have access to a 'right of appeal'?

Why should arriving on a boat be different?

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [917]


A non-citizen enters a country illegally, the country decides they have no right to stay..... what more 'rule of law' is needed?

Apparently the one (or more) in from France is going ahead with no problems anticipated?

So... net gain (net loss in societal and economic terms, but who cares? rule of law! infinite numbers in! no one out!

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [917]


Yes, one in one out was pure fantasy.....

Same in Germany, they can't deport convicted criminals because NGOs file legal challenges.... (and activist judges look for any reason to keep criminals in Europe rather than send them home).

A broken, dysfunctional and unsustainable system... but rule of law! Yeay!

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [917]


What laws were the challenge based on?


Wake me up after the first ten flights have landed with deportees in France.

How can this be explaned without incompetence, indifference or malice? (not just one party, it's systemtic across parties)

youtube.com/watch?v=LNPccXBp5I0

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [917]


They care a lot, but negatively. They care about them the way you care about homeless drunks getting into your klatka, sh)tting, puking and passing out....

The only way to explain this situation is pure incompetence or pure malice (by both leading parties)

x.com/jonatanpallesen/status/1967537142432715057

And of course Starmer's phony one in one out is stillborn as the first flight taking some illegals back to France was challenged on legal grounds and so the current policy is "as many as possible in, and none out" because the UK has infinite space.... apparently.

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [874]


Anyone have any clue why US officials are in Belarus happily watching russian rehearsals for attacking the west?

I think Trump is tired of being humiliated by putin and has decided to be humiliated by lukashenka for a while.... variety is the spice of life for cucks, after all....

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [874]


russia would absolutely bear the moral blame for that (since it was their stinkin' drones that caused the problem in the first place).

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]

Some possible ways...

I'm not gonna stick around with you.

I'm not gonna handle you with sticks.

Surely others exist....

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [874]

A young russian soldier kills a horse for no particular reason....

x.com/Witch_2011/status/1967786505356841368

No one here hates russia enough....

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


That's the challenge!

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


Et tu, Aliene?

the idea is to _translate_ idioms and see if people can guess the meaning....

Bangs head against keyboard.....

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


You really don't understand the idea behind the thread.... "to make someone gray" is an English translation of a Polish idiom.


Yes! You are right... zrobić kogoś na szaro is the Polish original....

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


A majority of German voters when asked about migration (esp Germany's broken refugee/asylum policies) are closer to AfD positions than any other party.

The refusal/inability of any mainstream party to get in line with public opinion won't go anywhere good....

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


Nope.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]

Another one!

What does to make someone gray mean?

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


Anything to suppress majority opinion?

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]


People never believe me when I say I can spot unedited AI writing....

I'd say the rhyming element is there, but also Poland has the usual more northern stereotypes of lazy southerners so Spain has connotations of unhurried and stress-free existence.