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jon357   
1 Oct 2025
Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 17 [385]

United Kingdom Socialist Republic

We have a democratic Socialist government, not that there's much change from the conservative one, except industrial development, starting to deal with migration and starting to bring public utilities back into public hands. That and the 22 new towns.

PM Starmer

Sir Keir? He's done pretty well so far in cleaning up the Tory swamp. There are likely to be a few prosecutions ahead, plus of course the 'palestine action' trial is immiment.

Londonastan.

He's never een there and wouldn't be allowed to settle anyway. To listen to him, it sounds as dangerous as some of the cities in the country he was booted from.
jon357   
30 Sep 2025
UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [295]

. (Men who kill most or all of their immediate family and then kill themselves

The psychology seems bizarre. The steps that could lead someone to doing that. It happens all too often.
jon357   
30 Sep 2025
News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [334]

It can only be changed by amendment

So until it's amended to be fit for purpose, you'll be cursed with very high crime figures. Any talk about crime reduction in this context is just words.

Of course high levels of inequality combined and lack of opportunity together with a positive view of the "go-getter" mentality also contribute to high levels of crime

But the Kirk case seems tied to mental illness (he was a furry

The word "gamp" is new to me and can stay new, however being a "furry" doesn't make someone a gun killer. Most of those do fit a profile: Middle Ages, underachiever, very right wing, ex low-rank military. Basically like rgat guy who killed the Mormons the other day.

but too many political interests are too invested in maintaining or increasing levels of crazy.... so... batten down the hatches

This seems sadly true. Even in countries with universal healthcare it's a difficult task to balance individual liberty and public safety. A profit motive must necessarily complicated it and of course politicians on the rightwing (plus over there, elected prosecutors and judges) often find it electorally useful to keep people in fea.
jon357   
30 Sep 2025
UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [295]

Not in the UK but next door. Hard to imagine the mentality of someone who does that:

[Krzysztof Daczkowski, 50, was discovered in the landing of his home near Finglas, Co Dublin, Ireland, on Saturday night, close to the body of his five year old daughter Julia Daczkowska.

Gardai suspect that the bus driver strangled his daughter to death in her bedroom and then took his own life. Julia's mother, Aga, returned home from work to find them both dead on Saturday evening

mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-dad-who-killed-daughter-35983274
jon357   
30 Sep 2025
News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [334]

look at him being restrained from different angles.... the angle that made it look like they were choking him was publicized

I'd guess the jury saw it all.

Talk by any politician there about reducing crime is just talk, as long as guns are available to civilians and as long as the inequalities are so glaring. Even the very long sentences don't seem to work.

As a politician once said, "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime".
jon357   
30 Sep 2025
News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [334]

George Floyd might have been placed in hand cuffs as opposed
to a choke hold, t

There was no reason to o peel on someone's neck until they died. The court certainly agreed with this.

It's true that by and large African Americans don't care about crime as an issue

Isn't that a huge generalisation? The black Americans I've met have been as law abiding (or even more so) than many of the white ones I've met.
jon357   
30 Sep 2025
News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 25 [1141]

They were deprived of voting

They can always travel to the constituency where the're registered to vote and actually vote.
They were deprived of voting

They weren't.

the EU meddled in them. The EU turned out to be better at meddling.

Is there any evidence of this?

Well, the European model is certainly more appealing to ordinary people than the ******* one

To anybody except a psychopath.
jon357   
30 Sep 2025
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jon357   
29 Sep 2025
Off-Topic / What is a woman? [590]

beauty pagent

Pageant.

Do they still have those things?

A bit 1970s.
jon357   
29 Sep 2025
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jon357   
28 Sep 2025
Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 17 [385]

So all perfectly normal and nothing like martial law or a dictatorship

If there's money to be made from provoking a societal breakdown, Trup's backers will try to make a fast buck.
jon357   
27 Sep 2025
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jon357   
27 Sep 2025
News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [334]

It was a norm for people to be shot while illegally crossing the border

In East Germany? Do you want that?

This is a norm in countries around the world even today

North Korea? Do you want that?
jon357   
26 Sep 2025
News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [334]

z0Mzyg Camebridge Union

They have lots of events there.

Most of t( speakers are people you haven't heard of.

Princess Di phenomenon

Exactly that, over there in America, though many millions aren't interested or are hostile to it all.

More Horst Wessel than Lady Di though. There are a lot of parallels. Not quite Kirov yet though.
jon357   
26 Sep 2025
Polonia / What do Poles think of how they are treated in Germany, in comparison to the Muslim migrants [181]

menorrhea

No, Alien, it doesn't.

That word isn't Latin. Btw,

state how things

The real story is that people sometimes do bad things. Braun did a bad thing.

Not in the Polish Parliament

That's where it was and will be t again this year and next. Agreed there by the majority of Polish parliamentarians.

If that Braun guy doesn't agree with a decision, he can vote against it. If he's outvoted, so what?
jon357   
26 Sep 2025
News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [334]

He was completely unknown in Poland and Europe

At best, some people (though certainly not most) has heard there was a controversial YouTuber called that. The media attention came after he got shot.

course you havent seen all of the memorials and people in the streets of Europe carrying his message.

The MAGATs were looking for a martyr and found one. I'm surprised they haven't made a marching song yet.

Their ideological predecessors were also looking for a martyr and when another youth influencer (also religious) got shot a few years ago, their PR people leveraged it in more or less the same way. Wrote a well o own so * 5hough and renamed schools after him They didn't sink so low as to sell merchandise at the funeral though.
jon357   
23 Sep 2025
Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 17 [385]

Or at least it does if you're a complete and utter f*cking moron.

Come on, he stopped the war on the Armenian/Cambodian border.

And cured windmill cancer.
jon357   
23 Sep 2025
Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 17 [385]

Trump wants to eventually repeal the Affordable Care Act, dubbing it "wasteful",

Bizarre.

And what this latest rubbish about paracetamol?
jon357   
23 Sep 2025
Polonia / What do Poles think of how they are treated in Germany, in comparison to the Muslim migrants [181]

There are still not that many Jews in Britain even today.

More than Poland.

Then, after they got these nationalist ideas in the 19th century, they all turned on Poland and peddled lies, oversimplification, and pure nonsense about it.
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What a load of rubbish.

Extinguished a few candles, no particularly holy

Attacked a religious symbol that was there legally and correctly.
jon357   
23 Sep 2025
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23 Sep 2025
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jon357   
23 Sep 2025
Classifieds / Polish Speaking Call Centre Roles - Greece [7]

880 euros gross per month

That's crap.

€1,100 gross

Are accommodation and transport provided, or is there a separate financial allowance for that?