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@PolAmKrakow,
The problem is that the Dems have relinquished their contract with their
fellow US citizens! Once again, the proverbial pendulum has swung in the opposite
direction and standards of excellence have long since been abandoned in favor of a
a woke philosophy based on an outmoded, idiotic Woodstock Era philosophy, according to
which discipline is tantamount to faschism and order, organization, to militarism.

As this anti-intellectualism is far from the promise of the New Deal, Roosevelt must be turning over in his grave.

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@Rich,
For the bazillionth time, the reasons that Reagan was elected, paving the way for Tea Party Republicans
and later the MAGA movement, were and still are untrammeled greed, egotism, above all, social diaper rash!!
Compare the likes of Trump's inner circle, among others, Pete Hegseth & Co. with the likes of Wm. P. Rogers,
Ted Sorensen, Robt. McNamara along with rest of the Camelot Coterie under JFK, and we can't avoid a glaring
glance at the infantility of the current crowd. Even the first Reagan Admin. had more literate folks in the cabinet than
today. In Hegseth's lovely speech before the Joint Armed Services Committee several weeks ago, he let more than
one four-letter word slip out, as his speech was really a rant and, like his boss, he ended up venting rather than
speaking.

America today no longer understands her societal responsibilities to ALL Americans, not simply the top 1%.
I'm hardly "against" the concept of success. I am against the concept of success at any and all human costs.
Were there more Aaron Feuersteins out there, the US and the world would be a better place for everyone.

In the end, we're not on Earth to do solely what we want to do 24/7, but instead what we have to to.....or
risk the consequences of increased violence, lashing out, and anti-Americanism world wide, not to mention
anti-Semitism, here at home.

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News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [568]

@Maf, the average person believes what they WANT TO believe, even
when it's an out and out lie!!

Trump has the public buffaloed. As race was the number one issue during the campaign,
Trump played on the public's fears like a Stradavarius, tapping into their myriad weaknesses,
such as infantilism, ignorance, petty bigotry, isolationism and selfishness.

Classifieds / Need Food And Clothes [82]

No country, including the US, wishes to be seen as simply a way station,
a pit stop along the highway to prosperity.

Poland's no exception.

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [568]

Hate speech, PolAmKrakow???

What's hateful about exposing the truth?
The only thing the truth hurts is those who lie:-)

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [568]

The bulk of the US voted and votes Republican, period!
As the majority of so-called "red" states are typically rural,
it should come as little to no surprise that most of the voters
in these states consider themselves a self-reliant bunch who
uniformly despise the federal government and associate
urban America with the den of hated gov't programs.

The late Charlie Kirk, Rush Limbaugh, pop, quasi-demagogues with quick and snappy answers (especially Rush) and others were the
beloved mouthpiece of this disenfranchised group.

Morever, hardly a coincedence that most red staters are white:-)

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [568]

More famous abroad in death than in life, is that it?

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [568]

@Rich,
The NYT typically capitalizes Black when referring to people,
oh, but I forgot, you don't read the paper:-)

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [568]

As far as Charlie's doubts about Black pilots, I guess he's never heard of
or cared about the Tuskegee Airmen:-)

The lack of a strong Black presence in numerous professions had far less to do
with competence and more to do with prejudice plain and simple!

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If the dude can't speak or doesn't even know the language of
where he wants to stay, best to stay home.

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [568]

Kirk spoke to people's frustrations, rather than their hopes! While it certainly
is a sad, indeed regrettable, fact that the Dems have ignored their target home
base for decades now, the pendulum has swung in the opposite direction,
and the White man in America finally has a movement.

Unfortunately, it's not a movement of which any thinking American would be proud.
As throughout much of US history, we've moved from one horrendous extreme
to the other.

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At least learn to ask/beg in Polish!
Poland is not a melting pot, send me your huddled masses type society
like the US, where up until recently any non-English speaking wetback
could almost swim across the Rio Grande into North American waters
and end up picking fruit in Southern California, albeit for slave wages.

You really need to consult the local Consulate in your home country
prior to landing abroad.

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No more scattered or unclear than your question, Przelotnyptak1.
You asked about how "pure" I claim the Jews were as compared with
the Catholics and I replied that no group has a monopoly on purity:-)

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@My dear Przelotnyptak1,
the Jews only learned to mimic the Church!
After all, it was the mediaeval Catholics who
first practiced the habit (no pun intended) of
"selling" indulgences as an easy pass to heaven,
right? Luther fought against it tooth and nail. To my
knowledge, such a practice was foreign to the Jews.

Church is synonymous here with mosque or synagogue
aka generic religious institutions which rely heavily, if
not exclusively in the past forty years since Reagan,
on financial contributions and favors trading.

Neither group is "whiter then snow".

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The operative word here, PolAmKrakow is "responsible"!
If anything is used irresponsibly, eventually it'll lead to a bad end.

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In your view, are not those then actually in dire need not somehow entitled to aid from the state
if need be??

Don't forget, the survivalism of Laura & Alonzo Ingalls Wilder fame was born in totally different
times from those in which we are currently living!

Sure, building our own home/business from scratch by the proverbial sweat of our brow is an admirable
goal, as with many an autobiography, often a lot is (purposely) left out of the picture for sheer public
relations purposes.

We Americans long been sold a Protestant-Puritan bill of goods, namely, that seeking help from random
sources, except perhaps from the Church, is beneath our dignity as humans and the self-reliance at any
cost is the only honorable way to go.

While praiseworthy in spirit, such is no longer really practical and frequently asking for help DOES help everyone
concerned. There is no shame in offering help anymore than in praying for a miracle.

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How would you define "entitlements", AntV?

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Americans are tired of gov't handouts, welfare cheats, out of control Third World migrants and the like, agreed!
The answer is to make a living to above average wage accessible to
all who honestly qualify and things might get easier. Such might level the playing field,
so that not only the inherited wealthy might qualify for decent housing and medical care.

However, this ain't gonna happen in any of our lifetimes, as once again, the
centuries old, inbred corruption of the Catholic Church in particular as well as
the American addiction to cheap labor, along of course with the proverbial race issue,
will deadlock matters here until the end of time.

Bottom line is that the culture has to change in order for true progress finally to
take root. Since this isn't likely to occur, nothing will change perceptibly except
in one's vivid imagination.

News / Was Charlie Kirk popular in Poland? [568]

Exactly!

If folks our there weren't packin' heat,
no guns would go off:-)

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A damned sight better, Starmer, than the likes of Enoch Powell!!

USA, Canada / Poles in America: How do you pronounce your Polish surname? [135]

Amen, Maf!

Open vowels in Polish are a breeze for Latin language speakers
such as in Spanish or Italian, it's those myriad consonant clusters
over which they break their tongue:-)

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Jon, apparently Milo's under a different impression concerning Sir Keir.

USA, Canada / Poles in America: How do you pronounce your Polish surname? [135]

P - S - H - E- T- V - O- Y - E - F - S - K- E- E

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Do you blame PM Starmer for the present state of affairs?

Life / If you lived abroad, would you like to have a Pole as a neighbor? [93]

The enemy you fear and from whom you wish to protect yourselves, the "barbarians",
might well be right in your own backyard aka your fellow Poles.

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Probably is, Alien All this xenophobic stuff's an act......we hope.

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@PolAmKrakow,

Even Jews complain constantly about infighting within the religion,
lack of solidarity as compared with amongst African-Americans etc.

American Jews seem to be "connected" as concerns Holocaust survivors
and the ultra-Orthodox communities (from which mega financial
contributions are expected!!!), that is, as regards key or select themes.
As concerns the average Jew, those who slip through the so-called "donut hole",
those among the lower-middle class, those who aren't extremely wealthy etc.,
the Jewish community all but abandons this group, and I'm not even discussing the actions by
the Brooklyn or Monsey slumlords.

Just to be clear, had George Floyd been Jewish, the only movement behind him would have
been a bowel movement, again, he made his bed, now he simply has to lie in it and accept his
"loser" status.

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The point is, that African-Americans, compared with certain others,
e.g. Jewish groups, stick together and rally behind their brethren,
even if the brother/sister in question is not always a model citizen,
but someone who's fallen on hard times! Far too often, Caucasian-
Americans take the attittude, "You make your bed, you lie in it!"
African-Americans on the whole know better.

George Floyd might have been placed in hand cuffs as opposed
to a choke hold, therefore allowing for rehabilitation instead
of making him a martyr.