News / Polish PM Tusk- dictator or not? What Poles think? [455]

Let's rejoice indeed. But also let's keep this thread open and watch the developments in Polish politics in the NTE (New Tusk Era). :)

Especially in regards with...

- health
- education
- armed forces
- unemployment and wages
- taxes
- GDP
- infrastructural investments (maybe apart from second-hand wind turbines :D)

Pawian, as a Tusk enthusiast, can list all the new government's successes here. I, on the other hand, will take upon myself the sad duty of listing all the failures.

Should be fun :)

News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [363]

Your analysis would seem to entail a certain measure of oversimplification, to put it mildly. There was more to it than just PO's reluctance to be more leftist and spend some money on social programs. The contempt towards ordinary people is what brought their downfall, and even people from their own camp admit that...

wydarzenia.interia.pl/kraj/news-marcin-matczak-o-dzialaniach-opozycji-pis-szybko-wroci,nId,7200995

News / Ups and downs of the democratic government 2023-2027 in Poland [363]


Well, there was a reason why they alienated half of Poland and paved the way to power for Kaczynski and PiS.

Luckily, as you said, they have some reasonable coalition partners these days to control them.

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]


Hmm... maybe we should reconsider this alliance idea again. Eating raw animals is, of course, a commendable habit, but the linguistic question may be a major obstacle between our peoples. :-/

Ah, well...

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]


*smiles with approval*

I must say that I am surprised but also delighted by this newly found respect for our British friends and allies. It might be a good idea to join our inventions and eat raw sheep liver and lungs, generously covered with melted lard with the addition of a week-old bigos and washed down with first-class potato vodka. Long live the Polish-British alliance!

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]


I've eaten a whole wild boar though. Baked in bread dough in a huge bread furnace and then kept warm over a fire. De-li-cious!

But fair enough, perhaps I underestimated British eating powers. :)

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]


I doubt it.

I can eat smalec by kilograms, drink a litre of vodka to burn it faster and then eat a kilogram of it again. All that preferably at 10 p.m. so that I have nice dreams at night. When I wake up, I take a healthy 100 grams of vodka on an empty stomach and eat kaszanka with some last week's bigos leftovers. Bigos contains cabbage, so I consider it a vegetarian diet.

Beat that, you British lightweight.

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]


I don't care if it's made of a pig or a cow. As long as it's pure 100% fat, able to kill an average foreigner if he as much as looks at it (never mind eat it), I'm happy. :)

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]

@Bobko

Those koreczki look delicious! They would be perfect as zagrycha for pure, cold, potato vodka. *gets all dreamy-eyed*

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]


With onions and pickeled cucumbers on a huge slice of home made bread...

Travel / What are the best countries to live in? [161]


:)

And when I'm not trolling for Poland, I spend my time as a handsome heartbreaker without mercy.

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]


Yip, sounds exactly like what someone from KO might say about PiS supporters.

Travel / What are the best countries to live in? [161]


I can't imagine raising my children anywhere else or living abroad permanently. I travelled a lot and lived in Ireland for 3 years but the more countries I visited the more I actually appreciated Poland, with her natural beauty, rich culture, Christian heart, and this elusive something that soothes my soul, when I smell morning air by a Kashubian lake on a rainy summer day, buy a serving of pierogi at a local agricultural fair or attend a Mass with my family.

As Pawian said...


As for the foreign countries I've been to, my best memories are from: Ireland, Italy and Russia. Oh, and of course Czechia is lovely as well, but I don't really consider them foreign. ;)

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]

Meanwhile, Tusk accuses Orban of openly switching to Russian agenda...

polskieradio.pl/395/7785/Artykul/3296958,orb%C3%A1n-openly-switches-to-russian-agenda-donald-tusk-says

... will Polish-Hungarian brotherhood survive Orban? It probably will, seeing as it survived even Hungary's alliance with Hitler, but there are difficult times ahead.

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]

You are becoming a specialist on Polish politics, Bobi. I agree with all the above points - PiS is very likely to try all that but that's not the biggest threat to the new government.

The biggest threat to the new government is KO themselves. The reason they lost the elections 8 years ago and paved the way for Kaczynski and PiS is the deeply rooted contempt that they have for ordinary people. Contempt for simple folks, who still go to church, fly the white-and-red flag on 3rd May/11th November, eat their kiełbasa and bigos and aren't overly enthusiastic about sodomites marching on the streets. Normal people.

Even their own man, professor Marcin Matczak, who refused to accept professorial nomination from President Duda accusing him of breaking the Constitution, admits that...

wydarzenia.interia.pl/kraj/news-marcin-matczak-o-dzialaniach-opozycji-pis-szybko-wroci,nId,7200995

KO are their own greatest enemy. Hopefully PSL - their coalition partner - can restrain them a bit.

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]


A rare photo of Tusk giving Szczecin back to Germany...

... ;)

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]


That's bound to happen on a board with limited member base. Maybe if the owner decided to migrate to a more modern and attractive software (vBulletin, XenForo or something similar), advertise and attract more posters, something would change for the better.

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]


If you mean the Great Schism, that's when the Eastern Orthodox Church was founded by separating from the Catholic Church.

RCC is not a denomination - it is the Church. Denominations (probably about 20,000 of them but nobody is really able to count them exactly) are characteristic of protestantism - this vague and watered down form of Christianity created after the Reformation (which should more aptly be called Deformation).


Really? That's a bit worrying.

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]


*ekhm*

:)

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]


You can only speak of protestant countries since the 16th century. Western Civilisation was already in full swing by then, with formative traditions and influences of Greek and Roman antiquity saved for the world by Catholic monks and great university system also developed by the Catholic Church. Let me quote from the book I mentioned...

"Historians have marveled at the extent to which intellectual debate in those universities was free and unfettered. The exaltation of human reason and its capabilities, a commitment to rigorous and rational debate, a promotion of intellectual inquiry and scholarly exchange-all sponsored by the Church-provided the framework for the Scientific Revolution, which was unique to Western civilization."

... actually, nearly all historians of science in the last 50 years (most notably A.C. Crombie, David Lindberg, Edward Grant, Stanley Jaki, Thomas Goldstein, and J. L. Heilbron) came to the conclusion that the Scientific Revolution was indebted to the Church, and that's only one aspect of RCC's contribution to Western Civilisation and its material culture (e.g. farming, engineering and use of machinery all over Europe by the Cistercian monks).

However, let's not drag the thread off-topic too much - I was merely recommending a great book as a Christmas gift :)

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]


... which was built (or at least saved and preserved) by the One-and-Only, Holy and Apostolic, Roman Catholic Church.

If you don't have any ideas for Christmas presents yet - here's one...

amazon.com/Catholic-Church-Built-Western-Civilization/dp/1596983280