News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


Yes. Unhelpful to say the least. Of course it depends on the system, the relationship between Head of State and Head of Government which does of course differ from country to country, however the result is usually stasis.


Democracy takes many forms; there is no single model. Those countries, almost all among the most democratic, developed and stable countries in the world, who have a traditional Head of State, operate by consensus. The monarch's role is to advise, warn and admonish,. Also to make decisions, like a casting vote, if there is no consensus between politicians (usually if an election result is close or a Head of Government dies or is taken ill in office). They do this with the consent of the people, just as they have to abdicate when they lose that consent.

It works by trust and decency; in the vanishingly rare situation that is breached, there are of course mechanisms in place to mitigate it.

As you know, having a hereditary monarchy that has survived for over a thousand years is a sign that a system is working and has not collapsed through instability, dictatorship or revolution.

Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [440]


Yes, an excellent wine.

Do you know Hawke's Bay? They've been producing wine in at that vineyard in NZ for many years. It's superb.

Off-Topic / Habemus Papam / The New Pope [103]


Most aren't Catholic.

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


No, it of course refers to the famous speech by your country's leader.



That's what they do. Part of the fascist playbook is the wolf in sheep's clothing technique, pretending to be reasonable.


Oh dear, you're scraping the bottom of the barrel trawling Google for quotes from there. Good that Universal Credit works though. Hard to know what connection that has to do with leaving your imperialistic trading block though...

Back to the topic. A couple of interesting articles here:
German spy agency brands far-right AfD as 'extremist', opens way for closer surveillance
reuters.com/world/europe/german-spy-agency-ranks-far-right-afd-extremist-2025-05-02/

In 2017, ten AfD Bundestag members were found to have participated in a closed Facebook group named "the Patriots" in which, among other things, antisemitic, racist, pro-Nazi and conspiratorial posts were widespread. One meme posted therein, which showed the Holocaust victim Anne Frank's face edited on a pizza box labelled with the German equivalent of "fresh from the oven"
dw.com/en/afd-in-the-bundestag-hitler-hate-and-hooligans/g-71754221

An oven-ready political party...

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


There are no "premature elections", that concept does not traditionally exist there.. Nor is the number of PMs at all relevant; it all was one administration. And 4 PMs, May, Bojo, Truss and Sunak. Now we've voted a better party in and have a good one for the foreseeable.

You really are an upierdliwy obsessive, and I only now read the first line of your whiny posts. As you've been told, the U.K. is doing nicely.

But of course you're trying to deflect from the rise of neo-Nazis in your own country. Let's stick to that sordid topic.

Edit, I just saw two cities mentioned. Both major metropolises, in the case of Manchester, the southern suburbs are among the most affluent places in Europe. I was in Berlin last month. Grafitti everywhere, poverty level shops and junkies passed out in the street in Neukolln.

Perhaps if Germany didn't have such a twisted and imperialistic concept of nationality and actually spent sometime integrating new arrivals as new Germans, perhaps you'd not have so many neo-Nazis in parliament, determined to 'other' whole sections of German society as if they weren't part of the nation.

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True, however we're still one of the world's larger manufacturing countries. Where I am at home there, there are mile upon mile of of factories all working hard. Big in food and pharmaceuticals. In my area clothing and a few other things.

Plus of course all the other stuff. People forget that the U.K. holds most of the patents connected with graphene, the new generation of Small Modular Reactors and a few other things. And as you say, services, especially education. And London is Europe's biggest tourist destination, with slightly more annual visitors than Paris.

Off-Topic / Habemus Papam / The New Pope [103]

Apparently our new Pope has a degree in Mathematics.

That means he doesn't just understand sin, he also understands cos, tangent and hypoteneuse...

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


He probably means well, however doesn't seem to have any problems with (and in fact seems obsessed with) the idea of a transnational superstate.

And I've said here before, if someone's foreign they should not try to understand Britain or how the British think and behave. They will fail.

Of course his last few very long posts are just trying to deflect from the sad topic of this thread.


I forgot to mention Belgium. There too last month. What struck me was that much of Brussels reminded me of the east part of Warsaw 25 years ago, only more run down. Plenty of fascists there too.

We sometimes forget that despite unification, some of the places where the neo-Nazi AfD get a lot of votes are not prosperous places to live.

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


Crikey. You really are obsessed with the EU, aren't you.

I'll not bother to actually read your post, only to say that everything's been fine since leaving and the political situation there is far better and more stable than other major countries tries in Europe.

Within the last month, I've been in your country, in France, in the U.K. and in Poland. The first two just feel so poor and run down compared to Britain and Poland. Less in the shops, nothing new opening and palpably poor infrastructure.

You also keep trying to deliberately distract from the topic of the thread because it embarrasses you. Just to remind readers, the topic is not the EU and not other European countries that are either menders of it or aren't.

The topic is re-emergence of fascism in Germany, due to the rise of the neo-Nazi AfD. A worry for those of us who live in Poland due to what happened last time fascists held office there.

Off-Topic / Habemus Papam / The New Pope [103]


And you are wrong by their defińition. God is bigger than any one set of religious beliefs; even the RCC acknowledge that.


Most of the OT is just oral tradition from an Iron Age society.


Quite. Some people see prayers for intercession as a sort of vending machine.

News / Man with axe attacks people at Warsaw University [17]


If his mental health is such that he did an appalling thing like that, then he's innocent due to his illness which he has no control over.

And of course civilised societies don't have the death penalty; Poland is not China.

About protecting the innocent (from the effects of serious mental illness in others), perhaps society would do well not to squeeze mentalhealth services in order to provide tax breaks for 'investors' and expensive statues of dead clergy.

News / Man with axe attacks people at Warsaw University [17]


Yes. A harder one to come to terms with and harder to cure.

Nevertheless, Poland and other civilised countries don't kill people whose brain chemicals are so badly affected by illness that they end up doing thing like that.

News / Man with axe attacks people at Warsaw University [17]


Yep and it's a measure of our humanity and decency how we treat them.

Off-Topic / Habemus Papam / The New Pope [103]


This from you!!!!!!

Off-Topic / Habemus Papam / The New Pope [103]


The Pope, probably.


Why do you think that? Especially that some of those would say the same about you.

It doesn't matter to God what religion you follow. Religious affliliation is largely down to where you were born and what your relatives are.

Off-Topic / Habemus Papam / The New Pope [103]


I doubt Protestants or Orthodox would agree with you there. And as for Buddhists, Sikhs, Muslims, Hindus, Antoinistes, Parsees, Caodaists, Taoists, Scientologists, Satanists, Mandaeans, Sabaeans, Candomble/Vodun practitioners, Native American/Siberian Animists and Pacific Cargo Cult members, you'd have a hard time convincing them of that.

Off-Topic / Habemus Papam / The New Pope [103]


Quite. He's there whether they like him or not, and even if they liked him there are some who'd always find something to complain about.

Off-Topic / Habemus Papam / The New Pope [103]


He's been in the job a day and so so many people seem to know exactly what sort of a Pope Leo will be.

He's going to be liberal and conservative and moderate, Francis 2.0 or a cross between JPII and Benedict. Because he celebrated his first Mass as Pope versus populum the usual suspects say he's going to do away with the.old form of the Mass. He's wearing black shoes which makes him deeply unsound according to conservative tat queens. He was good to the poor in Peru but protected dodgy priests. Life often has its paradoxes.

We have a new Pope who will develop his own style, so let's see how things go.

Po polsku / Papież a sprawa polska [195]


Ale to nie mafia.

Być może to tylko kwaśne winogrona dotyczące niektórych ekscesów i dekadencji (niezależnie od seksualności), które istnieją w kościele w Polsce. Z pewnością nie ma "lawendowej mafii", ale niestety w kościele (we Włoszech, w Polsce i gdzieś indziej) nie brakuje konwencjonalnych mafii.

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]


Then they're a lame duck president. Happens all the time between mid terms and presidential elections.

Better to have a King or Queen really.

Po polsku / Papież a sprawa polska [195]


Oczywiście, że nie, bo nic takiego nie istnieje. Zdanie "lawendowa mafia" było tylko obelgą ze strony jednej osoby.

Off-Topic / Habemus Papam / The New Pope [103]

Don't you think that when he was younger, he was a dead ringer for Anthony Perkins in Hitchcock's Psycho.

Off-Topic / Habemus Papam / The New Pope [103]


Seems like a nice boy...

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Off-Topic / Habemus Papam / The New Pope [103]


Prawdopodobnie dobrym pomysłem by było cytowanie ludzi, którzy są zdrowi na umyśle, a nie najgorszych osobników, których można znaleźć na mrocznych odmętach Twittera.


W dzisiejszych gazetach można znaleźć wiele informacji na jego temat. Wydaje się dość dobrym wyborem między dwomami biegunami opinii w kościele.

Miejmy nadzieję, że Brat Leon będzie kontynuował dzieło Brata Franciszka.

Off-Topic / Habemus Papam / The New Pope [103]


Oh dear....

@Bratwurst Boy
This is the po Polsku section, więc:

Spośród wszystkich kretyńskich gnojków, których mogłeś znaleźć rozmawiających o religii w mediach społecznościowych, znalazłeś najbardziej pizdowatego z nich wszystkich i opublikowałeś jego ślinę tutaj.

News / Attacks against healthcare workers in Poland [142]


Unfortunately not very well. Especially since pretty well everyone professionally involved in harm reduction is of the opinion that a combination of the legal situation and socioeconomic inequality are the root of the problem.

Off-Topic / Pop A Cork - Wine [440]


They over invested and premium products are a very fickle market.

Po polsku / Papież a sprawa polska [195]

Dziś jest dobry dzień. Dokonali, jak się wydaje, doskonałego wyboru. Ciekawe, że wybrali młodszego kandydata; papież Leon prawdopodobnie będzie z nami przez jakiś czas.

Tęsknię za papieżem Franciszkiem. Był najlepszym papieżem ostatnich 100 lat. Dobrze widzieć, że nowy człowiek jest do niego bardzo podobny.

News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

Of course. He has good point about putting fascistic autocrats in an island. They can all get together and oppress the penguins.

That clown Braun can go and deface as many exhibitions as he likes. Assuming he's not jailed by PL now he's lost his immunity.

News / Attacks against healthcare workers in Poland [142]


That of course is the direct result of impurities and other issues caused by illegality.

You didn't really think it through before posting.