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Ironside   
12 Jan 2024
Life / Has feminism and lesbianism progressed in Poland? [645]

Yes, very disturbing

Almost as when lazy women tune in and whine about home chores...and men?!
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I'm not sure if he was joking, tbh...

Of course, he was joking, you have the mindset of a totalitarian Bolshevic commissar!
Ironside   
12 Jan 2024
News / How strongly are Poles sure that president Duda defend Poland's interests ? [265]

No it wasn't. How can you pardon someone without a final verdict?

Whatever the correct word for it be a reprieve, clemency, pardon, or whatnot, that is not important. What is important is that the Presidential pardon in Poland (as in the US) can be granted before or after conviction of the crime.

It has been tested in this case as the Constitutional Tribunal ruled in this very case that a presidential pardon can be granted before conviction of the crime and the same had been later ruled by the Highest Court.

So, we have The president and his interpretation and his pardon, which is supported by the ruling of the Constitutional Tribunal, and what stands against it? - some a bunch of political activists in togas that decided they were above the Constitution, the ruling of the CT, and the President. Wow!

In that case, I Ironside the mighty ruler of this Galaxy in my wisdom find them guilty and sentence them to hanging - I guess it is as legit as anything in your eyes? geez.
Ironside   
12 Jan 2024
News / How strongly are Poles sure that president Duda defend Poland's interests ? [265]

Duda on the case

Duda is an idiot. It doesn't matter if they end up in prison. He should stand on the ground of legality i.e. his pardon was valid and all that the Tusk government did was illegal and in breach of the constitution, it means Holownia, Skurwysynski and that judge should get ready for prison life! Sooner than later!
Ironside   
12 Jan 2024
Life / What do Poles really think about cats? [470]

Another Ironside-like

Hey idiot, I don't have issues with you talking about cats. I have nothing against cats or dogs.
I just wish you stay on the subject and do not venture into political and ideological threads as your point of view sucks in so many ways that is hard to describe.

By all means, talk about cats.
Ironside   
12 Jan 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Solidarity would have been crushed.

It was crushed one way or another. The result was the same. So what is different?
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It only became clear it was a "failure", towards 87

Sure, but at the time Soviet Union was fully engaged in Afghanistan and it was not wise to stretch resources intervening in Poland. That would also further endanger political stability and the balance of power between the two blocks.

why risk it all if you have your loyal people in Poland doing your bidding?
Isn't that obvious?
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their hatred;

I don't hate him. You on the other hand couldn't find a better father figure than some old borekn commie, who was as much a Polish stateman as Mugamba.
Ironside   
12 Jan 2024
Travel / Kielce and the area - amazing Polish Pocket Knives live there [105]

In other cities in Poland which are famous for other things the results are similar :)))

Full of wannabes of all kinds. Let's see who has a clear view of disasters that are going to be caused by the new government and new election in a year or two.
Ironside   
12 Jan 2024
News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [599]

I swear that in the last 50 years, I didn't see anyone who was coughing or sneezing without covering his face. I never did.

I have seen such an a-hole but then he is French.

Death by eating his homemade bug food! Haha

He should go to Texas and experience the love bites of his mosquitos.
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Fauci finally starts fessing up.

Is he coughing up the cash or saying who paid him?
Ironside   
12 Jan 2024
Life / Has feminism and lesbianism progressed in Poland? [645]

What magazines do you subscribe to to learn all these stats, Novi?

lol! He must be lesbian.
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If one day

What have you been eating?
If one day you will be graced with brain cells do not hesitate to use them.
Ironside   
11 Jan 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Most people

Don't overdue it, it was a common experience for his generation.
Ironside   
11 Jan 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Then why didn't he drown Solidarność in blood? He could easily have done that.

Pragmatism?
I see you returned to the old joke or a meme before the internet was invented - a picture of Stalin that gently pats children on their heads - and subtitles that say - Wow! What a Great dude, he could have killed them all! Yet he didn't!
Ironside   
11 Jan 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

I definitely wouldn't call them slow. :)

Maybe not slow then but twisted.
lol!
Ironside   
11 Jan 2024
Genealogy / What does my Polish name mean? [402]

Every surname has a story,

Sure, but people do no pounder- what it means, where it comes from, what it is the story.
Some are into genealogy but most do not give a ... do not care at all about such issues.
I'm only telling to people - mostly Americans it seems - to get real and stop asking those questions on some random website.
I mean if they are interested in a true answer.
If not, and it is just some play on the American dream of being an aristocrat or as a second best to have an ancestor being an aristocrat and thus justifying their feeling they belong in the ranks of aristocracy even from Eastern Europe, be my or rather be the PF guest but don't expect too much.

My opinion won't stop them from coming. lol!
Ironside   
11 Jan 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

East Germans were, for some reason, very eager to intervene

Whatever, they wanted or not, they wouldn't and couldn't do without Moscow's approval. So those troop movements are a moot point.
If the German Army had moved in, it would have been an escalation and what they were afraid of most of all that would lead to another uprising.

I too spoke to honourable people

Maybe they are honorable but if they were regular officers in the commie army I'm rather skeptical as to their honor.
What I question is their political awareness. It is an easy excuse in a retrospective view. If not for us, there would have been some troops movement, the Germans would have moved in. Oh?! Really? You have done the right thing then... lol!

Really? Did those honorable people not strike you a bit being on the slow side?
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Ironside   
11 Jan 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

I know it from old army officers, who remember also very well what was happening in the Baltic Sea and along the borders in 1980-81.

Lame excuses of those who meekly followed orders.
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The General himself said and wrote

Yeah, sure he was known for speaking nothing but the truth. lol!
Torq, that is just another myth-feeding book, noting more and nothing less. Logic and facts support me as well as the knowledge of human nature and understanding of what the Soviet Union and PRL were.

You forget I remember that sh't!
Ironside   
11 Jan 2024
News / How strongly are Poles sure that president Duda defend Poland's interests ? [265]

How is he a traitor?

Giving up Polish independence or what's left of it!
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I don't think escalating was the purpose.

It was, do you think that Tusk is an idiot? In a low IQ sense? I don't! So he knew what he was doing, rubbing in Duda's face was just a bonus. it only shows how petty Lizar is.

Duda is not a formidable opponent or a great statesman or a staunch strong character, there was no need for that BS arrest to be done this way other than to escalate the political conflict. There more sh't shows to come courtesy of Mr. Lizard.
Ironside   
11 Jan 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

They still had enough strength,

I never said they couldn't, they just didn't want to and told J to do it himself and he like a good dog obeyed.

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60 thousand, compared to Polish half-a-million plus reservists

What Polish, Polish were led and commanded by commies too if anything Polish troops would provide assistance, not an obstacle.
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Of course there were.

Sorry, plans might have been there as any serious state has contingency plans for every situation but there was no intention of doing it,
Ironside   
11 Jan 2024
History / Can a nation totally change its characteristics and national character throughout history? [79]

Wasn't it a series of terrorist attacks that finally put an end to tolerant assimilation policies?

That was founded by the ChechSlovakian government of all things, Our friendly neighbor.
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See how

I see how you bring up some lame excuses for murder and racist, xenophobic ethnic cleansing ideology. Good for you!
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Oh no!

lol!
Ironside   
11 Jan 2024
News / How strongly are Poles sure that president Duda defend Poland's interests ? [265]

there is one thing that bothers me in all this story:

Is that the only thing that bothers you?
Don't you think that making that show about Presidencial Palce was done on purpose to escalate the issue?
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so many politicians involved in corruptio

Grocki - corruption - hiding behind his immunity for four years already, Giertych 80 mil theft, hiding abroad? I don't get how he could hide abroad and the take a remote part in the election and become an MP.

That PiS fault they let criminals laugh at all of us. That's why I'm not sorry for them idiots. They are incompetent fools and JK is the biggest of them all.

While Tusk is a traitor and cad.
Ironside   
11 Jan 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Eventually, the Soviets decided against the military intervention.

As far as I know, there were no plans for the Soviets to intervene in Poland. It was just an excuse. I think it was historically proven but seems to me some are making money on perpetuating old commie myths about great Soviet stateman Jaruzelski.

The Soviet Union had just failed in Afghanistan they were in no shape and had no taste for another intervention. Even though there were plenty of Red Army troops stationed in Poland.

In fact that dude acted unlawfully even with the former PRL laws, and it resulted in many deaths and political murders. So spare me glorifying nonsense about your great hero.
Ironside   
11 Jan 2024
News / How strongly are Poles sure that president Duda defend Poland's interests ? [265]

while hiding from justice

That claim about hiding is empty. How they were hiding?
There was no reason to escalate and arrest them there, they could have been arrested anywhere, at any time. LOL! That propaganda BS about hiding.

Who is the boss of the Presidential Protection Service?
A minister in the Tusk government Skurwysynski and all he needed to do was ask to stop them while the police would just collect them. Stories about hiding all those political hacks [reteding to be journalists aimed to escalate, and radicalise political conflict in Poland.

Could be to the point of a civil war.

The pardon granted before the final court ruling has been given is not legally binding.

Oh really? What do you spew BS just because it suits what you think? It is murky like with most of such issues in Polish law but two idications were ignored by the political judge - the President's interpretation and the Constitutional court ruling that supported such interpretation.
Ironside   
10 Jan 2024
News / How strongly are Poles sure that president Duda defend Poland's interests ? [265]

Convenient! If that's the case then the legal system is indeed a mess.

It works in the US somehow, I call mess a situation when an upstart political judge can ignore the ruling of the TK.
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They weren't.

yes sir! lol! whatever man, I say there were.
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Let's see how it all ends.

It going to burn, goodbye post-columnist Banan Republic!
Ironside   
10 Jan 2024
News / How strongly are Poles sure that president Duda defend Poland's interests ? [265]

You mean 2015? The sentence was appealable.

Doesn't matter. They were pardoned. The legal system is a mess but still, that court that ignores TK and the presidential pardon is just radically partisan and ridiculous.

I'm telling you that pardon is about an act they are charged with not about a court ruling.
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Trzaskowski in jail? What on earth for???

Rumor has it he orchestrated it and even if he didn't that dude needs to end up in jail, but that is a different matter.

They should investigate who stands behind this sabotage.
Such an attack on the presidential column is not a joke and the driver could end up dead. I say no more as I don't know the details but seems that protection services are doing a sloppy job.

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to engage in this sad cabaret

Tusk is breaking the law and the constitution brazenly. What are you talking about, PiS is playing its drama as it always has been playing, and that is why people do not believe them now, serve them right.

However, whether you like JK or not the reality is that Tusk's government and his acts are harmful to Poland in some many ways that PiS can't even hold a candle to him.

quote=Torq]ardly a Rothschild family![/quote]
he must have stashed some money for rainy hours for such times when he going to escape from Poland for good.

Duda says he is " not going to rest until they are freed

They should just let them serve jail time. No big deal. After all all those Tusk, ministers, and judges will have their truen with longer sentences for heavier crimes.

They are being wussies about it.
Ironside   
10 Jan 2024
News / How strongly are Poles sure that president Duda defend Poland's interests ? [265]

Really? I think they've been convicted only recently, so NOW Duda can pardon them,

You think wrong, they have been already pardoned.
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The passengers weren't there, I

you are missing the point IF the presidential protection service were doing its job as if Poland was a serious country the diver would be dead, Trzaskowski in jail and there would be no question about sabotaging the Presidential column which is a terrorist and criminal act in itself----

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He is the president, so he can pardon Wąsik and Kamiński properly.

He has done it properly, it is about the interpretation of the law. even if he didn't, that is not my point, my point is about an attack on the presidential column.

Even more, the fact you seem to be OK with that is just bizarre and sad.
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Marsz Moherów w obronie milionerów. xD

Tusk is the richest of them all and a few of his cronies are not paupers either, so shove your misplaced sense because it is not a sense of justice.
Ironside   
10 Jan 2024
Genealogy / Kalinowski Origins [7]

I was wondering if anybody knows whether or not the surname Kalinowski is Jewish at all?

No, it definitely not a 'Jewish' name although I can see that a Jewish person would change his name and call himself Kalinowski. Happy?
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My families name is Kalinowski and we stem from Wołynia which was colonized by the Kalinowski aristocrat family.

Are you sure? Your ancestor might be as well serf of that family that took on the name of his master in the mid 19th century.
Ironside   
10 Jan 2024
Genealogy / What does my Polish name mean? [402]

The surname is currently rather unpopular in Poland.

Why? Is it considered to be anti-semityzm lol! Well, I should laugh it might be a reality for some.
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rhaps the below text is helpful

As I tell numbers people asking similar questions - if you are really interested and what to know you should go and hire a professional, it will cost you, not too much I think but than you will have your answers.

Asking here is rather pointless, for people in Poland names are just names and doesn't convey some secret meaning, not to mention looking for its origin or some such... it a bizarre idea for most Poles
Ironside   
10 Jan 2024
History / Can a nation totally change its characteristics and national character throughout history? [79]

Like in Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

I don't see how that would apply? You must have very disorganised mind. If you want to learn something there is one condition to apply before you make a comparison or provide something that supposed to be an analogy in you mind:

- context
Its look easy at it face value but in fact it is a very tricky little bugger and demands a lot of knowledge.