Off-Topic / Foreign news in Polish media [108]

Not really....normal....some have more to say than others.....now that Baerbock mangled the election her "second" Habeck's star could go up. He is now widely seen as the better choice for the top postings (and is seemingly already best friends with FDP Lindner)...


CDU deserves a few years in the opposition, after 16 years of Merkel the party is burned out to a shell....

To put some faces to the numbers:



Together the GREEN and the FDP have the most votes....more than the CDU or the SPD....if they find an agreement they can choose whom they want to go into coalition talks with, who after successful conclusion will then become Chancellor...

Off-Topic / Foreign news in Polish media [108]

For enemies of Nordstream the GREENS in the gov would be a better hope though....

energymonitor.ai/tech/networks-grids/why-the-german-greens-want-to-kill-nord-stream-2

SPD is pro Nord Stream:


vorwaerts.de/artikel/spd-nord-stream-2-blockiert-verhindert-fruehen-kohleausstieg

Merkel's CDU was pushing the project....

Work / Hi, I am Indian and will be shifting to Poland (diploma in Mechanical engineering) [47]

Yeah that she did! :)

Off-Topic / Foreign news in Polish media [108]


Well...split between Greens and FDP would describe it better. But since for months the medial record only played the "green youth" and the "left youth" song it comes at a surprise that 21% of the youth voted neither left nor green...but quite conservative at their first after-Merkel election!


FDP and the GREENS....that's why both have talks with each others first....together they have more votes than the SPD....everything is open right now! The scale could tip either way....

@Bratwurst Boy
Youth? Listening to mainstream media? When they use Tik-Tok, SC or spotify? xD
Absurd

Interesting, future of eastern Europe and which way Germany will go depends on it

Off-Topic / Foreign news in Polish media [108]

The youth or the FDP??? :)

A tiny party but probably now a "kingmaker".....I'm not sure what Lindner wants, only that he wants to be part of the power as he left the coaltion talks explode 2017 already!

Off-Topic / Foreign news in Polish media [108]

Interesting observation.....the Greens with all that medial support got barely 14%......the AfD was shunned everywhere and got still nearly 11% and took over Saxony and Thuringia from the CDU....not that much difference!

I would put the Greens and the CDU into the same loser corner!

Surprisingly many youth voted FDP.....that nobody expected....and the Left is dying. The real dying old SED-core voter can't be replenished by some idealistic west youth....their goals are no longer the traditional class war but wokenism!

Off-Topic / Foreign news in Polish media [108]

The Left won't even take the 5% hurdle...

And the AfD consolidates itself as the Ossi-party....

Off-Topic / Foreign news in Polish media [108]

The election in failed-state-Berlin was totally chaotic and maybe even fishy.....I wish all these immigrated anarchos would go home and make their chaos there (and vote red there too)!

That's third-world-like-embarassing! 🙄

Off-Topic / Foreign news in Polish media [108]

Nah.....that would be more exciting, heh:)

Off-Topic / Foreign news in Polish media [108]

......okay......then probably another grey mouse called Laschet!

I'm not that exhilarated either....a "Neuanfang" that is not!

Off-Topic / Foreign news in Polish media [108]


Probably a grey mouse called Scholz.....

Work / Hi, I am Indian and will be shifting to Poland (diploma in Mechanical engineering) [47]

You know what I mean...Schlesien...

I wonder who told him in they speak German in Poland!

Work / Hi, I am Indian and will be shifting to Poland (diploma in Mechanical engineering) [47]


Maybe in former Silesia?

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


Because that's just a flat out lie! It's like the church declaring itself gay-priests-free....everybody knows better!

Off-Topic / Where are you from? [59]


Still....IMHO it is boring to surround yourself with likeminded posters. It's like talking to a mirror...

If you are interested in real discussions you should look out for different opinions....then take them apart with facts....try to convince them....try to see things from their perspective....avoid to demean them because that's mostly the end of any fruitful exchange...and you will have alot more fun, promise! :)

PS: I don't think I changed that much?

Off-Topic / Where are you from? [59]


Yeah...I see you waving the german flag through my web cam! :)

....next you will tell me you support the german Fußballmannschaft....


German citizens are probably one of the most documented people (outside of a dictatorship)....the duty for papers of any kind for every occasion runs high.

But for foreigner it depends...the older ones came invited during the West-German "Wirtschaftswunder".....mostly southern Europeans and Turks....they and their descendants are as well documented as native Germans by now.

The newer ones? Not so much!

The problem with many immigrants nowadays is that they come from regions where that isn't so orderly. Often papers get lost (they say, even as they manage to hold onto their expensive smartphone somehow)....more often they just lie to get in the "asylants of the month Germany is sympathetic to" group hoping for better chances to be accepted.

So, that brings us to the current most annoying conundrum of the german immigration policies - even if someone has no chances to get legally accepted, even when he becomes a criminal, without a real documented country to be shoven back to (always assumed said home country wants him back in the first place) he has to stay...in the worst case for infinity...supported by the teeth grinding german taxpayer!

....and you talk about some future, heh:)

Off-Topic / Where are you from? [59]

Well, as a Chancellor of Germany you need to at least try to include ALL of your citizens....that makes for some curious word contortions from the top brass like:

"The Islam doesn't fit into Germany - but Muslims do"

Most people can agree with that...it just doesn't make much sense!

Off-Topic / Where are you from? [59]

There is again a misunderstanding :)

The question in that survey was loaded, because it wasn't about demographic stats but more about the feeling/opinion about muslims and their religion....as in: Of course belongs Christianity to Germany.....but does Islam?

Merkel thinks so, but two thirds of the Germans don't! Only 5% agree fully (survey from 2021).

rp-online.de/panorama/religion/fuer-viele-buerger-gehoert-der-islam-gar-nicht-zu-deutschland_aid-59214829

Off-Topic / Where are you from? [59]


True? :)

Serious question: If there was such a survey in the US as in Germany recently...what do you think would the majority say, does the Islam belong to the US?

Off-Topic / Where are you from? [59]

More and more people in the EU have two or even three official ID's.....legally! That's crazy!

Off-Topic / Where are you from? [59]


I wouldn't call it "class" but definitely exclusivity....the belief in the power of a passport is here not as high as it is not able to change your identity that much. If I , for example, would immigrate to Japan I would still be a German, never become a Japanese, japanese ID not withstanding.

But yes, with an USian ID I would probably become a real American...over night....mind boggling but true!

Off-Topic / Where are you from? [59]

It's really a cultural thing I believe....on Twitter there is a turkish German active and quite popular who has done the impossible and became an infidel. As it is impossible to just "leave" Islam....there is no way to do that like you would leave a Church....and it is of course forbidden. But he did it, became an outspoken atheist....outed himself as gay and shows his stone age "brothers" daily the finger.

He is as popular with Germans and westernized Turks as he is hated by religious muslims. That makes him much easier acceptable in Germany than his enemies!

He has decided to go an unbelievably hard, stony and potentially dangerous way but he keeps going nonetheless...

What would Darwin say to that?

Off-Topic / Where are you from? [59]


Not really....it's still hard to accept a headscarf Aishe or an islam-preacher-beard Ali with their Ramadan and Mosque-goings as Germans. Even as they are born here and speak perfekt German....many call them "Pass-Deutsche"...compared to the native "Kartoffeln" or "Almans"....*shrugs*

That is especially striking during the search for jobs and appartements....they have it much harder!

A majority still says in every survey that the Islam doesn't belong to Germany...its really a cultural thing....Poles and other Europeans for example had mostly been fully "germanized" after one generation...

History / What do Poles think about Turks? [761]


There have been studies about that:

....In the report of October 2018, DFAT further noted, 'Eastern and south eastern Turkey have historically been less developed than other parts of the country, with lower incomes, higher poverty rates, less industry, and less government investment. The Kurdish population is socio-economically diverse: while many are very poor, particularly in rural areas and the south-east, a Kurdish middle class is growing in urban centres, particularly in western Turkey.'22

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/866094/Country_policy_and_information_note_Kurds_Turkey_February_2020.pdf

These regions are culturally closer to the tribal society of Afghanistan...but on the other hand we have in Germany a rising numbers of politicians of kurdish origins, mostly with the LINKE and den GRÜNEN....women even, educated, independent, no headscarf in sight...yes, they are extremely diverse!

I wonder how a statehood would work if they should really achieve their own country sometime in the future...with such diverse realities of life.

History / What do Poles think about Turks? [761]

....not necessarily! Did you ever hear about the "Grey Wolves"?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Wolves_(organization)

They are big in Germany and directly influenced by the hard core nationalists, fascists even at home...even if living in Germany already for the second or third Generation. Erdogan ist known to use them for support. He even uses their salute, the "wolf sign"!



They are at least as bad as some Kurds....

Yes, the turkish diaspora is heavily divided!

Polonia / POLES vs BULGARIANS [160]

Nope!

I remember singing loudly and happily: "Wir fahr'n nach Lotsch" :)

Polonia / POLES vs BULGARIANS [160]

Thank you! :)

I just recognize that "lods" dilemma....heh:)

Polonia / POLES vs BULGARIANS [160]

I hasten to add: "Let's try Polish" :)

News / What is strategic meaning of Poland in Europe and in the world? [59]

Why not France too? And Italy?

Genealogy / Polish equivalent of William [16]

Heh:)