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mafketis   
38 mins ago
Genealogy / Anyone from Berezka / Brzuska near the Ukrainian border ? [52]

the locals have no historic connection with the area and don't have any stories to share

I thought that was less the case in Eastern Poland.... in western poland yeah but I thought the East was less affected by the compulsory mass migrations that took place after WWII...

Also unless carriesc01 speaks Polish she's liable to not get much informaiton, even if she can find local people who know some English villages in a lot of Poland are still farming communities and people are busy and don't have a lot of time to answer foreigners' questions....
mafketis   
42 mins ago
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [619]

It doesn't seem that way on the ground

After the birth rate falls the population continues to grow for a while (it's called demographic momentum).

I'll also add that widespread affordable contraception, easy divorce and the primacy of career over family all part of neoliberalism (as is the retreat of religion). Pensions are pre-neoliberal but mostly.... let's just say don't count on them in the future....

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mafketis   
52 mins ago
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [619]

liberalism but mass apostasy that is to blame

both play a role (and you have to distinguish liberalism from neoliberalism, something very different)

the loss of religion is maybe less critical since demographic problems are spread across more and less pious societies... it plays a role partly because neoiberalism is incompatible with most religious practice as it deifies the individual...
mafketis   
2 hrs ago
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [619]

It has to do with misaligned incentives in the job market.

Neoliberalism (dominant socio-economic system.... everywhere with an economy) leads to sterility because it turns children in an expensive indulgence rather than a normal part of human existence.

Only countries not really remotely integrated with the rest of the world (Sub-saharan Africa/parts of the islamic world) have high birth rates and Africa's has apparently peaked and started to decline...

Neoliberalism has reached the end of its utility but it's still hanging on.... somehow.... and most of the models on the horizon are too horrific to contemplate and make the sterilizing effects of neoliberalism seem optimistic by comparison
mafketis   
2 hrs ago
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [619]

ussian economy runs on Central Asians and Caucasians

And how many of them give a rat's @ss about Ukraine and are eager to die on the front for the russian godking?

According to generalsvr one method the government has started using was to seel birth control pills that don't work... I don't believe that but it's a tragic idea.... romania tried something similar and all it did was fill orphanages for communist sh1tbra|ns to infect with HIV through communist economy - reusing needles... no reason to think it would play out differently in russia.... want to raise the birth rate make young people think there's a future... which the russian government is not doing (wild understatement)
mafketis   
4 hrs ago
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [619]

russians shoot down a military aircraft (probably Su-27/Su-35) over Sevastopol.....

unfortunately for them (and happily for everyone else)...... it was a russian plane

twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1773375046754472189

one of the biggest threats to russian military is.... russians....
mafketis   
4 hrs ago
Food / Replace meat with bugs - new trend in Poland [23]

The western elite push for the proles to start muching in bugs has not been met with enthusiasm (to put it mildly) and I don't predict any more success in Poland.

I will not live in a pod, I will not eat the bugs.
mafketis   
10 hrs ago
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [619]

Interesting vid from Zeihan on French announcements lately.

tldr: France is able to make decision faster than deadlocked Germany and sees the writing on the wall about the future of the EU (not based in trade) and is making a play for a European leadership role since Germany can't/won't and no other country has the military or political clout (after brexit) to do so.

youtube.com/watch?v=bsU6gONt8Z8
mafketis   
12 hrs ago
History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [911]

why does everyone want to live in prosperity in the West and not build a great russia

That's what makes them so unhinged.... the cognitive dissonance of trying to reconcile their socialization (russia is the greatest ever! all other countries are crap! especially the Anglo-Saxons!") with the reality that life for average people is far higher in many, many, many other countries than it is in russia which is a big potemkin city and a second semi-potemkin.

I remember the video of a pretty nomal looking Polish village and russians couldn't believe it they thought it was an enclave for the very rich....

They know at some level that compared with many other countries russia is.... a failure and they externalize tha failure as unremitting hostility and ungratefulness toward their hosts....

The same is true in the Baltics.... russians know that the countries are far better off without them in charge and that modern comparative prosperity has nothing to do with them and so they cling to soviet imagery all the harder.... collecive narcissistic wound....
mafketis   
12 hrs ago
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [619]

why I like everything about Russia

Including recruiting Europeans to die for the russian god-king?

dailynewshungary.com/hungarian-mercenaries-recruited-russia/

You want all those foreigners fighting for russia to be killed don't you?
mafketis   
22 hrs ago
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [619]

utin rounds up illegal migrants to send to the frontline

wonder how well that's gonna go.... central asians and caucasions aren't as meek and submissive as russians....
mafketis   
1 day ago
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [619]

didn't think that Udmurtia would ever do a Tianenmen style massacre of its citizen

You think enough russians would rebel? They've had centuries of having independent judgement beaten out of them and apathetic submission beaten into them...

The non-ethnic russian citizens are another matter entirely.... especially if Z-inspired anti-immigrant sentiment starts taking hold....

twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1772611929883722212
mafketis   
1 day ago
Food / What Polish foods and brands do you miss when you go to other countries? [212]

I like olives on pizza too.

I knew I was forgetting something!

In my university town there was a deep dish pizza place that broccoli on pizza which was surprisingly good (and one of their biggest sellers).

I would definitely miss smoked eel

I've had eel sushi in the US but I've never had eel in Poland.... once during a road trip to the north (destination was Kościerzyna) there were people standing by the road holding up smoked eels and I was curious but I wasn't driving and no one else wanted to stop....
mafketis   
1 day ago
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [619]

What's the point of going to the trouble of bribing some guy ...when you could just go and do a proper job for 1-5% of the total cost of your project

In a cynical and corrupt culture people dont' feel any satisfaction from honest interactions, only from cheating and cutting corners and evading rules (no matter how sensible).

The _perceived_ cost (no relation to real cost) of following rules and being honest is too high as is the _perceived_ gain of bribing and stealing and cutting corners.

How do you not know this?
mafketis   
2 days ago
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [619]

Who were the men in blue at Crocus???

Very interesting.... explosive if true..... no, russian supporters don't care about the russian government killing russian civilians for political purposes

twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1772690913854173434
mafketis   
2 days ago
News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [385]

While using the cvnt word i... has no connection with factory working ladies ...What has the bible got to do with it ?

The context was that the cvnt word isnt' nearly as strong in the UK as it is in the US so even elderly ladies walking with their bibles to church might use it in some contexts.

This is completely unremarkable. Languages spoken in very different places tend to palce different values on different words and a strong insult in one (like wanker in the UK) might not have much force in another (like the US).
mafketis   
2 days ago
News / Polish Lithuanian Diplomatic War? At last. [533]

Poles have been oppressed in Lithuania for decades now

So you want them to be less prepared for public and civic life in Lithuania? They need Lithuanian at a native level to thrive, I'm all in favor of being able to use Polish in their private lives and for Polish to be part of their school system but all Polish school in Lithuania is a way of making ghettos or supplying immigrants to Poland...

A curriculum that's entirely in Polish does not prepare them for adult productive life in Lithuania.... why should the Lithuanian government be on the hook for Polish ghettos?
mafketis   
2 days ago
Life / Polish women fight for their rights - manifa and other events [215]

eed a culture where men aren't afraid to go to the doctor

I think it's more evolution than anything else.... women are useful to those around them for longer and in more profound ways than men. It makes sense that over generations women would be selected for longevity in ways that men weren 't....

All medical procedures should be at society's 'expense'.

Elective? Not so much... do you think the taxpayers should be on the hook for Crystal the stripper's boob job?
mafketis   
25 Mar 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [207]

no cut and dried answers to complicated questions such as how to protect our Southern border

It's not being protected at all at present so.... almost anything would be better than the current situation.

Mexicans, Guatemalans in and of themselves are not our enemy,

Most of those crossing now are not from those countries... haven't you been paying attention?
mafketis   
25 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [619]

doesn't it seem strange to the ordinary population that this failure occurred

You think they're allowed to think that?

when they'd literally been warned a few days before that a terrorist attack in the capital was imminent

And apparently no security whatsoever at the venue... I would assume at the very least you'd want people who could make quick contact with special forces (and that special forces would in fact facilitate that).

Again my theory is the russian government took the warning seriously but decided to just let it happen so they could blame Ukraine... somehow....
mafketis   
25 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [619]

Why did the cops in Uvalde

there's a difference between incompetence regalar police and what are supposed special forces..

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How do I find myself in a position of defending

Once you signed on to support the invasion of Ukraine then you bought all russian state policy... you don't get to pick and choose....
mafketis   
25 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [619]

Far from a good example of an intelligent Russian

He's not involved in killing people or stealing from them.... so i guess from the russian perspective he's a dope.... what do principles and ethics even mean in russia?
mafketis   
25 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [619]

never progressed from the early eighteenth century

I would say they're more in the 19th century when stupid ideas like 'great powers' and 'spheres of influence' were taken seriously....

It's so frustrating because many russians at the individual level are very, very smart but it goes for nothing because the country has no idea how to utilize intelligent people except to corrupt or brutalize them....
mafketis   
25 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [619]

could destroy all of Europe

It's always one sided... European normal countries talk about defense from psychotic russian aggression.... while russia fantasizes about killing hundreds of millions of people.

your country is profoundly sick.... get help.
mafketis   
25 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [619]

russian ambassador ignores summons and does not apppear at Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Normal behavior is too difficult for russians..... still.....

onet.pl/informacje/onetwiadomosci/ambasador-rosji-nie-stawil-sie-na-wezwanie-jest-komunikat-msz/z13h4c0,79cfc278
mafketis   
25 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [619]

how your pimp was spreading "freedom and democracy" a while back

Who the hell is my pimp?

So napalm justifies terrorizing Ukrainian children by russia, which you love.

And if anyone believes your fairytales you moved to the US when the napalm was happening and gladly took up US citizenship... can't have bothered you much then... what changed?

I don't believe political conversion stories that can't be explained....
mafketis   
25 Mar 2024
News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [619]

Why would you want to terrorize children?

I was channeling you. You love russia and it terrorized Ukrainian children in Kyiv today.

So do you love it when russia terrorizes children?