Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2729]


No. Whites are over-represented in gun ownership but under-represented in gun crime... (except maybe suicide among older men).


Chicken or egg? From some time in the mid-1970s to the early 1980s the 'Black' economy was growing faster than the 'White' economy.

Then crack cocaine happened which revitalized gangs and wiped out decades of economic progress in a few years. Unless you believe the conspiracy that crack cocaine was a CIA plot to immiserate US blacks the effects of the crack cocain epidemic are on the choices made by Blacks themselves.

Now you have niwits going around preaching the idea that ideas like 'punctuality' 'reliability' 'conscientiousness' (and other values necessary for success) are rooted in 'white supremacy' so.... chicken or egg. Do Blacks commit more crime because they're poor or are they poor because they do so much crime?


How much longer before armed gangs (mostly with a 'migration background') are shooting Polish people in Poland?

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2729]


Yes blacks and latinos are people and they are overwhelmingly responsible for gun violence in the US. What good does feigning ignorance of that do?

It's my understanding that blacks are overwhelmingly responsible for knife violence in the UK.... is that not right?


What about Sweden?

tvn24.pl/swiat/szwecja-polak-zastrzelony-w-sztokholmie-siostra-chcial-dawac-przyklad-swojemu-synowi-st7865997

Real Estate / Move from Canada and buy an apartment in Krakow? [22]


I was only there once, with a friend who was trying to visit a friend who wasn't home.... they let us in to leave a message but....weren't very friendly and I really didn't like the vibe of the place....

I was only in Krakow once in the PRL and _really_ didn't like the vibe then.... a kind of.... harshness and ugliness that I didn't see in other places.

By the mid 1990s it was already a lot better..... though I still probably wouldn't want to live there. Lots of years ago I had a colleague that had lived there for about 20 years and didn't like the general demeanor of 'Krakusy'....

Life / Examples of popular Polish music? [968]

And now for something very, very different.

Stasiek Wielanek (1949-2016) specialized in what might be called urban folk music, especially that of Warsaw, often containing allusions to the demimonde.

My favorite song of his is the tango "Więzenne rozstanie" (prison breakup)



Here are the lyrics (without repeats) and my quick and sloppy translation

rough translation:
I don't need
your love or you
I've had enough of your fake love
I don't need
your drama and tears
It'll be easier if you just leave

You lied to me once,
you played a stupid game
You sneered at my love once
What we had
Is all over today
It was your whim and my game

You'll miss me
You'll think about me
that I don't know how much you wanted
to be together
But now no nothing on earth
can keep us together anymore
You'll miss me
When the time comes

You'll miss me
Long nights and days
But nothing on earth
Can bring you back to me
More than once you'll cry bitterly
You'll want to fix your mistake
But it will be too late
and I'll be far away

News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2062]


The meta-message from Ukraine is "If you don't give us what you promised and seek to place artificial restraints on what we can do we will take matters into our own hands."

From the first week Ukraine has been asking for air cover and it has been consistenly denied and has received something like only two thirds of promised help and many 'allies' want to place absurd restrictions on actions.....

If the allies don't want to step up and fulfill their promises then they don't get to criticize Ukraine hitting russia where it hurts.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2729]


They're the ones overwhelmingly responsible for gun crime... why pretend otherwise?

Who's overwhelmingly responsible for knife crime in the UK?

here's an example of black criminals attacking an Asian-owned business (nb in the US 'Asian' means East Asia not South Asia)

twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1778662611267023276

Good thing the owner had a gun...

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He's lying. russians seethe when a country that turns its back on them does better...

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russian state tv fantasizes about using nuclear blackmail and nuclear attacks in Europe....

twitter.com/victoriaslog/status/1778512932172714471

Fools insist that russia can't be serious or that russia can be dealt with like a country run by sane people.... neither idea is true.

The mistake Europe made for the last 30 years was assuming that ideas like 'peace' and 'prosperity' motivate russians when they don't. For russians peace is a humiliation and prosperity means stealing things (the entire country is based on the strong stealing from the weak - and yet they wonder why other countries don't want their system....).

Germany was totally corrupted by its own greed and optimism for russia, in the west at present Macron seems to have begun to realize what's up.

@PolAmKrakow What's your plan? russia doesn't want to negotiate (and will not honor any agreement it makes) so.... apart from running back to the US what's your endgame?


not the pair you think they are, but Europe has been way too slow....

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russian externalize (that means 'blame other people') for their failure to create a thriving modern society... they undermind and invade to tell themselves they're not really losers (they know that's a lie so the violence doens't really work... but they don't have anything else).

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russia means regression and privation.... that much is clear. who cares about floods in russia, gotta go try to destroy another country! Talk about backwards.... if I didn't despise russia so much I'd almost pity you....

the US is an unreliable ally.... no news there. US policy failure in Ukraine means no country will willingly rely on the US


told you did he?

My simple analysis carries far more explanatory power than your 'good tsar' model.

russians wanted to kill a bunch of Ukrainians and that's it, that was the goal... all the rest is obfuscation and rationalization

I am a genius and you worship a little spy dwarf. Sad you...

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Never my argument (that was polamkrakow's idea) the west needed to go all in around may of 2022 and drive russia out. Now a lot of countries in Europe will pay the price as russia starts invading other countries and the US support will be seen as a liability... a coward ally that deserts you at critical moments.

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russia is warlike and primitive and violent and wants to steal things from other countries..... yaaaaawwwnnnnnn

wake me when russia decides to tackle its crumbling sh1t infrastructure and sh1t political system with a god king.... how embarassing is it to have to pretend to love your tsar....

how do you even look in the mirror....


russia doesn't care about the west... russian anger is all about externalizing eternal domestic failure and russian inability to create a culture/society that normal people would want to live in

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I wasn't looking for campaign/partisan slogans.... there's something going on and I'm wondering what it is and where it's coming from.

Some people think that they don't want Ukraine attacking russian oil because they're worried about gas prices in an election year but Israel?

I don't get it....

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Very weird turnaround by the Biden administration (at very close to the same time)

Ukraine before - we'll get you what you need to win
Ukraine now - don't actually hurt russia! russia gets to attack you however it wants but you can't hit back!

Israel before - do what you need to do
Israel now - you need to talk and two state solution! Two state solution! (never mind that Palestinians have never really asked for a state and have no ability to run one).

What's the explanation?

I had assumed that Macron's face turn and Tusks quotes about war were due to receiving intelligence on russian aims.... but why such a climbdown by Biden on two fronts at the same time?

And it's also clear that Poland cannot and must not depend on NATO - if the US abandons Ukraine and Israel it will abandon Poland. Either a country keeps its word or it doesn't.... and the US record is not much better than russia's in honoring commitments.....

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2729]


Yes, gun culture is specific to the US (and not going away anytime soon) but there's no real need for it in Europe.... different places, different norms....

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2729]


Not really, those have always been around they just get more publicity now (except for Las Vegas which everyone is supposed to forget)....

There are also 'party shootings' a black (and to a lesser degree latino) phenomenon.... there's a party and someone gets mad for a really stupid bonehead reason, leaves, gets a gun, comes back and then randomly shoots into the crowd.... (hose and pose, it's called)

steve sailer noted that you can generally tell the race of a shooter by the casualty count... if the wounded greatly outnumber fatalities then the shooter is almost certainly black, if the number of fatalities is large then it's a white or East Asian shooter)

liberals hate that but facts is facts

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2729]


Actually gun violence rates in the US are very, very low if you control for two factors.

Urban drug gangs

Elderly white male suicide (aka the Smith & Wesson Retirement Plan)

Highest gun ownership is found among rural whites but gun violence among them is extremely low.

Urban gangs (overwhelmingly black and latino) that cater to middle and upper class twits that need an illegal high to get through the day have sky high rates. The real problem there is the

And guns are the preferred method of suicide among older white men (officially suicides are counted as gun violence/crime).

So gun debates in the US are carried out by stealth.... liberals can't say "We want guns out of the hands of violent minorites that we subsidize with our drug habits!" so they attack peaceful and law abiding rural whites instead.

Work / tram driver foreigner [31]


A jak nie chcą?

Work / tram driver foreigner [31]


Pretty sure I've heard some Ukrainians driving them (not sure if that really counts).

Originally Indian bus drivers weren't expected to know Polish (they had translators on standby that could be reached by phone). I'm not sure how many now know Polish and to what degree.....

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Completely off topic! What is wrong with you that you insist on dragging in unrelated isues.... for the record I'm happy to slag canada and trudeau all day long but not in this thread.

Start an appropriate thread for that and I might join it but stop dragging in irrelevant topics here.

jeesh....


oh quelle suprise! another nuclear threat from a russian.... so boring.... you started this and it's all on you so stop your phony concern.... velund's threats are better...

if you really cared you'd tell russian people to stop cooperating with their terrible government that is destroying your country...

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For idiots.... isn't it amazing how right I was! russia was warned something could happen (why warn them?) and then the decision was made to just let it happen and perform a lot of mental gymnastics to 'prove' it was Ukraine.....

How many people with three digit IQs believe that? Even Bobko admitted he only believe about 5% of what the russian government says.....


nothing....

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russian priorities....

near Smolensk a bridge had been listed as being in 'emergency' condition for 8 years.... guess what was done....

if you said 'nothing' then you win! (unlike the poor idiots who were on the bridge when it collapsed this morning)

twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1777389125030539408


russian 'culture' degrades human beings to the level of livestock....

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You love that! It's what you want to do...... what a narcissistic weirdo..... loves russia for crushing dissent and despises Canada for the same....

hypocrisy much?

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Sh1tholes all of them....

China is still run by the same party that caused the worst famine in human history and is running its economy into the ground because it wants to maintain total control over citizens' lives

North Korea starved about 10% of its population to death in the 1990s and things are not much better now

In Iran police beat young women to death if they show their hair in public.....

If all your friends seem like sewer denizens... then.... maybe your country is a sh1thole too....

Real Estate / Move from Canada and buy an apartment in Krakow? [22]


To be fair... what's there to do on weekends in Australia? Watch kangaroo fights?

News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2062]

News from russia on the ground. Wonder what's going on in Orsk?

Well Artur Rehi has the lodown:

tldr: russia happened, the money for the dam was mostly stolen and they just piled up a bunch of dirt rather than build a dam, now the kremlin is trying to ignore the problem or blame locals and the locals are reduced to begging (aka 'appealing' to putin to fix their problems).

The myth of the 'good tsar' (as primimtive and backward as it is, is till alive and going strong in provincial russia).

twitter.com/ArturRehi/status/1777401800628240887

News / Poland`s aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 10 [2062]

Very interesting interview by Sarah C.M. Paine. Professor of History and Strategy at the Naval War College....

She talks about WWII and the impending WWIII

Very fresh perspectives on russia, China and even WWII

some important takeaways:

putain's big mistake is he had no plan B (aka back down plan) and still doesn' thave one, all he can do is double down

russia has put Ukraine on 'death ground' (where people have no expectation of surviving a defeat).

russia is still stuck in a pre-industrial revoltuion view of political power as a zero-sum game and is not interested in prosperity or peace....

Lots more.

Long but you don't need to watch, just listen while doing other stuff

youtube.com/watch?v=YcVSgYz5SJ8

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Partly true since he is not motivated by the wellbeing of russian citizens at all.

Life / Polish people and TV Series - so good and hilariously spot on :) [99]


Noszę kapelusz, żyję w kłamstwie....

Life / Examples of popular Polish music? [968]


Let's test that!

How do you like these?

(Disko tanah - dirt disco) from Indonesia (the song is what was playing in the viral Burmese coup video)



Norteña music from Mexico (influenced by German and Czech immigrants in Texas).



youtube.com/watch?v=VjsZLgvqtMo

Sotho music from southern Africa... more accordion magic!



youtube.com/watch?v=Kg18XWV7I5A