Life / What's wrong with Poland? I don't see anything. [121]

The ponzi schemes of social security/pension programs based on notions of infinite population growth are doomed to failure sooner or later regardless. As an "educated" person in the modern age you no doubt believe in peak oil and human caused climate change, therefore a declining overall population should be seen as both desirable and inevitable. Either populations shrink via birth control and social engineering or they shrink during a mass die off when the Earth cannot support its human population.

So immigration solves no long term problems while, in fact exacerbating much more significant problems than propping up ponzi schemes.

Love / Your Thoughts about 20 Year Age Difference Between Men & Women in Poland? [74]

From what I saw Poland has a much more "flat" society than Anglo culture. I went into a bar/club in krakow and ages ranged from 17 to 50+. You never see this in the u.s.

And I saw plenty of older guys with super hot younger women. More like 35-40 year olds with 18-24 year olds though. I guess this is probably a "gold digger" situation but it sounds to me like you've got enough "gold" by Polish standards to not really even need to worry about it. All men pay their women one way or another. She might as well still have her looks.

Life / What's wrong with Poland? I don't see anything. [121]

Meh. If you don't pay your taxes in the u.s. they put you in jail. Government is no joy to deal with anywhere on Earth. But in poland I see a relatively weak and unfunded government compared to the overbearing mammoth bureaucratic Leviathan nanny/police states of the Anglo-sphere.

Life / What's wrong with Poland? I don't see anything. [121]

All I've learned here is that English speaking Americans of vaguely Polish descent hate Poland for reasons they cannot explain. And here I sit, drinking a Polish beer in Warsaw enjoying a great time in a great country, perplexed by your baseless disdain for a great land and great people.

Life / What's wrong with Poland? I don't see anything. [121]

Fuzzywickets ignored and blocked. Trolling is truly the international language. Keep it up though kid, your not bad.

As for the rest, what impressed me most about Poland wasn't the women, but the extreme level of individual liberty enjoyed by the polish people. I guess I am more sensitive than most to personal liberty as I am old enough to have watched it noticeably and steadily decline in America over the course of my life.

I'd rather be impoverished and free than live in a gilded cage.

Life / What's wrong with Poland? I don't see anything. [121]

Never said I despise America, only that I really like Poland :).

Life / What's wrong with Poland? I don't see anything. [121]

Let me backtrack and say that I am not here to defend Poland. I was only there 10 days and many of you know the country much better than I. So I accept your criticism of Poland and suggestion that I may be viewing things thru rose colored glasses as they say.

Life / Individualism in Polish culture...Is it almost Nonexistant? [170]

Now I get the jist of the thread.

Let's just say that the core family structure (husband, wife, children) is the root of tribalism and that tribalism is itself the root of societies. The campaign to destroy the family is a campaign to destroy nations and cultural identity. Disconnected, isolated individuals are much easier for central government bureaucracries to dominate than tightly knit communities of like minded individuals that share a common culture.

One of the causes of massive divorce rates in the West is that government is always there to step in and play the role of Patriarch for a woman and her children. This undermines the male role in the core family and encourages woken to bail on a whim rather than tough it out through good times and bad.

But ultimately, if you read the Communist Manifesto and more modern works by the hard Left you can easily discern their disdain for the family and religion as obstacles to their totalitarian vision of how society should be managed. Luckily for them, in the "West" at least it has been enough to indoctrinate the youth via the compulsory pubic schools and mind destroying TV and film media.

So insofar as Poland may lack what you call "individualism ", I say good. At least Poland has a culture and identity whereas the people in the West are automatons within systems they neither chose nor understand, ultimately distrustful and paranoid of their neighbors to whom they rarely, if ever, speak.

Life / What's wrong with Poland? I don't see anything. [121]

This notion that acknowledging differences between the genders is bad and "sexism" is part of the politically correct West that I disagree with. In the West society struggles to destroy gender lines which I find extremely unnatural and disgusting.

I'd be semi-retired in Poland. If I wanted to work I'd do contracts in the U.S. for $75 an hour. I admit that it sticks to be poor anywhere and it's good to be well off anywhere. But if you're going to live roughly the same lifestyle either way would you rather be in Krakow or some shithole like Baltimore, Philadelphia, Detroit etc. I don't think many of you appreciate just how ****** most American cities are. And just how poor most Americans are. Very few Americans have a passport or ever travel by aircraft.

And things are only getting worse in America by the way. And unlike Poland there is no national identity or cultural unity. If things get bad enough I expect tribal warfare along racial lines, and everyone has semiautomatic rifles. So think about that for a second. Chicago alone has had over 300 gun murders so far this year and the police chief there calls it "tribal warfare like I saw in Iraq."

So...that...or Poland? And by the way I've been to Italy, Austria, Germany, Mexico, and ALl over the U.S. and they all suck compared to Poland. Unless you're just a consumer sheep that thinks life should be a giant shopping mall.

Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

Yes of course because the citizens of Anglo nations are tax slaves. But i've been told such taxes do not exist in Poland.

Life / What's wrong with Poland? I don't see anything. [121]

Good question. I think people matter more than incomes or material possessions. I guess some of us are rejecting consumerism and materialism in favor of "people" as you say.

As for the rest, given the choice, would you rather live with/around beautiful and feminine women or fat-ugly-masculine women like in the West? The choice seems clear to me. Maybe you don't appreciate the women in Poland because you think they are representactive of the global norm (they aren't).

People are what make a country what it is. Not buildings. Not corporations. Not monuments. Not even language. It is the people that matter most of all, and I'm saying Poland contains the best people I've had the pleasure of meeting.

Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

Is it true that there is no annual property tax in Poland? I.E. you permanently own property used as a primary residence? In the Anglo world this is called alloidal title and is nearly unheard of. Property tax is government's big stick to motivate the peasants into generating economic activity.

Life / Individualism in Polish culture...Is it almost Nonexistant? [170]

I think much is overlooked when it comes to individual liberty. Things that seem small are actually quite significant when considered in aggregate. What I saw in Poland:

No leash laws for dogs
Low drinking age
Low age of consent
People seem to drive and park however they want
I'm told there's no property tax on residences
Very liberal society compared to the prudish West (girls handing out fliers to strip clubs around families and nobody minds)
Police were often unarmed and I saw little harassment of citizens (compare this to the automatic weapon touting cellar cad steroid fueled thugs of the West)

Oh, and I didn't even get molested or irradiated at Chopin international.

I don't know exactly what kind of "individualism" you're referring to, but I'll take real freedom over superficial expressions of choice any day.

Life / Individualism in Polish culture...Is it almost Nonexistant? [170]

The Polish people have the freest society on Earth that I have experienced. They also enjoy the most individual liberty. And the society appears to be relatively "flat" rather than hierarchical like the Anglo and Germany societies. In Poland a bar may have people ages 16 to 50. This would NEVER happen in Anglo or Germanic societies for a variety of reasons.

News / THE ARMY OF POLAND - THE REALITY [383]

Germany has been occupied by the U.S. for 67 years. There is zero chance they will become an independent actor whilst occupied. When the last yanks leave Doucheland, then you can start to worry.

Russia does whatever they want as a nuclear power. Given the choice between WW3/global nuclear war and sacrificing Poland, "the West" would absolutely sacrifice Poland. At the end of the day each sovereign nation is on it's own and must be able to secure that sovereignty via force.