Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [120]

A lot easier said than done, I'm afraid. None of us is an automaton and we all have
feelings which on occasion back up into our daily decision making, ward off against such
subjective emotions as we may try.

In a perfect world or if we were all Mr. Spock, we might indeed be able to compartmentalize our emotions.
Unfortunately, we're only human and can only ask for divine forgiveness.

Certainly eighty years ago, in the scheme of things, is but a drop in the bucket and for survivors,
with or without therapy, is as though it happened yesterday!

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [120]

Rich, guilt has no statute of limitations! Those so unmercifully wrenched from our midst for no other reason than solely because of who rather than what they were, are that lasting testament to the extent of state sanctioned sadism, doubtless without historical precedent. The seed which spawned a Hitler and his minions is still nestled within the soil of that country and cannot be expunged unless the nation is constantly vigilant.

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [120]

Not entirely, Rich!

Let's face it, what happened to minority groups during the Second World War, above all in
Nazi Germany, remains unspeakably horrific, a watershed, regarding which, even over eighty-five years later,
human language fails us miserably.

More so than in the US, Germany has spent nearly all that time ever since bending over ass backwards to try to make
paltry amends to both Jews as well as Roma in order to ensure that nothing similar in future emanates from German soil
EVER AGAIN!!

In Germany to an exaggerated degree, the pendulum has now swung in the polar opposite direction and has
for the past forty-odd years, so that presently, nearly everything "foreign", for a while, "American", (not necessarily "Jewish") has been forced to
be deemed good and practically everything "German" has been forced to be deemed bad, ugly, shameful.
This neurotically out of focus perspective has resulted in the current FRG and it needs to be centered so that true
perspective, if perhaps normalcy" can for the first time finally be achieved.

Only then, can Germans honestly and comfortably celebrate their German identity and arrive at economic balance, in the end being fair
to all their workers, especially, indeed exclusively, in the manufacturing sector.

News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [381]

Perhaps, Maf. Yet if such were the case, as you claim, why then the popularity of that mid-'00's Polish
film "Kret"? Clearly folks out there are curious about that era.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1303]

Often the mullah's the one with the moolah, no? LOL

Po polsku / Strefa Wolna od Małpiszonów [46]

.....jesli W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi trzcinie, prawda?

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [120]

This is because liberal leadership in countries such as The Netherlands or Sweden for instance lost
touch with their majority white, native born electorate, not too dissimilar to the US!

News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [381]

Apparently, either one or both of Nawrocki's parents were Solidarity supporters during the 1980's, yes?
Wonder how smoothly the transition from the Duda Admin. will function.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1303]

Drunks spend their own money??? Guess you never attended an American college/university
w/scores of students getting rip roaring soused on the ol' man's mullah.

Life / Do colored immigrants in Poland function better than in Western countries? [256]

True enough, Alien.
Here in the US, companies, indeed society in general, have bent over backwards
to attempt to accommodate "others" aka people of color within their organization.
However, all too often, the toxic effects of affirmative action have led to the exact
opposite from what was originally intended, that is, the proverbial fair shake for
everybody.

In my opinion, if an applicant is plain unqualified for the job, don't hire them,
even if they look like Marilyn Monroe, that is, Beyonce and have umpteen church recommendations, bribed the hirer etc.
But in places such as New York City, their complexion is their protection (quoting
Mayoral Presumptive Curtis Sliwa)!

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1303]

If everyone took your attitude, Rich ol' boy, the world
wouldn't be a fit place in which to live! Kindly don't measure the rest of
humanity by your bar room, benzadrine standards.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1303]

Again, I'm on the side of truth, not subjectivity, awful as the truth can be at times!
Israel is far from perfect, no country is.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1303]

Who's backstabbing, B.B.? I'm merely attempting to walk that fine
line between objectivity and truth, not an easy balancing act.

Po polsku / Niemcy maja nowego kanzlerza! [25]

Dzieki, Maf!

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1303]

Arafat sure wasn't.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1303]

Never say my being a Jew ever interfered with my sense of objectivity or historical perspective:-)

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1303]

Finally on the same homepage, eh Bobko?
I even got an acknowledgement from Miloslaw:-)
WOW!!

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1303]

Perhaps the reason for all the discord leading to continued bloodshed
dates back to 1948, when Israel "won" her War of Independence by displacing
the native Palestinian Arabs already living in "Israeli" territory for thousands of years!

Po polsku / Niemcy maja nowego kanzlerza! [25]

...tylko tu mnoga, czy nie?

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1303]

Above all, Jews have traditionally been far more assimilated within Western Europe, at least,
than most Muslims in my experience. One reason for this of course has been centuries long
intermarriage between Jews and gentiles. Perhaps in Poland or the Ukraine not as common,
however in France and Germany, very common, especially after the period of the Enlightenment!

Po polsku / Niemcy maja nowego kanzlerza! [25]

Tak, bron = Waffen.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1303]

You're right, Alien!
However, let's not forget either that the Jews were the key target of Nazi hatred
because the German masses were encouraged to be afraid that the Jews would
somehow take over the country, even if they were only about 4/5ths of the entire
population of Germany.

Po polsku / Niemcy maja nowego kanzlerza! [25]

Ha-Ha, tak. Masz racje.

Po polsku / Niemcy maja nowego kanzlerza! [25]

Ale Merz wysla brony do Ukraini!

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1303]

@Przylotnyptak,
No one is more against rogue outsourcing than I am! Trump, as with many Republicans,
and not only MAGA/MAGGOT, wants to screw the middle class by farming out homegrown
work opportunities to cheaper labor countries in order to keep the profits for themselves
instead of paying out to the expert, quality professionals who deserve to be paid well for their
services.

Study the Kondraiev Wave and read up on the the "soft money" vs. the "hard money" cycle.
Not long after WWII, Americans were able to pursue careers in areas both interesting as well
as modestly profitable such as traditional publishing, advertising and college teaching. This was
the case until roughly around the advent of the Reagan Era, during which time, the "hard money"
cycle slowly began to take effect and those aforementioned professions began to give way to
high tech fields, leaving those skilled in language communication in the dust, save for those who
could either bribe, cajole or con their way into making a career for themselves which would allow
them to do more than live from paycheck to paycheck:-)

Yours truly was clever, more than skilled, enough to follow suit.

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News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [557]

....eventually, Orban's gonna run out of people and there'll be nobody else leftLOL

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News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1303]

Unfortunately, gumishu. we aren't and, as usual, it's the poor who will be, indeed who are, most affected!
Just remember, the only crime in the US is that of being poor.

I used to have a small free-lance translation firm and before we sold out to a larger competitor,
we typically would allow our support staff to help themselves to note pads, paper clips, other incidentals
which might help out those not in charge, but still in need of such basic supplies.

Other businesses often did the same. However, far too many, above all law firms, would typically
fleece millions from their clients, while penalizing by firing needy employees for "taking" one legal
pad from the supply closet.

This is where I draw the line.

@jon, I agree! Trump doesn't.

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