News / Foreign investors fear Poland's instability [26]


Of course Poland can - we have the 23rd largest economy by nominal GDP (21st by PPP) and again, FDI represents a fraction of the overall economy.

News / What kind of Poland do most Poles want? [101]


No, we're Catholics - and if liberals are suppose to accept and tolerate everyone's religious views and customs, them my homophobia must be tolerated as well as it is a part of Roman Catholic doctrine.


What about the Muslims? You lefties keep demonstrating with 'Refugees welcome' signs. You cricize the 'Islamaphobes' and state that we should accept them. Well, Muslims view that homosexuality also is a sin. So isn't that hypocritical? Telling people to accept the Muslims and their religious beliefs and customs - but criticizing homophobia - which is part of Islamic doctrine? Actually, the lefties simply pick and chose what they are for and against. If they were tolerance and accepting of EVERYONE, then they would also be tolerant and accepting of traditional Catholic and Islamic doctrine - of which homophobia is a part of. You tell us to like and accept the Jews, yet the Talmud is an extremely racist and supremacist book which teaches hatred of the goys and calls them cattle. So do you only decide that society should accept a person's religion, but not parts that you don't like or disagree with?


So true... The worst thing is that we're not allowed to protect our race. Even if you make a non-supremacist, non-racist, White-pride group you are automatically labeled as a racist - even if say the purpose is to discuss white music, white history, white culture, etc. The Blacks, Mexicans, and Asians have their racial groups - but we're not allowed to at the fear of being labeled racist, investigated by the FBI, and criticized by the ACLU and Southern Poverty Law Center. Utter B.S. and total hypocrisy.

Most Poles want to keep Poland a strong Catholic country. Proof of that is the huge turnout in Gniezno which celebrated over 1,000 years of Catholicism in Poland. If you knew anything about Poland, you'd know that Catholicism essentially ended Communism in our country.

UK, Ireland / Are there too many East Europeans, Poles in West Europe now? [47]


Are there a lot of migrants that have settled in Serbia?

Stick to the topic please


Sorry. I know the Polish diaspora is HUGE - even during Communist times Poles would go to various countries to work - especially Germany in the summer but also places like S. Africa, Libya, sometimes Russia or Kazakhstan, and other communist countries - even those in Africa and Asia. It looks like most of the Poles have gone to the UK but I believe there is quite a bit in France - I wonder if there is a large Polish community in places like Sweden, Denmark, Holland, and Switzerland.

A few years ago I found out there was a huge population of Poles living in South America - especially Brazil (over 1 million in Brazil) and Argentina.

News / What kind of Poland do most Poles want? [101]


These same people are calling for sanctions against Poland - I guess they don't realize that sanctiosn DON'T hurt the government but the common people... someone who has no respect for the country would call for sanctions against the country they live in...

News / Foreign investors fear Poland's instability [26]


I honestly don't know as I was in Poland just a few months ago but didn't really pay attention to that. However, I do know that Polish products are used all over. For one, I know Poland provides the EU and use to provide Russia with lots of agricultural products. I do know that they also produce various components - for one the intercooler on the SAAB I use to have said made in Poland. I do know that Malaysia and a few other countries also purchase Polish military equipment.

I do also know that the balance of trade, meaning exports and imports is almost 1:1 with just slightly more imports than exports - or at least it was when I looked it up a year or two ago when doing some research on Poland's economy and seeing what kind of salary I could expect if I expatriated to Poland.. unfortunately rather low untill I finish my MBA anyway...

News / What kind of Poland do most Poles want? [101]


The thing that upsets me most is the double standard - it's PC to accept all religions, their customs, their beliefs, etc. However, when a Catholic calls homosexuality a sin, which of course is a very common belief amongst Catholics, suddenly the PC crowd calls them homophones and bigots. What ever happened to accepting all religions, customs, and beliefs? I think it's simply that they pick and chose what conforms and criticize the rest.

The problem is that Polish politicians and the younger generations have been falling into the PC trap, especially as they imitate Western culture and society. It really is unfortunate. I'd love to see a Poland that isn't influenced by things like the drag queen female with a beard singer in Austria, thinking that protesting inside of church screaming about how Putin ships gays to Siberia like Pussy Riot has done, and the worst - the whole transsexualism that has been all too dominant in the PC landscape lately.

I don't know about you, but if I had a daughter I certainly wouldn't want her going to the bathroom and seeing some dude with his schlong whipped out because he 'identifies' as a woman. It's utter lunacy and I hope Poland doesn't fall into the trap. Of course there's going to always be the 'save the whales, refugees welcome' types in Poland - but by en large the population is conservative. Nonetheless though, PC is growing amongst the young and even some politicians thanks to western influence.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


There have been so many fabricated stories about the Holocaust - including Ernest Wiel who has been proven a fraud. Yet the reports of people who contradict any 'historical fact' of the holocaust are totally silenced.


This Jan T. Gross guy is another Polish traitor who has sold himself out to foreign interests. I can't believe he calls himself a Pole and yet says things like "Poles killed more Jews than Germans". I believe a prosecutor is trying him for libel or something. Yeah, I'm the truth is more Poles killed Jews than Germans... please... Next Isreal is going to try to sue Poland for what they did to the Jews during WW2.... oh wait, that happened already!

I don't understand why there's all these Poles demonstrating recently. I understand the abortion thing - PiS went a bit too far with that. However, I don't really see what PiS is doing as undemocratic - here in the US putting your own people in power is expected - that's just par for the course in our so called 'democracy' I don't know maybe I'm missing something...

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


Definitely not. Poland has little political power in the EU council. We would have lots of political power, but unfortunately Tusk is Merkel's laptop

UK, Ireland / Are there too many East Europeans, Poles in West Europe now? [47]

Yeah... we're kind of like the Mexicans of Europe lol - cheap labor, great at construction... Not a problem with me though - at least we're hard working and many Poles have come from nothing in Poland but made a fortunate in the West... like me - I went from living in a roach infested apartment in the ghetto to a million dollar home.

UK, Ireland / Are there too many East Europeans, Poles in West Europe now? [47]

Poles are regarded as very hardworking wherever they go - that is something to be proud of. At first, there were many Americans that would call us 'dumb polaks' but now they see we're busting our butts, contributing to the economy, and now we're the ones with the newly remodeled homes and German cars in the driveway and sending their kids to college. That is something to be very proud of since it means we came from a disadvantaged background but managed to overcome. Most of the immigrants do not speak good English, do not have an education, and do not know the country to which they emigrate - whether it's the US or UK or whatever. However, through hard work and perseverance, we manage to overcome and become successful. We provide for our children and try to give them an education so that they don't have to work physically to achieve a decent life.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

I really don't know enough about the political situation in Poland. Most of what I gather is through what I read here, conversation with my grandparents, and somewhat the news. Are you talking about Mateusz or Kornel Morawiecki?

News / What kind of Poland do most Poles want? [101]

... and lazy or hardworking, free loader or contributor, worthy or scum, citizen or alien, patriot or traitor..

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

Sad to have Polish fraudsters like that...

Personally, I think that the democratic system is oftentimes overrated. Here in the US we supposedly have so much freedom but yet we're total slaves. Our democracy has turned into socialism where wealth is redistributed through taxes, tens of millions of lazy people, who simply don't want a job (80 million ages 16+ according to the BLS) but yet we need to provide for them. I say let them starve and freeze their butt off for a while and I bet they'll go looking for a job on their own after a few days with an empty stomach. India is regarded as the world's largest democracy yet most people are dirt poor. Meanwhile, countries who's politicians aren't constantly thinking about election, reelection, and satisfying lobbyists because of earlier campaign contributions can focus on other things. Many countries that have a very high standard of living along with low taxes actually have dictators/monarchs, or presidents who have been serving for decades at the helm - Qatar, Kuwait, Libya under Gaddafi, U.A.E..

Quite frankly, I wish PiS would change the laws to extend the terms of a president and sejm members so politicians don't spend 1/2 the time they're in office worrying about elections. Wishful thinking though....

News / Poland -- Europe's only counterweight to Russia [271]


Haha yup - like the 'Democratic People's Republic of Korea'

It's funny to watch the sub Saharans attempt to establish 'democracy' - savage oppressive klepocrats replacing slightly less savage oppressive kleptocrats.


Well, it was destroyed by American politicians with bankers and their lobbyists/influence groups pulling the strings and egging them on.

News / Poland -- Europe's only counterweight to Russia [271]


So true. I find it laughable that the US will support tyrannical governments as long as they don't the US or allies problems. Yet the ones that oppose the US are called not allies or friends but rather evil and a 'threat to freedom.' Oftentimes, this might be the same government - in one decade the US supports the dictator, then invades him the next. The US supported Saddam in the Iran-Iraq war, only to invade him a bit later and eventually have him killed.


Russia is warming up to China and Iran a lot in everyway - politically, economically, militarily, etc. These countries' leaders have realized that the US is not as strong as it use to be. China's economy will overtake the US in a short time as their economic growth is far higher - it's just a matter of time. During the cold war, and even after it, US military leaders knew that if a future large scale war broke out between the US and other power, the US troops would be outnumbered hence the US focused more on having the technological edge. The US troops had advancements like GPS, night vision, accurate missiles, superior jets, etc. which are now pretty much universal in Armies. We've even seen recently how an Iranian drone was flying over a US aircraft carrier for quite a while before it was even detected. Many US and NATO military leaders state that they'd be unlikely to stop a Russian invasion - especially if they were engaged on two fronts (say China or North Korea attack from Pacific).

Poland, unfortunately due to it's geography on the world stage, wouldn't fare so well as it's essentially a buffer zone between NATO and Russia.


Up until recently - now Russia is increasingly on the offensive. They're starting to get back to the old Soviet model of building bases overseas.

Poland is in a weird position in all of this. It can't make too good of a relationship with Russia without alienating NATO and the EU. After all, that's essentially why the war in Ukraine broke out. The people in western Ukraine were more pro-EU while the people in eastern Ukraine more pro-Russia. Poland isn't quite in this same situation as most Poles have a fear of Russia due to our history. Nonetheless, I would love for Poland to make better relationships with Russia - especially trade as Poles (especially those employed in agriculture) would benefit quite a bit.

News / Poland directly threatened by ISIS. Do Islamists planning terrorist attacks in Poland? [390]


The only genocide was of Serbs committed in the valley prior to July 1995. The figure of 8,000 Bosnians dead is simply impossible because there simply


You have got to be kidding me... All the top Al-Qaeda dudes including Bin Laden himself had Bosnian citizenship. Bosnia was the cradle of European Jihadism - even the US State Department is now admitting this. Look up the case with the Saudi High Council - how the Saudi government funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to jihadists in Bosnia. Bosnia was a fantastic location for jihadists as they could launch attacks on the rest of Europe - now Bosnia has been replaced by Brussels as the center of European jihadism thanks to multi-kultism.

News / Does democratic Poland guarantee it's LGBT citizens respect for human and civil rights? [1169]

The law guarantees it but that doesn't mean it practiced... Poland is far more xenophobic and homophobic than countries like the US, Germany, France, England, etc. Most people prefer to keep it that way

God do I hate MTV.... Although early 1990's Beavis and Butthead's music video commentary was rather entertaining..

Shows like I'm 16 and Pregnant and Jersey Shore exemplify the worst of society.

Vladimir Putin once said coming back from a visit to Austria along the lines of - 'I saw the gays, I saw the transsexuals - we don't want that in our country and that's our choice'

News / Does democratic Poland guarantee it's LGBT citizens respect for human and civil rights? [1169]

Jon I will tell you from personal experience - the police and the prosecutors don't give a crap about, you, your rights, your property, or anything else... they only start waddling their fat lazy asses once the media or some politician forces them to - and even then its just for show and then things go back to usual several months later. Poland just wants to appear like a Western nation with the same ideals - while gay rights might be protected under law - it doesn't mean that the police are going to stop Catholicism from criticizing homosexuality or from people holding up zakaz pedalowania signs... most Poles do not like gays

News / Poland directly threatened by ISIS. Do Islamists planning terrorist attacks in Poland? [390]


John Schindler, a professor at the U.S. Naval War College and a former National Security Agency analyst, argues in his book "Unholy Terror: Bosnia, Al-Qa'ida and the Rise of Global Jihad" that's not true.

News / Does democratic Poland guarantee it's LGBT citizens respect for human and civil rights? [1169]

They're always adding letters... just a week or two ago I heard the word 'cissexual'... I don't think i even want to know what that means..

every letter except N for Normal...

News / Does democratic Poland guarantee it's LGBT citizens respect for human and civil rights? [1169]


Homosexuality is highly forbidden in Judaism - yet they propogate this in our society because as they say 'That's for the goys!'

Brother Nathaniel - Why Jews Push Gay Marraige
youtube.com/watch?v=0yLbF0BtZs4

News / Does democratic Poland guarantee it's LGBT citizens respect for human and civil rights? [1169]


Orthodox priests are allowed to be married.

News / Poland directly threatened by ISIS. Do Islamists planning terrorist attacks in Poland? [390]

I recently saw an article with a jihadi in Syria posing in a picture in my city (Wroclaw). Can't remember the news outlet that reported on this though...

News / Does democratic Poland guarantee it's LGBT citizens respect for human and civil rights? [1169]


Julia Serano has defined cissexual as "people who are not transsexual and who have only ever experienced their mental and physical sexes as being aligned", while cisgender is a slightly narrower term for those who do not identify as transgender (a larger cultural category than the more clinical transsexual).

So is that like males who have a penis and identify as males but don't want to be called a man and now everyone needs to be sensitive and call them cissexual? I am so confused lol. Then what is cisgender now? According to Wiki - Cisgender (often abbreviated to simply cis) is a label for those whose experiences of their own gender agree with the sex they were assigned at birth. It may also be defined as those who have "a gender identity or perform a gender role society considers appropriate for one's sex."[1] It is a complement to the term transgender.

I never thought I'd live to see the day where PC has gotten so out of hand that it's not incorrect to call someone a man or woman. Would the PC term for a hetero male be like cissexual/cisgender male then?

I guess hetero is no longer good enough. If LGBTQASDFJKL; groups were so inclusive why aren't they more inclusive of heterosexuals? I don't see an H for hetero or even a C for cissexual in any of their many groupings and labels.

News / Does democratic Poland guarantee it's LGBT citizens respect for human and civil rights? [1169]

Crow,

Unfortunately in the west homo couples are allowed to have kids. I don't know if it's the same in Poland - are homos allowed to adopt kids?


The law may provide legal protection for LGBTADFQWER[OUI people but that doesn't mean that most people agree with it.

According to these sources, 60% are against civil partnerships, 67% are against homosexual marriage and 87% against adoption by homo couples. Furthermore, well over half of people would not accept a gay or lesbian teacher (75% for lesbian, 77% for gay), boss (53% for both lesbian and gay), coworker (50% for gay, 53% for lesbian), or nanny (over 80% for both gay and lesbian)

cbos.pl/SPISKOM.POL/2013/K_024_13.PDF

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


It's actually an ancient Roman salute...

Another example of free speech banned in the West - in Germany using this salute is punishable by up to 3 years in prison as are dozens of symbols including the Celtic Cross, certain runes but of course no ban on Al-Qaeda flags.

News / Does democratic Poland guarantee it's LGBT citizens respect for human and civil rights? [1169]


Absolutely. Russia is even more strict than Poland - there's a total ban on pride parades and homosexual propaganda. I don't know why these individuals, which represents 1-2% of society, insist on forcing the remaining 98-99% to accept that their perversions are totally normal. Back in the 90's, it was all about tolerance - but now that's no longer enough - now we're forced to accept everything that's foreign and disgusting it and if we question it because it contradicts our own morals or religion, we're automatically labeled as some crazy religious homophones.There's plenty of countries for them to go to and have their gay marriage and adoption - leave Poland alone.

News / Does democratic Poland guarantee it's LGBT citizens respect for human and civil rights? [1169]


See the problem is that there is an all out assault on white European Christian heritage and traditions. The youth are cut off from their roots more and more everyday and having pride in one's Catholic European roots is increasingly demonized. The only people that are allowed to create pride groups according to their race are minorities. Unfortunately, younger generations like mine are constantly fed this hip hop garbage and MTV Jersey Shore and they think that's how society ought to be for people of their age. Of course the Jewish execs have no problem with this because they keep their culture, sexuality, religion, and traditions in tact. Homosexuality, promiscuity, mixed marriages - hah! that's for the goys! Instead of learning how to play the accordion and sing Polish folk songs, the youth prefer to appropriate other cultures and sag their pants and march alongside BLM terrorists. Which I may add that whole custom actually came from jails and prisons - gay prisoners who wished to be penetrated would sag their pants as a sign that they want it up the butt. Now black people start suing airlines when a flight attendant asks an individual to show some decency and pull his pants up. Like I said before - the whites out to organize a demonstration whenever the Black Lives Matter terrorists are in town and shot 'Pants Up - Don't Loot' to counter their 'Hands up Don't Shoot' slogan. I see clips of ultra liberal girls crying at rallies because some illegal person got deported for breaking the law - their argument is that they're human beings and they shouldn't be told where they can and can't live. Obviously, she's never been to Mexico who's immigration laws make ours look like a joke. The West is truly going to hell in a hand basket. Every year there is more PC, more degeneration of the economy and morals, more assault upon the church and Christians, more civil liberties and rights being trampled on, more intervention by the government in everyday life, more poison in our food, water, and even the sky, more media lying about reality and news outlets giving a false view of what's really going on, more corruption - I mean now even police can literally take your money, car, and house even before you're charged and found guilty of a crime (i.e. google civil forfeiture or the city of teneha as an example). Even recently a Burmese man who was a manager for a Christian rock group had $53,000 taken from him by the police who accused him of being a drug smuggler even though he had proof the money was a result of donations and ticket sales. He was only charged with a broken taillight and no drugs, guns, or anything else was ever found. Yet, this is totally legal for the police to do. it's really bad and it's only getting worse. I mean nothing really surprises me anymore - I really wouldn't be at all surprised if one day the government started rounding up white Christian conservatives.

News / Does democratic Poland guarantee it's LGBT citizens respect for human and civil rights? [1169]


Absolutely. However, this is gradually being replaced by white guilt - especially throughout Obama's presidency. It's as if blacks can do no wrong and all the ills of the blacks are solely the white mans' fault.

The US, up until the Great Recession, use to totally honor hard work, saving, climbing the corporate ladder, and being a financial success. Now, it's looked as evil, unfair, and that the wealthy an individual worked hard to attain and save ought to be redistributed to those 'less fortunate' who did not care to work as hard or make sacrifices.

I may have a bit different worldview as I predominantly live in an ultra liberal democratic city.

News / Does democratic Poland guarantee it's LGBT citizens respect for human and civil rights? [1169]

True but even between the dot com burst and the great recession, home values were still very high. The dot com bubble didn't nearly have as hard of an impact on property values as the great recession. People's homes were their pride and joy and something that they worked for decades to pay off so they could live in comfortably. Now, according to many individuals having a nice family home paid off through decades of hard work is a bad thing - especially the redistribute the wealth types and those in the UN who have established Agenda 21 down to their local ICLEI branches - specifically say that suburban housing is against 'sustainable development' (sounds like a great thing till you read more into how it affects your daily life) and that having property is what primarily leads to social inequality.

I'd argue that corporate America stopped caring about its people at first with Clinton's trade deals and policies. This was further ruined by politicians that use societys' ignorance of economics to argue that over taxing big business is good for the country. If taxing businesses to hell and back was so great, than why have so many corporations, from large ones like Caterpillar to small ones like home remodelers, moved to other states or even abroad. Corporations that have been headquartered in the US for decades, even centuries, are increasingly moving abroad because quite frankly the taxes are too high. The 45%-47% people who do not pay federal income taxes fail to realize and understand this.

I think that around the same time - the doc com bubble, created a much different public view on social affairs like gay equality, homo marriage, etc. - not just in the US but throughout the West. During the gay 90's and into the early 2000's we were taught tolerance - which I can understand. However, this is no longer enough - now we are forced not just to tolerate these individuals but grant them special freedoms, change our laws and customs, and accept and like these people even if it contradicts with our morals, philosophies, or religion. Now, even countries like Poland are getting caught up in this as they seek to have better unity with the west. Polish society has always been a bit of an outlier in Europe - we have many of the liberal laws of the west but yet conservative thought and custom of eastern Europe.