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SigSauer   
25 Oct 2017
News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

@mafketis

No Mafketis, these people LOATHE the idea of the nation-state, and want to destroy it. They don't believe that states exist to serve their CITIZENS first. They have open contempt for the idea of national sovereignty, and to them 'patriotism' is a f***ing punchline to a joke.
SigSauer   
25 Oct 2017
UK, Ireland / Polish career criminal gets six years for rape [43]

@Harry

I want nation-states to assert their sovereignty and control who comes into their borders.

@RubasznyRumcajs

We were discussing a Pole who committed a crime in the U.K. Whether they have control over non-EU citizens isn't germane to the topic.

Rubas, if that is in fact true (I'm American, so can't claim to be an expert in your countries domestic policy affairs), why on earth would the home office allow someone with a criminal record like that persons to enter the United Kingdom and then to reside there? Canada will not even allow American citizens who have been convicted of 1 offense of driving under the influence to enter the country.

In any case, I am rooting for your country, and pray that all the details of the leaked Home Office memo are indeed true. The gravy train is over, and no longer will one barbarian from the commonwealth be able to get an underpaid job (I believe 18,600GBP/year) and bring over 10 of his family members to spread their hateful 7th century ideology.
SigSauer   
25 Oct 2017
UK, Ireland / Polish career criminal gets six years for rape [43]

@Harry

Another reason to end the idea of the 'free movement of people.' If the U.K. had control of its borders (and thank god it will soon again, and the Home Office will be slashing legal immigration) they would have rejected someone with a criminal record like this from entering the country. Instead, the EU policy of open movement has resulted in irreparable harm to one U.K. citizen. A nation-states first and foremost duty, and in fact ONLY duty, is to protect CITIZENS of that nation-state.
SigSauer   
25 Oct 2017
News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]

@Tacitus

You don't actually believe that out of 1 million Ukrainians in Poland, there are only legitimately 6,000 refugees. I don't think you're serious, I really just think you're pointing out this number to serve your agenda of forcing 7th century savages and barbarians onto Poland, so they share in the misery and degradation thats happened in the UK, France, Germany, and Belgium. Any Ukrainians currently in Poland who are from Luhansk or Donetsk oblasts in Ukraine, that left after 2014 are in fact refugees. Whether they have applied for asylum or not is a simple administrative matter, but they can rightly claim refugee status. So while all 1 million of them may not in fact be refugees, and a large portion may be economic refugees, the number of those who we would consider refugees according to U.N. standards is far greater than 6,000.

To address your second point. What you're suggesting is that Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic suffer an immense burden because one president, in one member state (Germany), acted unilaterally to set EU immigration policy by telling millions of barbarians to flood into the union. Had the European Union met during this massive migration and reached a deal, maybe you'd have an argument, but as it stands, Germany acted alone and caused this crisis, and now they are asking the rest of the member states to suffer for their F-up.
SigSauer   
25 Oct 2017
News / Americans try to defame Poland yet again. [93]

@NoToForeigners

Ok, just had about enough of you little man. It must infuriate you that I can travel to most countries in this world without obtaining a visa prior to arrival. It must also pain you to know that when I do decide to settle in Poland, I will make 10X the salary that you will, simply because of my passport, education, and experience. Thanks for playing little man, I will come to your country WHENEVER I PLEASE, and there's not a god damn thing you can do about it. Now, have a lovely evening getting drunk and yelling at your TV.
SigSauer   
25 Oct 2017
News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [214]

@cms

Yes, I'm a defense contractor. And thank you for such a reasoned and well tempered response, I genuinely appreciate it, and think we have found common ground. I also believe that genuine refugees do deserve refuge, I do take issue with the fact that under international law (if such a thing exists), they are to seek refuge in the first safe country they reach. But alas, that isn't the reality we currently find ourselves in. Countries with genuine conflicts do qualify, but certainly these economic refugees from all over Africa MUST be repatriated to their country of register.

To your previous point. Yes, we do take their money, although I work on a contract administered by the US government, so I'm not actually sure whose money I'm taking! The reality however is, that any ESSENTIAL functions in these countries are not provided by local residents. All essential functions are provided by westerners (US/UK/AUS/NZ/GER/FRA/SPA), all menial labor is then provided by Indians,Bangladeshis,Sri Lankans, & Pakistanis. To give you some perspective, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has a population of 23 million, 8.6 million of them being expatriates. Bahrain has a population of 600,000, with 300,000 being expatriates. The United Arab Emirates is 70% expatriates by population, and on, and on, and on. I do not view it as taking their money however, because we function to preserve the sovereignty of these countries, and our governments (I assume you're from the US or UK) guarantee their security and territorial integrity. So really it is more of an exchange, than some sort of perverse exploitation.
SigSauer   
25 Oct 2017
News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [214]

@cms

You know that I was totally on board with just about everything you said, until you had to add in "appallingly." Right, because I currently live in the Middle East, and you're going to tell pontificate to me about how there is not a pervasive problem in the cultures of people from this region. I live here and deal with them every single day. So yes I will repeat that the people from this region and North Africa do indeed have 7th century cultural ideologies when it comes to the role of women, their rights, and the rights of LGBTQ people and their ability to live their lives and exist. They have open hostility to western civilization, our values, our right to exist as a country, our religion, and to suggest otherwise is an affront to the people who have given their lives in furtherance of those ideas. They do not have any place in our society, their cultural ideologies being antithetical to European liberal values. It has absolutely nothing to do with the amount of melanin in their skin, and everything to do with the ideas in their heads. Open up your spare bedroom to them, if you feel so strongly and are such a humanitarian.

I will have to laugh at the idea that Poland's previous government made that deal, so of course the new one has to honor it. Ukraine gave up 1,200 nuclear weapons and the United Kingdom and United States in exchange for protecting its sovereignty. If two of the biggest powers in the world do not honor their agreements, I think you are holding Poland to an unjust and unfair standard on this issue. (I'm American btw).

@mafketis
If you check the news, KSA has announced that they are ending the practice of promoting extreme versions of its religion, and will be joining the rest of us in the 21st century. Of course I will believe it when I see it, but the changes have already begun to take place on the ground.
SigSauer   
25 Oct 2017
News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

@Atch

Fortunately, international relations is characterized by chaos, and countries act in their interests and they do what they can get away with. Short of invading Poland, I don't see a situation where Poland will honor that agreement, much to the chagrin of radical left statists.

Your last point is PRECISELY the reason that European politicians need to change course and abandon the open borders, forced multiculturalism (which is a proven failure). They will continue to fuel the rise of the far-right by trying to stick by these policies. At least as we can see in Austria, a centrist politician has decided to co-opt some of the platform of the right in order to win an election, and placate at least some of the electorate calling for extreme measures that are rather unpalatable for everyone.
SigSauer   
25 Oct 2017
News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

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You are trying to point out a mere technicality in the number of processed and approved asylum applications. Tomorrow the Polish government could decide it will grant all 1 million Ukrainians currently working and residing within their borders asylum status. That would warm my heart, as it would take the wind out of the sails of statists like yourself who actually think that countries who voted for an ECONOMIC UNION, should have their own internal POLITICAL affairs dictated to it by MEP's, who are often times obscure political hacks and failures in their own countries. The level of arrogance and condescension in your posts is truly unparalleled.

I'm not sure why we are really even having this argument. You can certainly engage in these mental gymnastics, but the stark reality is that Poland will not take one single refugee from one of these countries with 7th century cultural ideologies. You could certainly continue to be an ideologue on this issue, but really there are two points on why you shouldn't. 1) Poland is not going to comply. so the union in continuing to try to push this hardship onto Poland is only going to make itself like impudent to the rest of the member states. 2) As I stated previously, these policies are doing nothing to stem the rise of far-right politicians in Europe. We are all doomed if you think that in the last 2 years people are suddenly 'more racist' or 'more xenophobic' than they were 2 years ago. I liken this to the way people view large corporations, well prices have gone up because of the "greed on wall street." As if that is some sort of variable, when in fact greed is a constant.

I take significant issue with this world view because it has a sort of arrogance attached to it, that says to just 'shut up,' because you are not 'enlightened' like ME, you just don't know enough about the subject like ME. Really it is virtue signalling of the highest order, and to be honest people don't appreciate it. I know that leftists are accustomed to getting away with this behavior when they speak to people who aren't very well educated on these topics, and they throw out some buzz words and try to assert some ostensible superiority over that person.

If you want to engage in constructive dialogue about these issues, I would really enjoy that, as you are at least well informed in your own regard. We can at least address some of these points on their merits, rather than just saying "this is the decision, you little Polish people will like it!" (I'm not Polish by the way).
SigSauer   
24 Oct 2017
News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

@Atch

Poland has taken over ONE MILLION REFUGEES since 2014. 1.1 million Ukrainians actually. What other country in the EU has taken 1 million refugees besides Germany? Why should they take more? Poles have to share in the insecurity, vehicle attacks, concert bombings, and rapes like the rest of Europe? Have to really spread that misery out evenly among member states right. Guess what, Poland is a SOVEREIGN COUNTRY, a NATION-STATE. I know that really chaps the ass of you f***ing statists in the European Union, who have absolute contempt to notion of nation-states, but that is a fact. Here's an idea Atch, you want these refugees so badly, you clear out a few rooms in your house and let them move in with you, ok?

@Lyzko
Really Lyzko? Can we dispense with the histrionics please? No one is committing genocide against these refugee/migrant groups. They would not be in a position to be persecuted however, if they stayed in their country, OR if they followed INTERNATIONAL LAW and taken refuge in the FIRST SAFE COUNTRY they reached, in many cases Turkey.

@Tacitus
Right, whether they were Syrian or North-African, and I'm not sure how you could know their nationality since the majority of them were not arrested and brought to justice, but anyway, that is inconsequential; all it does is exemplifies my point that these people and their culture, are incompatible with contemporary liberal values and Western society.
SigSauer   
24 Oct 2017
News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [214]

@Tacitus

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......ok.... I'll just leave this morsel right here for you to ponder, as we watch liberals heads spin trying to explain away the massive amount of sexual assaults that happened in Cologne.

huffingtonpost.com/raza-habib-raja/mass-sexual-assaults-in-g_b_8959952.html

Aside from the actual hard facts, in which sexual assaults have indeed gone up in number due to the refugee influx, do you know any actual German people? I mean, we can speak anecdotally for a minute, and I'll say that the Germans I work with do not want to go back to their country, and frequently refer to it as "ruined." The chickens are coming home to roost, in Germany and in Sweden.

You could continue to be completely disingenuous and borderline willfully dishonest in order to toe the party line of progressive self-destruction and voting against your own self-interests. However, the only thing that position is going to get you, me, and the rest of Europe, is MORE far-right politicians in office. It should say something when we actually had to contemplate whether Marine LaPen and Geert Wilders would win an election. I really would not like to see far-right politicians in office in Europe, but continue to advocate those policies of the forced proven failure of multiculturalism, and that is what we will have.

(as an aside, I generally think the characterization of these politicians as 'far-right' is overblown hyperbolics designed to detract from them personally, and not have to address the valid points in their message)
SigSauer   
24 Oct 2017
News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [214]

@Lyzko
Yea, and I made sure not to accuse you of such, I was just trying to clarify what I thought was an imprecise thought or language regarding that.
SigSauer   
24 Oct 2017
News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [214]

@Lyzko

Right, could you give me some clarity though as to the question I asked? Were you conflating people who disagree with your world view as being Neo-Nazis? I only ask because a recent tactic has been to conflate wanting strict immigration policies with Neo-Nazism, rather than traditional conservatism and wanting to preserve our societies, which seems to be a legitimate position for all countries with non-white majorities. I actually do believe that (at least in America) the left/progressives are ardent racists, as they seek to ascribe more or less value to individuals based on the group they belong to, it is identity politics of the lowest order.

We certainly should fill our labor needs with immigrants when it suits us, however, those immigrants should be highly skilled (H1B visas), and from cultures that share our core values (such as liberal values, women being equal, LGBT rights to exist as they want, religious freedoms, freedom of speech; especially freedom to insult your religious sensibilities).

If these people are not a danger, why then, from 2014-2017 did Poland take 1.1 million Ukrainian refugees, in the same span of time Germany took 1 million Syrian&North African refugees; yet in Poland, no one has driven laury's into crowds of people, no one has blown themselves up at a concert, or gone on a knife stabbing spree? What is the difference? People in Ukraine are dirt poor, I was a resident, and I know first hand how destitute many of them are. If it is not economics, then what is the reason for this disparity in violence? I have an idea, but I'd like to hear yours.
SigSauer   
24 Oct 2017
News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

@Lyzko

This is a fallacious argument Lyzko. You're preaching your own version of leftism, and if I read your post right, you are trying to conflate people who don't agree with your world view on immigration as "Neo-Nazi's?" I am actually asking you to clarify what you said, not trying to editorialize what you said, I hope you understand.

Further to my point. While professing that Europeans should 'tolerate' people who hate their culture, seek to change and impose their own perverted 7th century morality on them; I don't see anyone lecturing the Japanese, Koreans, Chinese, Papua New Guineans, Ecuadorians, Hondurans, on how they should accept 160,000 Syrian refugees and be tolerant. It is somehow ok for Japan and Korea to have a homogeneous society. However, it's not ok for Poland to be homogeneous? It's not ok for Austria to be homogeneous? No of course, the "white devil" can't have a homeland, and to suggest otherwise means of course that you're a Neo-Nazi, bigot, islamophobe, xenophobe, <insert bombastic label to shut down any rational discussion of immigration policy and its deleterious effects.>,
SigSauer   
24 Oct 2017
News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

@Lyzko

There is no acting out. Those people do not belong in European society, and it has nothing to do with their skin color. Their cultures are antithetical to contemporary liberal values, they hate everything about our western civilization. They curse our laws and our customs, while going on the public dole.

Under International Law, you are to seek refuge in the FIRST SAFE COUNTRY that you enter. There is no stipulation that says you get to go the country of your choosing, or the country with the best public benefits. They should be grateful to be safe from war, AND they should REPATRIATE at the cessation of hostilities.

This liberal tree hugger nonsense has GOT TO END. You people are literally fueling the rise of far-right politics in Europe, and we do NOT NEED THAT, so it is time to wise up with importing people who literally hate us into our societies. Instead of doubling down on stupid like Frau Merkel, we need to chart the path that the European electorates across the continent have shown they want. They WANT nation-states, and they WANT borders to be controlled. They certainly do not want to be lectured by limousine liberal MEP's who tell you that you need to accept people with 7th century ideologies that hate you, whilst they live behind their gated communities, armed guards, up-armored vehicles, and inside a security envelope. They certainly don't need to worry about getting gang raped or groped by people who don't believe women have the right to say no.
SigSauer   
24 Oct 2017
Classifieds / Trying to learn Polish language in Bialystok [16]

@mafketis

I can't relate to what you're saying because I've only been in Warsaw and Bialystok personally. I can say that I didn't enjoy Warsaw because it seemed like the liberal 'hipster' culture had infected the city. That is in stark contrast to my experience as a resident in Kyiv, where the progressive virus and hipster culture hasn't taken hold. So Bialystok certainly felt more authentically Eastern European if I compare to my previous experiences, although obviously much more modern compared to where I had lived previously.
SigSauer   
23 Oct 2017
Classifieds / Trying to learn Polish language in Bialystok [16]

@Rio911

I would echo what Harry said. But if you are looking to self-study in your free time I would recommend 'Living Language.' I used quite a few different systems when I was learning Russian, and I found Living Language to be the best of all the systems. I'll be starting on Polish in a few months myself, and I'll be using their system.

@Harry

I found it to be a delightful town...its where my fiance grew up, and I think it's such a beautiful region, definitely more my speed than Warsaw was, and reminded me the most of home as far as geography and quaintness. We would live there permanently if there was work for a respectable salary, but unfortunately I don't think that will be a reality anytime soon.
SigSauer   
22 Oct 2017
Work / Confused ... 1 yr London Vs Poland Base hiring [30]

I don't know why $100k has become the litmus test of being well off. The truth is its barely getting by in the major cities and the North East of the United States.
SigSauer   
19 Oct 2017
News / Poland - Ukraine. Młodzież Wszechpolska against Ukrainians. [180]

You're thinking way too highly of yourself, coincidentally the same kind of self aggrandizement ACTUAL Nazi's took part in, thinking they were the center of the world, and that everyone was out to get them.

FACT: There are no Nazi's in the Ukrainian government, No Banderovyts in the government or military. These are fabricated Russian moskali lies. Keep sipping on that pepper vodka Boris.

Lol yes, NATO is the cause of all the ills in your **** hole country of Montenegro. If big bad NATO would just leave you poor "victims" alone everything would be ok, and your country would be able to take your rightful place as a glorious Slavic nation that should lord over the Untermensch (everyone who isnt a slav).

Poland is slated to be the most successful economy in Eastern Europe, their unemployment is shockingly low. They are a member of both NATO and the EU, which affords Poland a level of stability that would not have been possible without either organization. The EU development fund has been hugely beneficial to their infrastructure, reforming political organizations, etc. NATO allows them to have a medium sized military while still staying protected from Russia.

You know what Montenegrans do here? They do the **** labor, and they accept crap working conditions because we know you'll take the money and just be grateful not to be in that micro-state barely putting food on your table.

In honor of you Crnogorac3, I have a new hashtag slogan. #NukesOnPodgorica

Think harder before you speak to your betters.
SigSauer   
17 Oct 2017
News / US Investor seeks 700 million dollars in damages from Poland [45]

@Atch

It's not a feature of only PiS policy. In fact, it is a pervasive problem across Eastern Europe. Based both on evidence in reports, and anecdotally from expat investors I know personally. Property rights in many post-Soviet states is a problem with antiquated laws on the books, corrupt judges who take bribes, and allow legalized theft to take place. I don't have much sympathy for people who engage in this, particularly when they are trying to court foreign investors as is the case in Ukraine. The woes of one French winemaker in Odessa oblast are enough to scare away most foreigners.
SigSauer   
10 Oct 2017
News / Poland - Ukraine. Młodzież Wszechpolska against Ukrainians. [180]

Yea I misunderstood your post sorry, I thought you meant there was a present day genocide happening in the East. The rest of my post is entirely accurate though if you care to address it. Obviously I know about the genocide which took place around Lutsk in Volynskaya oblast.
SigSauer   
10 Oct 2017
News / Polish-German Reconcilliation Seminar [491]

@cms

I would be way more concerned about rounding up people who held positions of power under the communist government and summarily executing them, than I would the German government paying reparations.

That is really funny the UK detesting Poles right? While the welcome thousands upon thousands of Bronze age savages into their country.
SigSauer   
10 Oct 2017
News / Poland - Ukraine. Młodzież Wszechpolska against Ukrainians. [180]

Crow, you literally have no idea what you are talking about with regards to Ukraine. Just stop already. There is no genocide in Ukraine, and the majority of the civilian casualties are caused by the indiscriminate shelling of the fake rebel forces (I.e.- Russian FSB/GRU terrorists). There was never a genocide or even a persecution of Russians in eastern Ukraine (na vostok). That was largely fabricated by Russian GRU, there are god damn phone intercepts of agents checking in with their handlers in Rostov-On-Don (rostov-na-donu) after shooting at both protesters AND police in Odessa in order to sew chaos. Last summer two Russian GRU (sabotage&reconnaissance) soldiers were shot and captured in the East and taken to Kyiv. They are what caused the release of Nadezhda Savchenko who was illegally kidnapped and taken from Ukrainian territory to Russia.

You should for one minute, put aside your prejudices and preconceived notions, and listen to people who know a hell of a lot more than you do about the conflict in the country, and not just from things they have read, but from being there.