I <heart> Poland

Absolutely nothing. Forgive me if that wasn’t clear in my post. I admire the resiliency of the national spirit, especially in Poland’s case. After 100+ years of outside domination, they’re finally a sovereign nation and rightfully standing up to maintaining an identity that’s been squashed to various degrees by Napoleon, Hitler and Ivan. Good for them.

 

I feel the same way about Japan. Their protectionism, tinged with racism as it is, has served them well. 2,000+ years of existence is impressive.

 

A healthy dose of racism is the only way to survive the onslaught of the gaijin.

We've made it almost 250 years. I highly doubt America will see 350.

China OTOH will see 10,000. (Sorry, Japan... numbers matter.)

 

Their history is interesting. Independent, crushed by Ivan and not a state for hundreds of years, became independent again then crushed by Hitler, Stalin, and other Ivans.

 

Poland being proud again. Some of you must be clapping

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-e...h-police-arrest-25-after-attacks-on-activists

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-poland-lgbt-idUSKCN1UG0GH

Isolated incident, no harm done, nothing wrong with being proud, few bad apples, or good apples if you're into this sort of thing.

 

800 marchers, 25 thugs. 825 is probably not representative of a nation of 38 million but troll on my man, troll on.