It does sound like Poland’s hands are not clean in this. However, it should be remember that some Polish people felt they had to cooperate with the Nazis or be killed themselves and maybe their family too.
No defense that couldn’t be made for Germans as well. But the Germans own up to it.
Well, the larger point about EU membership is all about how one of the EU’s central principles is the respect for and promotion of human rights. It’s that exact issue that was always cited as such a sticking point preventing Turkish membership (albeit with a healthy dose of racism and Islamophobia, but concern for human rights was also a legitimate grievance). If a country applying for membership was anything like Poland or Hungary today, they’d be rejected out of hand, no doubt about it at all. But now the EU is stuck with them, having accepted them during saner years, and the legitimacy of the EU’s commitment to human rights suffers for it. And both of these countries are rotting fast – this will not be the end of it. This is not an aberration or a one-off “every country passes a stupid law every now and then” moment – this Holocaust law is a continuation of a prolonged multi-year erosion of democracy and human rights in Poland, and shouldn’t have been unexpected at all.
Meanwhile, the EU needs to figure out a way to simply expel Poland with or without Hungary’s support. Whether that’s dissolving the EU and immediately re-forming something identical to the EU but without Poland (and Hungary) or not, Poland is now the sort of country the EU would bend over backwards to avoid having as a member state, and it’s going to get worse as long as the EU fails to deal with it. Yes, the EU charter is designed to make handling this sort of thing difficult (especially when two members are bad actors at the same time). Time to start thinking difficult.
Just how responsible is Poland for the holocaust? I mean they were a conquered country during WWII and were under Nazi control, weren’t they?
For the portion that took place within their borders, the most apt word for their involvement is “complicit”. Virulent anti-Semitism was endemic in Poland without any prompting from the Germans, and apparently it still is.
Meanwhile, the EU needs to figure out a way to simply expel Poland with or without Hungary’s support. Whether that’s dissolving the EU and immediately re-forming something identical to the EU but without Poland (and Hungary) or not, Poland is now the sort of country the EU would bend over backwards to avoid having as a member state, and it’s going to get worse as long as the EU fails to deal with it. Yes, the EU charter is designed to make handling this sort of thing difficult (especially when two members are bad actors at the same time). Time to start thinking difficult.
No censorship, no melon farmers. Know censorship, know melon farmers.
What is the point of a debt ceiling if it’s raised every time it’s reached?
The point is to extract a second round of concessions in addition to the concessions you already got for approving the spending in the first place.
Looks like the shutdown is over, using the slightly slower old-fashioned steam-powered votes.
Then I felt like most of the posters here were jerks. Then I became one.
Indefinite antecedents are the best.
I want to agree with you. But I have to be honest, I don’t understand what you said. 😉. Me no love english class.
Example: “After my dog and my husband had a bad day together, he took it out on me by pooping in my shoes every morning.”
Thanks. My guess was correct. And I did intentionally make my post that way. 😄
Congratulations! You win a pair of shoes!
Then I felt like most of the posters here were jerks. Then I became one.
Indefinite antecedents are the best.
I want to agree with you. But I have to be honest, I don’t understand what you said. 😉. Me no love english class.
Example: “After my dog and my husband had a bad day together, he took it out on me by pooping in my shoes every morning.”
Then I felt like most of the posters here were jerks. Then I became one.
Indefinite antecedents are the best.
…aaaaand we’re shutting down again. Congress seems willing to give Trump whatever he wants whenever he wants it, and this week they’re giving him the shutdown he didn’t want last week. Will it be a yoojer shutdown to show who’s got the bigger shutdown button?
Seriously? Damnit.
Yep, the Senate is in recess until 12:01 AM, so assuming some sort of speed-of-light midnight laser vote, that’s a one minute shutdown at the minimum. I’m guessing it’ll drag quite a bit longer, as laser votes have not yet been invented, and even if they were, we would only use them for evil.
…aaaaand we’re shutting down again. Congress seems willing to give Trump whatever he wants whenever he wants it, and this week they’re giving him the shutdown he didn’t want last week. Will it be a yoojer shutdown to show who’s got the bigger shutdown button?
And that’s the start of the story of how I met Vanilla Ice.
Yeah, thanks for just totally outing me… err, I mean, my friend Frink!
I dunno, but SPOILER ALERT:
We have a sighting of the four-eyed stormtrooper, the early years.
BEFORE:
AFTER:
Arthur Jones is a racist, denies the Holocaust happened, and will likely be the only Republican on the ballot for a Chicago-area congressional seat in November.
The state GOP has denounced Jones and his candidacy, but says it had no way to stop him.
“We’ve tried to do everything we possibly could to prevent this person from getting on the ballot,” Illinois GOP Chairman Tim Schneider said.
please tell me this guy has no chance of winning.
Illinois was one of the states Russia successfully breached, so maybe there’s people who can tell you right now that he’ll win.
Yep, both parties do it. The only reason Republicans get more flak for it is 1) gerrymandering to favor urban areas over rural areas is much harder, more obvious, and has less electoral payoff than vice-versa, and 2) they’ve run most state governments since the last round of redistricting. Also, after the Voting Rights Act was gutted, politicians have felt freer to gerrymander along racial lines than they had been when the VRA was more restrictive.
I wish I could say Dems wouldn’t, for example, gerrymander Virginia in the opposite direction if they had the chance, but they probably would. You can argue a bit about what constitutes a fair map, but the truth is a computer can whip out a map that’s pretty close to everyone’s idea of fair in a matter of minutes.
Well, I’m sure in the right circles, people are shaking their heads and wishing Justice Alito could get replaced with a real conservative.
I was just trying to google how to make an anamorphic version of the GOUT (anticipating that my son, now 10, might want to see Star Wars one day), and bam, there goes a few years of my life.
That settles it then. They’re invertebrates.
APPROVED. EVERYONE MUST REFER TO POTATOES AS INVERTEBRATES FROM NOW ON. DEBATE SETTLED FOR ALL TIME.
If I find a bone in a potato, you’re going to hear about it.
If I knew it was going to that kind of party…
But… soda crackers and Ovaltine are just different aspects of the potato. If you look closely enough, everything becomes potato.
But Brazil is only about as big as Alaska!
Cartography humor.
That settles it then. They’re invertebrates.
Is there an individual release of the Lester cut on Blu-Ray? I can only seem to find Donner’s outside of the box sets.
I haven’t seen it. Same thing with the theatrical Superman release, which I prefer. You want the theatrical cuts, you gotta buy Superman IV along with it.
Just some observations from an interested reader:
The slightly dimmer white and increased transparency of the new subtitles look great to me.
However, I’m not as keen on the narrower font. It looks somewhat squashed to me.Bluto
Just to update you on the progress on this: This may be addressed in the final version after all. After repeating the size testing, it looks like the increased weight at the same height makes the subtitles look too big even in my crappy small screen/big distance worst-case test scenario. So, keeping the weight the same, you don’t have to reduce the font size very much before the “lines get too wide” problem goes away, and then you don’t need a semicondensed font to work around that anymore.
Small adjustments make a big difference here. Consider the subtitles a long skinny rectangle near the bottom of the screen. If you reduce the font size, say, 10%, that doesn’t change the height of the box very much in absolute terms, but it dramatically reduces the width of the box. That’s kinda what I’m tinkering with here.
Ok so I’ve gotten to the very well thought out conclusion that Trump is not a decent man at all.
It’s once that unpleasantness crosses the line into demonstrating that you are disconnected from any sort of ethical foundation that it becomes a problem IMO.
To me, that line has already been crossed by President Trump a while ago.
Oh sure, I agree absolutely. It was crossed before he even won the primary. The problem is that lots of valid criticisms of his unsuitability for the office are mixed in with things that merely make him thoroughly unpleasant, and they’re not always the same thing.
