• hakunawazo@lemmy.world
    2101·
    19 hours ago

    It’s the classic Germany-France joke, but modified:

    A German was on a trip to Poland.

    He reached passport control and the officer asked:

    “Name?”

    “Hans Kleiner”

    “Age?”

    “31”

    “Occupation?”

    “No no, just visiting”

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
      27·
      14 hours ago

      A young man was carrying a long stick around Warsaw and someone asked him: “Are you a pole vaulter?”

      The man replied: “No I’m German but how do you know my name is Walter?”

    • aubertlone@lemmy.world
      6·
      11 hours ago

      That took me way longer to get than it should have.

      Then I laughed a couple times. Thanks for chuckle homie.

  • peopleproblems@lemmy.world
    825·
    1 day ago

    Man why can’t the rest of the world get on this level. The fact that he appeared on TV without a tie would get him mocked in the US because ties make you important or something?

  • ramble81@lemm.ee
    73·
    1 day ago

    I do laugh that it’s been long enough and relations are good enough they can joke about that.

    • Schmuppes@lemmy.today
      8·
      18 hours ago

      Meanwhile, Polish politicians will demand WW2 reparations from Germany every time an election’s coming up.

      • Korne127@lemmy.world
        3·
        16 hours ago

        Only the authoritarian politicians that undermined democracy and luckily lost majority (PIS).

          • Microw@lemm.ee
            1·
            6 hours ago

            Given that the state-run media used to fearmonger with horror stories about Germans before Tusks party won the last election… I’d think it’s only partly a joke. Tusk knows that there are Poles who still think Germans are all criminals (like vice versa in Germany).

    • Korne127@lemmy.world
      25·
      16 hours ago

      He’s not perfect, but especially considering the alternatives, he’s damn good.

      The previous government was slowly undermining the democracy (e.g. they literally removed Supreme Court judges and illegally put their own ones there that voted always in their favor, they rebuild the public tv to propaganda for their party and they fired a lot of judges that didn’t behave as they wanted).

      Then, around a year ago, there were new elections and despite the insane propaganda, due to a massive campaign, that former government lost majority and he got power again. They’re transformed the public TV back and work on reversing much of the harm done. If they also get the presidency in another year, the former party can’t veto much stuff so then they can do even better.

      But it’s still awesome that this happened as it’s one rare example of a democracy that was sliding into an authoritarian regime getting back and undoing the harm.

      He’s not perfect as is party is fiscally conservative and rather neoliberal, but they are in a coalition with left parties so he’s not like Macron, and that definitely balances it (because they have other priorities). And considering the major other alternative, it’s really amazing that he got elected. :D

      • pfm@scribe.disroot.org
        2·
        8 hours ago

        Nah, he’s not that great… We already see him giving a silent nod to investors while ignoring how bad housing situation is in the country. Also, coalition with the left is mostly on paper - he claimed he’d clean up the mess with Catholic church reducing its funding. Now the church is getting comparable money from the new government. I don’t trust them.

      • Owl@mander.xyz
        7·
        15 hours ago

        When he’ll be done with his second mandate can you lend him to us ?

        🇭🇺❤️🇵🇱

    • lemmur@szmer.info
      40·
      21 hours ago

      Well, It’s complicated. He’s from old-school neoliberal party and is by a lot od people viewed as a absolutne liar. We elected him, because other dominating party was sliding straight into authoritarian régime, so he was a lesser evil.

          • Furbag@lemmy.world
            2·
            9 hours ago

            That seems to be the case around the world right now. Democratic governments everywhere are facing surging right wing extremist parties with populist demagogues doing frighteningly well in elections. I just don’t see the appeal.

          • LittleBorat3@lemmy.world
            1·
            11 hours ago

            Yes but I guess a market liberal is technically right wing but not some authoritarian dipshit like the ones taking over seemingly everywhere.

            At least there is the danger of these people taking over.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
      31·
      18 hours ago

      For real. Boris Johnson was always up for a laugh, and a bit of harmless fun, which is why we elected him. He was the absolute best thing to happen to England, and the wake of destruction he left behind still leaves many of us breathless.

      • sailingbythelee@lemmy.world
        31·
        17 hours ago

        Is Tusk similar to Boris? I mean, obviously Boris presided over Brexit which was a real fuck-up. Then again, was Brexit really Boris’s fault? What with the referendum, democracy and all that good stuff. It seems to me that the people of the UK made their own bed in that regard.

        • Maggoty@lemmy.world
          2·
          11 hours ago

          Brexit was voluntary the entire way. The referendum wasn’t even binding. Cameron could easily have said it was too close for a mandate to be clear. Imagine what they would say with an independence vote like that in Scotland.

          The British conservative movement wanted Brexit. The real story is they almost didn’t even make it over the line to 50%; they pushed ahead with something that didn’t require a referendum; was obviously becoming a worse idea as the years went on; and was completely reversible right up to the moment they actually left.

        • tetris11@lemmy.ml
          5·
          17 hours ago

          His crimes:

          Who he is:

          He pretends to be a lovable harmless buffoon, but he is actually a severely corrupt well-connected man who knows how to win public opinion. Such men are dangerous.

          • sailingbythelee@lemmy.world
            3·
            15 hours ago

            Sure, but there was a very long debate about the implications of Brexit with both sides getting a comprehensive airing. I’m not defending Boris. Boris is an asshole and a corrupt, clownish demagogue, but the Conservative Party is more than just Boris. The people of the UK voted for Brexit in a refendum and kept the Conservatives in power for 14 years, including twice AFTER the Brexit referendum. Heck, the 2019 election was practically a second referendum on Brexit and the Conservatives got their largest landslide victory since Thatcher was PM. Boris may be an asshole, but the people of the UK have to own Brexit.

        • Korne127@lemmy.world
          1·
          16 hours ago

          No, not at all. I think it was just one association they had that funny-likable doesn’t automatically mean being a good politician (or person).