PolandIsAStateOfMind

It was pretty fun at the beginning but then suddeenly he's on the world conquest, enslaving people left and right, having pedo inclinations about his witch teacher and Occupied Korea is revealed to be world class superpower in magic underworld FUCKERS WHY DID YOU GET OCCUPIED AND ALLOWED USIANS TO DID ALL THAT SHIT TO YOURSELVES.

That’s not the author, but rather the illustrator.

That's worse, because it's him that made that manga, plot is rather banal and characters unmemorable, but the art was one of the best.

Thanks I’ll take a look, do you have any recommendations? I never really read any manhwa.

Infinite Levelling: Murim is pretty fun, guy get reincarnated and even gets the magic cheat system, but since he isn't a modern gamer but medieval Chinese soldier he can't even understand the terminology at the beginning. Next one is Peerless Dad, about dude getting back to martial arts while raising kids. Next one Volcanic Age, i would say archetypical high fantasy murim story. Finally, Chronicles Of Heavenly Demon, basically the same as above, but protagonist is on the other side of barricade and wants to destroy murim, also noteworthy because the author resisted all the flashy costumes and most people there just go around in historical clothes.

I kinda like murim manhwas because they are all set in China (usually in first century of Ming era but that can vary) and thus they don't have the sinophobia included (unlike for example again Gamer which reeks of it and Infinite Levelling which also hints it often) and protagonists usually aren't edgy bastards.

Solo levelling is South Korean manhwa, author literally died working on it, and you expect come social commentary about predatory capitalism in the age of apocalypse? On a bright side, he at least did finished it and did not filled it with completely absurd Occupied Korean chauvinism like the author of the most cringy manhwa ever, "The Gamer" (yes i'm not joking there is really shit like that out there).

Anyway, better read some murim manhwas, they tend to be quite fun.

and I’m a sucker for necromancy, so I’m excited to see where it goes lol.

Nowhere, he later gets into advanced class which is technically still a necromancer but not really.

Even when a life-threatening hurricane is headed your way, there are many reasons why you might stay put. You might have dependent family members who can’t leave due to disabilities or other health-related reasons; you might not have reliable transportation to get to a safer area, and what’s more, no gas to get there. Sometimes, you simply refuse to leave your home and everything you own behind.

There’s also the reality of just not being able to afford it.

Every reason in the first paraghraph is still boiling down to the reason from second paragraph

Damn it's not like in the picture anymore, now it's almost instanteous

I mean just look at average Ukraine thread on .ml World News. It's not even reddit, it's not FBi-run nazi circlejerk, libs there has been exposed to truth regularily for all that time, and they still regurgitate banderite versions uncritically.

Polish "economic miracle" could means several things, we have one constantly reinvented by state propaganda to shut our faces and i lost count long ago what they mean currently. Generally over the last two decades i would say it's blanket term for sucking up the cash from EU (Poland was and still is all the time most subsidized country) while not entirely integrating into EU financial structures to not be hit as hard by the crisises like in 2008 (fun fact: even the fucker balcerowicz knows euro is not good and lobbying hard for keeping currency was probably the only good thing he ever did) and actually quite skillful engineereing of social dumping both from and to Poland.

Before that it was standard for postsocialist country "let's lose 30 years of development, become colonised, and call that economical miracle"

never heard of Poland(, or any country for that matter,) funding 100% of a company while leaving the dividends to foreign hands

Huh? That's happening all the time, it's called "privatisation". In Poland (and i suspect in every postsocialist country) there was especially scummy way to do it in first 3 years of transformation: industry was bought by random people substituted by foreign business, for peanuts, and those peanuts were provided by the company being bought as lease, so effectively it was state just giving up the industry for free, nearly always into foreign hands.

It also did happened later like the case of modern steel mill being build, immediately sold for nearly nothing and of course liquidated as competition (in Silesia around 2005 iirc).

There was also even more blatant case i do known, though it probably also happened way more elswhere and wasn't into foreign hands specifically: Meiji Japan build state industry and then to purposefully kickstart not even capitalism but immediately imperialism, they just given it up to zaibatsus, creating the industrial molochs that would lead Japan straight into fascism. And considering the still-mostly medieval development level of most of coutry it could be said that they literally pushed the imperialism button.

Going by what happening with Intel right now, i stronly suspect it's only empty talk. Though knowing Polish government and its servilism towards America, i wouldn't be even very surprised if Poland funded 100% of that factory, after all it's exactly what they were doing in 90's

that 2023 was an exception

I wonder if this really were all military expenses.

This graph is not related at all, it's from 2021 and it's global investments, look at the y axis. Poland would barely be shown there as pixel. And in the other graphs in your link you can see that US investments in Poland were less than Belgian or Swiss or Swedish, and even by the ultimate flow of capital still half of German ones and less than Netherlands.

Over 1/3rd of it was to be financed by Polish tax money and it was scrapped anyway.

No way US pumps more money in Poland than Germany, unless this is counting all the expenses on their base in Poland as "direct investment"