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mafketis   
11 Jan 2016
News / Poland's election winning party: PIS proclamations [229]

So you're a big backer of śmieciówki

Here's an unpleasant economic truth that no one has thought to tell you: the more restrictions you put on employment, the less employment there will be.

Now.... plan accordingly. How many people do you want with no hope of employment per person with secure employment?
mafketis   
11 Jan 2016
Work / Information about jobs for Indian students in Poland [286]

People are lying to you if they are suggesting you can find part time employment in Poland. You can't (theoretically you can, but unless you speak Polish you're unqualified for about 95% of the jobs).
mafketis   
11 Jan 2016
News / Restoring the Port of Elbląg? [113]

Yep, nothing like putting forward a blatant Russiophobic public image while actually doing everything pro-Putin in the background.

JK's and AM's generation _understand_ a world in which Poland is dominated by the Russian state, that world made sense to them (even if they chafed under the domination). Modernity and the prospect of Poland being a relatively independent and relatively prosperous country in Europe scares them because it's not anything they understand.

Of course they'll return Poland to the Russian sphere of influence if they can - the same way that children beaten by their parents grow up to abuse their children, recreating the conditions of abuse give them a sense of security.
mafketis   
11 Jan 2016
Polonia / Should Poles help Germans organize protests demanding free media ? [136]

It looks now as if the German government and media have come to their senses and are now reporting the facts as they stand.

It must be killing them poor things, but in other news a Jewish guy (with beanie) was beaten up by two migrants on a train and the German media could care less...
mafketis   
11 Jan 2016
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

Who cares? If he stays out of politics (besides occasionally adding comic relief) then I have no interest in him. If he tries to reenter politics as a Neo-Dmoswki-ite then I'll be against him. Will you? Or does JK have to tell you what your opinion is first?
mafketis   
11 Jan 2016
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

So KOD crowd are proto-fascists ?

Is it an arm of LPR?

Ensuring that 14 of 15 TK judges are appointed by the PO/KOD side and serve the interests of the trough-defending camp

Yes, they're defending the trough against PiS, no wonder PiS hates the constitution - it puts limits on their ability to plunder....
mafketis   
11 Jan 2016
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

Did you jump with him at the KOD comedy ?

I like this one better

youtube.com/watch?v=OVR0geqnKlA

Though this one is okay too

youtube.com/watch?v=5yw_8BR5Zmc

Giertych appears to be a classic turncoat

More projection?

He did try to re-Polonise the school curriculum in 2005-2007

To the .... displeasure of people that actually had to attend Polish schools

Once a good right-wing national conservative (the Giertych fmaily were known Dmowski-ites)

Stop beating around the bush, LPR was a proto-fascist party (down to the thuggish youth brigade). That's who PiS chose as a coalition partner, a proto-fascist. Remember that, why expect anything different this time around?

It makes one wonder whether he harbours any genuine beliefs and values of his own

Who cares? If he stays out of politics I wish him no ill (I'm a very forgiving sort). I don't see him reviving his career anytime soon. If he does try to actively revive his career then I'm pretty sure I'd be against him.
mafketis   
11 Jan 2016
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

There's a whole lost generation here

No.

My own theory is that there's something with the educational system that is alienating the youth voters.

The 18-30 demographic has _always_ been apathetic and ostentatiously apolitical in Poland (at least since the communist period). This might be partly because communism debased politics just as it debased everything else it touched.

The only exception I've ever seen was during the PiS government when they appointed Giertych as Minister of Education and he wanted to ramp up the patriotrism and pope-centered nature of the high school required reading list. People who had finished high school a few years earlier were actually concerned about was going to happen to future high school students. I'll always be grateful to Giertych for awakening the political consciousness of young educated Poles even if it didn't last very long.

pushing more "Polishness" and history onto the youth might make them even less interested

For sure, if you want to turn young people against something, force them to learn about it in high school When I was in high school we had to take a class "Americanism vs Communism" (yes, that was the title) and it essentially turned us all into socialists for a time (I got over it after a few years). When I took it was also taught by an evangelical Christian who spent a lot of time hyping up his religion and it turned me against that too.
mafketis   
10 Jan 2016
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

but you probably don't read Polish fluently.

Go PiS yourself, I bet I read a lot more fluently than you. I live in Poland rather than just fantasize about it.

and the link is as dead as your arguments
mafketis   
10 Jan 2016
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

Do you even live in Poland and know what life looks like at ground level? Poland escaped the 2008 economic crisis and has been a model of growth for 8 years. Granted, the unskilled and uneducated haven't shared in that, but what? do you want PRL values back where a road construction guy made more than a doctor?

And if PO was so terrible, then please give some concrete examples of corruption and robbing the public coffers.
mafketis   
10 Jan 2016
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

trough-defenders

You do realize that this strongly implies that PiSites are impatient to start rooting around in the slop themselves, don't you?

Again, and again, projection. Someone who's in favor of PiS cronies robbing the citizenry blind will accuse others of having done so because that's the only politics they understand - plunder and corruption.

I expected better from you. My bad.
mafketis   
9 Jan 2016
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

pushed away from the trough

Projection, you're happy that PiS-ites will be gorging themselves at the public trough (all they can do since they have no idea how to do the things people voted for them to do).

Bait ..... and switch!
mafketis   
9 Jan 2016
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

you yourself still haven't fessed up as to whether you're are a paid activist

Neither have you, and to be frank, I can easily believe that you're a paid shill for PiS (if I thought they cared about an english language forum).

But the idea stays. Don't throw stones when you're hiding behind a pane of glass....
mafketis   
9 Jan 2016
News / Confessions of a paid hater / troll in Poland [42]

I'd try reading it at an Empik

Or buy a copy, it's available everywhere and not expensive (I often buy it before going on a trip as it makes good train/plane reading).
mafketis   
9 Jan 2016
News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]

you're admitting that PiS stand for keeping women unemployed and stuck at home.

Polonius simply does not understand contemporary Poland. He's projecting a idealized suburban US model as the ideal lifestyle for Poland (Father Knows Best with bigos and a poster of PJPII on the wall).

Many of those who voted for PiS were voting for job creation and PiS has done absolutely nothing to create jobs except for their own cronies. And I don't expect them to either because all of their economic proposals are proven failures.
mafketis   
8 Jan 2016
News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]

And what about women that don't want to?

They'll learn to love it after PiS policies ensure that no sane employer will hire women...
mafketis   
8 Jan 2016
News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]

President Duda has signed into law amendments normalising public broadcasting

i.e. put it under direct government control, just like PRL

restoring age seven for school starters

again, just like the PRL

PiS = PRL2 Electric Boogaloo
mafketis   
8 Jan 2016
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

some channels of information to be able to present their views to the public

Why is there public media? Are state owned tv and radio important enough to survive on their own?

Other broadcasters are independent and have often been anti-PiS just to recall TVN which is a very big channel.

If PiS controlled public media are anything like PiS positive media then TVN will only become bigger (not so sure about Polsat)
mafketis   
8 Jan 2016
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

The PRL had their nomenklatura elite, and the PO regime had their oliagarch elite who took orders from foreign coporate interests.

And PiS has a president who's breaking the law and an unelected power behind the throne.
mafketis   
7 Jan 2016
News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]

restoring age seven for school starters

Cause who thinks getting an early start in education matters?!?

Age seven is pretty old to start schooling.

And unless the president stops breaking the law, I'm not inclined to respect anything he does.
mafketis   
6 Jan 2016
News / Poland's Parliament adopting a 70% severance tax of departing state company bosses [21]

That would mean that self-interest takes precedence over the common good

Well, that's usually what happens everywhere in the world....

Informed policy takes that into account rather than go for simplistic "feel good" legislation that's liable to have very different effects than those intended.