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mafketis   
21 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Catchy slogan

Yes, much better than anything you've come up with (or taken from PiS media talking points).

anti-communsit dissidents, Soldiarity activists

Some of whom are strong critics of PiS's Neo-PRL agenda, Frasyniuk spent a lot more time than JK ever did in police custody during the PRL
mafketis   
21 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

The proposed fuel charge was withdrawn coupla days ago.

The way it was withdrawn leads me to believe it was never a serious project, but created to distract people and withdrawn when it didn't work.
mafketis   
20 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

It is the judicial reform is finally cleaning up the court system of PRL holdovers, including those who tried and sentenced anti-communist dissidents and Soldiairty acticists according to PZPR dictates.

Names, besides Piotrowicz. How on earth do you think that putting the court system under the direct control of a political party is a good idea? Beton!
mafketis   
20 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Politicians appointing judges -- horrors, how anti-democratic!

In this case, yes, because it's obvious that PiS wants direct single party control over the judiciary. There was a feature on tvn about checks and balances in these other countries that don't exist in PiS's rule-of-party-instead-of-law "reform" .
mafketis   
20 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

that they were not part of the elitny who got to shop at the same shops

You mean Pewex? Everybody could shop at those (at lost most of them) quite unlike other demoludki. I once tried to enter what looked like a similar store in Budapest and was thrown out faster than the speed of light.
mafketis   
20 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

it soon turned out that Poland's eocnomy was indeed robust

In other words PiS was lying about the economy being 'w ruinie'...

Waving the PRL card is ridiculous

To people who are nostalgic for the PRL it might be.

the still active judges who had sentenced dissidents and Solidarity activists to jail during PRL

Like Piotrowicz? Putting that komuch in charge of anything is clear sign that PiSolska is PRL bis.
mafketis   
20 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

PO's definition of democracy. "THAT IS WHEN WE ARE IN POWER

That's because PiS cannot be trusted around modern western institutions - they turn them into neo-PRL influence peddling agencies.

What sane investor will want to put their money in a country where they know the courts are simply an extension of the governmnet and if they don't rule the way the government wants then they'll be replaced? That is serious third world politics dud and YOU'RE IN FAVOR OF IT!
mafketis   
19 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

I still insist that my fist version convey his meaning better for an Anglophone

Except that no one talks like that.

Polish is generally more emotional than English

So need to not hold back in English, not tone it down.
mafketis   
19 Jul 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

He said

Don't quit your day job to become a translator

"Nie wycierajcie swoich mord zdradzieckich nazwiskiem mojego świętej pamięci brata. Zniszczyliście go, zamordowaliście go, jesteście kanaliami"

My modest contribution: "How dare you let the name of my late brother cross your deceitful lips! You destroyed him! you murdered (him)*! You filthy bastards!"

*I don't hear 'go' after zamordowaliście though some reports of his tantrum include which makes more grammatical sense
mafketis   
19 Jul 2017
Real Estate / Economical room by the month in Lublin? [24]

My friend in that situation was just asked to declare how much she had earned.

That's probably how they would usually handle it most of the time. Especially if the person just started paying up. On the other hand they do have the right to do everything Dominic described (the more a person challenged them the more likely that is to happen I imagine).
mafketis   
19 Jul 2017
News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]

Hilarious watching Kaczynski this morning

If by Hilarious you mean 'terrifying to think that this mentally deranged dwarf is the most powerful political figure in the country' then yes, a barrel of laughs.

Would this stand as a form of libel (since he accused the opposition of 'murdering' his brother)?

I don't think he's ever actually used those words before (close but always maintained plausible deniability) I really think he'll regret opening up that particular can of worms.
mafketis   
18 Jul 2017
Travel / Why do you visit Poland? [223]

Ostentatious public displays of wealth are as much a part of traditional Polish culture as they are of any western ones

Where I live (Prussianized Wielkopolska) the really wealthy people took pains to _not_ flaunt their wealth. There were signs if you knew how to look for them but it was much less 'in your face' than the more Russified Varsovians or Austrianized Krakovians...

That's fallen off a bit with the inevitable homogenization that's happened over the last 25 years but is still present.
mafketis   
17 Jul 2017
News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]

It's in every single countries interest to be sovereign and free from any form of outside dictatorship.

So Albania and Romania were better off in the 1980s than now? Got it.

Your perfect country? North Korea!
mafketis   
16 Jul 2017
News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]

BTW R U 1 2?

No I'm not a Jew, Mr. Jew Hater. You'll have to hate me for some other reason because I'm not a Jew.

Most oridnary citizens whole-hearted support

Your raving anti-Semitism? Is that the image of Poland you really want to further?
mafketis   
16 Jul 2017
News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]

Take an interpreter along and ask any Pole who has had the experience. Stand outside the court bldg at Leszno and chat up people leaving it

I don't think most people leaving courthouses in any country will be very happy as a general rule, that's not a very good way of gathering data about desirable reforms...
mafketis   
16 Jul 2017
News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]

I was referring to the screaming, shouting, howling, scuffling and overall mad-dog hysteria that went on outside the Sejm

Didn't see that, I saw people upset at government actions making use of the constitutionally guaranteed (for the time being at any rate) right to protest government action that they think is wrong.

Calling it hysteria and anarchy stinks of someone swallowing a party line, hook and sinker.
mafketis   
16 Jul 2017
News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]

nothing dodgier than the post-PRL or neo-PRL judiciary

But PiS wants to _create_ a neo-PRL judiciary that is politicized as much as possible and that will serve as useful lapdogs (wierne sługi as it were) for the current government.

the hysterical anti-government anarchy

Do you even read your posts?
mafketis   
15 Jul 2017
News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]

100% Polish DNA -- 4 Polish-born grandparents. But ah knows that don't cut no ice with a southern cracker and/or redneck like yoself, boy,

Then you're not American at all, just a bad Pole who refuses to pay taxes or get a Polish passport (while enjoying the benefits of am American passport).

The man without a country - that's you.

Real PolAms are just as proud of their American heritage and language as they are of Poland.