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mafketis   
3 Jun 2025
News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [495]

Tax enforcement on big tech and multinationals hopefully

Well libertarianism seemed to die pretty quickly there....

in economic terms, the most leftwing govt in the EU

Yes, PiS are essentially socially conservative socialists...
mafketis   
3 Jun 2025
News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [495]

Our new president did not promise any new social spending

karolnawrocki2025.pl/podatki/

Six of one... how would the tax shortfalls be made up?
mafketis   
3 Jun 2025
News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [495]

But in any case that is what a lot of Nawrocki voters want -

That's been PiS's MO since 2015.... It's the party of gibsmedat

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gibsmedat
mafketis   
2 Jun 2025
News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [495]

why then the popularity of that mid-'00's Polish

A, that film was released in 2011 and I've probably heard of it but I don't know how popular it was....
mafketis   
2 Jun 2025
News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [495]

Apparently, either one or both of Nawrocki's parents were Solidarity supporters during the 1980's, yes?

Incredibly irrelevant in modern Poland... no one really thinks or cares about Solidarity anymore.... sad but true.

He didn't handle it well.

Did Kaczyński resign as prezes of PiS after Oct 2023?
mafketis   
2 Jun 2025
News / Karol Nawrocki - the New President of Poland [495]

knew it was too close to celbrate

Yes. He should have said "It looks good but it's too soon for a full celebration"

all the western crazy ideas will be shot down pretty quickly.

Trzaskowski convincingly won Warsaw with just over 68 % of the vote.... Varsovians are going to what? Because of block-voting by the Southeast?

One percentage vote difference does not signal any big changes in the country, just more division.
mafketis   
2 Jun 2025
News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

Kaczynski is the new president now (Nawrocki is only his marionette).

Same old, same old..... I wonder if Nawrocki will go the Banaś route... or just start his own rackets on the side.....
mafketis   
2 Jun 2025
News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

So where does Trzaskowski no now? He has no real future in national politics after going 0 for 2.... esp with the lame @ss candidates that PiS picks... a dishrag and a p|mp shouldn't be formidable foes...

My guess is that next stop after his mayorship: Brussels, first as an EMP and then looking for appointments there.
mafketis   
2 Jun 2025
News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

Despite everything I think there have been some solid economic achievements last 2 years -

Yes, increasing standards also increase dissatisfaction that things aren't even better....

That's been known forever.
mafketis   
2 Jun 2025
News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

Holownia didn't have a chance.

But piling on Trzaskowski didn't help.... his endorsement couldn't undo the damage done there.... a more united front form the beginning would have been useful.

An interesting map but no surprises

Lots of places in the Southeast had block voting.... with N getting over 80% or even 90% in some places....

Dziękuję Polsko B..... czy lepiej C...
mafketis   
2 Jun 2025
News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

I guess the most glaring was appointing a national prosecutor without the presidents signature.

wanna go back to the president breaking the law in 2015? PiS started that ball rolling and has no right to complain about the aftershocks...
mafketis   
2 Jun 2025
News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

But PiS did try to hold on to power in 2023 -

They certainly didn't facilitate the transfer of power but they didn't really try to block it, they just wasted a lot of taxpayer money to form a two week government for no real purpose (and PiS voters forgave them the waste of money because......)
mafketis   
2 Jun 2025
News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

I never apologise to Seppos.

So.... afraid to bet.

impossible to win by believing in nothing, accomplishing nothing, still living in the past, being only against

PiS's problem in 2023....
mafketis   
2 Jun 2025
News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

Tusk will be doing everything he can to nullify the election results

Let's make a bet.

If your scenario comes true then I'll apologize to you here.

If it doesn't. If Tusk accepts the results. Then you'll apologize to me here.

Bet?
mafketis   
2 Jun 2025
News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

Hołownia's

Tha'ts the worst (as is Hołownia himself).... The other smaller candidates I can understand (they need to build their brand) but Hołownia joining the pile on against Trzaskowski was a very bad look... and his endorsement wasn't enough to undo that damage.

Tusk and Trzaskowski are in the best interest of Poland

I'm glad you agree.
mafketis   
2 Jun 2025
News / Presidential elections 2025 - the race has commenced!!! [665]

Tusk will be doing everything he can to nullify the election results.

No he won't you russian pawn....

Tusk will be doing everything he can to nullify the election results.

No he won't.

The real results: It's worth remembering that President of Poland is not a policy-making position. The likely result is just more obstructionism making it difficult for parliament to actually get anything done.

The big question is.... will PiS be able to control him? Duda was a weak, accommodating sort and always gave in to Kaczyński in the end (did I say that?).
I think he's going to go into business for himself.... look for corruption scandals to start erupting in a few months....
mafketis   
2 Jun 2025
Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]

not necessarily a literal action,

I doubt if it's every been used literally....

that said, it does not mean...

to rise to ones feet or possibly to defend one self or others.

It means to use everything at one's disposal (and then some) to achieve a particular goal.

You are wrong. We're all wrong sometimes.

Only narcissists are never wrong (in their own demented minds).