News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


They'll fail at that because their economics are voodoo socialist stuff from the 1970s. Of course they're going to find every excuse to do other stuff. Their lap dogs won't dare complain.

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At least he respects the idea of a constitution, unlike the head of a certain party I could name who takes dumps on the former constitution in public.

At present Poland has no functioning constitution. It is rule by party leader. Just like the PRL that its supporters long for....

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I'm completely convinced that when he didn't know what else to say Wałęsa would just spout a lot of nonsense secure in the knowledge that no one would ask what (if anything) it was supposed to mean.

When you get down to it JK tends to follow the same strategy except that his nonsense sounds vaguely like it means something that only the highly erudite can truly follow so people are intimidated to ask what it's supposed to mean.

All that a person needs to know now is that JK wants rule of party and not rule of law and he absolutely hates about half the population of the country.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]


Or just to distract some people's attention away from yesterday's orgy or self-humiliation and agrieved victimhood?

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what a cesspool of a mind you have....

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Why do you think they've junked the consitution? PiS _hates_ the very idea of checks and balances.

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If you say so, then I guess killing her horses was for the national good!

To be fair, if we're talking about horses that spend almost their whole lives in stables then they tend to be delicate and don't have the natural immunities of pasture based horses and they get colic (which can be deadly for horses) very easily. The occasional death of a high profile horse is not that suspicious but the recent series seems to point to either real incompetence on the part of management, sabotage or an insurance scam.

I'd want more info on the other deaths, any breeding program tends to have high mortality rates (something most people don't want to realize). So I'd need info on the ages and values of the horses to have an opinion.

The article linked to cannot be called journalism in any real sense of the word (maybe in PRL-inspired PiS world it is but not to anyone with any experience writing for newspapers (comme moi).

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"Many Poles" suffer from projection, assuming that others have the same motive as they do.

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Name some....


They're just undoing legislation in order to undo it, busywork with no real meaning and no direction.

They're kind of trapped because the suckers that believe their idea about a strong independent Poland with a strong internationally recognized national brand don't have the first idea of the economic dislocations that breaking form the EU would bring about and don't realize that a strong national brand takes decades to build and can't be rushed with a bunch of goose-headed legislation and by rabidly pursuiing crazy people politics like Smolensk and total bans on abortion.

And the less said about how they've managed to damage a real national brand (Polish Arabian Horses) the better.

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By lying about who was going to be in charge and about what they were going to do.

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It's very interesting how some people will support any old crap if PiS does it....

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Yes, why are they so eager for rapists to successfully reproduce? Most of the time I think aborting the result of rape is by far the better more ethical decision.

But then the RC has never understood the idea of genes. For hundreds of years they gathered together the smartest and most learned of men.... and forbade them from reproducing. Not very sensible.

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Then why did you bring it up (apropos of nothing)? Fascinated much?

If fertilized eggs are human then spontaneous abortion is the biggest killer in history and it needs to be the focus of most medical research.

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So you want to put women who miscarry in prison is you're not satisfied with their behavior. The mask comes off....

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Abortion =/= murder in the minds of many, probably most, probably almost all people. That's why it's a question of civil law.

About 30 % of all fertilized eggs spontaneously abort, does this mean these women are murderers?

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But.... hand kissing! Womens' Day!


I doubt if he agrees....

I'm wondering why they're brining this up now unless the church doesn't have confidence in the longterm prospects of PiS staying in power and they want to push through as much of their agenda as they can while they can...

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Poland under a PiS government = PRL but with Rome instead of Moscow.

Nothing more to say, really.

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I'm sure they return the favor. Admit it, you hate them because they've always been more economically and civically adroit than the Warschauer Volk.

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Why don't they just put everyone who ever worked for the PRL in jail?

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What punishments do you want for the women seeking abortions? If you want abortion restricted don't want to send women who seek or receive illegal abotions to prison then you don't think of women as moral agents.


Then she is objectively pro-rape if she thinks a woman who becomes pregnant as a result of rape shouldn't be able to abort the rapist's spawn...

Life / Specific information about Polish healthcare system? [19]

I can't speak about private insurance, but when you get a prescription from a doctor with a contract with the national system the doctor indicates how much is reimbursed on the prescription itself (for example 30% or 50%) and then the pharmacist applies that to the cost and its subtracted before I pay. I don't concern myself with it at all.

addendum. just asked a friend in the medical field and he says some private doctors have a governmental contract for prescriptions only in which case prescriptions by them are handled just as public doctors.

If a private doctor has no contract with the government then it's all out of pocket for the patient.

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Sort of literal

When I'm around/near you then I love you .... but/and I can't love (anyone)

Life / Specific information about Polish healthcare system? [19]


Unless you want a service that's not covered in their contract with the NFZ in which case you find another healthcare provider whose contract includes the service or you pay (with no compensation).

I had this situation where I had a referral but the place they recommended didn't include anesthesia for the procedure I needed (and I wanted anesthesia) I could either pay or find a different provider that did provide anesthesia as part of their contracted services (I managed the latter but many people can't and either do without or pay out of pocket).

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No. You don't pay anything. Of course not everyone is insured in the national public healthcare system, but there's a computerized national data base of who's covered and how. A family doctor won't accept you if you're not insured. (My situation is maybe not typical as my "family doctor" is the outpatient clinic at a research hospital but I've never paid anything there or for any services obtained on referral).

I'm not sure how the private insurance sector works (I just use the public system). When I've used private services I just pay as the services are rendered and there's no compensation.

Life / Specific information about Polish healthcare system? [19]

If you're insured then you don't pay anything for services that are covered by the National Sickness Fund (NFZ). You always go to your family doctor first and when you get a referral it's considered proof of insurance when you take the referral somewhere else.

If you go private (or opt for non-covered services) then you pay 100% for that with no repayment.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


So there's nothing anyone can possible do to stop angry young muslim men from blowing things and people up? Is that your point?

It most certainly seems related to the arrest of the little miserable murderer from Paris and the Islamic State has claimed responsibility and many agents of the Islamic State have entered Europe through refugee routes. So...

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Gotta, say as time goes on that's looking smarter and smarter....

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I'll remember this quote on April 10.....

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The ends justify the means?