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I don't publicly proclaim myself to be the leader of a country, one that is trying to turn it into a one party state.


They always do this sort of stuff at night. Like when Macierewicz broke into the NATO office.


Pot. Kettle. Black...

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If he loses it so easily, there's no clearer sign that he's unfit for that role.

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No. The guy's a professional politician, a parliamentarian, one who describes himself as the real leader of Poland. He may well be a malicious snowflake, in which case he should look for another job or retire and stay at home with his cats.


No. The original translates as "You destroyed him, you murdered him.

The guy has lost it.

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So you're pretending he didn't make a deranged and incoherent rant, including allegations of murder? Remember it was filmed live.

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Kaczynski's deranged rant has certainly let people see what he's like. Even people who half supported him are getting worried.

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This does not happen to Americans in Poland.


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

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The staff of the so-called president are responsible for his safety, and ultimately the person himself decided to make the journey.

Bizarre that JK is literally screaming murder when people call him out on his dodgy judicial reforms.

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There's certainly work in Lublin, though not always they best, and you'll need a tefl certificate or other teaching qualification to get anything other than the worst plus citizenship of Poland or another EU country to work legally. Doing private lessons is possible, though hard just to go in cold. Watch out for the tax office if you advertise; they sometimes do entrapment. This happened to a friend (from your country) in Lublin a few years ago.

There are also cheap rooms, though the price generally reflects the quality, and Poles don't generally like to rent by the month. Keep trying with Gumtree and if necessary get a Polish friend to interpret. Don't, just don't, look for one close to the start of the university term.

I'd also suggest looking at a slightly higher price - you'll find somewhere much better.


Poland is bitterly cold and has long winters. Great in summer, however in winter it's often below freezing, and tin late winter the streets are often full of half defrosted brown slush with dog turds sticking out until March.

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It's obvious the pressure has got to him. He's known for a long time that his project is unsustainable, that his behavior is unstable, that his health is declining and that his advisors are deranged fools.

Not many places he can go from here

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It's a shocker, isn't it. And this is the minor back bench politician who describes himself as leader of the country.

He is likely to get far worse over the next few days and weeks.

He not only is a wreck of an individual, he looks like one too

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I had to pick myself off the floor laughing when I read that, a real tonic. Then again, there are similarities with Napoleon, both are utterly deranged psychopaths.

The obvious one would be Poland's Nobel Laureate and the hero of the Solidarity movement, Lech Wałęsa, though doubtless that would cause one twin to spin in his grave/s and the other to instantly drop down dead and join him.


Indeed. There have been bad times between the two countries, and there has also been (and is) friendship, decency, support and a lot of good people with a foot on both islands. Neither nation is known for being vindictive.


Yes. There's also a great deal of delusion, decades of a lifestyle that is frankly bizarre, a heavy dose of magical thinking and enormous sycophancy from those around him. His face on the night he was voted out of office was a picture to behold, and hopefully we will see that same expression soon.

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Hopefully this picture will upload, since I've shrunk the size. Not outside the Royal Castle, however it's so,where we all recognise - very significant given the context.

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Quite possibly, Po, quite possibly.


You mean the candlelit vigil with a pianist playing Chopin?

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I see only dignity there:

Edit. There should be a picture here, however it's not showing for some reason. The picture shows a candlelit vigil outside the Royal Castle, there's a pianist playing Chopin, the large crowd of Poles are mourning the death of democracy in Poland, and abhorring Kavzynski's latest attempt to reintroduce a one party state.

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Probably yes.

There's some great images being named around the world of the protest

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You have very little respect for the ordinary Polish citizens who oppose this midnight attempted coup.

One good thing is that the constant protests against the PiS junta show the world that people in Poland aren't just going to lie down and let Kaczynski do what he wants.

I wonder how you'll feel (as a long-term tax evader) when the 5am knocks on the door start to come...

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Basically this.

Plenty of protests today in Warsaw about it.

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What are you doing to increase the wages of agency workers and reduce the profit margins of the agencies?

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Very interesting, however as usual you don't actually say anything. Just a weak attempt at insults (which amuse), some playground level low-quality banter and a link to yet another racist video.

Sadly this is actually a reflection of Poland's post election political scene, which deteriorates by the day. Not but what, all observers see this.

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Read Stanislaw Lem's famous quote about the internet. It's well enough known around the world and of course is originally in Polish. He mentions you.

Worth saying, Wulky, that your comments in that last post are at the level of a primary school playground. Even making allowances for your level of English, it is in so many ways a mirror of PiS and it's few supporters - basically low information voters, homo sovieticus, followers rather than leaders.

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That would be the Party controlled fake news service. I doubt anyone's jealous, more pitying.

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I doubt the coup will last that long - it looks like the international community, after having woken up some time ago, are now going to take some action.

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A very eloquent answer there, albeit one that most thinking people would disagree with.

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There you go again, Po.


Now you know that isn't true, yet somehow you expect people to believe that outright lie. Remember the matter has been much discussed, much reported by reliable sources.

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That is actually a hilarious statement.


You mentioned Trump, an individual who normalises hatred, whose cohorts despise altruism. The same can be said for the authoritarian and pro-totalitarian PiS who do their semi-legal judicial skullduggery in the dead of night.

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And Po is sadly trying to deflect from this by posting off-topic rubbish about Japanese tourists in Belgium!!


This will happen, it is starting already. As Kaczynski said, "Terraz kurwa my" ("Now it's our f*cking turn")...

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Exactly. Very significant that they did the second bill very sneakily at midnight. Shades of the PRL/USSR style 'midnight knock on the door', and these knocks on the door will I suspect happen very soon.


Just as the government of my home country (UK) need its 20% of your small money to promote diversity.

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It's there in black and white spelt out clearly in the post, no ambiguity, no room for misinterpretation deliberate or otherwise. Btw, google Godwin's Law.


That would be the Poland I'm a citizen of and you aren't. Since you'd have to explain why you haven't paid a groszy in tax for years. That and the other thing...


Exactly what the PiS junta with their "tears kurwa my" mentality are trying to do. You of all people should be very worried.

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This is exactly what they want, what they planned, what they are trying to do and exactly what post-war Poland's worst president, Lech Kaczynski, meant when he said "teraz kurwa my" ("now it's our f*cking turn").

Hopefully our European Union and other relevant bodies will intervene much more stonglynthanthey have so far to uphold the disappearing rule of law in Poland.

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If you think that the 'needs of the Polish people' is a non-independent judiciary directly under the political control of one party, then there is really no hope for you.

Thee is however hope for Poland. This situation has occurred in the past, between 1939-1945 and 1948-1989. Both times, the problem was overcome.


If someone is illegally evading tax in Poland, tax that funds schools, roads, children's homes, fire stations, elderly care, police etc, surely there is a moral responsibility for Polish citizens to alert the tax authorities in order that the person's responsibilities are fulfilled. It should be a pretty big outstanding bill now, plus relevant fines.