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Don't be silly. They got in due to a low turnout with only 18% of voters falling for their lies and hysteria.

You would have to look hard here in Warsaw to find anyone who has anything good to say about them.


When did you last live in Poland? Which decade?

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There is no sense whatsoever in practising this unless there is a specific medical issue affecting the patient.

Circumcised men must miss out on so much.

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See the poll above, and others posted here. They suggest the exact opposite of what you are trying to pretend.

Nobody here is optimistic in any sense about this awful regime - every step they take is damaging the economy, restricting freedoms, damaging the country's international reputation.

A gift for Russia who just love the instability the Kaczynski gang have caused.

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Their 'policies' will just cost people's jobs. Polish bond yields are already scarily high and the effect on the economy is shocking.

People are genuinely pessimistic about the future. The only positive thing is that as soon as there's an election, PiS will be out.

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That's actually horrific.

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I-S, there's neither pudding nor proof. It's bizarre that you say people who vote for parties other than your favourite one are "Polish-speaking Soviets" and it's a throwaway remark about a lot of people which just doesn't make any sense.

And you still can't back it up with any evidence.

If however we want to talk about Soviet mentality in a thread about media censorship, you should be well aware of the severe criticism of the PiS regime for trying to stifle media that questions their economic programme and their attacks on the constitution


Nail. Head. Hit...

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If anyone is like that, it's the PiSites. Yet you fail to provide one teensy weensy bit of evidence for your wild assertion.

Remind us, how long ago was it that you emigrated from Poland?

News / Let's protest censorship in Poland's mainstream media! [90]

Any sources for that, other than your own fevered imagination?

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Do expand on that....

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Precisely.


A lie


Utter nonsense.

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And since public money is short, how many theatres, museums etc will lose out.


No it hasn't.

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That's simply not true. There have been rigorous studies about identical twins which disprove what you allege.

You've also said he's married (he isn't) and that he has lived with women (he hasn't).


Who among us isn't?



towleroad.com/2006/10/homophobic_poli/

News / Let's protest censorship in Poland's mainstream media! [90]

We should be under no illusion that they are doing this and also reading this forum.

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Bingo. Absolute nonsense and they don't quite understand that most people (in the capital, anyway) realise that very well.

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Easy answer. The bulk of PiS voters (not that there were that many) are elderly, poorly educated, small town/rural, believing in religious superstitions and with a very limited outlook on life.

He doesn't have any support from any other demographic so he's terrified about alienating that one.

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Absolutely - and desperate it isn't discussed any more than it is already. Amazing how many in the far-right lead double lives which invariably rebound on them - Jorge Haider and Nick Griffin are the classic examples.

With Jaro, it will sooner or later become an issue; depending on whatever blunder his puppet regime does next.

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]


Perhaps rather more than yourself who's never been here (or even to the same continent), doesn't even speak the language, has no real connection to the country yet spams a discussion forum with creepy stuff about what people should or should not do here...

Isn't it past your bedtime in Australia?

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

Hard (no pun intended) to say any normal person would make that comment, Po.

And no, in Poland we don't mutilate people unnecessarily.

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From the Polish government.


Probably since birth. It's not exactly a secret; President Wałęsa outed him on live TV.

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This is good, however the reason Americans do it isn't in any way shape or form because of


It's because doctors there are unfortunately allowed to charge money to their patients or to their patients so-called health insurance so they push it as something they can get an income from. That and Protestant American Puritanism that thinks sex is bad - because circumcision damages sexual response and men who've had it feel and enjoy less.

There are no health benefits whatsoever from male circumcision (unless you're an adult who needs it for the obvious) and to inflict it on a child is abuse.

Yes, you are a d...head, however this thread is pointless since we don't routinely practice circumcision here unless the person has either phimosis or a foreskin that hasn't properly retracted.

I have never seen one in Poland that has that issue.

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Given that the party leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, is a practising homosexual, I'd say that you're barking up the wrong tree there. As for IQ, I doubt any serious study has been done on IQ and voting habits. What has been studied in Poland is educational attainment and voting habits. Those studies, available to all show that PiS voters are less likely to have higher or even further education that voters of other parties.

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As a teenage Australian, you'be never even visited our continent and probably never will and your or anybody else's 'ancestors' are an irrelevance. My own ancestors were from Poland and even wore the crown of this country but that doesn't give me or anyone else the right to snark...

As is this thread, since circumcision is not done here.

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I live where the hell I like within Europe and have a right to live here, which you by the way don't.

However circumcision, an American habit is wrong. A pointless thread since male circumcision is not routinely practised in Poland.

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Who cares and that has nothing to do with the National Socialist PiS Partei that nobody with an IQ over 110 actually supports.

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

For once we agree. I don't give a flying f'*ck about what's 'slavic' or what is isn't but circumcision is just pointless and harmful mutilation.

There's actually a thread about this here - maybe the mods will merge.

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Voters are voters, whether they bother to show up or not. I always vote; my forbears fought hard for the right to do so and I don't understand why some people are apathetic.


The polls show that the current regime are unpopular and the puppet president is low in the ratings too.

Sooner or later (could be Petru but I doubt it) someone will emerge that is genuinely popular and hopefully not populist it won't be Kukiz, won't be Biedroń (though they love him up in Słupsk), it won't be anyone with strong links to the Church, but it will be someone and hopefully someone far more moderate and less hysterical than Kaczynski. Though that wouldn't be hard.

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It's actually one of the highest approval ratings anywhere for continued EU membership. Poland hugely supports the EU. Those tiny handfuls of beardies who shop up in public with giant crosses and banners about Eurowhatever are a tiny, tiny minority.


Buy a dictionary


All polls indicate that the people you are crass enough to discuss politics with in real life (assuming it is in real life) are in a minority. Most people do not support the present regime.

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Given that most voters didn't actually turn out to vote and now we have a regime that nobody likes, it's very fair to criticise them.

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That's absolutely naive, an underestimation of voters and ignores the vigorous 'no'campaign.

It also falls down flat when you consider the fact that within the EU, Poles are one of the nations that support continued membership most strongly.

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Exactly, it's this misunderstanding that is confusing the political issue. Poland chose the single market and although the tax office certainly doesn't like the fact that someone can register their business elsewhere, rather than whine it's incumbent on them (and the government in office) to provide an environment where people don't need to do this.