Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1040]

Struggling with this one :

I had a meeting today in which we were discussing social media strategies, and I've hit upon one huge problem : how to describe 'engagement' in the context of social media?

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dostawcy-internetu.pl/oferta/Kujawsko-pomorskie,Bydgoszcz--m-n-p-p--,Bydgoszcz.html

UPC are apparently in Bydgoszcz, so they'll be your best bet.

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I listen to plenty of Poles, just not the type that believes that Poland is some sort of Christ-like figure.

If you said Poland took in a lot of Ukrainians, I'd agree with you, they're just not refugees. There were even some in my local supermarket earlier, but they were obviously working here and not claiming asylum.


Most of them aren't genuine refugees. I prefer the BBC term - "migrants". I've been to Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, Romania and Greece - and all of those countries are perfectly acceptable if you're a genuine refugee. Macedonia for instance might be poor, but it's a nice little country to live in.

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Please, stop listening to PiS.

euractiv.com/section/europe-s-east/news/ukraine-rejects-polish-million-refugees-claim/

As of January - there were 3 refugees from Ukraine and 200 under some sort of protection (presumably the Mariupol Poles).

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Hello Ironside. How nice to see that you're repeating PZPR slogans.

They used to always talk about saboteurs and traitors too.

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It's going to be terribly good fun. The better weather is coming, and with it comes more and more creative demonstrations. And furthermore, KOD is organising in more and more places - and with it can only come further pressure on the government.

The only difference this time is that Jarosław looks...old. He hasn't got much left in the tank, that's clear.

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You mean the ex-PZPR guy that even wrote his habilitation thesis on the Spanish Communist Party and who lectured to the Central Committee? :D

Incidentally, what he "found" (or more accurately, what he was paid to find) is pretty much irrelevant. The opinion polls show that the people are on the side of KOD. 57% of Poles think that democracy is in danger - which rather contradicts what paid PiS supporters found.

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What's interesting is that the usual pro-lifers are now attempting to bring up the abortion debate again, and Kaczyński is desperately trying to persuade the Church to back down on it. I'm looking forward to a good abortion debate, because nothing will be funnier than watching PiS tear themselves apart over it.

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Funny you should say that, because the contract with LOT expires soon and the government has already made it clear that they intend to take it back under military control. Apparently the poor babies find the E-170 not lavish enough and they need something more suitable to contain their egos.

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Well, well, well. The BOR story involving the limo is running and running.

It now turns out that new tyres were ordered and then fitted to a different car, leaving Duda to travel with old tyres.

Doesn't take a genius to work out who got new tyres and who got old tyres.

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Notice how Polonius demands "loyalty" from the opposition parties. It's exactly the same old tired communist propaganda - satellite parties were expected to follow the Party line even if they didn't agree with it personally.


Have you already forgotten how PiS ran their election campaign? The whole campaign was based on Poland allegedly being in ruins, then they took power and immediately proceeded to ruin everything.

And yes, Poland is best avoided right now until we wake up from this nightmare.

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Do you ever remember anyone between 2007-2015 being appointed as the Chief of Police despite being under investigation for corruption at the time? Do you ever remember five generals leaving at the same time? Heck, do you ever remember judges from a European organisation refusing to come to Poland and refusing to have anything to do with Poland?


ecaho.org

Poland is rapidly becoming like Serbia in the 1990's.

Found an excellent summary of the "good change" of PiS.

It's a very lengthy piece, but it goes into detail about exactly how abusive this government has been so far.

przegladdemokratyczny.pl/000106-Anna-Izabela-Nowak-100-dni-zlej-zmiany.php


I just hope that we administer the medicine for this cancer quickly, decisively and with no emotion.

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*years to make sure that the only people working there are PiS members.

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I'd say "good, let's hope they appoint someone that knows how to protect people next".

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Culture, Polonius. You want to create a whole new protection team that thinks and behaves in a different way to the current generation of utter failures.

Wouldn't you prefer some hard-as-nails ex-Navy SEAL commanding them, someone that takes no nonsense and knows what he's doing and who has integrity by the bucketload?

thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/245371,Security-chief-will-not-lose-job-over-presidential-tire

This is madness. Through his inept leadership, he put Duda at harm - and he's going to keep his job?

Absolutely illogical, and shows the entire problem of having these people being political appointees rather than professionals.

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You know - I actually think the entire BOR should be fired and replaced with a brand new team headed by someone from abroad with experience in the special forces and governmental security, or perhaps a Pole that has done it abroad for foreign governments. It's now clear after two major incidents that they are totally unfit for purpose - not just the management, but the ordinary protection officers too.

I used to wonder why Kaczyński used/uses a private security company, but now it makes perfect sense.

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The worst thing is that the tyre was already marked for disposal, but they needed a tyre urgently and failed to have a sufficient supply of tyres on hand. There's also no excuses for driving the car at high speed when it's not meant to do it, there's no excuses for taking it off-road when it's not meant to do it and there's no excuses for ignoring in-car warnings about the condition of the tyre.

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Jesziwa - pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesziwa

Tut tut, call yourself a native speaker? ;)

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One could equally wonder about PiS, given that the extent of the fraud surrounding the SKOKi is now coming clear and that the money has been poured into subsidising the right wing media outlets controlled by PiS.

Another day, another story of sheer incompetence by PiS.

This time relates to the story concerning the accident that Duda had on the A4. Far from being any conspiracy involving assassinations, it turns out that the accident was entirely because of the total uselessness of his staff.

- They used a tyre on the car that was at the end-of-life and should have been disposed
- They used the car on an off-road section (the car isn't designed for such use)
- The driver ignored repeated warnings that there was a problem with the tyre
- The car was being driven for a long time at high speed, something it isn't designed for
- BOR covered up these facts and attempted to blame the previous government instead

One also has to wonder why the President feels that it's appropriate to be driven around at high speed on open public roads.

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The latest poll :

Nowoczesna : 29.6%
PiS : 27.3%
PO : 16.2%
Kukiz'15 : 7%

m.newsweek.pl/sondaz-ibris-poparcie-dla-partii-politycznych-nowoczesna-wyprzedza-pis,artykuly,376891,1.html

No other party would gain representation in the Sejm.

Voters are clearly, clearly unhappy with the refusal of PiS to publish the decision of the TK as well as the behaviour of Macierewicz over the last few days, including his insults towards America and nonsense about electro-magnetic weapons.

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May I remind you that PiS went to Washington to try and convince them to interfere in the Smoleńsk investigation?

More to the point, the Venice Commission was invited by the government.

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You honestly think that Mother Russia is going to care less about what Macierewicz says?

I'm waiting for him to try some operation to liberate the wreckage and for it to end in humiliating failure, Bay of Pigs style.

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He's the wrong man in the job. He should have been given some sort of unimportant ministry with special responsibility for Smoleńsk, not the Defence ministry. Anyone that's followed his political career knows that he's always been somewhat confrontational and difficult to work with - he won't listen to Szydło or Morawiecki telling him to lay off, and he's one of the very few within PiS that could stand up to Kaczyński.

I read somewhere an opinion by one right wing blogger suggesting that Macierewicz has been working for the Russians all along. Nothing would surprise me...

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Szydło doesn't decide who is in the government. She even went missing for several days after the election when PiS openly were debating over whether or not she should be allowed to be Prime Minister.

Waszczykowski is a fool, and everyone agrees that he's out of his depth. I'm surprised he wasn't fired immediately following the Venice Commission's decision, to be honest. Macierewicz on the other hand is Macierewicz, and therefore he can do what he wants without consequence. The problem with him is that he'll also bite every time Russia baits him.

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Hahaha. It's the same old story with you and PiS supporters - you only believe what you read in the PiS-funded media.

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Slight problem : Czechs (by far the most powerful of the other Visegrad countries) have long memories of how Poland invaded three times within 50 years. Hungary is also run by Fidesz, who belong to the EPP and who will not get too close to Warsaw. Slovakia is left, but they have always historically been quite cold towards Poland.

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How strange that you should say that. We've just seen Newsweek publish a list of how PiS members have been appointed to positions up and down the country, most of them without qualifications or experience and without any competition.

polska.newsweek.pl/lista-nominacji-pis-w-spolkach-skarbu-panstwa-i-instytucjach-panstwowych,artykuly,381794,1.html


polska.newsweek.pl/lista-nominacji-pis-w-spolkach-skarbu-panstwa-i-instytucjach-panstwowych,artykuly,381794,1.html


It exposes exactly how PiS abandoned the doctrine of the independent civil service, replacing it with a system of political patronage in which people have to obey the party line or lose their job. The exact same system was used in the PZPR, in which people were appointed to jobs according to political patronage.

Now imagine how bad it is further down the line.

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Nice try, but it's all explained here.

wyborcza.pl/duzyformat/1,129727,12806909,Frasyniuk_na_niemieckich_blachach.html


Pretty clear from the interview that he simply had connections that were willing to help him financially. It wouldn't have hurt him in the slightest to have been known as one of the genuine heroes of Solidarity.


There are serious questions to be had about how he was able to enjoy a nomeklatura upbringing and even enter the path of becoming a public prosecutor. He isn't corrupt himself, but he certainly enjoyed an upbringing that wasn't obtainable by average Poles.


Maybe he simply understood that lustracja could only end in even more trouble for Polish society?

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I don't grudge him. He suffered immensely in prison - there's a fantastic article about it here.

nytimes.com/1988/08/30/opinion/on-my-mind-the-prisons-of-poland.html

I don't recall Jarosław spending a day in prison. More to the point, no-one quite knows how he was able to enjoy such a privileged upbringing.

(see the madness of such accusations?)

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Frasyniuk, who suffered immensely during the 1980's - has spoken out against PiS. His treatment after the end of martial law is well documented, including being kept in truly dreadful conditions in prison. His treatment during the 80's contrasts sharply with Jarosław Kaczyński, who enjoyed the fruits of his privileged upbringing.


And perhaps the most damning point :