sorry to hear. was he a "nice" FIL?
sorry to hear, dude.
Sorry...
Sorry to hear!
What still puzzles me is that the EU commission lets all this slip. I really hope they will follow the push of the EU parliament to make money transfers dependent on obeying to European laws and values. You wonder how long the Polish and Hungarian governments stay in power when the money doesn't flow anymore.
What's the total population in Poland? If 300k went out to protest, what % of the population is that?If anyone thinks their country is a dumpster fire I present you Poland 2020.
The Ruling Party has changed our strictest anti abortion law to be even stricter (essentially you have to give birth to dead babies) so 100k + people went to the streets in the capital and 300k in the whole country. Biggest protests since the country stopped being communist. What does our Ruling Party Head do? He goes on national TV with a speech to the nation literally encouraging far-right hooligans to defend the churches (there were a few cases of people spraying abortion helpline phone numbers on them) and fight people on the streets. So they attack the sides of the march.
At the same time a guy from our equivalent of the FBI drives through 2 protesters blocking the street and runs away. He gets charged with a misdemeanor. (Putting Pride Flags on Statues is a Felony here). A minister's Limo runs over 2 other protesters. Thankfully with no one really hurt but also - nothing happens. Finally some guy who attacked a journalist gets let go from arrest because the head DA gives direct orders to local DA to not arrest him. The DA also goes after protest leaders after direct orders from Head DA.
At the same time we have 2nd highest absolute death numbers from Covid in Europe (after Russia with 3x the population), 3-4% Death Rate, the government decides to change its mind about raises to healthcare workers, my state has 0 respirators left, our supreme court is basically illegitimate with the ruling party changing its membership via shady law changes signed by the president at midnight.
Also the country has closed our graveyards last minute (1st Nov is a big visiting day) so people lost a ton of money and some mayors decided not to listen to the government and keep them open. There are also some cases destroying the walls of graveyards to get inside.
And not like in America the closest election both for the parliament and presidential is 3 years from now. How do you say fucked in Polish?
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Seems like maybe you have enough people in the streets to make an election happen any damn time you want.
Easy translation:If anyone thinks their country is a dumpster fire I present you Poland 2020.
The Ruling Party has changed our strictest anti abortion law to be even stricter (essentially you have to give birth to dead babies) so 100k + people went to the streets in the capital and 300k in the whole country. Biggest protests since the country stopped being communist. What does our Ruling Party Head do? He goes on national TV with a speech to the nation literally encouraging far-right hooligans to defend the churches (there were a few cases of people spraying abortion helpline phone numbers on them) and fight people on the streets. So they attack the sides of the march.
At the same time a guy from our equivalent of the FBI drives through 2 protesters blocking the street and runs away. He gets charged with a misdemeanor. (Putting Pride Flags on Statues is a Felony here). A minister's Limo runs over 2 other protesters. Thankfully with no one really hurt but also - nothing happens. Finally some guy who attacked a journalist gets let go from arrest because the head DA gives direct orders to local DA to not arrest him. The DA also goes after protest leaders after direct orders from Head DA.
At the same time we have 2nd highest absolute death numbers from Covid in Europe (after Russia with 3x the population), 3-4% Death Rate, the government decides to change its mind about raises to healthcare workers, my state has 0 respirators left, our supreme court is basically illegitimate with the ruling party changing its membership via shady law changes signed by the president at midnight.
Also the country has closed our graveyards last minute (1st Nov is a big visiting day) so people lost a ton of money and some mayors decided not to listen to the government and keep them open. There are also some cases destroying the walls of graveyards to get inside.
And not like in America the closest election both for the parliament and presidential is 3 years from now. How do you say fucked in Polish?
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I guess that might help. Give it a go. Not exactly what I was thinking, but I like the way *you* are thinking.
We sit at 37 mil so that's a bit below 1%. So that's equivalent to 2.5mil in US. Would be higher but those protests were essentially illegal as we are in lockdown and no gatherings can happen since we sit at 17-22k daily covid cases (we went exponential)
I feel like more protests in front of churches might result in church pressure on the religious part of the government leading to a split and new elections but the protests avoided churches because right wing hooligans were "protecting them" (There is this really bizzare picture of the army protecting the police protecting the right wing hooligans protecting the church no one cared about. )
Sorry to hear.
Nice. Done with the weekend EMT horse show gig season?
Some mixed an mastered audio from the last stream I did, if anyone cares. I still have to listen to it all again, but he grabbed a good section of it.
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