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Mr. Apollo posted:Eastern Europe: we don't know that this is racist yet Nice one! Can we get that as thread title please? The last one was set by cinci ages ago
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Mokotow posted:Nice one! Can we get that as thread title please? The last one was set by cinci ages ago saw this, reached for the report button to inform the subforum mods
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Sep 14, 2023 22:12
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Sep 14, 2023 22:18
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Deputy FA minister who allegedly organized visas for cash program for African/Asian immigrants, has attempted suicide today after being ousted from the government and in no uncertain terms blamed for potential bad election outcome for pis.
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Sep 15, 2023 13:28
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A quick search shows PiS being projected to be the strongest party again, is there any real hope they get ousted?
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Sep 15, 2023 13:55
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Torrannor posted:A quick search shows PiS being projected to be the strongest party again, is there any real hope they get ousted? Only once the party implodes due to its internal politics, which is unlikely to happen as long as Kaczyński is alive and politically active (this is not an investment advice). Even if we crossed the threshold for some minority government shenanigans, there are still useful idiots (PSL, Konfederacja) happy to make a deal with them and get devoured like everyone who tried it earlier. So that would be more of a hopeful symptom of possibly ever weakening rather than any real change.
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Sep 15, 2023 14:10
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They are likely to have a slim majority which will not be enough to rule without a coalition. The opposition winning is also still on the table as margins are slim.
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Sep 15, 2023 14:11
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They will win, with luck with no chance to rule by themselves. There are at least two parties which could form a government with them if cajoled enough (far right randists and pis light agrarianists). The other option is that po/ko, however they call themselves, will be able to form a coalition government with two of the following: a) far right randists b) pis light agrarianists c) more or less leftists it would be either a+b or b+c (a+c being a big no-no for the left) There is at the moment no chance that po would be able to form a majority government with only one of the above parties. In any case, efforts to reverse the damage done by pis to Poland in the last years will be thwarted by having the idiot with veto powers for a few years in office still. Last option (and my preference) is minority government by whomever and redoing elections until a viable result is achieved. I think we, as a country, need this.
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Ever wondered what attempting a rocket jump IRL would look like? Wonder no more! Leaked photos show the result of the Polish Policja commissioner playing around with a launcher he brought back from a Ukraine visit. Photos were kept confidential, as his defense was he was given an old launcher turned into a Bluetooth speaker, and you can clearly see that no, it was a weapon and you could clearly see it. Curiously, there seems to be more weapons in the background. How no one died and the only injuries suffered was to the commissioner's hearing is a mystery, https://www.onet.pl/informacje/onetwiadomosci/krzysztof-brejza-ujawnil-zdjecia-z-wybuchu-granatnika-w-kgp/6d4bhnm,79cfc278
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Sep 18, 2023 09:50
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Mokotow posted:Ever wondered what attempting a rocket jump IRL would look like? Wonder no more! Leaked photos show the result of the Polish Policja commissioner playing around with a launcher he brought back from a Ukraine visit. Photos were kept confidential, as his defense was he was given an old launcher turned into a Bluetooth speaker, and you can clearly see that no, it was a weapon and you could clearly see it. Curiously, there seems to be more weapons in the background. How no one died and the only injuries suffered was to the commissioner's hearing is a mystery, I don't know, the photos clearly confirm it was a boombox (or a boomtube).
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Sep 18, 2023 10:53
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In Estonia, supposedly defence league volunteers were allowed to keep weapons at home until during a drinking session someone decided to fire a similar weapon out of their window without thinking about needing an open safety zone in the back. After that, no more weapons at home. At least that was the rumor I heard while doing my conscription service.
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Sep 18, 2023 11:01
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Was it presented as a ghetto blaster?
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Sep 18, 2023 11:03
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https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-will-sue-poland-hungary-and-slovakia-over-agricultural-bans/ I honestly don't know what to think about this whole situation. Sure, Hungary government is Putin's puppet, Slovakia government tries to be one and Poland's government is just really loving stupid and really loves to piss off its neighbors and EU, that I know. But on the other hand, price dumping prevention doesn't sound that bad and argument about "global prices" is just bad. I'm confused.
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Sep 18, 2023 14:03
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Wheat products are super expensive this summer, so as a consumer I’d welcome some relief there. It seems though PiS is trying to get as much farmer votes as possible, and protecting high wheat prices is a more attractive proposition than making the KO-boting middle-class happy.
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Sep 18, 2023 14:28
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As far as I understand the situation, Ukrainian grain regularly fails inspections of EU standards, so it can't be sold in the EU. If it still makes it to store shelves instead of being passed through, there's a problem. I'm not convinced the problem is with Ukraine (beyond the fact that pesticide use is not in line with EU standards).
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Sep 18, 2023 14:31
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EU just dropped a wide range of pesticide limits to the floor, which may be a factor- I can’t check atm if grain was covered.
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Sep 18, 2023 14:49
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Ukraine decided to ban import of vegetables and fruits from Poland. That's certainly a decision.
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Sep 18, 2023 17:07
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It's just protectionist dickwaving in response to Poland's protectionist dickwaving. Seems like they're working to resolve this. In other news, very normal things in Kosovo: quote:Security forces have surrounded at least 30 armed gunmen hours after a police officer was shot dead in Kosovo, the country's prime minister says.
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Sep 24, 2023 13:18
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https://tvrepublika.pl/Oferta-z-Berlina-i-Paryza-dla-Zelenskiego-wejdziecie-do-UE-ale-pomozecie-w-obaleniu-polskiego-rzadu,150707.html Extremely normal.
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Sep 28, 2023 19:30
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Take the offer, Zelensky, please…
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Sep 28, 2023 19:36
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Ah, the rare anti-EU/anti-Ukraine but totally not Russian propaganda
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Sep 28, 2023 20:24
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Ukraine having to take care of all of EU's problems, first German gas dependence, now this 
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Antigravitas posted:https://tvrepublika.pl/Oferta-z-Berlina-i-Paryza-dla-Zelenskiego-wejdziecie-do-UE-ale-pomozecie-w-obaleniu-polskiego-rzadu,150707.html Isn't Republika the far-right tv station?
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Sep 29, 2023 07:40
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Yes
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Sep 29, 2023 08:14
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They're so bad they had me on once
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Sep 29, 2023 08:56
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Mars niepodległości interviewee?
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Mokotow posted:Mars niepodległości interviewee? As a fan of Mechanicus, I'd also support Independent Mars 
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Mokotow posted:Yes
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Antigravitas posted:https://tvrepublika.pl/Oferta-z-Berlina-i-Paryza-dla-Zelenskiego-wejdziecie-do-UE-ale-pomozecie-w-obaleniu-polskiego-rzadu,150707.html post fox news next
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Sep 29, 2023 15:09
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Mokotow posted:Mars niepodległości interviewee? No, they had me on the morning culture programme to talk about a book.
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Sep 29, 2023 16:18
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Feeling very conflicted about this news Like, literally the old Pro/Con in Mag Magazine Pro: Goon gets invited to TV show to talk about book! Con: Its TV Republika!
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Sep 29, 2023 16:50
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What’s going on in the Balkans? The US is saying that Serbia has an “unprecedented buildup” of its armed forces along the border with Kosovo and is urging Serbia to pull back. Britain has sent troops to bolster the KFOR troops there. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66968021 quote:US urges Serbia to withdraw troops from Kosovo border as tensions rise
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Mr. Apollo posted:What’s going on in the Balkans? The US is saying that Serbia has an “unprecedented buildup” of its armed forces along the border with Kosovo and is urging Serbia to pull back. Britain has sent troops to bolster the KFOR troops there. Whenever there's saber-rattling that involves Serbia, my response is that nothing will happen. No war, at least. Vucic is the "always a crisis, never a war" ruler who draws strength from paranoia and siege mentality. He's also good at balancing between the EU, Russia, and China. However, he'd collapse in no time if he actually started an armed conflict. Serbia is no Russia. The EU is by far Serbia's largest trade partner and its sanctions would kill the economy. And while nationalism is strong in Serbia, memories of lost wars in the nineties are fresh. It's one thing to vote for Vucic or spray KOSOVO IS SERBIA on the wall, quite another to go there to die. As for the recent skirmish, I don't know what happened. It doesn't make much sense. If Vucic wanted to stir some poo poo up, he only needed a few people to set up explosives or shoot at some cars or whatever. Effective and low risk. You can always say it was individuals acting on their own or foreign agents. On the other hand, if you wanted actual territorial gains and a major change of regional situation, he needed a major operation. This falls in between. There were 30 Serb combatants, they killed an Albanian policeman and got their asses kicked. They suffered casualties, they lost weapons and equipment, the West is furious, and Vucic had to try to convince them he knew nothing about it and that it was somehow Albanians' fault. That's hard to sell since it's widely accepted that Kosovo Serbs are directly controlled by him. I don't see what was in it for Vucic but I predict it will end as always. He'll appear in his media as a tortured statesman who gave it all, who sacrificed his health, who endured enormous, unimaginable pressure, who held the destiny of Serbia by a thread, who fought all those who wish Serbia to collapse, and they are many, and they are both within and outside of Serbian borders, and he finally saved the country and the entire region, if not Europe as such, from falling into abyss. And there'll be peace... until the next time. Note that it's not so one-sided, in May it was Kosovo Albanians who escalated the situation and tried to take the Serbian-majority region of Kosovo against previous agreements. Doctor Malaver fucked around with this message at 08:57 on Oct 1, 2023 |
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I sent my post to an acquaintance in Serbia who's a polsci lecturer and a media pundit and he okayed it. He had this to add... It was probably more than 30 people. Eyewitness accounts say the village where the skirmish took place looks like Bosnia 1995. And it's interesting that the Serb combatants were allowed to leave despite being surrounded. Presumably, a deal was brokered between Albanian and Serbian mafia. Everybody knows that Kosovo, both Albanian and Serbian parts is run by various criminal groups. Radoicic, the leader of the combatants and of the Serb Kosovo political party is of course in it too. There can be no major armed conflict because International peacekeepers (KFOR) are present. It looks like the US decided to put an end to this poo poo, still unclear how. Vucic and Rama (prime minister of Albania) are asking for stronger KFOR involvement, which doesn't suit Kurti (prime minister of Kosovo).
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People are saying that its a leftist party that's about to take power in Slovakia, is that true?
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khwarezm posted:People are saying that its a leftist party that's about to take power in Slovakia, is that true? Socially conservative pro-genocide "leftists", yes.
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khwarezm posted:People are saying that its a leftist party that's about to take power in Slovakia, is that true? No. If you mean SMER that won the most votes in recent elections, they are to the right of Fidesz and PiS. Find the people who are saying SMER is leftist, and start throwing bricks at them.
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They are left in the sense that they are a party built on euroskeptic populism and use leftist critiques of neoliberal policies. They are right-wing in the sense that they are a pro-Russian party that dominated Slovak politics from 2004 to 2020, have huge issues with corruption and rule of law, and a lot of anti(LQBTQ, Romani, Islamic, and immigrant) policies.
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Oct 1, 2023 23:42
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They're really social democrats in name only.
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NSDAP was famously a leftist party
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