Mokotow posted:

https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/02/24/warsaw-refuses-to-certify-157-micro-apartments-in-citys-hong-kong-complex/

Rich dude in Warsaw is super annoyed his genius plan of skimming the regulations did not pan out. He tried to register micro-apartments as hotel rooms he would then sell on to private “investors”. Now he’s extra mad at the city authorities. Luckily, the whole oligarch thing hasn’t really caught on, so he can go and pound sand.

cinci zoo sniper posted:

A fun fact to know here is that France is the second-largest manga market after Japan. This could very well be the French industrial-weeb complex moving into Poland.

Anne Frank Funk posted:

Mokotow posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/04/poland-hundreds-of-thousands-march-against-rightwing-populist-government


View outside my window this morning.

We’ve has what appears to be record-breaking rally in Warsaw with half a million people attending. This was called by the main opposition party, but most other opposition parties joined too. At the end of the day, there’s no agreement in the opposition to run together, though an unstable coalition of center-right parties seems possible. Our token left that spends most days embarrassing itself is nowhere to be found.

It looks more than likely that PiS will lose power in the autumn elections. Still, the opposition lacks a strong or popular program, opposed to PiS’s Leninist “one party to destroy them all” philosophy.

It’s heartening to have seen so many people, even if most of them were older than what you’d expect in rallies like this - after all, some polls are giving us much as 9% to a nationalist/liberal/fash party coalition, mostly young people. While no one really wants to deal with them, PiS has shown it’s willing to put them on their payroll in exchange for votes.

Inside PiS, the biggest break seems to be between the main party and Solidarna Polska, a minor partner ran by Zbigniew Ziobro, a noted Piece of poo poo. Not only an ultra conservative, Ziobro is a catholic authoritarian and his party is behind all the lovely things you can imagine: abortion hardline, anti-lgbt+ laws, politicization of courts and using the prosecutor’s office as his own internal police. Luckily, his party enjoys token support, though it’s not unlikely should push come to shove and the quibbles with Kaczynski evolve into open war, Ziobro will take a few percent of the hardline vote from PiS and continue to be a force by working with the fash parties.

I’m a left voter, but the Polish left is in a decades long downward spiral, due to most of its 90’s electorate drifting to PiS, horseshoe-theory style. What’s left are two wings - the olds that manage to cling to all the actual party assets inherited post ‘89 and clinging to them, waiting for the sweet, sweet release of death, and a bunch of urban youth, discovering with glee that running a political party is a lucrative job and you can sort or skirt along for years without having to do that much legwork.

Mokotow posted:

Haha, “Rzecznik Prasowy” means “Press Secretary”, it’s not someone’s name.

Mokotow posted:

I hope ceZik doesn’t turn out to be a pedo.

Paladinus posted:

Also, what the hell is a pato-influencer?

Anne Frank Funk posted:

Where’s the YouTuber party?

OddObserver posted:

What's the story with the 0% party (United Poland?)

HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:

Less than 20 minutes to go. Is it true the government is about to swing left in Poland?

Bemused Observer posted:

Edit: also, I struggle to imagine what kind of economic policy a KO/TD/Lewica government could possibly agree on.

mmkay posted:

Eastern Europe: possibility of eating dogs wasn't what our voters expected

Mokotow posted:

His claim to fame was rallying on Twitter against Disney reducing Lola Bunny’s cleavage in Space Jam 2 or something.

Mokotow posted:

Kosiniak-Kamysz, the head of the rural PSL, which comprises half of TD, was already on the radio saying how he’ll never allow 12-week abortion to be legalized.

armpit_enjoyer posted:

But did the doggo get adopted

Mokotow posted:

I’ve had a train trip that was a bit of blast from the past, especially the return leg. The WARS waiter was either drunk or hopped up on drugs (very friendly but also would forget everyone’s order immediately after taking it) and they were selling vodka shots unofficially from under the counter. It felt like the 90s.

It’s also fun to listen to the train director attempting to deliver their line through the PA. They have to welcome the passengers on board after every station, give basic information about the route and travel time and advise about possible connections before and after every station. 90% don’t speak English at all and are reading from a cue card, but they’ll usually just mumble through most of the sentences making English-like noises. The dude yesterday just gave up halfway through a sentence and stopped.

I don’t hold it against them - if anything, if PKP Intercity demands them to use English, they should pay for their training but since it’s a privatized poo poo show, nobody gives a gently caress. At least they don’t play Chopin clips on every station like they do on the Pendolino.

Mokotow posted:

just not taking any seats in the government.

Bemused Observer posted:

So basically we're in for 4 years of slashing public services and not doing anything about abortion and civil partnerships, and then another takeover by PiS and/or Konfederacja?

Antigravitas posted:

Don't worry.



Germany will come to your rescue.