A New Solidarity for the New Poland

[Disir]

By Jakub Dymek - June 5, 2014
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I was born in the last year of so-called “communist rule” in Poland, just before the Polish United Workers Party dissolved, hastily drafted economic transition plans became effective, and the first partly independent elections took place in the Eastern Bloc. It’s this last occasion—the elections of June 4, 1989, when Solidarity won 99 percent of the seats they could legally take in parliament, according to their agreement with the Party—that Poles have been celebrating as #25yearsoffreedom and that President Barack Obama congratulated us on in Warsaw yesterday, with his full retinue of black helicopters and TV cameras in tow.

The Western media is exuberant. “It’s freedom you won for the world, Poland!” is the message we hear as we listen to the radio, scroll through Twitter feeds, and read news pages from Al Jazeera to Fox. But did we? We young Poles are a generation that neither knows the taste of rationed food and police beatings nor identifies with the grand narrative of winning freedom and “bringing the Soviet giant down to his knees.” So what do we, the proud post-communist people, born in 1989 or later, actually celebrate?

Freedom of the press—the one I’m exercising now—is an obvious gain. The right to unionize, organize, and protest are, too, as are our democratic constitution, free elections, and membership in the EU. Not having to be drafted into the army (if you’re a young, able-bodied male) and serve your mandatory twelve months is another relief. To our parents and grandparents, then—the men and (often forgotten) women of Solidarity; those of both the Polish United Workers Party and the opposition who made possible the Round Table Talks and free elections—we owe many thanks, as we are often reminded. Thank you.

But freedom of the press doesn’t translate to universal freedom of speech or of artistic expression; church- and state-sponsored censorship are alive and well, and not a single month goes by without one artist or another being harassed for not conforming to standards of patriotic morality. The right to unionize is undermined by near-unanimous media portrayals of unions as bands of rioters and schemers, not to mention the sole group responsible for economic mishaps and slow growth. Moreover, under new labor regulations, and with an increasingly large portion of the workforce working part-time or “flex” jobs, less and less workers can actually even join unions.

The right to protest is granted to everybody—at least after several unfortunate years when LGBTQ groups were barred from organizing the Pride parade—but this right is abused by neo-Nazis and the rest of the far right, who never miss an opportunity to pass off anti-Semitic and homophobic marches as displays of patriotism. Constitutional protections against discrimination, meanwhile, are shaky; it was only earlier this week that Anna Grodzka, the first transgender person elected to parliament, won the first legal battle against hate speech. The thousands of gays and lesbians harassed and beaten in the streets by far-right hooligans and the immigrants who have had their homes set on fire by racist groups haven’t been so lucky. The same can be said of rape victims forced to bear the children of their rapists because—in a bow to the Catholic church—legal and safe abortion was rendered technically impossible early in the 1990s (the first of many future wins by the conservatives ruling Poland after 1989). But it’s not these so-called “moral issues” I wish to discuss. It’s the shape of the economy and the country we as a generation inherited that poses the biggest challenge today.

Read the rest here:
A New Solidarity for the New Poland | Dissent Magazine

This is not the first time that I have encountered these sentiments.

 

[American_Jihad]

October 26, 2015
Poland's populist conservative party back in power after nearly a decade
By Rick Moran

Poland's conservative Law and Justice Party scored a big victory in parliamentary elections on Sunday, defeating the pro-business Civic Platform who governed the country for 8 years.

The leader of Law and Justice, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, found vindication in the results as the former prime minister, who lost his brother, the Polish president, in a plane crash in 2010, but failed in his own bid for the presidency in 2012.

Washington Post:

...

Civic Platform was seen as favoring corporations over small business, and having a too liberal stance on the illegal immigrant issue roiling Europe. There has also been a strain of Euroscepticism running through Poland in recent years as the people see themselves as more and more distinct from the western euopean-dominated EU. Poland will probably not leave the EU, but will agitate for changes in its relationship with it.

Kaczynski, whose outsize personality has been a force in Polish politics for decades, gave in to reality and put up another party member for the prime minister post. Beata Szydło will serve in that capacity. Kaczyinski knew he would be too divisive a figure to carry Law and Justice to victory, so he opted for one of his trusted allies.

Szydio ran against Civic Platform candidate Ewa Kopacz - the first time two women have faced off for a European country's leadership since 1993. As for Poland's future, Law and Justice has promised more aid to the poor, and tax breaks for the middle class, among other programs that are designed to help small business compete in the European marketplace.

Kaczyinki is seen as pro-American, although the attitude of Szydio toward the US is not well known. No doubt whoever is running Polaind will continue the strategic cooperation that has developed between the US and Warsaw to counter the threats of Vladimir Putin to reassemble the Warsaw Pact.



Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/10/polands_populist_conservative_party_back_in_power_after_a_decade.html#ixzz3piICw9EL

 

[montelatici]

I didn't realize this was one of the two evil Nazi twins. Poor Poles.

 

[longknife]

A lot of European countries are finding that liberalism/socialism is not working for them. In more and more elections, conservatives are either winning or gaining seats.

Of course the Leftists are screaming, Nazis!

 

[TNHarley]

By Jakub Dymek - June 5, 2014
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I was born in the last year of so-called “communist rule” in Poland, just before the Polish United Workers Party dissolved, hastily drafted economic transition plans became effective, and the first partly independent elections took place in the Eastern Bloc. It’s this last occasion—the elections of June 4, 1989, when Solidarity won 99 percent of the seats they could legally take in parliament, according to their agreement with the Party—that Poles have been celebrating as #25yearsoffreedom and that President Barack Obama congratulated us on in Warsaw yesterday, with his full retinue of black helicopters and TV cameras in tow.

The Western media is exuberant. “It’s freedom you won for the world, Poland!” is the message we hear as we listen to the radio, scroll through Twitter feeds, and read news pages from Al Jazeera to Fox. But did we? We young Poles are a generation that neither knows the taste of rationed food and police beatings nor identifies with the grand narrative of winning freedom and “bringing the Soviet giant down to his knees.” So what do we, the proud post-communist people, born in 1989 or later, actually celebrate?

Freedom of the press—the one I’m exercising now—is an obvious gain. The right to unionize, organize, and protest are, too, as are our democratic constitution, free elections, and membership in the EU. Not having to be drafted into the army (if you’re a young, able-bodied male) and serve your mandatory twelve months is another relief. To our parents and grandparents, then—the men and (often forgotten) women of Solidarity; those of both the Polish United Workers Party and the opposition who made possible the Round Table Talks and free elections—we owe many thanks, as we are often reminded. Thank you.

But freedom of the press doesn’t translate to universal freedom of speech or of artistic expression; church- and state-sponsored censorship are alive and well, and not a single month goes by without one artist or another being harassed for not conforming to standards of patriotic morality. The right to unionize is undermined by near-unanimous media portrayals of unions as bands of rioters and schemers, not to mention the sole group responsible for economic mishaps and slow growth. Moreover, under new labor regulations, and with an increasingly large portion of the workforce working part-time or “flex” jobs, less and less workers can actually even join unions.

The right to protest is granted to everybody—at least after several unfortunate years when LGBTQ groups were barred from organizing the Pride parade—but this right is abused by neo-Nazis and the rest of the far right, who never miss an opportunity to pass off anti-Semitic and homophobic marches as displays of patriotism. Constitutional protections against discrimination, meanwhile, are shaky; it was only earlier this week that Anna Grodzka, the first transgender person elected to parliament, won the first legal battle against hate speech. The thousands of gays and lesbians harassed and beaten in the streets by far-right hooligans and the immigrants who have had their homes set on fire by racist groups haven’t been so lucky. The same can be said of rape victims forced to bear the children of their rapists because—in a bow to the Catholic church—legal and safe abortion was rendered technically impossible early in the 1990s (the first of many future wins by the conservatives ruling Poland after 1989). But it’s not these so-called “moral issues” I wish to discuss. It’s the shape of the economy and the country we as a generation inherited that poses the biggest challenge today.

Read the rest here:
A New Solidarity for the New Poland | Dissent Magazine

This is not the first time that I have encountered these sentiments.

Just say it. "I cant wipe my own ass". It will be a breath of fresh air!

 

[montelatici]

A lot of European countries are finding that liberalism/socialism is not working for them. In more and more elections, conservatives are either winning or gaining seats.

Of course the Leftists are screaming, Nazis!

If one attends and lends support to Nazis at Nazi rallies, one can be called a Nazi.

 

[Disir]

By Jakub Dymek - June 5, 2014
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I was born in the last year of so-called “communist rule” in Poland, just before the Polish United Workers Party dissolved, hastily drafted economic transition plans became effective, and the first partly independent elections took place in the Eastern Bloc. It’s this last occasion—the elections of June 4, 1989, when Solidarity won 99 percent of the seats they could legally take in parliament, according to their agreement with the Party—that Poles have been celebrating as #25yearsoffreedom and that President Barack Obama congratulated us on in Warsaw yesterday, with his full retinue of black helicopters and TV cameras in tow.

The Western media is exuberant. “It’s freedom you won for the world, Poland!” is the message we hear as we listen to the radio, scroll through Twitter feeds, and read news pages from Al Jazeera to Fox. But did we? We young Poles are a generation that neither knows the taste of rationed food and police beatings nor identifies with the grand narrative of winning freedom and “bringing the Soviet giant down to his knees.” So what do we, the proud post-communist people, born in 1989 or later, actually celebrate?

Freedom of the press—the one I’m exercising now—is an obvious gain. The right to unionize, organize, and protest are, too, as are our democratic constitution, free elections, and membership in the EU. Not having to be drafted into the army (if you’re a young, able-bodied male) and serve your mandatory twelve months is another relief. To our parents and grandparents, then—the men and (often forgotten) women of Solidarity; those of both the Polish United Workers Party and the opposition who made possible the Round Table Talks and free elections—we owe many thanks, as we are often reminded. Thank you.

But freedom of the press doesn’t translate to universal freedom of speech or of artistic expression; church- and state-sponsored censorship are alive and well, and not a single month goes by without one artist or another being harassed for not conforming to standards of patriotic morality. The right to unionize is undermined by near-unanimous media portrayals of unions as bands of rioters and schemers, not to mention the sole group responsible for economic mishaps and slow growth. Moreover, under new labor regulations, and with an increasingly large portion of the workforce working part-time or “flex” jobs, less and less workers can actually even join unions.

The right to protest is granted to everybody—at least after several unfortunate years when LGBTQ groups were barred from organizing the Pride parade—but this right is abused by neo-Nazis and the rest of the far right, who never miss an opportunity to pass off anti-Semitic and homophobic marches as displays of patriotism. Constitutional protections against discrimination, meanwhile, are shaky; it was only earlier this week that Anna Grodzka, the first transgender person elected to parliament, won the first legal battle against hate speech. The thousands of gays and lesbians harassed and beaten in the streets by far-right hooligans and the immigrants who have had their homes set on fire by racist groups haven’t been so lucky. The same can be said of rape victims forced to bear the children of their rapists because—in a bow to the Catholic church—legal and safe abortion was rendered technically impossible early in the 1990s (the first of many future wins by the conservatives ruling Poland after 1989). But it’s not these so-called “moral issues” I wish to discuss. It’s the shape of the economy and the country we as a generation inherited that poses the biggest challenge today.

Read the rest here:
A New Solidarity for the New Poland | Dissent Magazine

This is not the first time that I have encountered these sentiments.

Just say it. "I cant wipe my own ass". It will be a breath of fresh air!

I could rip your head off and shit down your throat if you like.It will be fun.

 

[Igrok_]

Polish are much afraid of Russia as usual, so they vote for nationalists to defend their country better. Not sure it'll help though.

 

[TNHarley]

By Jakub Dymek - June 5, 2014
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I was born in the last year of so-called “communist rule” in Poland, just before the Polish United Workers Party dissolved, hastily drafted economic transition plans became effective, and the first partly independent elections took place in the Eastern Bloc. It’s this last occasion—the elections of June 4, 1989, when Solidarity won 99 percent of the seats they could legally take in parliament, according to their agreement with the Party—that Poles have been celebrating as #25yearsoffreedom and that President Barack Obama congratulated us on in Warsaw yesterday, with his full retinue of black helicopters and TV cameras in tow.

The Western media is exuberant. “It’s freedom you won for the world, Poland!” is the message we hear as we listen to the radio, scroll through Twitter feeds, and read news pages from Al Jazeera to Fox. But did we? We young Poles are a generation that neither knows the taste of rationed food and police beatings nor identifies with the grand narrative of winning freedom and “bringing the Soviet giant down to his knees.” So what do we, the proud post-communist people, born in 1989 or later, actually celebrate?

Freedom of the press—the one I’m exercising now—is an obvious gain. The right to unionize, organize, and protest are, too, as are our democratic constitution, free elections, and membership in the EU. Not having to be drafted into the army (if you’re a young, able-bodied male) and serve your mandatory twelve months is another relief. To our parents and grandparents, then—the men and (often forgotten) women of Solidarity; those of both the Polish United Workers Party and the opposition who made possible the Round Table Talks and free elections—we owe many thanks, as we are often reminded. Thank you.

But freedom of the press doesn’t translate to universal freedom of speech or of artistic expression; church- and state-sponsored censorship are alive and well, and not a single month goes by without one artist or another being harassed for not conforming to standards of patriotic morality. The right to unionize is undermined by near-unanimous media portrayals of unions as bands of rioters and schemers, not to mention the sole group responsible for economic mishaps and slow growth. Moreover, under new labor regulations, and with an increasingly large portion of the workforce working part-time or “flex” jobs, less and less workers can actually even join unions.

The right to protest is granted to everybody—at least after several unfortunate years when LGBTQ groups were barred from organizing the Pride parade—but this right is abused by neo-Nazis and the rest of the far right, who never miss an opportunity to pass off anti-Semitic and homophobic marches as displays of patriotism. Constitutional protections against discrimination, meanwhile, are shaky; it was only earlier this week that Anna Grodzka, the first transgender person elected to parliament, won the first legal battle against hate speech. The thousands of gays and lesbians harassed and beaten in the streets by far-right hooligans and the immigrants who have had their homes set on fire by racist groups haven’t been so lucky. The same can be said of rape victims forced to bear the children of their rapists because—in a bow to the Catholic church—legal and safe abortion was rendered technically impossible early in the 1990s (the first of many future wins by the conservatives ruling Poland after 1989). But it’s not these so-called “moral issues” I wish to discuss. It’s the shape of the economy and the country we as a generation inherited that poses the biggest challenge today.

Read the rest here:
A New Solidarity for the New Poland | Dissent Magazine

This is not the first time that I have encountered these sentiments.

Just say it. "I cant wipe my own ass". It will be a breath of fresh air!

I could rip your head off and shit down your throat if you like.It will be fun.

You also need to accept your anger. Psychotic anger...
Is that why you people cant wipe your ass? Too busy being mad?

 

[Disir]

By Jakub Dymek - June 5, 2014
Tweet

I was born in the last year of so-called “communist rule” in Poland, just before the Polish United Workers Party dissolved, hastily drafted economic transition plans became effective, and the first partly independent elections took place in the Eastern Bloc. It’s this last occasion—the elections of June 4, 1989, when Solidarity won 99 percent of the seats they could legally take in parliament, according to their agreement with the Party—that Poles have been celebrating as #25yearsoffreedom and that President Barack Obama congratulated us on in Warsaw yesterday, with his full retinue of black helicopters and TV cameras in tow.

The Western media is exuberant. “It’s freedom you won for the world, Poland!” is the message we hear as we listen to the radio, scroll through Twitter feeds, and read news pages from Al Jazeera to Fox. But did we? We young Poles are a generation that neither knows the taste of rationed food and police beatings nor identifies with the grand narrative of winning freedom and “bringing the Soviet giant down to his knees.” So what do we, the proud post-communist people, born in 1989 or later, actually celebrate?

Freedom of the press—the one I’m exercising now—is an obvious gain. The right to unionize, organize, and protest are, too, as are our democratic constitution, free elections, and membership in the EU. Not having to be drafted into the army (if you’re a young, able-bodied male) and serve your mandatory twelve months is another relief. To our parents and grandparents, then—the men and (often forgotten) women of Solidarity; those of both the Polish United Workers Party and the opposition who made possible the Round Table Talks and free elections—we owe many thanks, as we are often reminded. Thank you.

But freedom of the press doesn’t translate to universal freedom of speech or of artistic expression; church- and state-sponsored censorship are alive and well, and not a single month goes by without one artist or another being harassed for not conforming to standards of patriotic morality. The right to unionize is undermined by near-unanimous media portrayals of unions as bands of rioters and schemers, not to mention the sole group responsible for economic mishaps and slow growth. Moreover, under new labor regulations, and with an increasingly large portion of the workforce working part-time or “flex” jobs, less and less workers can actually even join unions.

The right to protest is granted to everybody—at least after several unfortunate years when LGBTQ groups were barred from organizing the Pride parade—but this right is abused by neo-Nazis and the rest of the far right, who never miss an opportunity to pass off anti-Semitic and homophobic marches as displays of patriotism. Constitutional protections against discrimination, meanwhile, are shaky; it was only earlier this week that Anna Grodzka, the first transgender person elected to parliament, won the first legal battle against hate speech. The thousands of gays and lesbians harassed and beaten in the streets by far-right hooligans and the immigrants who have had their homes set on fire by racist groups haven’t been so lucky. The same can be said of rape victims forced to bear the children of their rapists because—in a bow to the Catholic church—legal and safe abortion was rendered technically impossible early in the 1990s (the first of many future wins by the conservatives ruling Poland after 1989). But it’s not these so-called “moral issues” I wish to discuss. It’s the shape of the economy and the country we as a generation inherited that poses the biggest challenge today.

Read the rest here:
A New Solidarity for the New Poland | Dissent Magazine

This is not the first time that I have encountered these sentiments.

Just say it. "I cant wipe my own ass". It will be a breath of fresh air!

I could rip your head off and shit down your throat if you like.It will be fun.

You also need to accept your anger. Psychotic anger...
Is that why you people cant wipe your ass? Too busy being mad?

You need to have your head removed from your ass.

 

[TNHarley]

By Jakub Dymek - June 5, 2014
Tweet

I was born in the last year of so-called “communist rule” in Poland, just before the Polish United Workers Party dissolved, hastily drafted economic transition plans became effective, and the first partly independent elections took place in the Eastern Bloc. It’s this last occasion—the elections of June 4, 1989, when Solidarity won 99 percent of the seats they could legally take in parliament, according to their agreement with the Party—that Poles have been celebrating as #25yearsoffreedom and that President Barack Obama congratulated us on in Warsaw yesterday, with his full retinue of black helicopters and TV cameras in tow.

The Western media is exuberant. “It’s freedom you won for the world, Poland!” is the message we hear as we listen to the radio, scroll through Twitter feeds, and read news pages from Al Jazeera to Fox. But did we? We young Poles are a generation that neither knows the taste of rationed food and police beatings nor identifies with the grand narrative of winning freedom and “bringing the Soviet giant down to his knees.” So what do we, the proud post-communist people, born in 1989 or later, actually celebrate?

Freedom of the press—the one I’m exercising now—is an obvious gain. The right to unionize, organize, and protest are, too, as are our democratic constitution, free elections, and membership in the EU. Not having to be drafted into the army (if you’re a young, able-bodied male) and serve your mandatory twelve months is another relief. To our parents and grandparents, then—the men and (often forgotten) women of Solidarity; those of both the Polish United Workers Party and the opposition who made possible the Round Table Talks and free elections—we owe many thanks, as we are often reminded. Thank you.

But freedom of the press doesn’t translate to universal freedom of speech or of artistic expression; church- and state-sponsored censorship are alive and well, and not a single month goes by without one artist or another being harassed for not conforming to standards of patriotic morality. The right to unionize is undermined by near-unanimous media portrayals of unions as bands of rioters and schemers, not to mention the sole group responsible for economic mishaps and slow growth. Moreover, under new labor regulations, and with an increasingly large portion of the workforce working part-time or “flex” jobs, less and less workers can actually even join unions.

The right to protest is granted to everybody—at least after several unfortunate years when LGBTQ groups were barred from organizing the Pride parade—but this right is abused by neo-Nazis and the rest of the far right, who never miss an opportunity to pass off anti-Semitic and homophobic marches as displays of patriotism. Constitutional protections against discrimination, meanwhile, are shaky; it was only earlier this week that Anna Grodzka, the first transgender person elected to parliament, won the first legal battle against hate speech. The thousands of gays and lesbians harassed and beaten in the streets by far-right hooligans and the immigrants who have had their homes set on fire by racist groups haven’t been so lucky. The same can be said of rape victims forced to bear the children of their rapists because—in a bow to the Catholic church—legal and safe abortion was rendered technically impossible early in the 1990s (the first of many future wins by the conservatives ruling Poland after 1989). But it’s not these so-called “moral issues” I wish to discuss. It’s the shape of the economy and the country we as a generation inherited that poses the biggest challenge today.

Read the rest here:
A New Solidarity for the New Poland | Dissent Magazine

This is not the first time that I have encountered these sentiments.

Just say it. "I cant wipe my own ass". It will be a breath of fresh air!

I could rip your head off and shit down your throat if you like.It will be fun.

You also need to accept your anger. Psychotic anger...
Is that why you people cant wipe your ass? Too busy being mad?

You need to have your head removed from your ass.

How cliché.
Why is that? Because I can wipe my ass?
If its not PLEASE explain

 

[Disir]

Read the rest here:
A New Solidarity for the New Poland | Dissent Magazine

This is not the first time that I have encountered these sentiments.

Just say it. "I cant wipe my own ass". It will be a breath of fresh air!

I could rip your head off and shit down your throat if you like.It will be fun.

You also need to accept your anger. Psychotic anger...
Is that why you people cant wipe your ass? Too busy being mad?

You need to have your head removed from your ass.

How cliché.
Why is that? Because I can wipe my ass?
If its not PLEASE explain

The only way your ass is being wiped is because that's where your head is at, crack head.

 

[TNHarley]

Just say it. "I cant wipe my own ass". It will be a breath of fresh air!

I could rip your head off and shit down your throat if you like.It will be fun.

You also need to accept your anger. Psychotic anger...
Is that why you people cant wipe your ass? Too busy being mad?

You need to have your head removed from your ass.

How cliché.
Why is that? Because I can wipe my ass?
If its not PLEASE explain

The only way your ass is being wiped is because that's where your head is at, crack head.

Yea because that made sense...
I guess you cant explain? Figures.

 

[longknife]

Enough children! Go play somewhere else.

 

[TNHarley]

Enough children! Go play somewhere else.

No, longknife. This one actually ISNT your thread lol

 

[Disir]

Enough children! Go play somewhere else.

No, longknife. This one actually ISNT your thread lol

It's mine. So, either address the topic or fuck off.

 

[TNHarley]

Enough children! Go play somewhere else.

No, longknife. This one actually ISNT your thread lol

It's mine. So, either address the topic or fuck off.

No. I am tired of talking about your dirty ass.

 

[Disir]

Enough children! Go play somewhere else.

No, longknife. This one actually ISNT your thread lol

It's mine. So, either address the topic or fuck off.

No. I am tired of talking about your dirty ass.

My ass is not the topic, fuckwit.