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8·9 months agoIt went from far-right propaganda to milquetoast pro-government propaganda, which obviously is better state of things but definitely not crystal clear as pompously announced after government took control of state TV using legally dubious means.
One of the fact checking NGOs published quite nice analysis of current state of things today if anyone is curious (link to machine translated version):
I’m fairly sure this $100b funding NPR talks about is EU recovery fund which is quite massive due to extraordinary circumstances.
That’s quite likely since he would still be a business journalist employed at Interia / Polsat (private media). He was hired by TVP (public broadcaster) last month.
Worth reading in spite of probably the most atrocious website layout I’ve seen in recent memory.
2·9 months agoKbin support in Lunar is very rudimentary and read only. The app itself hasn’t been updated in 2 months so I wouldn’t get my hopes up.
Poland has a pro EU government now, albeit society remains split. Still if they wouldn’t align with the EU, they would have to align with Russia. They are fiercly against that.
Poles being anti-EU is something that ex-government / political right has been trying to manufacture for years without any internal success. We trust EU institutions more than our own. We might be split on some policies but majority is strongly for at least current level of integration.
That’s an unusually tough stance on ponies.
If it was up to us that would be the idea but we have to take in people that are fleeing war torn areas. Population of Poland grew from 38 to 41M at one point due to second invasion of Ukraine. Thankfully there’s solid amount of a solidarity due to cultural proximity but even this is slowly fizzling out because of pressure this puts on low income class.
Sweden and Germany took similar amounts of people ~2015. Did they build adequate amount of housing?
Placing blame for housing crisis is irrelevant, it’s here and needs addressing. Adding more people to the formula without major changes to how we deal with housing is just naive.
You say that massive migration waves ended. Just 2 years ago we took in 6 million refugees from Ukraine. This was mostly women and children who integrate easier and Ukrainians have stellar labour market participation. There’s no denying this had significant impact on rent prices though. But way more will be coming due to climate crisis and we don’t seem to be doing much to prepare.
I’m not sure why you say I propose we do nothing. I’m saying we should stop going all in on solutions that alienate lower classes and left, right and liberals seem to try to fuck them over in their own unique ways.
18·10 months agoCorrect me if this changed but you can pay for premium in India with a regular card, you just have to provide fake billing address. I’ve been doing this for years now so maybe I’m grandfathered into some old payment scheme but I’m fairly sure my gf did this recently too when she had to switch from Argentina.
Proper integration and deportation fantasies are precisely what I was talking about - magical thinking. It’s easier to think about this with three sides to the equation: left, right and market liberal. “Left” wants integration but has no answer to covering its cost. Right wants to somehow force people into having babies (outlawing abortion, coercing LGBT people to hide their identity) which is also dumb.
Market liberals will want workforce injection to drive wages down and to have an easy way of keeping pension system going. It rejects impact to the poor entirely. We’re all dealing with housing crisis and you want to make it even worse? Obviously this will result in a knee-jerk reaction and rise of far right.
It’s not like western societies can keep on going without addressing the issue of aging population but discussion about striking the balance should be open, honest and take as much time as we need.
I think last couple of years should have taught everyone not to treat immigration in a partisan way because it paves way to magical thinking on both sides of the argument.
Immigration has plenty of benefits but also costs. Does making labour market more competitive for lowest income class really sound like a leftist thing to do? If things like that are not addressed you get Putin worshipping whackos filling the niche.
Most are happy to see PiS being removed forcibly from every institution they’re entrenched in but it is yet to be seen if we can actually get the proverbial genie back into the bottle. Public TV is now in much better place but is quite strongly pro government policies, just not in absurdly propagandist way. The way takeover was done is rather debatable too.
It’s no longer a veto.
Ernest is still posting devlogs:
I’m fairly sure Lemmy image embeds won’t be visible in Mastodon since it doesn’t have rich text formatting / markdown.
You’d say it’s not a zero sum game but life satisfaction levels in Poland are through the roof because we see that they’re so low in Germany.
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It’s telling that you’re completly skipping over content creators.
I think this is fine because while people should be allowed to do light drugs I don’t mind making them jump through some hoops so that it’s not that convenient. Alcohol and nicotine are definitely way too accessible and it affects perception of this law.
I use cannabis in Poland where we accidentally legalized it by allowing doctors to prescribe it online which combined with corruption means anyone who wants it can get it but it’s not so obvious unless you’re interested. It’s a surprisingly OK compromise.