Poland’s ruling party (“Law and Justic”) is very right wing: anti-immigration, anti-abortion, anti-LGBT but very nationalistic
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president of poland isn’t a liberal. he’s from the same Law and Justice party, although most recently he ran as an independent with their support. the last election election was competitive and he narrowly beat the liberal mayor of Warsaw.
You mean “and” ?
Yeah, I just read the wiki. It mentioned the “Law and Order” party, but also said something about “Liberal Democrat” so I thought he had shifted or something, but maybe he’s a Liberal Democrat like North Korea is a Democratic Republic.
Although I’m Jewish, I’ve always cut the Poles some slack, since they got it from both the Germans and the Soviets worse than the Gimp in Pulp Fiction.
People are people, but as far as countries go, not me. 3 million Polish Jews killed, almost 90%. That doesn’t happen without killing Jews being pretty well received there. And they never returned Jewish property.
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he’s an anti-immigrant, anti-lgbt, anti-abortion religious conservative, who is breaking norms and rules to help law and justice stack the courts. if you just mix in some low-taxes bullshit and guns, you get the embodiment of gop.
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i give some slack to most europeans about ethnic bullshit. it’s very unlikely to grow up without its influence, and takes a pretty serious epiphany later in life to break yourself away.
effigies in general need to be condemned and prohibited. even more so when they are religious.
Is that much different than racism in the US? (or at least parts of the US)
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no, it’s almost exactly the same.
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As a half jewish person I’m not letting them off the goddamn hook. Today if you go ask many Poles about Hitler they’ll spend some time talking about how awful he was and finish with ‘but at least he dealt with the Jews’. Fuck 'em sometimes bad things happen to bad people.
I don’t let anyone off the hook until they at minimum realize what they did and attempt to make amends/change. White America doesn’t deserve any slack either ldo.
That works, too. I used “but” to contrast what they are for and against.
Entire branches of Shakira’s family tree, from the uncles who used to tell her stories to the cousins who played with her in the caves, vanished. In all, she lost sixteen family members. I wondered if it was the same for other families in Pan Killay. I sampled a dozen households at random in the village, and made similar inquiries in other villages, to insure that Pan Killay was no outlier. For each family, I documented the names of the dead, cross-checking cases with death certificates and eyewitness testimony. On average, I found, each family lost ten to twelve civilians in what locals call the American War.
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https://twitter.com/IwriteOK/status/1435069824867078144
It really is. Go ahead and read it. It’s a long read. For me it summed up the entire war
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No good men among the living is very good.
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Folks, we love to see it.
Funnily enough, this article has a different spin (in Czech, I’ll translate)
Translation: They left us nothing here at all, the Taliban are angry with the Americans
New York Times did some digging on that drone strike on supposed ISIS targets right before we left and uhhh we killed an Afghan aid worker who was working for us and seven children
Military officials said they did not know the identity of the car’s driver when the drone fired, but deemed him suspicious because of how they interpreted his activities that day, saying that he possibly visited an ISIS safe house and, at one point, loaded what they thought could be explosives into the car.
Times reporting has identified the driver as Zemari Ahmadi, a longtime worker for a U.S. aid group. The evidence, including extensive interviews with family members, co-workers and witnesses, suggests that his travels that day actually involved transporting colleagues to and from work. And an analysis of video feeds showed that what the military may have seen was Mr. Ahmadi and a colleague loading canisters of water into his trunk to bring home to his family.
While the U.S. military said the drone strike might have killed three civilians, Times reporting shows that it killed 10, including seven children, in a dense residential block.
“All of them were innocent,” said Emal, Mr. Ahmadi’s brother. “You say he was ISIS, but he worked for the Americans.”
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Oopsie!
jfc