#polsce

[dogsaver-blog]

Snow Moths by Erik Witsoe Via Flickr: Warszawa, Poland Different people, different streets. Winter Instagram. Website. Behance. linktr.ee/ewitsoe

[sarusia]

[burningshellenberger]

[wszczebrzyszynie]

pamiętam że jak byłem dzieciaczkiem i wychodziły wodogrzmoty małe to nie rozumiałem czym jest lokalizacja językowa i zawsze jak złapałem jakiś odcinek w telewizji to myślałem że to się dzieje gdzieś w polskich górach. nie pomagał w tym na pewno potężny polski dubbing ale w sumie nie wiem skąd to wziąłem pamiętam po prostu że uznałem że tak jest i chuj. to jest chyba też jedyna bajka z którą miałem coś takiego wszystko inne istniało dla mnie w mitycznym kraju Telewizja ale byłem w stanie podłapać że nawet jeśli nie wiem gdzie to nie dzieje się w polsce. robię rewatch teraz (ktoś wstawił całą serię po polsku na CDA) to sobie o tym przypomniałem

[tomorrowusa]

« Wygrała Polska, wygrała demokracja. » (Poland won, democracy won.)

— Donald Tusk, former prime minister and currently leader of the democratic opposition in Poland, on the apparent victory of opposition forces in Sunday's election in Poland. From Polska Agencja Prasowa.

Today is a great day for democracy. The MAGA-ish Law and Justice Party (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość – known by the unfortunate acronym PiS) has been booted out of power after eight miserable years.

Donald Tusk, a good Donald, is the leader of Koalicja Obywatelska (KO) which is the largest of the three pro-democracy groupings who together are projected to win enough votes in the Sejm (the lower house of parliament).

Turnout for this election was about 73%.

This victory by PO and its likely coalition partners Trzecia Droga and Lewnica carries significance similar to Joe Biden's victory in 2020.

Projections made by a reliable exit poll give the pro-democracy parties a total of 248 seats in the Sejm. 231 are needed for a majority. Final results are likely to differ slightly from these numbers.

Oh yeah, there's an extreme rightwing party called Konfederacja which is led by an idiot named Janusz Korwin-Mikke who is a misogynist with pro-Putin tendencies. Konfederacja, in American terms, is somewhat like the House Freedom Caucus – but led by the My Pillow guy or Rudy Giuliani. Fortunately Konfederacja won just an estimated 12 seats.

I'll write about this more tomorrow. But it's not just a victory for democracy but also one for NATO, the European Union, and (probably) Ukraine. Putin can't be very happy about liberal democracy being strengthened next door to him. It halts a trend towards the right in Europe.

[enfinizatics]

finally watching THE movie

[silkycarol]

cookie run kingdom polisz au. co o tym sądzisz. ciastka mieszkające na jakimś osiedlu w blokach z prl-u w latach 2000. dark choco i dark cacao jako taki walduś i ferdek z kiepskich. shadow milk jako kibic kolejorza (NA NA MIŁOŚĆ BOSKĄ ON MA KOLORY JAK KOLEJORZ). almond na pewno uwielbia oglądać 07 zgłoś się jak leci na cookie polsacie. impreza informatyków z espresso, eclair, latte i strawberry crepe. jeszcze gingerbrave w dresiku adidasa. co o tym sądzisz lmfao

COŚ PIĘKNEGO, ja sobie to wszystko wyobraziłem i teraz tak myślę że jak tylko będę mieć wreszcie wenę to może coś z tego narysuję skvjsjvjdjcj

[yellowmanula]

No Elo! :D

[heiayen]

chaos is happening here

[travelpani]

Krzyżtopór Castle is amazing place! I was really impressed. Big castle in small polish village. I walked through the ruins and imagined what the castle was like before, how its life was organized. I highly recommend visiting this place

[lipstickontheglass1985]

one big advantage of having seen mcr in warsaw in 2022 was that the sale was NOT managed by ticketmaster so the price was fully static and i got my ticket for literally 200 pln (~45 eur)

[the-fatal-impact]

So… In 1999 „Ogniem i mieczem” (ang. With fire and sword) Jan Skrzetuski is played by Michał Żebrowski, whom another famous role is Geralt od Rivia in early 2000 polish TV show.

And… Jurko Bohun is played by Aleksandr Domogarow, but he is also dubbed by Jacek Rozenek, voice actor mostly known from playing Geralt of Rivia in Witcher games.

Interesting…

[artistmagicial]

Piosenka romantyczna o prawdziwym życiu w Polsce. Polska Bardzo Fantastycznie.

🔥🇵🇱🔥🇵🇱🔥

Pierogi każdy lubi kiełbasa krakowska nie wyborcza. Kocham Polskę ale bywa tu ciężko. Wałcz i uprawiaj zapasy z każdym kto ma inne zdanie.

[skrzynka]

kocham sprawdzac lokalne portale internetowe: brat mojego wfisty z podstawowki wlasnie tworzy jakąś nową denominacje chrześcijan

[tomorrowusa]

Two headlines which help explain the victory of Poland's pro-democracy opposition in Sunday's election...

Opozycja zmobilizowała niegłosujących. Na PiS głosował żelazny elektorat (The opposition mobilized non-voters. An iron electorate voted for PiS)

Stats are preliminary, but voter turnout was around 73% in Sunday's parliamentary election – a post-Communist high. The opposition got out the vote – big time. As many as 31% of the eligible voters who did not vote in the 2019 election voted in this one. Meanwhile, the ruling party whose acronym is PiS tightly held on to its own voters; it wasn't enough for them. 87% of PiS voters had voted in 2019.

Wśród młodych najwięcej stracił PiS (PiS lost most among young people)

Of the five party groupings which won seats in the Sejm, PiS came in fifth among voters under 30. Donald Tusk's Koalicja Obywatelska (KO) came in first and Lewnica came in second. The rigid socially conservative agenda of PiS was regarded as repulsive by many young people in Poland.

But wait, there's more!

One aspect of the youth vote which the second TVN24 article did not emphasize is that women were particularly important in the turnout. This is from a DW article about the defeat of PiS.

High turnout thanks to young and female voters

Observers say young and female voters, motivated by the issue of abortion rights — which the ruling PiS has sought to curtail and Donald Tusk has promised to liberalize — turned out in large numbers to support opposition parties. "Until recently, half of women said they would not vote," sociologist Justyna Kajta of SWPS University in Warsaw told AFP news agency. "Now these exit polls actually show more women than men voted."

From "half of women said they would not vote" to "more women than men voted" shows how decisive increased involvement by women, especially younger women, can be.

During the 2020 demonstrations against the extremist anti-abortion law authored by PiS I saw a sign which this election reminded me of. It displayed a fundamental truth as well as a great bilingual political pun based on a classic song by Bob Marley.

The word kraj is pronounced like the English word cry. In Polish, kraj means country though in certain contexts it tends to refer to Poland in particular. For language nerds, you may recognize it as coming from the same Slavic root as Ukraine (Ukraina as written in Polish).

For a well-functioning country, you need active participation by women in the political process. That happened this week in Poland. ❤️🇵🇱

So massive GOTV and appealing to forward-looking young people had a considerable impact in Poland. Those are lessons which should not be overlooked by center-left parties and coalitions in other countries.

BTW, a second exit poll was released for Sunday's election. It showed the current opposition with 249 seats in the Sejm; that's one more than the earlier poll. But the official results should be available by the middle of the week.

[polishwave]

JMBJSS

Kebap and and chicken.