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> Hasn't there been a bunch of religious conservatives elected there lately? Yes, like are most Poles. It makes sense, no..? Not my cup of tea, but what's wron
by nkkollaw 9y ago
> Hasn't there been a bunch of religious conservatives elected there lately?
Yes, like are most Poles. It makes sense, no..? Not my cup of tea, but what's wrong with that?
> I honestly don't know if what I'm reading is propaganda any more but it seems they were doing lots of ugly things like cracking down on free speech.
It's partly true. You're talking about an incident where they fined a newspaper for their coverage of protests by using a law that prohibited to incite violence. It's sure not cool, but when Italy's Berlusconi was governing 3 out of 6 main TV channels where his, and it was proved in court that he actively censored the other 3 government-controlled ones. Yet, no one is/was talking about Italy becoming a dictatorship.
The truth is that the media is very pro-EU, and therefore any little thing they do is the end of the world.
Having seen how Italy was _absolutely ruined_ by both Germany-fueled mass migrations and not standing up to the EU in general, I can't really blame them for not wanting to repeat other European countries' mistake(s).
Life in Poland is pretty great, honestly. Doing business is easy (or at least 1000 times easier than Italy), very high buying power, etc., and no tanks on the streets in sight so no coup happening anytime soon.
- rusk 9y agoLife in Poland is pretty great, What's the story with unemployment there these days? I read recently it was among the highest in Europe?
- nkkollaw 9y agoNope. You're probably confusing Poland with Greece. Poland's unemployment rate is about 100% better than Ireland, Italy, France, and others and almost 50% better than the EU. In big cities is perceptively non-existant among young people (my perception and my girlfriend's). Here is a chart: https://www.statista.com/statistics/268830/unemployment-rate-in-eu-countries/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/268830/unemployment-rate...
- rusk 9y agoOkay my bad. Hard to separate truth from fiction with everything that comes across in the media these days.
- the_mitsuhiko 9y agoWell it's not really surprising. People have been emigrating from Poland for a long time. This eventually has to show up in low unemployment numbers.
- rusk 9y agoI thought that too, but when I looked at the numbers they're far from having the highest level of emigration [0] in Europe either, at 11.5% ... [0] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSts9UUW0AAKmXd.jpg:large https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSts9UUW0AAKmXd.jpg:large