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I live far away from USA, so I don't know any specifics, but I happen to live in a country where "the public" elected to power a party that openly tried to tran
by klibertp 14y ago
I live far away from USA, so I don't know any specifics, but I happen to live in a country where "the public" elected to power a party that openly tried to transform a country into a police state. It's debatable what impact their time in office had overall, but they gained popularity thanks to exactly the same stance Ortiz presents here and maintained it (popularity) for three years thanks to many similar cases. Granted, the victims were chosen much more wisely - a doctor, a politician, a beggar, to name a few - but handling of their cases was even worse, because they were used as a propaganda and displayed in the media from the very beginning, along with a video of breaking door and cuffing said doctor on the ground for example. The politician in question even committed suicide when the police tried to arrest her, and we were told that this was perfectly normal occurrence and that nothing is going to change.
And this is perfectly normal, European country we're talking about...
So no, I don't think this is going to negatively impact Ortiz career, it's possible that she's even saying this in hope of gaining popularity.
I know this seems improbable, but then winning the election by said party seemed improbable too in 2005 and then actually happened. It's easy to look at one's social circle and think it represents "the public". Well, it most often does not.
- brador 14y agoI guess...Greece?
- farabove 14y agoI guess Norway
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- jonhinson 14y agoMy Google-fu leads me to say...Poland.
- klibertp 14y agoI just spent half an hour trying to find a conclusive result in google using just the data I included in the post and couldn't. Can you say what queries you used to get to this guess? Were you completely unfamiliar with the matters I described before attempting the search? What did you assume while searching? I'm not saying you're right (or wrong) but I'm really interested in the process.
- sukuriant 14y agoI used the name half of the email address in your profile. From there, I looked through the places that had that username. None of them gave very much useful information until I came to http://www.racjonalista.pl/index.php/s,47/k,32138 http://www.racjonalista.pl/index.php/s,47/k,32138 . From there, I looked up what PL represented, and it's Poland. Addendum: Also, Googling your HackerNews username, on my second page of Google shows more .pl domains where that username is found. The Internet can be scary.
- klibertp 14y agoNothing really scary here, I just didn't think of adding data from my profile to the queries :) It's stupid, because if it wasn't my profile and my post I would probably do it the same way. I tried to google the country using only the informations included in the post but I somehow forgot that I'm the author and the fact that I live here was in the post too. Oh well, it happens ;) Thanks for explanation and for hinting to google results for my username - I haven't tried that one for too long.
- jonhinson 14y agoSimilar to sukuriant, I googled the name half of your email in your profile, clicked on your Trello profile, copy&pasted the text from your first entry (I did not recognize the language) into Google. Google Translate told me it was Polish. Also, on your twitter account (same username as on Trello), you mention Warsaw a few times. I was completely unfamiliar with the matters you mentioned in your comment.
- welder 14y agoYou're exactly right. Many people in conservative states would interpret her response as tough on crime.
- herdrick 14y agoIt's not red/blue. She's trying to build a political career in Massachusetts.
- n0mad01 14y agoI guess Hungary
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