[…] if they become radicalized they may end up doing oppressive things to those that are not of the same political thought.

We aren’t hiding the fact we do this as the principle “I don’t like what you are saying, but will defend your right to say it” is extremely dangerous and quite stupid mind you.

Words, rhetoric, and especially well placed lies have immense power.

We will oppress those who are either bourgeoisie, Nazis, promoters of racial, national and/or religious hatred and worse.

And you might think “Oh no! Oppression that is bad!”, but then you might want to look at those who we would oppress by jail time, reeducation or gathering breakdowns as they need to be oppressed for the safety of those they want to oppress.

Such oppression would be very much needed in the United States who are growing fashier by the day, or even more so my homeland Poland. Recently one of our representatives of parliament (who is also to become Vice Minister of the ministry of Progress and Technology) said this on National TV:

• Something unbelievable. […] Today stopping this libt**d LGBT ideology, gender, which now comes into schools, is coming also into preschool, it invades our minds… I even see them in coloring pencils… – said madly Janusz Kowalski

• Coloring pencils…? – asked the amused Maciejewska

• Coloring pencils! - He continues. - Everything in these rainbow colors: pencils, backpacks, notebooks…

• But pencils have always been this colorful – said the somewhat concerned Adrian Klarenbach

• In the world of Solidaric Poland every pencil should be either black or white.

Yeah, you might think this is a sick joke or something. But no, Kowalski is seriously fucked in the head and that includes pretty much the rest of PiS and Konfederacja. Though PiS can maintain their composure while stripping the rights of everyone, not just minorities. And that’s why they can get majority votes without being seen as „crazy” but even correct. Catholicism is fucking disgusting, and should be de-institutionalized. We ought to also use the trend that the youth don’t want to do anything with this disgusting cult, and promote slow and absolute removal of Catholicism from Poland. Not through killings and kidnappings like Nazi pigs prefer to do with their enemies, no. We will do it slowly, through education and propaganda promoting better things to do with your time. We will one up them in their own game, by organizing socialist youth and elderly groups. We will give the people what they want and need, without all of the mysticism, right wing narratives and financial exploitation.

Here, the article from where I translated this „debate”:

https://crowdmedia.pl/kolorowe-kredki-w-pudeleczku-nosze-przyszly-wiceminister-janusz-kowalski-dziwacznie-atakuje-ideologie-lgbt/

I will not stand, until these sick fucks, these monsters and especially the unhinged like Kowalski, get what they fucking deserve. A stripping of power, redistribution and nationalization of assets used for the betterment of LGBT communities they hold down for so long from being accepted.

They don’t deserve to have their „opinions”. It’s beacuse of them my country is a beacon of hatred, misogyny, xenophobia, bigotry and utter ignorance. I’m ready to take the already fake freedom of speech that only they have for themselves, away from them.

Sorry if I lost my composure, I’m passionate for the betterment of improving the lives of every pole, even those indoctrinated by right wing rhetoric. Because of this I can get, uhhh, spicy, you could say.

Also I’m living in Poland so… I’m functioning, somehow.

Western propaganda on Ukraine has been intense, and a lot of people are still parroting it.

The far right oligarchs who are working directly with US have been in control of the government. Meanwhile, you should take a look at the territories that are controlled by LPR and DPR right now, people aren’t exactly upset about it. You can see some interviews here. Ukraine has been in a civil war since the coup in 2014, the extremists US put in power have done things like banning the use of Russian language. This hasn’t played well with a huge Russian speaking population in the east.

People in the west don’t seem to actually understand much about Ukraine and treat it as some homogeneous blob as opposed to a large and culturally diverse country that it actually is.

I love how whitewashing nazis has become the favorite pass time for westerners now.

Ukraine’s welfare was far better before the 2014 coup. You also seem to be homogenizing the whole nation, which shows an incredibly superficial understanding. Why do you think there was a civil war for the past 8 years exactly?

There are around 40 million people in Ukraine and I doubt they are all of one opinion.

Oh, yeah, so vague that you need to wilfully ignore context lmao

Like all set-ups, there’s obvious pros and cons. Like you said, short terms normalize change so it’s more difficult to consolidate power against an opposition (not that they don’t try! See long-term examples in USA like gerrymandering and voter suppression). It also theoretically allows the peoples of a democracy to re-establish their choice of leadership more often in response to major changes, like a war or global pandemic. If you realize a mistake was made, like voting in a naive TV celebrity, then you have a reasonable guarantee that the state population can vote to remove them in a few years without needing a violent revolution. Obviously that’s great, and something many people living under malevolent dictatorships would literally die for.

A big downside is that it creates instability and disincentivizes long-term planning. Many necessary changes take longer than 3-5 years to make, and many nations have a two-party dominant system (usually characterized as a dichotomy of conservative/progressive) where one party is in power for 4-8 years before the other takes power and undoes many of those changes and cancels their projects. Rinse and repeat. As an extreme example, you can see many people pointing to non-democratic nations as being efficient at making infrastructural and social change, China being a popular example for a long time. They can comfortably make 5 year plans because they’re still likely to be there in 10 or 20. Shanghai venture capitalist Eric Li hints at this: “I make the joke: in America you can change political parties, but you can’t change the policies. In China you cannot change the party, but you can change policies.” If you don’t like the main party’s basic world-view, you have no choice! That’s horrifying in itself. But if you do, there’s more capacity for major change than in the tug-of-war in a short-term western democracy.