CarawouPolish president proposes law jailing officials who question his powers
“President”
I mean, Poland has been clearly fascist for a pretty long time now, openly attacking minorities, but no one gives a shit because they are part of the EU so they are fine.
Porcoen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Poland
Together with the figure of the “Polish Mother”, abortion restrictions are used to encourage women to have many children. This ideology reinforces the view that women’s place is in the home
From 2024, Poland also provides mandatory firearms training for pupils in primary and secondary schools
Poland is one of the most religious countries in Europe
Poland also has a significant rural population: about 40%, which is deeply conservative
According to ILGA-Europe’s 2025 report, the status of LGBTQ rights in Poland is among the worst of the European Union countries No current protections for health services and hate crimes exist conservative president Andrzej Duda, who previously described the LGBT movement as “a foreign ideology” and comparing it to indoctrination in the Soviet Union Poland has not implemented the contracting or recognition of same-sex unions, although it is obliged to do so by judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
In August 2020, the Polish Episcopal Conference released a document which recommended the creation of counseling centres “to help people who want to regain their sexual health and natural sexual orientation”. It insists that the scientific consensus that conversion therapy is ineffective and potentially harmful to be “political correctness”
An Ipsos survey in October 2019 found that a majority of Polish men under 40 believe that “the LGBT movement and gender ideology” is the “biggest threat facing them in the 21st century”
According to a 2011 poll, 47% of Poles stated that “too many Muslims live in Poland” Since the Muslim community in Poland is small (0.1% of the population) the situation has been described as “Islamophobia without Muslims”.
On public television, guests have spoken of Muslims as “uncivilized” and a threat to “European and Christian values” and have described them as “violent”: as “Jihadists”, “terrorists”, and “rapists”.
Do you want more? There’s plenty.
If Poland tried to join the EU right now it would never succeed.
Well did you see my list? And are there any consequences, is Poland forced to change by Europe or threatened to be kicked out? No, because no one cares. As I said, Turkiye is unable to join the EU because of things that are basically the same as Poland, but one is told that they need to improve, the other is not.
What are you talking about? The Court of Justice of the EU ruled against Poland and fined them for [~half a billion €}(politico.eu/…/eu-court-finds-poland-guilty-in-rul…). The EU started an Article 7 procedure against them and stopped it after the new government started to implement changes.
Oh, and the new government came into power through voting, I didn’t know that’s something “clearly fascist” countries do.
Maybe irrelevant but who the fuck decided that Turkey is to be called Turkiye now?
If you’re speaking English it’s fucking Turkey. Otherwise better start calling Germany Deutschland, Finland Suomi, Greece Ellada and so on.
khannieAgreed, but for some weird reason the fact that Turkey is the only one where somehow everyone suddenly abides by their whim pisses me off.
I’m pretty sure “everyone” did it for Myanmar as well. And in Germany we changed from Weißrussland to Belarus.
Thanks for the downvote :)
But on point, it’s not the same, is it? Turkiye is just Turkey in the Turkish language, it’s not a change of the country’s name like going from Burma to Myanmar.
It’s more like saying Deutschland instead of Germany.
In fact for that one there’s a bit of a history, the view being that Myanmar was more inclusive as opposed to Burma which relates to the Bamar ethnic group. And it was the UK that primary opposed the change from the colonial era name, which brings us again to the issue of colonialism and the fact that the English think they can tell the world what to do because they control the narrative on the internet.
The Turkish Government decided that they’d like the English translation of their name to be Turkiye, and asked the world nicely.
The world, for whom it is absolutely no inconvenience whatsoever, went “fair enough, sure.”
If the majority of people are now writing Turkiye, it just means the majority of people are not utterly wearisome bellends; consider this a rare good news story.
Timmy, Turkey illegally occupies half of Cyprus since 1974 - to name just one of all the other “nice” things they’re doing - so them “asking the world nicely and the world going fair enough sure” is a feel-good little story you can tell your feeble-minded friends.
Then again you sound like a Brit so your country is responsible for all this with your great divide and conquer tactics that fucked the entire world so you might want to keep your mouth shut altogether.
If the majority of people are now writing Turkiye
Majority? Not really, no. Haven’t seen that outside some lemmings.
What you wrote is certifiably wrong. Turkey asked to be called ‘Türkiye’. Note that you didn’t call them the correct name, despite claiming that it’s no bother for you. Because ‘ü’ isn’t a letter of the English alphabet, so the so-called ‘English name’ is not English.