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Devac  ·  1596 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: July 15, 2020

Duda got reelected. Shit times will remain a steady course.

Work on last week's project keeps going onward, though had to slow down after I got peer review feedback on a paper from last April. It's funny how the author's deadline for augmenting their work is much, much stricter than the reviewer's. That said, it's nothing but mild grumbling from me since it literally replaces hobby physics with work-related physics. Counting it as a win, even though I'd rather get a week's rest more before chasing terms.

Health-wise, I feel a bit better with every passing day. On their own, changes are imperceptible but seen from a long-term perspective astound me.





cgod  ·  1596 days ago  ·  link  ·  

His reelection got almost no coverage by the any U.S. press, which kinda surprised me.

lil  ·  1596 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The election of Duda for five more years sounds horrible and dangerous. Very interesting how Duda had the support of older people. Duda's anti-gay campaign and fear-mongering appealed to them. Horrible.

    Mr. Trzaskowski (Duda's opponent) won Warsaw with 68 percent of the vote. He also won voters aged 40 to 59 by 10 points, those 30 to 39 by 11 points, and those 18 to 29 by nearly 30 points. Mr. Duda handily beat the Warsaw mayor with voters over 50 by nearly 20 points and those over 60 by 25 points. Mr. Duda supporters were also mostly in eastern and southern regions of the country, where the economy is still lagging.
Devac  ·  1596 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Very interesting how Duda had the support of older people.

Older Poles are much more religious, conservative and, it has to be said, backwards. Learning from what happened with Trump, I'm not surprised in the slightest that a fearmongering populist won on the backs of people who'd rather fuck up everything for everyone than allign themselves with some citydwelling 'elite'.

lil  ·  1596 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Do you trust that the election was fair, that votes were counted fairly, that thousands of names were not scrubbed from the election roles, that gerrymandering is minimal?

I heard that it is being contested.

Devac  ·  1596 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It is contested, though I tuned out after news' signal to noise ratio became too much. And, really, does my trust matter? If it wasn't fair, there's no way the inquiry would show anything since then it clearly wasn't an impartial system to begin with. It it was, it's a moot point.

Sorry for not being much help. Should you wish to, I could read up in a few days on it and answer yours (and anyone else's) questions more thoroughly.