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Devac  ·  1592 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: July 15, 2020

    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  ·  1592 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  ·  1592 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.