We have voter ID laws, and getting the right to vote takes more than 10 years. It took me 6 years to get my permanent residency permit and I will need an additional 5 to apply for citizenship--I'm not guaranteed a citizenship, but after 5 years I can apply. I was on the easiest immigration track, btw, since I have a Polish wife. Other immigrants have a much steeper climb than I did.
Poland is a parliamentary democracy, so the party members are obligated to vote in line with party (or they end up replaced).
Plus, PiS has been stacking the bureacracy and judiciary with their allies for the last 10 years which will slow down the new government quite a bit. And the Poles are not an immigration friendly people and the new government knows this. Any movement towards open borders will cost them the next election. Don't forget that even with a 73% turn-out, PiS still got 40% of the vote, more or less. They are not as unpopular as the youth here would like to think.
Sort of. PiS, the incumbent, got the largest share of the seats and a coalition will be necessary to prevent their forming a government. They, as Opposition, are still a force in government and the president (but not prime minister, if I understand things correctly) will be from PiS. The President has a Veto and the coalition will need 60% majority to overrule a majority. Furthermore, Confederation, a libertarian coalition which makes the only other conservative party also has a share of power and will help offset things.
Expect it to be complicated around here.
how does changing from male to female qualify as a super-power? Changing from a dude to a chick or vise versa doesn't actually mean anything when neihter being a dude nor being a chick is special.
Flight is a super power. Enormous strength is a super power. Laser eyes is a super power. Growing tits and a vag is neither a power nor super.
everybody forgot what the orcs did. She showed up out of nowhere, poured out of a portal from draenor and murdered, raided, enslaved and pillaged their way across a peaceful kingdom before killing the king and sacking the capitol. Stormwind was rebuilt by the shattered refugee remnants of a once powerful kingdom that the orcs totally destroyed. But somehow the humans were EVIIIIIL for responding to this wanton unprovoked destruction with force lol.
Spacetravel may mean the use of artificial UV lighting to encourage Vitamin D synthesis since a single UV lamp is lighter and easier to use than shipping who knows how many VitD capsules. Lighter skin tones will facilitate greater uptake of UV from artificial sources and lower rates of depression and mood disorders from VitD deficiency.
Petty theft exists in the large cities, and somebody tried to mug me once but generally--that sort of crime exists everywhere. But the levels of it are the lowest in Europe, and one can generally go wherever whenever here and be assured that nothing is gonna happen.
One of my favourite things about living in Poland is that I regularly walk into the store with a backpack and they don't think I am stealing. I regularly leave things at the front of the store--even full bags of groceries so I can go back into the store and get something I have forgotten--and I have never been stolen from. I don't lock up my bike at the front of the store; I still have a bike.
Fuck you guys, my ethnically homogenous country works and yours is shit.
95% is the number you are actually looking for. There were 3 (I think) waves of illness which swept through the population starting in the 1500's and continuing into the 1800's which each had huge mortality rates. The settlers where justified in their belief that the natives were dissapearing...because they were literally dissapearing. The Population of natives on the continent went from 200,000,000 (estimated) to pretty much none. Even now, hundreds of years later with time for the population to increase, there are only 5 million in the states, and that number includes all the mixes where the "native" is only 1/16 indian and the rest is Euro-mutt. You can do the math yourself.
So, this might come as a surprise to you, but I also grew up on farmland and raised crops and animals. I'm not speaking from a point of ignorance, but rather experience--and I am beginning to think, that despite the profound depths of condescension you seem to be capable of, they aren't quite deep enough and that you are wildly overestimating the capability of the average schmoe. Firstly because the people signing up for homesteading courses and self-educating themselves are in fact a tiny minority of the population, despite their sum total being large enough to appear to be a huge movement in and of itself. And Secondly because being a farmer means your interactions with the rest of the population are subject to a rather severe bias. I would know--I was also one.
So point your patronizing dismissal somewhere else and think about the types of people that make up the bulk of the city-dwelling population: The vast hordes of starbucks consumers and popculture addicts, and not the tiny tiny percentage who are aware of the need for raising their own food and are capable of teaching themselves how.
ass.
Look, man. I don't doubt that you raise crops, and I know full well that strong yields can be achieved through contemporary botany but it's not scalable to the level of feeding a civilization--it takes too much skill and it requires the full efforts of the farmer. Our civilization is too specialized and diversified to be majority farmers anymore. Small crop farming is great, but selling it to normies isn't going to happen. It's just not. And even if it would--they wouldn't be any good at it and would take short cuts and we'd end up at agroindustry all over again. People like you would specialize and we'd just reinvent largescale monocrops all over again.
Plus a change in yields from 2-4 acres (depending on local fertility) to 1 acre is not such a good improvement considering that 1 acre for a family of 4 is not much different from 2-4 acres for a family of 10. Medieval farmers were actually very effective at what they did. They just didn't have refrigerators or canning. Tough shit for them.
The reason current agriculture requires so much space is because you wildly underestimate how much space is needed to support a family for a year. A typical farmer in preindustrial areas would farm something like 2-4 acres in order to subsist. Not to generate a profit, not to support multiple families. That's just keeping himself and his family alive through to the next season with a very very small surplus left over for sale, barter and storage.
1 acre = 4000 m^2. So that farmer was farming between 8 and 16 THOUSAND m^2 and he did it all without chemicals--he tilled because tilling increased yields. he grew grains because they could be stored, he ate meat because it could be preserved. And all of this was backbreaking, horrible labour. All of this just to break even. Prior to the industrial revolution, the vast majority of the population lived rurally because they couldn't generate the food necessary to sustain large cities. People had to feed themselves off of large plots of land because large plots of land is what is necessary to grow enough food to feed a person for a whole year.
Little suburban veggie plots of a fun hobby, not a serious method of feeding a population.
Canada is there too, but try telling that the Canadians lol. They're convinced that they need the rest of the planet in order to do anything and will immediately collapse without the influx of foreign resources and workers.
KO isn't left, they are however just as corrupt and evil as PiS. They're also EU-philes and lead by a former EU president. That's the real problem here. The actual leftist parties got much lower than 52%. More like 15%.