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Re:A No. 1 hit vanished from Poland’s charts – it’s not goin... by eikenberry on Monday May 25, 2020 @03:26PM (#23304062)
Poland is just a young democracy, so they haven't learned how to use it properly yet. Once it sinks in that universal suffrage includes a lot of gullible people. Then you realize that with good propaganda the percentage of the population that are gullible to your influence rises to the point and manipulating them is the optimal way to rule. Sure you occasionally get other people pulling one over on them in a way you don't like, but that just means it's time to up your propaganda game.
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Re:A No. 1 hit vanished from Poland’s charts – it’s not goin... by st1ck on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @12:49AM (#23307521)
> Poland is just a young democracy

Please, it's much older than the US. Better examples of young (and failing) democracies would be Russia and Central Asian -stan countries.

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Re:A No. 1 hit vanished from Poland’s charts – it’s not goin... by austhrow743 on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @04:50AM (#23308754)
Are you trying to pass off a monarch being elected for life by the nobility as democracy or what?
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Re:A No. 1 hit vanished from Poland’s charts – it’s not goin... by st1ck on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:42AM (#23322301)
Of course it wasn't a democracy in a modern sense, but sejm had legislative power. The system is even called szlachta democracy [0] (although that may be a bit biased name). Compare it to most of Europe (except England, Netherlands, Venice etc.) where you'd have a rise of absolute monarchy up until the French Revolution.

[0] https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demokracja_szlachecka

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Re:A No. 1 hit vanished from Poland’s charts – it’s not goin... by 5etho on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @07:44AM (#23309881)
yes, that's what he is trying to say, interesting view that's impprinted to us in school and culture, but your comment got me to think that it doesn't make any sense
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