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Re:A No. 1 hit vanished from Poland’s charts – it’s not goin... by avn2109 on Monday May 25, 2020 @06:27PM (#23305593)
That's a mostly fair and accurate summary of the "this is a big scandal" position imho. Quite representative of people holding that position in all aspects including tone, length, and content.

FWIW I am not a PiS supporter, have never voted for them, and likely will not vote for them in the forseeable future.

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Re:A No. 1 hit vanished from Poland’s charts – it’s not goin... by wbronitsky on Monday May 25, 2020 @06:39PM (#23305668)
> FWIW I'm an American living in Poland since 2 years ago, though I'm participating only as a spectator and I don't have a political horse in this race

I find these two comments a bit hard to reconcile, as the second comment implies that this person is not an “American” with no “political horse in this race”.

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Re:A No. 1 hit vanished from Poland’s charts – it’s not goin... by avn2109 on Monday May 25, 2020 @06:41PM (#23305678)
I'm a Polish citizen who grew up in America and am culturally American. So for example I don't get any of the jokes about bad TV shows from people's childhood 20 years ago, but on paper I count as Polish etc.

By "no horse in this race" I mean that I am a neutral bystander in the complicated, very-passionate multidirectional culture war centered on the PiS party, and whenever possible I try to avoid arguments like this one.

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