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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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