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Opposition leader Donald Tusk told supporters that political “change for the better is inevitable” in Poland as he opened a massive march Sunday to try to boost his political coalition’s chances of unseating the country’s conservative government in an upcoming parliamentary election.

“No one can stop this force; this giant has awoken,” Tusk told huge crowds gathered in the center of Warsaw two weeks before the Oct. 15 election. “Let no one among the ruling team have any illusions: This change for the better is inevitable.”

His Civic Coalition is vowing to mend ties with the European Union, which has had strained relations with Poland during the eight years the Law and Justice party has governed the country. Tusk spent five years as president of the European Council after serving seven years as Poland’s prime minister.

The four-party coalition also has pledged to pursue more tolerant policies than the nationalist government led by Law and Justice.

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[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 50 points 11 months ago (4 children)

“Conservatives” (just want in fuck’s name have they conserved?) are a goddamn cancer on the world.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

Conservative is code for authoritarian. They hate others and want to control them. They conserve their own at the expense of everyone else.

[–] ours@lemmy.film 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 11 months ago

More like degenerates

[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

Regressive is a word, y'know. But I prefer “reactionary”

[–] Powerpoint@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

Conservatives in pretty much every country are a cancer. They definitely are in Canada.

[–] PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Depends on if they're politicians or voters.

For the politicians, it usually means conserving public funds so they can hand out tax breaks and bailouts to the wealthy. Occasionally it means conserving the status quo which in turn conserves their reactionary voting bloc.

For those voters, it usually means conserving their own way of life, no matter how unhealthy or bigoted, no matter how small a change it would be for them nor large a positive impact for others.

Of course, it's only a tiny jump from "conservation" to greed.

If you're carefully rationing out food to get through a scarcity, that's conserving food.

If you're rationing out other people's food so that scarcity never touches your family, that's just greed.

But unless you're invited to dine with them, you'll never know which it was.