<story><title>Polish opposition duo hacked with NSO spyware</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-poland-hacking-warsaw-8b52e16d1af60f9c324cf9f5099b687e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gambiting</author><text>As a Pole, it frustrates me to no end as the 90s and 2000s were the time of incredible optimism and opportunity, then the country joined the EU in 2004 you could see *everything&amp;quot; improving very very quickly, huge level of growth and opportunities for everyone, country slowly becoming more and more progressive too, and then PiS got elected and everything went to shit, 6 years down and I don&amp;#x27;t recognize this country or its values anymore.</text></item><item><author>Claude_Shannon</author><text>We have a meme - &amp;quot;when there is a pandemic and you don&amp;#x27;t know whether to close schools or cementaries, so you close Giertych&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;It is almost a tradition at this moment - cases are rising? Quick, arrest him!&lt;p&gt;Okay, on a serious note - this won&amp;#x27;t change anything. Poland is &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; polarised right now politically. PiS voters won&amp;#x27;t care as long as the state gives them money, and the rest already won&amp;#x27;t vote for them no matter what.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>Agreed it is super frustrating. I still have a ton of ties with Poland and the level of disillusion among my contacts there is absolutely overwhelming. Brexit has caused a lot of Polish people that had set up shop abroad between a rock and a hard place: some of them were planning to move back but those plans are now on hold forever. And the ones remaining in Poland that were trying their hardest to move the country forward are now also thinking of abandoning the country because they feel the current slide down will not be arrested for a long time.</text></comment>
<story><title>Polish opposition duo hacked with NSO spyware</title><url>https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-poland-hacking-warsaw-8b52e16d1af60f9c324cf9f5099b687e</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gambiting</author><text>As a Pole, it frustrates me to no end as the 90s and 2000s were the time of incredible optimism and opportunity, then the country joined the EU in 2004 you could see *everything&amp;quot; improving very very quickly, huge level of growth and opportunities for everyone, country slowly becoming more and more progressive too, and then PiS got elected and everything went to shit, 6 years down and I don&amp;#x27;t recognize this country or its values anymore.</text></item><item><author>Claude_Shannon</author><text>We have a meme - &amp;quot;when there is a pandemic and you don&amp;#x27;t know whether to close schools or cementaries, so you close Giertych&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;It is almost a tradition at this moment - cases are rising? Quick, arrest him!&lt;p&gt;Okay, on a serious note - this won&amp;#x27;t change anything. Poland is &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; polarised right now politically. PiS voters won&amp;#x27;t care as long as the state gives them money, and the rest already won&amp;#x27;t vote for them no matter what.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hdjjhhvvhga</author><text>It will take an enormous amount of effort and money to fix everything they brought down. But I believe in Poles - they rebuilt their capital from ruins after WW2, they made an enormous progress after they became a democracy, so no doubt they will also manage to fix everything the populists are destroying right now. But as you say - it&amp;#x27;s a pity Polish people lost a few years and lots of opportunities.</text></comment>