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Russia has been spreading misinformation in Poland - a strong supporter of Ukraine - since the first trains of refugees arrived from Ukraine.
The disinformation narratives - though often outright blunt and apparently false - appeal to certain sections of the population, especially to the far right.
For example, Russian disinformation has claimed that Polish children were being thrown out of cancer wards to make way for Ukrainians, that Ukrainians would take away Polish jobs (a false narrative that is also being spread in this thread btw), and much more. Some disinformation campaigns by Russia also tried to impersonate Poland’s national statistics agency, asking citizens whether they would be personally willing to house more Ukrainian refugees.
This is part of a foreign influence campaign orchestrated against Poland and Europe, supported by a certain group here on Lemmy. All they aim at is to divide the people, undermine democracy under sometimes absurdely false claims.
The anti immigrant stance confuses me. I get that this is being used by bad actors to drive a wedge between people, but how is it that people can’t see that migrants are needed to keep the standard of living?
The amount of working people compared to the elderly or sick is diminishing, so you either have immigrants, raise taxes, reduce welfare or raise retirement age.
To me, immigration seems like the obvious choice.
The fewer workers exist the higher the wages rise. Look at the compensation for people after pest waves.
Immigration allows the elite to avoid the consequences of their bad politics. If living conditions were good enough people would have children.
Now people are moved instead of moving production processes to where the people are.
The fewer workers exist the higher the wages rise. Look at the compensation for people after pest waves.
That’s only true if either the work can’t be moved elsewhere. The other option is that output drops to match the available workforce, like in Britain after brexit for fruits and vegetables for example.
Immigration allows the elite to avoid the consequences of their bad politics. If living conditions were good enough people would have children.
I don’t mind better politics or living conditions, but look at the nordics. Best places in the world to have a kid and we still can’t manage to have 2 kids per couple.
Now people are moved instead of moving production processes to where the people are.
That’s been happening for the last 200 years, which is why most manufacturing is in China and other parts of Asia now. But if we want to keep people in work here we need workers, and there’s not enough of us.
Best places in the world to have a kid and we still can’t manage to have 2 kids per couple.
So obviously not good enough. It doesn’t have to be material, values or expectations could also be not good enough.
One year paid leave per kid per parent, almost free child care, free health care, free dental for kids, free education up to and including university, both parents expected to be on leave, can’t get fired for taking leave. Oh, and you get a government alimony of about €100 per month. This is for Sweden, other nordics might differ slightly.
Having kids in the nordics is insanely good, I don’t know what else we could do.
If we didn’t have immigration our population would decline, along with our living standards.
How easy is it to get housing for a family of 5? How is child care if a child is sick? How high is the expectation for women to lose weight after birth and look good?
If people have 2 children but not 3 then something is missing. It could be that a third child is simply too expensive, even though almost all resources were bought for the first two children. It could be that parents are already too old and don’t want to lose more sleep. Maybe all TV shows just show two children.
There must be a reason. Enumerating good conditions says not much about what is missing.
How easy is it to get housing for a family of 5? How is child care if a child is sick? How high is the expectation for women to lose weight after birth and look good?
Housing obviously depends on where you want to live, but for the most part it’s accessible, and you get handouts from the government if your salary isn’t enough. Child care is free as I said, and you get paid if you need to stay home to take care of sick children. Not sure how to measure the expectation on women to look good, but I don’t think it’s a major factor in society.
If people have 2 children but not 3 then something is missing. It could be that a third child is simply too expensive, even though almost all resources were bought for the first two children. It could be that parents are already too old and don’t want to lose more sleep. Maybe all TV shows just show two children.
People aren’t having even 2 children, but for those that do have 3 or more, you get extra money from the government to cover extra cost.
What I’m saying is that there are massive incentives for parents here, but people aren’t having children. We’re having more than other countries, but no where near enough. So we need immigrants.
This is a material analysis. What do parents say why they don’t want more children?
If Sweden is a society where people don’t believe in a better future I think it’s better to export the jobs instead of making more people live under those conditions.
Considering the polish diaspora all over Europe this is ironic…
All over the world
You guys should be busy replacing the screen doors on your submarines.
We have 999 problems and migrants ain’t one
do You mean, mentioned Konfederacja and the opposition Law and Justice party have only 999 members?
I wish…
Migrants ain’t one, because fortunately lawmakers were smart enough to not implement stupid German’s migration act, and so let’s just leave Poland as it was - non-desired no-migrants (illegal ofc) country
let’s just leave Poland as it was - non-desired
