"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."

Absoluely true, Mimi. And always more than terrifying.

@@loller0815 Are you using germany as an example of a country that's safe from authoritarianism? There's a resurgence of racist conservatism in germany at the moment, so that example isn't all that good.

I agree - most possible It can happen nearly anywhere.

Yeah, the end of that monologue really just left me scratching my head. How can John Oliver be an American exceptionalist, too? There is no reason whatsoever that the US is somehow authoritarian-proof. Like, obviously.

Niel Mesa Word salad.

@Niel Mesa You sound like an idiot who is in the process or has already lost whatever religion has kept your barbaric impulses at bay. Just as Nietzsche predicted, the real danger we face is from common folk seeing that god is an illusion but not being able to bridge the gap to civilization with the arts and a broader understanding of what it means to be human. The danger we face is not so-called elitists who want global equality, it's the moronic masses who would put a "strong man" in power because they are afraid of everything they don't understand. The barbarian you fear is none other than yourself.

Tanner McAteer While you are extremely astute in your observation, and observations of this person called Neil, you must also remember he is more than likely frightened by what he doesn’t understand. Things like a rudimentary grasp of the English language. “Most strongest” does not usually correlate to understanding the word “barbarian”. It is quite literally astounding, and quite sad how many under educated Americans have fallen into the trap of the alt right through buzz words, but I guess the right has been playing the long game with cutting funding to public education, and equating their specific brand of horse shit political discourse to “patriotism, American flags, and pickup trucks”.

@Niel Mesa Yeah and only one major religion and many ethic authorities would have been murdered. Not sure if that is worth it. (Sarcasm, of course it is absolutely not worth it and very unethical.)

@@soulman4292 You are quite right sir. I live in the bible belt and have close family members who have fallen victim to the Trump cult mentality, conspiracy theories and all, so I suppose I was mostly venting at Neil, bc I love them and don't want to call them idiots in person.

People seem to forget that dump has been doing this for a long time, he couldn't have broadcasted his plans any more clearly than he did.

Especially now that Biden is saying it

@@Adrian-yi8fl except he isn't?

Why does Trump look so mean all the time? Why does TRUMP say things that seems tough when in reality he is deceiving the people like " Mexico is going to pay for the wall while clapping his hands is another way of taking with his hands. This is to arouse the audience into thinking he is going to do what he is saying. The wall wasn't built. Hillary wasn't locked up and there was no reason to lock her up. Trump is a loser and a liar all his miserable life. He is a failure time after time to out do himself. If he had left well enough along he would have been a great realty if had been a broker. He had stacked 10 bricks that was the best foundation. Because he and he alone knows best is smarter than the builders decided to inflate or deflate at all cause to gain the system is being investigated. He needs to be jail and his properties confiscated and hold on all his accounts he just bragged is over 5 billion dollars. IRS goes after the poor and needy. A mother left 2 children with $5000.00 each both dependent on other to care for them had $1000.00 to live off. They end up with $4000.00 no matter what the circumstances how poor you are, how helpless you are IRS doesn't care. There needs to be a reform in the IRS also. The rich hide their taxes lies about a lose, therefore file a lost pay less taxes or no taxes. Also term limits for all judges to 30 years and out which should Be a law for all officials from Supreme Court to lower court. Uncle Tom. Judge Thomas must retire less than 2 years. No man or woman should have absolute power for life. They become like uncle Tom C. Thomas.

@@weirdo82 old hair smeller bad orange cheato man jesus merka numma ☝️

you should still be terrified.

@@Iristhornz oh absolutely. He wasnt impeached and could still come back. Terrifying thought.

@Yosef Beam I still see people around my small town flying trump signs and it scares me to my very soul

Yeah no, it's still terrifying, since he has left his mark and the Republican Party is the party of fascism. Let's be real, we are dangerously close to a fascist coup, and I feel we're in a situation akin to Interwar Germany politically speaking. Heck, even economy-wise, there might be some comparisons.

I'm sitting here in India... Quietly crying on the inside.

Excellent point! Vote for me and I will take care of those people so they can never again do any harm!

"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

I go with the philosophy of sometimes the easiest most simple answer isn't the best answer ethically speaking

If it sounds too good to be true, it’s probably too good to be true

exactly like "democracy solves it" democracy makes it worse in some cases

Cool america is sitting pretty

A quote from one of my favourite movies. "So this is how liberty dies?" *"With thunderous applause."*

@@alfatazer_8991 I am the Senate

Me ne frego...

@@thecashier930 *ne*

No, the lowest was 107%. The reporter who claimed it was 104% admitted his mistake and took a vacation to siberia.

As opposed to his highest rating, 169%. Amazing really.

@@MasouShizuka *690%

@@Robin-jk6wz not nice...

@@laurabrown9932 Mind not spamming?

that becomes even more ironical if you remember, that Mussolini actually kind of started facism, thereby becoming role model for Hitler

@@Luca-sz5uy so what your saying is that Hitler should be called "Sauerkraut Mussolini."

Dabi that Sounds more harmless then it should but actually spot ob

@@Luca-sz5uy THIS

I always thought he said "Pastor Hitler". Welp.

Contrary to popular belief, Mussolini was not a race realist and had dismissed policies in Germany and America based off of racial hierarchies as stupid and unscientific. He actually wrote advocacy pieces against Jew hatred and called out anti-semitism.

@@jacktheripper2537 that's not the point I was trying to make

He probably thinks Mussolini is a pasta dish.

@@joshhodkinson9677 Trump voice: Yes, I'd like to order the Mussolini. Waiter: Uh, sir, that's a fascist dictator from WWII. Trump: Yes, sounds delicious.

@@speedychicken831 do you know how alliances worked in WW2? Also why don't you look it up to verify?

He says that but criticizes the American system for doing that. Hypocrite.

@@someonenew439 I agree, John has his biases.

@@rafimuhammadzakaria482 yeah I would agree. As an american even during the Trump administration I was not worried about any collapse of government coming from the White House. Our system checks so much that as an average american I do not have to worry about any administration becoming a "dictator". I trust the system so much and have studied to know what an executive can and cannot do.

@@someonenew439 Same

The problem is the rampant corruption and effective exemption from prosecution in the upper ranks of a democracy.

Okey did you notice your country writing new history? Today VW diesel fumes experiment (VW build gas chamber during WW2) Porshe new history, created in 1936 they are 70 this year, Audi a fucking advertisment next to the Warsaw Getto Moument. Bayer humen experiment joins with Monsanto...

anybody who studies history is sweating right now lol

Actually when I was at school I disliked the history class about the third reich because it lacked the positive side. It always left you to wonder how could people fall for this if it was obviously so bad. The Nazis brought employment, an improvement in the standard of living and unity within the population. I think people should look at that and provide reasonable alternatives. I.e. I think the way to get rid of fascism is to analyze why exactly it seemed a good idea to the people at the time and identify and deal with those issues.

Also, the people in charge of those companies may have had the FUCKING GESTAPO SS watching over them and their families

Manuel Gnthr it is a good idea tho

The US has no democracy, the oligarchic plutocracy chooses the candidates that will benefit the wealthy and powerful while the populace continually pays the tab

If anything the us is a representative democracy and if anything barbaric you can call the us is feudal system because everyone ones someone and at the to is the president and the man with the most people under his belt and look at the movie the wolf of Wall Street where it shows we worship the dollar bill instead of land and at the bottom is the service industry or the serfs run by the kings or tycoons . So before you call us a oligarchy like the Soviet Union or small government look at the millions in ours

A “republic” if you can keep it. America is not a democracy. And there was no choice between monarchy and democracy, it was simply which government structure-not which of the two. AMERICA IS NOT A DEMOCRACY. We really need to drill this into peoples heads.

Thank you!...sheesh....

craffte sarcasm?

This is the same man that claimed Venezuela Socialism failed, only failed because of Mismanagement. I think he’s good on some things and that he wants the best for America, but also think he believes Socialism is a viable option for this country, and that doesn’t settle well with me.

@@aerospaceracecraft8954 Americans should stop throwing the word "Socialism" around like this spooky word that few seem to understand

he is a puppet of elitist leftist. At least he is funny

@@aerospaceracecraft8954 Not sure if you've been paying attention or not, but the ideals he endorses are synonymous with socialism. And I advise you to prepare yourself, because socialism is coming to the United States. Capitalism is destroying itself, as indiscriminate destruction is one of its fundamental aspects, and anyone who doesn't see that is delusional.

@@oscaralegre3683 I always wonder, do you even watch the show? He has a long history of criticising and insulting the democrats. And because the Americans, for some reason, have only two important parties, that´s a pretty sure sign he´s not a leftist puppet. Greetings from Germany, a country with six important political parties instead of just two.

Don Wory woah there, relax. You don’t have to be so loud about being stupid. It’s ok to not know what you’re doing unless you’re in a position of power, because then I DO expect you to not be so stupid.

do you know what you are doing... look at yourself instead of looking at others.

artiew87 The difference is that I’m not the president of a whole ass country lmaoo. Me not knowing what to do results in ordering pizza at 1am not getting trigger happy with the nuclear weapons. Dont defend someone who’s job is literally to have their shit together.

While there’s essence of truth here, you want to try and NOT come off as pretentious and arrogant. There’s plenty of sensible people out there so don’t be a fat head. Makes people want to hear you out

Scary things was, adults could do irreperable damage.

Mussolini

Neither do you based on that spelling lmfao

And he does also 100% not know what a faschist is😂

Or what happened to him...

You can tell Spanky never paid attention in any history class he ever sat in... What a baffoon he is.

No, but I did have “congressman assassination”. Damn, just missed out on that one.

No but I had called election fraud when there isn't any

BINGO! Everybody clear your cards!

@@mimim7026 Who got the bingo?

@@jacobrzeszewski6527 I didn't have civil war or nuclear spiders. Still playing tho... 😁

I clipped that quote and made it into a Meme

John was on point ahah

@@inc3000 do share

Can someone explain this joke? I didn't get it.

@@TheTrueBrawler Russia passed an 'anti gay propoganda' law. They just basically discriminate against gay ppl there

Jeff Bristow same)))

Eh it was pretty good, maybe if you were a Slav you would understand it.

That sounds like it hurts...

Are you alright?

lefties are fucked AHAHAHAHAHHAHA

I love The Simpsons

How ironic...

yeah, it's so surprising that people are actually angry about the rise of authoritarianism in their countries. can you imagine, being upset that your elected leader is a facist? people should just show no emotion so they don't offend you :/

Martin Glynn yet ignores how much the left is doing this crap too

Khan H The left runs a senator out of a restaurant and harasses his family. While students try to breaking into Tucker Carlsons house. Desperately bangs on the doors of the supreme court. Oh and horrifically makes a cartoon about his daughter. All while Clinton and more advocate for all this. Im sorry msn tis crap is going both ways. Happy to debunk sone stuff if you like. I got time

That's pretty much the same. What about SoLuTiOnS...?

Those damn communists. Smh.

Well that's pretty much what they're doing in North Korea. Isolating themselves until no one can remember what life was like before.

Excluding all the Communist countries that have ended the practice about 30 years ago

Everything is a remix. And they just read Naomi Wolf's book about losing democracy

People elected them becouse they didnt want the refugess or becouse thir country was going to shit so fast they said fuk it lets try(brazil).

I really don't like how people claim to be modern in india but the second gets an abortion or comes out they freak out

@@ahalya2364 couldn't agree more

Yeah not modern when there's still beheadings and honor killings.

we only love liberal ideas when it's not happening to us.

Hewwo :3

cringe ∆

@@craffte omegalul

Comments that are relatable in 2018 and 1418

@ Sparkle Paws: Nailed it!

Is everyone who builds better infrastructure automatically Hitler? I invoke Godwin's law.

Heinrich Berndovsky You may want to re-read the comment and re-watch that fragment of the video.

Duterte supporters believe extra-judicial killing is okay since the drug users are “bad people” while their beloved Digong wants to make the country better. They see drug dealing and drug addiction as the same thing. That’s ignorance. More importantly, they don’t see the critical point which is that you can’t just fucking kill people as you please. The solution to this global problem of rising authoritarianism is teaching people how to be decent human beings.

World: He was a mass murderer and let psychopaths put babies under horrifying experiments. Complicit Germans: *beep beep* 🚘

Lt. Ancenagon The best part is that infrastructure was built on the back of massive loans we’ve taken from China so they can eventually absorb us when we inevitably can’t pay them. This is more than just incompetence since it’s actually the whole point of the “Build, Build, Build” project in the first place.

Oh really! Latest survey by Gallop says more than 90% of Filipinos approved of Duterte.

@@worldlypersonal1042 yeah kinda sad tbh but you know it is what it is, if there are too many stupid people then the cycle of retarded politicians being in office will continue and corruption many not go away for some time

Oh, yeah

@Harry Lord Pretty low quality bait, mate.

@Harry Lord Yes, I suppose the world *is* getting better. All the freaks, monsters and psychopaths are making sure people know who they are -- it makes it easier to know who to shun. Silver linings, I suppose.

Why?

@@davidgetui4924 Why? As in, 'why am I laughing?', or 'why is it horrifying?'

....laugh is known human response in teror too. Like laughing in "shit, i'm going to die. So better die spectacularly". So, when would Last Week Tonight's doomsday video will be aired, i wonder..

Outside the USA, sync clapping is a thing...there may be something deeper there...

@@VinceRegan When the musician on stage starts clapping his or her hands overhead, we automatically follow suit. So, there's that.

The ones who clapped out of sync were later executed.

That is how you clap when your life depends on it, possibly literally. More robotic that Japan that bunch.

It could've been get hype rhythmic clapping

Rewatching this video while listening to Twice Impeached One Term President Individual 1 praise Putin's invasion of Ukraine is chilling. Reading this comment when thinking about the Ukrainian president's heartfelt plea to the people of Russia is inspiring. That's leading with heart.

This comment right here. This guy gets it.

Without this "strong"leader how can you win in Stalingrad ?

@@AbuBased731 By not burying your head in the sand and seeing that Hitler's coming to fight you in the first place, thus preventing catastrophes like Minsk, Kharkov, and all the others. Then, you don't need to lose a million men in that city.

What happened now?

@@LennyNero2019 The press being purposefully battered and arrested by the police to try to silence coverage of their abuse of power and use of excessive force.

Lenny Nero Look up Yemen war where Trump helped Saudis to kill 4 million people

I'm optimistic about the USA , it's recovering from its age old flaws and after getting a new President elected,it will be in its prime soon.Trust me.

@@shubhamnagpal302 I wanna be optimistic man. But it just doesn't seem like it'll get better

yeah, almost no comments from Poland (because most people are too lazy to watch things in EN), i was relieved the situation was presented accurately (as to my knowledge), and that Kaczyński, not the prime minister or president were shown, which are just the puppets of this crazy man

Correct, though the legal system is just a top of an iceberg...

Charlize Lilly I’m not sure I would agree people are too lazy, but definitely the part of society than was won by Kaczynski for the family support schemes is much louder, more determined and less educated than the other part. And absolutely, the whole government is a puppet of Kaczynski.

@@hanami741 I'm Polish and can confirm that it was presented quite accurately unfortunately (for us).

Czech Republic here, I didn't know this about Poland, because our news are full of our own shit... I have to learn more about this!

Like milk in an unrefrigerated bag.

Bunker bitch

Reality is so fucking weird.

When someone bern a Macy’s they kinds deserve it

Sticking them on the rioters and ANTIFA.

MD_AABBECT_I Ah yes, ANTIFA. The anti-fascist organization. Real villains there.

Whenever Duterte faces reelection next time, do you think a Progressive candidate can come in and challenge (and possibly beat) him?

@@jessetorres8738 nope

Paul Ramos moved out of the Philippines just as he got elected. Good luck, I hope you won’t need it though.

@obbchannel because the opposition is ass.

@obbchannel Let's give it a day or two lol

A lot closer to home in the USA now, isn't it?

@Goutham Sudheer you mean modi and that citizenship bill?

Very differently

@@hb-fq9fm ya bro

"that's what musicals are like when you don't allow gay people" John; I LOVE YOU

It would have been funny if it wasn't true 😟

Just like that bar that dude was lifting-

Out of aaaall the jokes....

Yeah, John Oliver is like a newbie here. Totally unrelated info - newbie in Russian is «новичок»/novichok

Angry4rtichoke not to be critical or anything but what did you expect when you clicked on a video titled “Authoritarianism?”

You were a fool to expect anything less.

He's probably 9, so maybe don't be so quick to criticize and swear on a JOHN OLIVER VIDEO of all things.

I was just thinking the same thing. And don't forget the Republicans who won the same election night are valid. It's only the democrats who cheated lol.

Same

Same

I don’t ever want to see it. Gaga and Cooper committed adultery and Cooper left his wife. The movie represents something terrible in my eyes.

I've heard there is a disappointing lack of gas clouds

So many people make such a big deal about it. It is just a remake. It's not even original.

This world is broken.

ROMandAL Philippines needs discipline. Thus, Duterte won.

Hah.. when I was driving around India I'd always keep a really small amount (like $1 worth) in my wallet for the regular police bribe, and the rest in my sock

Same in Venezuela

That's the case in most 2nd to 3rd world countries. Guys like Duterte, Bolsonaro and his supporters say they are against corruption, but in truth they are only against corruption when they think they have the short stick. It's cool when you can bribe your way out, but if someone else bribes his way past them, then they get pissed. All they want is to be the sole people to profit from corruption and nepotism. I've seen some people get mad at all the corruption going on in politics, only to get mad when a burocrat wouldn't take their own bribe.

ALANA Jacobs He’s doing everything in his power to ensure a dictatorship

ALANA Jacobs the moment I watched the police entrap peaceful protestors where they could not leave by curfew so they could arrest them I was terrified. I then watched private citizens open their homes so that the protestors could be inside for curfew and the police then sent tear gas and pepper spray through the windows. I felt like I was watching real time nazis where they punished those keeping the Jews safe.

He wants to

Well in the Book that Bolton just released he said trump said we should execute journalists

MrHistory 808 everyday something else comes out about him and he’s just worse and worse

CezaMVO so sorry to hear about your mom. My thoughts are with you and your family and hopefully the new year will bring better times. ✊

+

Im sorry your having to go threw that no one should be in jail for wanting a better life. The country is in a sad state both sides are becoming extreme. Very dark days...

I'm so sorry about your mother.

Your mom is a detention center ? I'm not american so I'm legitimally asking : how the fuck is that possible ??

Yep

RWBY Prof. Oobleck!

Authoritarians also use this argument.

Even if you do learn from history, you are doomed to stand helplessly by as those who didnt learn repeat it.

"The one lesson that history taught us, is that humans never learned anything from history"

Where's that quote from? I might've heard similar versions of it

Thank you

The reason why this important fact becomes secondary is that if you were the poor family, you wouldn’t care about it. Feeding your children would come first. Same applies for getting a job if you were out of one for months or years, or if you struggled to pay the heating bill...

@@samssalman I see where you come from. Unfortunately that's the way the Hitlers, Stalins, Maos,.. come to power. That's why remembering the past is important despite the troubles of the individual. 😘

Bad comparison. Especially with Russia and China.

still love Carlo Gambino

Weird how Avengers correcting predicted the state of the world in 2018

@@537monster It's like superhero comics are a veiled commentary on real-world social and political matters.

Amigo21189 well X-Men was all about the civil rights movement in the 60’s and 70’s. That’s a pretty good example

Hail Hydra!

@@537monster "Captain America: Civil War" is, in a lot of ways, about the neverending American gun-rights conversation. Replace superpowers with firearms.

Since coronavirus tried to take him out, DEATH TO COVID-19!

@@uthmanbaksh3530 I forgot about this comment. But honestly, I'm pretty sure most people would agree with 'DEATH TO COVID-19' beforehand. Now, EVERYBODY agrees.

"Mama always said 'Life is like a box of chocolates... you always know what you're gonna get. You're gonna get this one because I said so!'" ~Glorious Leader Gump

"you're in the splash zone."

2021: Well you aint seen nothing yet son

2021: Heh! Should have listened.

2021: "I'm too tired for this shit'

2021:..........😐🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

i am from germany and i have never heard one actually say it but there is these myth about old Germans saying things like "at least he has build the Autobahn" or "but with him there was no unemployment" about Hitler. i have heard people using that in some sort of joke but that joke has to come from somewhere.

Things could get much worse here in the US, and they'd still be going on about how great Trump's infrastructure week was.

@@MeisterHaar Unfortunately I've heard it mostly from younger people that apparently haven't studied our history enough.

@@bobbemis8911 Well Bismark was thrown out of office by the Kaiser if i'm not mistaking, he didn't have ultimate power of decision

I'm Spanish and it is very normal to hear that Franco built a lot of infrastructures and did good things, when he has been responsible of the killing of more than 140.000 people whose bodies have still not been found. There is even a Foundation in his name which receive money from the Government and this last week, on the anniversary of his death, numerous demonstrations with fascism symbols took place all over the country.

Lol..."coup."

Great quote. It all boils down to political, historical and economical education.

we just recently had an authoritarian leader he almost succeeded in 2 out of 3 objectives. The country is still critical in terms of stability. The next two years will decide how we go forward.

@@gordonway1776 You must be talking about yourself.

As a fairly rational person, I try to look at it rationally. When do we get authoritarian leaders in countries ? When people feel economic despair. In the case of the US (some of it also applies to other western countries) the middle class is getting smaller and smaller not because people move up, but because they get paid less or their money is worth less now than in the past. Economic mobility was the highest in the world, but has fallen very very far down the list now. Which means you can work very hard, but it won't gain you much. Thus again people feel they have no control. And when the US doesn't have a good social safety net the potential for bad things to happen is great. If the US had a good social safety net despair would not be as great. Also it seems to me a lot of people need some perspective to understand what we already have and what is likely to come in the near future: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/eXt9bK2BrKR8omQ.html (click CC-button)

Please make this the top comment people.

Actually, I think that was Goebbels.

Yeah, that alone would have tanked most politicians.

Very simple. I don't like Trump. He definitely gives me endless reasons to keep thinking that way. I've watched him on tv less than five times. I'm not on any other social platforms other than UKposts. He has that I'm rich so expect that I'll do whatever I want attitude. All my observations about bad he was for this country as a president was straight from viewing him. I don't ever condone president assassinations. I can't believe how many other presidents were killed and he got spared with all the outrageous stuff he would say publicly. I really hope we are never put in a position to have an exact mistake like him put back in office.

pro abortions want to abort disable kids, and you mad cause he made a joke??

@@oscaralegre3683 ...... and your point is? We can hate both Trump and Anti-Abortionists. Hell, Trump and his cronies are anti-abortion.

It's not true. Just like most things about him are exaggerated or straight out lies. When you see how machinery is feeding you garbage, you will realise that sleazy celebrity megalomaniac is not really Hitler or really the problem. Chances are that you'll understand that compare to establishment rich clown is a lesser evil. "the folks who continued to follow him see compassionate behaviour as soft and bullies as strong." Many of them voted Obama -twice. Many were Bernie supporters. Many black, brown, Asian, LGBT voted for him. And some of them use to be lifelong Democrats that couldn't stand him for exactly that reason. They were convinced that he mocked disabled. And the second time voted Trump. Because they are compassionate and don't like bullies. They stopped demonising half of the country.

☹️

I'd rather my local 10 o'clock news go on hiatus than this show.

Pester HBO to stop being so stingy.

One word: *Yes* .

The money gets to their heads ...

hey watch it, your talking about my ex.

@Jesse A, get some sleep and get to work on a project. You've got wayyyyyy too much time on your hands, son.

@@ArtsCO2024 Why that? 9/10 o'clock in the morning, writing a small comment before going to work/university?

actually in denmark it was legal to have sex with animals until 2015

In fairness, I'm fairly sure that was celebrating that the world weightlifting championships were being held in Turkmenistan two weeks ago. Weird place for the IWF to choose, but getting it was a big deal for them.

da monkehh “weird”. No that weird when you are getting paid millions more what any other country would pay to have the world weightlifting championships.

I'm so sorry for you and your Country😯. My Father's (Dutch/Holland🇳🇱) village was liberated by brave Polish🇵🇱 soldiers in WWII. A lot has changed for the worse since then...sad to say😔.

Wracaj na marsze KODu biedo umysłowa xD

I'm from Poland as well, and apparently you failed to notice that John Oliver voiced support for upcoming US Presidential Elections in November and supports voting by mail. Something that the opposition parties in Poland have vehemently opposed because they knew that they will lose every upcoming election for the next several years unless there's an actual scandal involving politicians from the ruling party, not a manufactured one. As for dismantling the judicial branch, note that John did not mention Poland later in this piece because if you pause and think about it, the ruling party did not dismantle any institutions, but instead wanted to introduce checks and balances that were sorely missing. A, the term of supreme court judges is effectively unlimited and can be for life, B, the self-governing bodies of the judiciary and appointments to the highest courts have no executive or legislative oversight, C, the self-governing bodies do not respond to criticism from the press. If you think the judicial branch can effectively self-govern and prevent its egregious abuses of power from continuing, it apparently can't since it couldn't purify itself of abusive and criminal judges in the past, and this creates very strong resentment towards courts. If one rotten apples spoils the bunch, and we all agree on that when we watch police brutality in the US and how police departments fail to lay off policemen who abuse force and murder people in the streets, that same thing is happening in Poland in courts. It doesn't matter that there are thousands of fair judges who are not corruptible. People will point out the failures and for a good reason. If you fail to discipline a judge who stole a banknote lying on the counter in plain sight of CCTV and was caught red handed, it's symptomatic of a wider problem. To illustrate, a developer in my city put up apartment blocks in a low density residential zone without enough infrastructure to support them: a single narrow road leading to it, no high pressure water supply, not enough sewage capacity, not enough electric power capacity for high density residential development. When it was obvious that the buildings are not detached housing, but instead apartment blocks (four multi-story monolithic structures different from the submitted plans and flouting the local zoning laws), the local government on the city level (ruled by the government party) blocked the development. The developer appealed to the county level (ruled by the opposition), where the block was upheld. It was then brought to district court where the judge said it's not possible to determine whether these are apartment blocks or detached houses at this stage of development, so the block was removed. This badly shakes the faith in the judiciary. You have to reflect on the fact that most people in Poland say that you don't go to court to get justice, but to get a sentence (or more poetically, that courts don't deal justice, they deal sentences).

Hey, your country has given us CD Project RED and Ubisoft, we stand with you

Blue Crusader have you played Assassin’s Creed 2?

The problem is, you've been voting for people who don't defend your best interest for years, and worse yet, you have been convinced that you were electing people who had your best interest in mind while governing.

Exactly why we need the right to bear arms

Untill it does happen

Dave Liebers Oh shut the hell up. I’d love to see you try to head to the capital guns blazing. See where that lands you.

@@priscillaguerra3333 not smart

Pffft. Mas gusto mo criminals kes infrastructures? Isa ka sa problema

@@dodongjakadventures7732 Ikaw ang parte ng problema at salot sa atin mas gusto mo mga kriminal kasi hinahalal niyo lagi ng corrupt. At sinasamba niyo pa sila kaysa sa bayan natin.

Except that is not what she meant. She approves of Duterte's campaign because 99% of the time its victims are lowlifes. Many of them are not drug dealers but still, they are lowlifes. There are millions of FIlipinos who simply believe their country is better off without them.

@@yarpen26 Yeah, it would also count as a warcrime, but let's just ignore that, shall we?

@@yarpen26 Definie lowlife. Do you mean, like, criminals? Or just random poor people or, god forbid, *foreigners*?

@@yarpen26 or maybe murdering people that haven't committed a crime to actually justify execution is you know... just extremely unethical and fucked up by most everyone's standards

@@yarpen26 how the hell do you determine someone is a low life without trial? I'm sure a lot of guilty ppl are involved but let's just hope you or anyone in your family never gets caught in that net and executed. If you can't fathom how dangerous that is I won't bother explaining it but hopefully there are more intelligent ppl living there and that changes soon

Ali Ruckstadter I really needed this chuckle. Thanks!

Oh my god I choked on my coffee thank you

I know what you mean. Greetings from Poland.

I’m a foreigner living in Poland so I have a LITTLE BIT different feeling about the pride of Polska...

Dont worry guys, Germany is on the rise :D

Guysssssssss already forgot what happend the last time??? ;-(( The communist raped half of europe even literally

@@ardas77 Turkish here. We don't _have_ an actually independent press.

And it’s mostly the media peddling that fear to the American people everyday because that’s how you get more viewers

Might I suggest you folks watch Mike Judge's movie "Idiocracy". America is heading down that road. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/enKnfa2cen-Y2J8.html

@@davidgallego1652 Sure, if you're busy cramming bullshit "entertainment news" down your gullet but the rest of the news outlets are just beyond put out by the willful ignorance you all display while you merrily guzzle down the crap and then go on like a bunch of prattling self righteous judgemental chicken shits.

Lol, the lack of self awareness here is awe inspiring. Look at all the sheeple watching faux news, those racist hillbillies. They need to get the real story from Vox and cnn and msnbc. Democracy is the best when my side wins, but when my side loses democracy is dying. Everyone I don’t like is a fascist. No one can disagree with me without being a bad person.

What happened in V for vendetta can come from the left same as the right. Many libtards seem to not understand that. We live in a one party system pretending to be two. They are using both "sides" to gain power for themselves. John Oliver is a propaganda salesman. Change my mind.