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Re: Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor

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Post by martinwww »

runn1ng wrote: post #15
1wd wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

According to [1] the previous mayor was Adriana Krnáčová [2]. There's not much information there. Can you elaborate why she was disastrous? There seems to be a connection to the Blanka tunnel complex [3]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_municipal_election,_201... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriana_Krn%C3%A1%C4%8Dov%C3%A... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanka_tunnel_complex

From my point of view: most building and development were stopped or stuck, so prices of flats skyrocketed and infrastructure was not maintained. Part of reason was overreaction to the mayor who built the tunnel - the construction was overpriced and took 10 times the time it should, so mayors after him were afraid to invest too much in infrastructure at all. Which had negative effects in bridges falling apart, and ci…

Well it will be hard for him as reconstruction of Barrandov bridge should start within 2 years. It's major road for transit in/around Prague.

Re: Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor

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Post by fjsolwmv »

deusex_ wrote: post #19
jxub wrote: post #2

Any Czech person around to chim in and shed some light on the implications?

There's a joke going on that the Pirate Party is the IT department of the communist party. In general the trouble with Pirates is unpredictability. They are very socially liberal, but economically and geopolitically they attract a wide mix of opinions. The have a higher incidence of conspiration theorist, they have a strong anti-US base, and in general they avoid to address these topics since it cannot pass the inter…

Communist, or Anarchist?

Re: Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor

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Post by satai »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #30
tombuben wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blanka tunnels is an older issue, but under Krnáčová the entire Prague traffic system basically collapsed. There are frequent traffic jams and basically all bridges are in disastrous state. Libeň bridge, one of the only few Cubist style bridges in the world, has been closed for past two years, Troja pedestrian bridge collapsed last year and just a few days ago it turned out another bridge has to be collapsed and rebu…

> so prices of flats skyrocketed This was amazing. A friend of mine has bought a humble flat and got 100% profit on the investment in just a couple of years! What are the chances the prices are going to fall significantly? Should I advice him to sell now?

Hard to say...

Re: Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor

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Post by analog31 »

rebolek wrote: post #3
jxub wrote: post #2

Any Czech person around to chim in and shed some light on the implications?

Czech here. We will see. He's totally unknown, without any experience in politics. But after the previous disastrous mayor, it's pretty hard to be worse.

Is there any relationship to the Pirate party in Iceland?

Re: Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor

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Post by emteycz »

rebolek wrote: post #9
TomMarius wrote: post #7

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Basically anyone because the point here is to get ANO out of the government. No radicals though. They're moderate left, but they cooperate with parties on the right as well. Greens in the Czech Republic are radical communists.

Greens in Czech Republic are no radical communists, only radical fascists call them this way.

I'm not sure but what is a party if not radical communist when its leader proposes a ban on private flights because "normal people should not be able to afford it", supports nationalization of private property and so on?

I know the leader has departed but obviously he had the party's support. He lost support because of bad election result, not because they didn't agree with him. From my discussion with other significant Green party members that want to nationalize infrastructure companies, ban cars, increase taxation a lot, redistribute wealth in large amounts etc I'm not really sure what else should they be if not radical communists.

Please don't call people who aren't actually fascist "radical fascists" ever again. It's a huge insult here; the fascists killed a lot of my family.

Fun fact for others: We call the Green party "The Watermelons" - because they're green on the outside but red on the inside.

Re: Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor

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Post by RivieraKid »

jxub wrote: post #2

Any Czech person around to chim in and shed some light on the implications?

I voted for the Pirates but actually hoped that the leader of another party in the coalition, Jan Čižinský, would become tha mayor. He has proven himself to be a successful and effective manager when he was in charge of Prague 7. Hřib was never in such a high level position.

Regarding the implications, all 3 parties in the coalition mostly agree about everything. I'm happy about the result and about ANO losing.

Re: Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor

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Post by a-saleh »

fjsolwmv wrote: post #32
deusex_ wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a joke going on that the Pirate Party is the IT department of the communist party. In general the trouble with Pirates is unpredictability. They are very socially liberal, but economically and geopolitically they attract a wide mix of opinions. The have a higher incidence of conspiration theorist, they have a strong anti-US base, and in general they avoid to address these topics since it cannot pass the inter…

Communist, or Anarchist?

That is the thing. Nobody knows yet. So far from what I have actually seen in their actions, there are more along the lines of mild-mannered dreadlocked bureaucrats with technological-streak.

Re: Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor

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Post by saiya-jin »

emteycz wrote: post #4
jxub wrote: post #2

Any Czech person around to chim in and shed some light on the implications?

Yes, I'm Czech living in Prague. Last 4 years the Prague local government was led by ANO, the party led by StB (communist secret police) member billionaire Andrej Babis. Their campaign was extremely strong then and they won - today Prague is in horrendous state, bridges are literally falling down (2 more just this week), traffic is worse (extremely worse!) than ever due to idiotically planned long roadworks that have…

Basically the problem of whole east europe (although we like to call ourselves central europe) - too much crap left over communist rule and twisted mentality (ie everybody for themselves, screw the rest). Extremely rich individuals openly influencing politics, laughing at the cameras and enjoying being in spotlight.

Prague is a beautiful city to visit, be it for a weekend or a week. But living there long term sucks - most of the Prague apart from historical centre is properly fugly, as soviet-style architecture is still all over the place, cramped high rise residential areas with high criminality, little nature around (major mountains are > 500km away, sea even further), Czech love to constantly complain and moan about almost everything (it really gets to you after some time). Gap between rich (ie IT workers, managers) and rest of population is big and widening, people constantly hate politics but vote an a-hole after a-hole for last 20 years. So rich often discuss how to shield themselves financially from the rest of country, politics and economy as much as possible - not an indication of paradise. Half of the country is xenophobic and/or racist (although ie Roma question is a complex one).

I've worked there for couple of years, to be successful in IT was trivial due to constant lack of senior people, from what I heard its even worse now due to massive off/near shoring of multinationals. When looking back, moving away was one of the best decisions of my life and major step up in quality of life.

Of course there are positive aspects, just like everywhere. Professionals (I can judge IT) are smart and work hard, beer is the best there is (for me) and as mentioned its a great starting point for career. There are people who consider it the best place for them. Interestingly, none I know in this category lived abroad for longer to properly compare.

Re: Pirate Party Leader to Be Prague mayor

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Post by sodomak »

fjsolwmv wrote: post #32
deusex_ wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a joke going on that the Pirate Party is the IT department of the communist party. In general the trouble with Pirates is unpredictability. They are very socially liberal, but economically and geopolitically they attract a wide mix of opinions. The have a higher incidence of conspiration theorist, they have a strong anti-US base, and in general they avoid to address these topics since it cannot pass the inter…

Communist, or Anarchist?

They are not anarchists, just leftists.
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