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by 542354234235 2061 days ago
This comes off as wishful thinking. You don't want it to be true that outside entities could use money and propaganda to influence your country, so therefore it isn't true. Also, responding to a comprehensive report about the ACLJ's work to influence Poland by just saying basically "no it didn't" isn't a very compelling argument.
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The report linked mentions the ACLJ being involved in several ECHR cases, and submitting an amicus brief in favor of the recent Constitutional Court decision. That's it. You think that's enough to push the government and judiciary of a nation of 40 million into confrontation with a large social movement, with mass ongoing protests. And it's me who's naive?

Again, it takes a serious amount of arrogance to read two paragraphs of text in a report and believe yourself to be better informed than someone who spent all of their life immersed in the historical and social context of what's going on. So, with all due respect, I have the same advice for you as for the original post I replied to: Get over yourself. Not everything in the world is about Trump.