As one of the most appreciating talents of Rafał Brzoski publicists in Poland I got my hands full. The entrepreneur in the Polish media scenery plays the function of a packmate and is everywhere, even if at first glance he does not company the undertaking with his face. No wonder – the thoughtless prostrates of almost all media in Poland and the peana in honor of all motion of a billion-dollar finger must have tired a modest boy from Nędza.
Billionaires have rights
With the XYZ portal, which took off little than a period ago, it was somewhat different – Brzoska did not hide that he was behind a service focusing on "quality and independence", propagating ideas from left to right, frequently contrary to investor interests. Not everyone liked completely natural ambition A leading GDP driver, but why would specified a wealthy man quit having his own medium? Democracy in 2024 is governed by its rights, and 1 of them is to buy out people who utilized to be journalists by people who could afford it.
No 1 is simply a prophet in their own country – although thanks to the staff of lawyers and the superb strategy of "fighting with the hate" Peaches have collected hundreds of influential squires in the planet of celebrities, CEOs of companies and in “Gazeta Wyborcza” in fresh years, it is inactive an unfinished media arrangement and the girdle of left-wing journalists that makes the head of InPost a small more withdrawn in the coming months. You can already see the first signals of this interior emigration – although on XYZ you can read the nonsubjective and qualitative advertising of FoodWell, we will not know that Peaches is simply a majority shareholder in it.
Yesterday's edition of the service xyz.plFoodWell invests in plant meat – a wet dream of all histeric, delirious about the killing costs of industrial livestock farming to the planet. The material devoted to the company was yesterday the second highest-exposed text on the website – “one” and an interview with Sławomir Mentzen, in which the Confederate candidate for president builds up an image of a policy conducive to exploiters, as if anyone suspected him of something else. "I did investigation and it turned out that the Polish president late vetoed a bill expanding taxes in the early 1990s. It was Lech Walesa. Since then, no president has defended taxpayers and entrepreneurs," says Mentzen.
The horse on which Peaches
Here there are doubts about the relevance of the business strategy. On Saturday, erstwhile the Citizen Coalition announced that it would elect a presidential candidate under the primaries, conservative Radosław Sikorski began to attract well-known LGBT activists to himself, and liberal-left Trzaskowski waved swords, as if talking to the spirit of General Anders, alternatively than Bronisław Geremek. So why does Peaches, having the chance to constantly play for 2 different electorates, vegan and business, not appear in the advertising of their company on the website of its financed portal?
As I wrote in the text on the primaries in the KO, the thought that Sikorski and Trzaskowski must now attract opposing factions inside the organization is large – provided that the goal is to break it up and quarrel. In this context, support for Mentzen is unquestionably more crucial for Peaches than glowing face in vegan business. His quotations will grow with each week in which the Pre-candidates of the PO will bid on who is simply a greater free marketer or socialist, militarist or pacifist who subscribes to the "Highest Time" and who is added to Political Criticism.
Where 2 fight, there is simply a 3rd one, and erstwhile 2 platformers dress up in fresh progressive feathers, Rafał Brzoska, about which much can be said, but surely not that he is simply a stupid man – he puts on a certain thing that does not change his head at the last minute with taxation cuts, subsidies for developers or taxation breaks for entrepreneurs for picking up couriers and defending the border.
The critical assessment of the decision on the primaries in the KO should so be supplemented by the fact that it pumps the condemned Mentzen, even by its own electorate perceived worse than Bosak, and opens the way for him to fight for a second round. Regardless of the result of the intraparty elections to the presidential battle, there will be more or little declared right-wingers (Mentzen, individual from PiS and individual from the PO who in the meantime will bow to supporters of abortion and avoiding force at the border). The perfect ambiguity of the PO candidate will not aid him to win fresh voters – alternatively it will make the votes to more consistent politicians.
Actors from the script
One of the richest people in the country, which invests resources and energy in a strong media entity a fewer months before the presidential election, the aim of which is to advance an "entrepreneurs' point of view" and, in practice, as far as possible deregulation to let absolute expansion of capital, is not an unprecedented scenario. possibly you are acquainted with Elona Muska, who has cast a luck in promoting Trump and has done everything possible to guarantee that the X he owns unrestrainedly spread fascist, pro-Trump propaganda.
If not, it's about his function in Trump's office Tomasz Markiewka late wrote. This week we have learned that Musk will be managing the government's productivity department, whose goal is to cut public spending by up to a third. How John Oliver late pointed out, This would not have been achieved even if all (!) employees of the American public administration were fired, so the task is neck-to-head, but what is not done for holy capital and blessed entrepreneurs, in lowering taxes and deregulation seeing an immortal way to maximize their own benefits?
Warming Mentzen's image ("we are a average organization for sensible Poles" says Confederate) in the portal financed from Brzoski's pocket is simply a signal that after years of co-habitation with the PiS and PO governments, the head of InPost lost patience to 2 organization schemes, Kaczyński and Tusk, who sometimes inactive pretend to want to fight for a strong state. I do not know if I would do the same thing if I were him – even if Mentzen did not yet become President, then his decent consequence and the further burning of the 2 largest parties in the identity sclerosis will begin to prepare the ground for the parliamentary elections of 2027 (if not accelerated) in which the 3rd Confederate polls present can play, if not for victory, at least for the function of a key coalitionist.
At that time, in designation of his many years of success in entrepreneurship, Brzoska, but besides combining various environments and journalists who will lick his shoes and will delight in their appetizing texture, can receive any position on efficiency and seeking savings in the government of Krzysztof Bosak. Can't wait, either?
From the Polish perspective, the comparison to Musk should not be considered as a compliment – even due to the well documented past of supporting the president Tesla by Russian oligarchs erstwhile buying Twitter, ukrainoscepticism, hatred of minorities and putting their own interests above the state interest. But let's not overdo it. The function of Brzoski in Polish politics does not necessarily gotta look the same as the function of Musk in American politics. Finally, as Mentzen says, "It is good to start specified comparisons, but overdosing can end caricaturely."
