LudwigvanBeethoven

And yet, more than 40% of Hungarian voters want to vote for Orbán again. Under his corrupt electoral system, that will be again a 2/3 supermajority. From a Hungarian: The prevailing belief here is "Orbán lies and sucks, but never again for Gyurcsány" or "Everyone sucks, Fidesz is the least bad" or even "There's no better alternative". This fuck should be voted out in 2026, but we know he won't.

From the state's founding, Hungary is a Western country, which never wants to be part of the East on purpose. […] Eastern politics can't tolerate autonomy, can't tolerate independence, and can't tolerate freedom. It eliminates the defences defending a human's independence. […] It makes one vulnerable; if need be, it intimidates. […] Since the East stepped foot in Hungary, freedom-loving Hungarians like us always wanted the same: to liberate ourselves from their withering hugs, and to remove their domestic guards. […] Our wish always was this: we wanted a Western democracy which builds on Christian culture, and on the ideals of freedom, equality, and fraternity. We always fought against the faux-democracy […]

– Viktor Orbán, 2007, in a segment to the young people in Hungary.

illiberal democracy my ass.

it's SQL

TBF, to combat Kedavra with a disarmer requires such a strong Expelliarmus that he might as well have returned a killing cirse

ppl learning German: OMG 4 cases‽ Hungarian: we have 18 cases, none of them resemble any language, and we have way too many irregularities. glhf.

on the date format: it's great when it's fully written out, but I specifically prefer the 2000 version of ISO 8601: it allows for a --02-24 format for month and date, and the extra dash clarifies that the year is missing

András is actually from my home town. I think that's beautiful.

Nem tudom, hogy túlreagálok-e, de szeretném ide dobni ezt az idézetet:

[D]ort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen.

Ott, ahol könyveget égetnek, végül embereket is égetnek. — Heinrich Heine, 1820/21.

It was pretty obvious. If I take a look at MTI, the government newswire thing, the bias is clear as day. There is no unbiased news source in Hungary – I'm not talking about fully, fully unbiased, but say, like AP and Reuters. All the sources that use MTI are government pawns, and all independent sources are fighting for survival and thus tend towards sensationising against the government.

proudly representing the best order from Hungary. It just makes more sense with Hungarian.

Join the fascism club now! Every month we decide which poor sovereign nation to annoy the fuck out of. Join the fascism club today with a low low price of a nuclear fleet!p

Exactly. As in “if I were you”.

“do what I say or get blackmailed” so is that blackmailing with threating to blackmail someone? Did he technically just publicly blackmail POTUS? I have a feeling that's not fully legal.