• electric_nan@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Look, fuck Orban, but y’all aren’t even waiting to see how Magyar pans out, before hailing a new era. Fascism and anti-fascism aren’t just like a Zeitgeist or something. They require concrete actions. Not understanding this means that elections will just keep bringing you back to fascism.

  • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    If I were to Americanize it: This is essentially if Ted Cruz, or better yet Chris Christie, beat Donald Trump in the general election. Undeniably a good thing as it’d mean no more Trump and it’s kinda humilating for him.

    But it means… yeah. One of them at the helm.

  • CptEnder@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It’s beyond me that any modern democracy would even allow someone be PM/President for 16 years in the first place, and then allow them to run again. For all that’s fucked with America rn, that one they’ve done right (for now).

  • Bloefz@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    He’s not actually very liberal from what I’m reading. He’s pro EU and not a Putin puppet but other than that his policies aren’t all that different from Orban’s. He was even in Fidesz until a few years ago.

    I wonder if there will be much improvement for the LGBTQ community there.

    But at least the Ukrainian payments stalemate is broken.

  • TAG@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Oh boy does that headline have nothing to do with the article. The article does a good job of explaining all the hard work Magyar did, but it is a bit silly to suggest that it is a temple for what could be done in Russia. For example, it does not lay out how a candidate can avoid all the tripping hazard windowsills that litter the Russian halls of power.

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        1 month ago

        Thanks for the recommendation; I’ve opened the audiobook in my YT window, so I’ll eventually give it a listen (~4-5 hours is quite a chunk of time, and I don’t want to run it as background noise - give it an actually fair shake, you know).

  • Tolc@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    liberalism must be defeated, international proletariat must rise up against this sick ideology.

  • plyth@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    It’s a matter of who controls the media and who has which budgets for support.

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    2 months ago

    Wild headline and no I’m not reading the Atlantic.

    Who won the election and what are his politics?