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Started by Tamas, March 09, 2011, 01:25:14 PM

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The Brain

Quote from: Tamas on May 02, 2019, 06:08:29 AM
Quoteand go to some remote place, some not understood, unknown, unimportant place,

But what if you don't like beets? :(
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Razgovory

Victor Orban is visiting the White House today.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Syt

Quote from: Razgovory on May 13, 2019, 01:43:16 PM
Victor Orban is visiting the White House today.

God, the jizz everywhere will be disgusting.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Valmy

Quote from: Razgovory on May 13, 2019, 01:43:16 PM
Victor Orban is visiting the White House today.

I hope the vengeful ghost in the Lincoln Bedroom takes him out.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Tamas

Jobbik, the old far-right party has been made irrelevant by Fidesz' switch to the same grounds, which has been made worse -at least for now- by Jobbik's attempt to compensate by going more moderate.

Their radical wing has seceded some time ago and has formed their own party, which is being relentlessly promoted by Fidesz - they are the only "opposition" party given media time by the state media, and their party events and such far outclass Jobbik's. Jobbik is struggling for money as the Election Authority is stripping them of it at every excuse they get, and the new formation, Mi Hazank (Our Homeland) is clearly awash in it.

Their latest action to be His Majesty's Opposition on the Right Edge is to form their own paramilitary group, a sort of successor to Jobbik's old (now disbanded) formation. Jobbik used to have funny waiter-like uniforms, these guys are more serious:



They are the Nemzeti Legio (National Legion) led by a guy who serverd in the French Foreign one.

Tamas

The next government property-project is to relocate the National Library from the old palace complex in Buda (where Orban's office has relocated) to an out of use barracks.

Sure a nice building they are getting their hands on:


Tamas



Laszlo Kover, whom I used to refer as chairman of the house (of parliament) but turns out his official title in English is Speaker of the National Assembly, is really going strong in the finish-line of the EU election campaign (of which will be a landslide for Fidesz regardless of him).

Earlier he had a declaration he has actually backtracked from since, lamenting that the mislead European public is making a grave error thinking climate change is the prime danger, when in fact it is migration.

And now on some public event he has declared that "normal homosexuals" realise "they are not equal" to heterosexuals, therefore they do not try to push through horrific things like gay marriage or gay couple being allowed to adopt.

In fact on adoption rights he compared the idea (of gay couples adopting) to legalising pedophilia.

Tonitrus

Quote from: Tamas on May 14, 2019, 07:43:13 AM




They are the Nemzeti Legio (National Legion) led by a guy who serverd in the French Foreign one.

Good to see the US Army's old camo still has a market...

It feels hard to blame the UK for wanting out of the EU if there seems to be no desire for Hungary getting kicked out.

Duque de Bragança

Quote from: Tonitrus on May 16, 2019, 06:52:50 AM


It feels hard to blame the UK for wanting out of the EU if there seems to be no desire for Hungary getting kicked out.

OTOH, both issues are not linked at all.  :P

Zanza

Quote from: Tonitrus on May 16, 2019, 06:52:50 AM
It feels hard to blame the UK for wanting out of the EU if there seems to be no desire for Hungary getting kicked out.
Britain has made considerable steps into a populist right authoritarian direction based on English nationalism as well. Let's hope it does not continue going in that direction.

Tamas

Following an actually fairly successful (in terms of attendants) school-strike protest as part of the coordinated European effort last week, and the European success of greens (in Hungary there's one nominally green party but they are inept and financed by the son of a rabid Orbanist oligarch, so they got destroyed), the Hungarian government seems to be really leaning into climate change denial with steadily increasing fervour these last few days.

It is mainly portrayed now as the effort of Soros to switch attention from The Real Issue (mass migration of unwashed coloureds), and as a strong economic lobby for profit, like evil EU's effort to destroy the car industry for... profit.

I wonder what their poor puppet President of Hungary is going to do. His constitutional role would be to guard against governmental excess but he is just a signature-signing droid, and has been using climate concerns to pretend he is working on something. Going to have to find something else I guess.

Solmyr

Quote from: Zanza on May 16, 2019, 11:04:38 AM
Quote from: Tonitrus on May 16, 2019, 06:52:50 AM
It feels hard to blame the UK for wanting out of the EU if there seems to be no desire for Hungary getting kicked out.
Britain has made considerable steps into a populist right authoritarian direction based on English nationalism as well. Let's hope it does not continue going in that direction.

So what you are saying is, wherever Tamas goes becomes a right-wing populist shithole? :P

Tamas

Quote from: Solmyr on May 29, 2019, 04:06:38 AM
Quote from: Zanza on May 16, 2019, 11:04:38 AM
Quote from: Tonitrus on May 16, 2019, 06:52:50 AM
It feels hard to blame the UK for wanting out of the EU if there seems to be no desire for Hungary getting kicked out.
Britain has made considerable steps into a populist right authoritarian direction based on English nationalism as well. Let's hope it does not continue going in that direction.

So what you are saying is, wherever Tamas goes becomes a right-wing populist shithole? :P

I have moved to England looking for a stable and predictable political situation. That sounds so funny now.

Duque de Bragança

#1888
Quote from: Tamas on May 29, 2019, 05:25:01 AM
Quote from: Solmyr on May 29, 2019, 04:06:38 AM
Quote from: Zanza on May 16, 2019, 11:04:38 AM
Quote from: Tonitrus on May 16, 2019, 06:52:50 AM
It feels hard to blame the UK for wanting out of the EU if there seems to be no desire for Hungary getting kicked out.
Britain has made considerable steps into a populist right authoritarian direction based on English nationalism as well. Let's hope it does not continue going in that direction.

So what you are saying is, wherever Tamas goes becomes a right-wing populist shithole? :P

I have moved to England looking for a stable and predictable political situation. That sounds so funny now.

:lmfao:

You had it coming. You were warned and advised instead to go to Austria, closer to your Vaterland and where Hungarians are not seen as a threat. Enjoy!

Tamas

The European elections have turned out beautifully.

It seems like the People's Party alliance doesn't need Orban's 13 seats, but they do need either the liberal or the socialist alliance to get the top job, and those two are probably not keen on agreeing with a party with Orban as a member.

This has been quite evident the last few days, because the Good Guy Orban scharade is full on. As it's latest act, the government has frozen the creation of the special courts, designed to judge over all cases involving public funds and such. This was their way of finally breaking the back of the juidical system that still has seen some people rallying around the idea of checks and balances.