Orbán’s media empire has a tactic where they buy liberal news outlets and let them continue to be independent so they maintain their readership. They go full blast on disinfo in critical moments only. Of course that wears credibility out, so they run a treadmill of buying new outlets and wearing them out.

See index.hu for example, check their articles now and on like 2015. Then check origo.hu, they were in this pipeline much earlier, today the Russians are winning the war every day with their wunderwaffen on there.

I hope it’s not going to be Germany, the policies of their current conservative leadership is why we’re dealing with a lot of these fires.

They are responsible for making the EU reliant enough on Russia that they thought we would stand by and let Ukraine fall. They are responsible for the absolute state of Hungary. The migrant crisis. Bankrupting Greece in the name of austerity. I’m sure the list goes on.

Or just decent regulation. You’re offering an AI product? You can’t attest that it’s been trained in a legitimate way?

Into the shadow realm with you.

Guantanamo is one of my guesses

Yeah that’s for the wrong sorts of people. Don’t worry, it’s only selectively enforced, and the cops know you’re one of the good ones. /s

That’s what Meloni wants to be but Trump seemingly prefers to speak to Macron. It must be Trump doesn’t give a fuck about ideology and only understands power.

That said, I don’t care what US oligarch cumrag Washington Post says about Europe.

I wonder if those protect from the Israeli spyware Hungary has been buying.

These are French people, countries exist outside the US.

That’s the neat part, you don’t.

Welcome to the third world guys.

They don’t even blink at this when you fly like this from Billund. Ask me how I know.

He’s obviously on high heels.

Oh no it wasn’t, that’s not what I’m saying. I don’t think it’s Soros’ fault, he meant well, maybe wanted to do something for the homeland that scorned him.

What I’m saying is that Soros was too idealistic IMO and the focus should have been on rooting out the old guys club that the communists left us rather than giving people money to join them.

That said, hindsight is 20/20. If anything, I blame Merkel and the neolibs of her cohort that kept dumping money on Orbán - in exchange for fucking up Hungarian workers - after they came out as kleptocrats.

If you compare any other massacre to it, you start trivialising it.

It feels though as if we trivialized other massacres because they will never hold up to a standard we consider to be beyond comparison.

You are right that comparing such events, as in “this event is less significant because less people died” trivialises the immense human suffering involved in the Holocaust. But that has to go both ways, and comparing the Holocaust to these modern events also trivialises the impact of these current events. Each of these events, indeed each of these deaths is a singular atrocity, a tragedy beyond belief.

No massacre is like the holocaust

Honest, truly honest question here, why?

I don’t feel like it is trivialising anything, if anything the Holocaust and its worldwide condemnation gives a special voice to victims of such crimes everywhere. It’s less easy to trivialise other such crimes as the Holocaust has been accepted worldwide as one of the darkest chapters of history, so comparisons to it can bring that suffering closer to people and leave less room for the perpetrators to muddy the waters.

It is a damned textbook thing to do this in corrupt regimes, if anyone is wondering. If you want to commit a crime, you want as many co-conspirators as possible, because it muddies the waters and makes it much harder to prosecute.

If eg. Peter Thiel made some funny trades, he can just say he did it in response to the tweet, which is technically arguably public information. And if it’s not, what will you do, prosecute all users of Truth Social?

Imagine the screeching.

Yeah, sure, Orbán was a really bad hire, he was an opportunistic megalomaniac way back then. One of his classmates described him getting sad upon learning that only US-born citizens can be nominated for POTUS, as he felt bad about any limit being put on his ambition.

The grants were specifically for politicians, there was no shortage of doctors or teachers relatively speaking back then, that is a more recent development.

But back to the topic, it is very hard to build democracy in a country where previously there was no real history of it, and it is especially hard to do it from across the pond. I am not blaming Soros for Orbán, but I do wonder how his other protegés turned out.

the dual national from New Jersey was shot and killed there

Two other teenage boys, one whose family told CBS News he is also a U.S. citizen, were shot but survived.

The soldiers opened fire towards the terrorists who were endangering civilians, eliminating one terrorist and hitting two additional terrorists.

the three teenage boys were shot

it appeared his son had been shot with two different guns, and that two bullets had entered his heart, two had struck his head, two had hit his shoulders, and then five others had hit his body.

This really looks like a neat article that would be a great example for an ESL textbook on the passive voice. In case it is written to be an example of serious journalism, then it is an atrocity against the concept of humanity itself.

What actually happened, based on the IDF’s own characterisation of events is that three kids were apparently throwing stuff around in the vague direction of a road, so IDF soldiers murdered them by mowing them down with multiple automatic weapons.

Also neat to see that the IDF definition of terrorist is “kids throwing rocks” at best, “any Palestinian kids” more realistically.

Depends on your viewpoint.

Emigrate from Europe and immigrate to Europe is also a valid way to look at it.

And that’s not counting how much of the global USD supply is held by China as a currency reserve. Now if they went and sold all that for other currencies, hyperinflation in the US would break records.

His charities helped a lot of liberal politicians in Eastern bloc states start their careers by providing education and funding.

Including one Viktor Orbán.