No, because the government immediately retreated from its position and it’s a minor scandal that tgis was used in the first place.

On the other hand, the organizers are keeping protests peaceful to make sure Vucic has no pretext for violence.

But if Vucic shot first, you can be sure that the crowd has people who would shoot back, and Vucic would get flayed alive. And I’m not exaggerating.

Yeah, but road wear is exponential. Driving a vehicle with twice the weight uses four times the public resources, but I don’t think you want to tax electricity that high.

This article is stupid. The EU has already been a military union since forever under the CSDF. There is little doubt that the UK would pitch in as well.

Europe easily has the troop strength, we have in peacetime 3-4 times Russia’s capacity at wartime. Where it’s lacking is special strategic capabilities like AWACS planes, strategic bombers and satellites.

Europe was already financing the majority of the defence.

Because if people, especially in Serbia, feel like their right to protest is being taken away, they’ll go home and break out the AKs.

It seems important to note that government thugs were committing terror attacks driving cars into the crowds.

The whole mRNA research that the US Pfizer vaccine and all other mRNA based vaccines were based of was conducted in Germany, the US only licenced the vaccine for production.

Research will continue and has been continuing, but it might not be available in the US. You bet Trump and Musk will get it if they need it though.

Because the US needs them. They need the cheap labour, they need immigrants, and keeping them “illegal” makes it easy to abuse them. If they deported all of them, or let them become citizens, the economy of Texas would probably collapse as there wouldn’t be a constant stream of people who can’t take advantage of even the weak labour laws of the US.

Isn’t that zone extending inside the US rather than outside? ICE has no right to do anything outside the US, they may cooperate with local authorities, but they are effectively mall cops, aren’t they?

So ICE can abduct and rape you in NYC, but not do so in Juarez, Mexico as I understand.

So on the one hand, the CIA did some wicked awful shit all over the world, together with the rest of the US government apparatus. MK Ultra, the crack epidemic, all that shit.

That said, while I can imagine the CIA had some eyes on what was happening in Hungary, because both them and the Soviets had eyes everywhere, I don’t see the point that is trying to be made here. That the CIA was funding the revolution? With what? It lasted like two weeks and the fighting was done with captured Soviet and older Hungarian and I guess some German equipment.

The revolution was not against communism, it was specifically against the fucked up economic policy of Rákosi, and not because he was a communist, but because he wanted to transition a country that was basically one contiguous agrarian farmland into heavy industry and steel manufacturing, which led to poverty as it was braindead. We didn’t have the resources, the know-how or the demand. We did have it for agriculture. The revolution was aimed at installing Imre Nagy, the previous communist leader into power, who was originally a farmer, and had a strong agrarian policy.

The guy in question, Dr. Béla Király was indeed a high-ranking Hungarian military officer at the time. He was indeed appointed the commander of the revolutionary forces, and fled to the US after the defence collapsed.

That said, when would have he been enlisted by the CIA? He served in the armed forces on the Axis side as a captain - he earned recognition for disobeying orders and treating the Jewish prisoners assigned to him humanely. He fought until the USSR conquered Hungary, and surrendered to them. He was then absorbed into the People’s Army and was not really trusted since his wife was the niece of Gyula Gömbös, a late fascist-aligned prime minister of Hungary. That said, he was promoted to general because there weren’t a ton of capable and experienced officers back then in the army. Afterwards, when Stalin called off the invasion of Yugoslavia, he got purged with 350,000 other people in Hungary, and spent the rest of the time until the revolution in prison.

So was he enlisted by the CIA:

• as an unremarkable captain of an unremarkable country on the fascist side of WWII (why him?)
• as the commander of Hungary’s contribution to the planned Yugoslavian invasion (the KGB and the ÁVO would have caught that)
• or as a prisoner in the ÁVO’s dungeon (lol)

Even if he was enlisted by the CIA, how would have he planned or contributed to the revolution from the basement of Andrássy 62? He was released a month before as part of an attempt at appeasement to the masses and spent it in hospital because of undernourishment issues from the 5 years he spent there.

Or, as a much likelier explanation, after the revolution, as he escaped to the US as many others did as the US was open to dissidents at the time, he was employed as someone who actually fought the Soviets in guerrilla warfare, and was helping train anti-Castro forces?

Wall Street has achieved communism. Wow. Never thought I’d see the day.

The problem is that he also has debt, a large part of which is secured by Tesla stock. If that stock took a nosedive to 10% of its previous value, the owners of said debt might come calling.

Since it’s an EU member, they can’t blatantly cheat at the elections, or at least they haven’t attempted to. There were borderline issues, like people mass transfering into swing districts, an empty lot with no buildings near the Ukraine border having 200 people registered there, but no ballot stuffing or anything. You can just go and be an observer, the opposition is always recruiting. The system gets a lot of its current legitimacy from legit-ish elections.

But on the other hand, the EU can’t reasonably kick Hungary out, no such clause in the treaties, and if you start making shit up, everything else that was agreed on through hard work also gets called into question. The most reasonable path forward to exclude Hungary is literally to form an EU 2.0, which the French have been thinking about loudly for a while.

BTW the biggest engine factory of VW and Europe is in Hungary. Kicking it out or even restoring the customs borders would have you run up agaisnt the German car lobby.

Hungary’s system is half proportional, half FPP on steroids, but it’s just as bad as FPP since our FPP lets the winner not just take the seat, but also extra votes into the proportional part of the race.

So, no, the EU is fine with everything, the only thing is that EU citizens have to be able to vote in local elections wherever we live, regardless of citizenship. That means if you join, and I rent a place in Toronto and move in, I get a vote for the Toronto mayor on day one.

Or France becomes a Canadian one and switch to English as the primary official language. It would solve a ton of issues and I’m sure the French would be okay with it.

Earth United would be better, no need to even change the merch.

So the big guys want to dump, right? Is reverse Cramer still up?

We’re chugging along with one amendment a month in the past 15 years to what is described as a “granite solid” “basic law”. We kinda don’t have a constitution since 2010 because IDK why.

Read telex.hu/english to catch up. Biggest independent news site in Hungary, financed by readers (that’s what the popup is about, it’s not a paywall).

For example this article.

Orbán has been in the minority for months now, not just in polls but actual crowd turnout as well.