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I guess it's time for the class warfare to return to the EU. I wonder if this will catch on and spread to other countries as well.
Hopefully yeah, Polanski is amazing. The UK was in much bigger need of this because they didn't really have anyone at all before and after Corbyn, but even in countries where we still have people fighting the good fight it's helpful to see other societies revitalize.
This is also why watching Minneapolis as a foreigner is good, it's a reminder that even when a country's politics and media are captured by the right for 40 years, people still remain human.
So another trade deal starting to gain momentum, now with India. Seems India wanted better conditions for immigration into EU. Since I have two colleagues that are Indian I don't really see the issue.
It does seem that the Trump tariffs did something good at least.
I disagree with conservatives about virtually everything but I will always respect the patriotism of those who help their rivals to keep lunatics and pyschopaths out of power.
I disagree with conservatives about virtually everything but I will always respect the patriotism of those who help their rivals to keep lunatics and pyschopaths out of power.
Those are actual conservatives it sounds like, as opposed to reactionaries who use the word "conservative" because they're cowards. So, well, center right, liberals, stuff in that vein. It's not 1 to 1 because every country has their specific sauce but generally speaking this is Biden telling people to vote for Sanders so that Trump doesn't win.
Portugal seems like such a chill country full of logical and kind people, I was there only for a few days but I absolutely loved it, if I ever moved from Croatia I'd probably go there.
I can see that a lot of propaganda is being pushed about the India trade deal, as always, a LOT of racism sprinkled in, I've been seeing it in the IT community here, it's pretty depressing.
I hope that one day people start understanding that these kind of things are inevitable and if we want to be a competitive economy and a power that is taken seriously on the world stage, which is the only way for us not to be subjugated and taken advantage of is to have partners, and those come with give and take.
The problem with this, of course, is that a lot of EU populace is easily manipulated and predisposed towards racism, especially towards brown people, so the propagandists from all sides who wants EU to fail are chomping at the bit to foment this kind of shit.
Social media, starting with X, needs to be banned, that one is beyond repair and obviously used as a weapon against democracy, and perhaps even more importantly, a CP machine...
Then, move on to Facebook and make them label AI propaganda, make them remove the most toxic voices and make them actually moderate their content again if they want to stay active in EU, same with Instagram and especially same with TikTok.
Hungary is wild as we are approaching the elections.
There is a website which is basically counting down to publishing a sex tape between the leading opposition leader Madyar and his ex, the website currently consists of a screenshot from the camera they clearly planted in a room they knew they'd ed up after an event.
This is 1:1 Russian style kompromat, also, I really don't understand why would they think this makes the guy look bad, the woman is of age, they both said it was consensual, what does Orban think this will achieve?
On February 13 2026 05:41 Jankisa wrote: Hungary is wild as we are approaching the elections.
There is a website which is basically counting down to publishing a sex tape between the leading opposition leader Madyar and his ex, the website currently consists of a screenshot from the camera they clearly planted in a room they knew they'd ed up after an event.
This is 1:1 Russian style kompromat, also, I really don't understand why would they think this makes the guy look bad, the woman is of age, they both said it was consensual, what does Orban think this will achieve?
Might be aimed at his socio/religious conservative base. I genuinely have no idea how much of a hangup the Christian conservatives in Europe would have around non-marital sex, I wouldn't have thought all that much. But that would be my guess to the thinking process as to why this could be considered detrimental to Magyar?
From what I was able to see on Reddit it seems like the Madyar guy already per-empted the release by saying that there were drugs at the party in this apartment, but he didn't partake.
So at the very worse the camera might have caught him doing blow, which, you know, could hurt him with the boomers but I don't think the majority of people would give a fuck. He can also always say it was manipulated, who knows.
Then again, I am not Hungarian so I might be totally off about that.
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