Kieselguhr

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago

wait, so "you are a shill paid by the CCP" was just projection?!?! astronaut-1

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not exactly... it was an internal speech meant to convince the party members that There Is No Alternative margaret-thatcher other than brutal austerity

This was a nominally socialist party that had been fiscally neoliberal since the end of the AES. The phrase that inflamed the riots was: "We fucked up. We were lying day and night." By "lying," he meant that they had campaigned on a weakass, hollowed-out social democratic manifesto, but they were always neoliberal anyway. Anyone who watched the news knew they were liars. It’s part and parcel of liberal democracy that candidates make bullshit promises.

Most of the speech was the usual WE MUST BALANCE THE BUDGET neoliberal nonsense. It’s amazing that neoliberals actually believe fiscal conservatism is like a Law of Nature—maybe not even a Law of Nature. They believed in the Washington Consensus as if it were gospel. Amazing.

After the recording got leaked there were riots. The PM stepped down, and his billionaire right hand became the interim PM and he did the "fiscal readjustment" with the help of the IMF.

After that Orban's right wing party won in a landslide.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

VOX asked Hungarian ~~NED-beneficiaries~~ journalists what can they teach Americans about authoritarian regimes:

Apparently Orban is just a power hungry evil dude who loves money and power and took his chance. It's not like a historical process or something, shifts in societies just happen, because of a few bad actors.
Hungary was a "vibrant democracy" then the bad dudes came into power with a giant mandate. They used the unfortunate circumstances of the 2008 global economic crisis (what was that about anyway?)

ctrl+F "neoliberal" = Phrase not found.

The Hungarian economy was in shambles after the 2008 financial crisis — so bad, in fact, that it required an emergency $25 billion from the International Monetary Fund and others to avoid fiscal ruin — and the current prime minister was embroiled in scandal.

Wow so the evil right wingers came into power even after the glorious IMF saved the Hungarian economy? Huh? Why is that? Strange!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

There was also the totally unbiased and completely trustworthy South Korean intelligence agency claiming they totally have proof but ~~she goes to a different school~~ they can't show it to you sadly

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

freeze-peach was always about propagating the cultural hegemony

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's not like Denmark has an inherent right to Greenland. The only good scenario would be if the natives got it back, but that's not on the table anyway.

If this actually goes through, it will be blindingly obvious that EU is a satrapy, nothing more.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They are disputing election results according to their own/parties given polls.

cf.

Kamala Harris edges ahead of Donald Trump in national polls for US election
Published: August 5, 2024 4.19am CEST

[–] [email protected] 48 points 7 months ago

quite plausible tbh

[–] [email protected] 111 points 7 months ago (12 children)

It's actually really uncivil to learn details about treasonous activities of your political rivals

[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago

taking down corrupt officials

But at what cost?!

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