space_comrade [he/him]

You’re essentially correct but it’s hard to be optimistic when the vast majority of the world is in an ideological stupor, if the current status quo continues without any extremely dramatic shocks I think there will be any global change in consciousness before climate change really hits, the best we can hope for is for climate change to not be as catastrophic as often predicted.

Talking to people around me about this shit feels like this meme template over and over again, people generally agree with me but on the last step their brain just short circuits.

When a dem politician becomes President again they won’t even pardon him because “decorum” and “rule of law” or some shit, dude ruined his life for absolutely nothing at all.

It’s like they’re taking the piss out of themselves.

Never bothered making an account there but I’m glad its culture is shifting, the admins must be seething lmao

What the fuck is soulism?

Damn I just read what happened to you, that must be terrifying. I hope you can go back on track with moving your sisters to Canada soon, stay strong comrade.

I mean isn’t it pretty clear that this is going to create a sizeable black market? The only way to prevent that is funnel billions of pounds to the police and treat ciggies like they’re literally heroin.

Anti drug campaigns that boiled down to just straight making shit up in a bid to scare kids off it are so ridiculous. It just made kids not take any of it seriously even when it was correct and the danger is actually real.

Eh it still fucks up your gums.

Not with that attitude it can’t.

So the “charity” part is your landlord is just 95% Satan instead of 110% Satan that they usually are? Another capitalism banger.

Oh wow she really gave it her all huh

That’s definitely a part of it, I’m a millenial and in my parent’s circles I know of a grand total of maybe one happy boomer marriage (and it’s not my parents).

Personally I just plain old don’t want kids, might consider it tho if my partner wanted it (she doesn’t thankfully) and there wasn’t a climate catastrophe coming.

The prospect of that changing is going to benefit the Hungarian working class.

It’s not gonna change significantly, it never does. I’ll eat my words if it does but I don’t think it will, I don’t know of an example where an Eastern European country got rid of local corruption and things were much better for the working class, it just doesn’t happen that way. I think if you believe all this corruption money is suddenly going to make its way to healthcare and infrastructure you’re being a bit naive.

It’s a material fact that astounding amounts of wealth have been siphoned out of the Hungarian state and into the pockets of Orbán and a selection of his cronies.

What’s the difference between the wealth being siphoned by national bourgeoisie cronies or foreign multinational cronies? Neoliberalism is the ideology of corruption, it’s inevitable either way.

It’s also a material fact that Hungary’s democratic institutions (which, yeah, liberal democracy - were never great to begin with) have been systematically hollowed out to the point that it is a genuine shock for my friend that the supreme court (which has been packed with Orbán toadies) didn’t overturn the election.

So, uh, they haven’t really been that deeply compromised after all? I think your friend bought into opposition propaganda, same thing is happening in my country, they like to portray our ruling party as this greatest evil that ever befell the nation when in reality when they were in power once or twice they didn’t really do anything significantly differently, our policy was largely dictated by more powerful European nations either way.

It’s not that Magyar is good, but rather that outsiders struggle to understand the depth of corruption and depravity that was the Orbán regime.

I’m from a certain neighboring country of Hungary and with a fairly similar political situation and I can say libs in these east/southeast European countries tend to exaggerate how much of a problem corruption really is. Their worldview is incapable of a holistic analysis of human civilization so all problems of a country must come internally, whether that’s corruption, an evil oppressive “dictator”, a vague notion of “culture” or whatever else they think of.

I don’t believe anything is significantly going to change for Hungary other than the foreign politics.

Can we move it up even more? Like next week ideally?

That’s the fault of the company that made the conditions for such an act possible.

Even if the insurance covers all of it the premiums are sure as shit going way up and also the company was dealt a huge infrastructural blow that will take months if not years to rebuild.

Partially true I guess but I think the biggest factor in industrial decline is neoliberal brainworms, they just outsourced most meaningful work to China same as the US.