I'm Hungarian. Complaining is our national sport. So allow me.

I was born behind the iron curtain. In 1989 it seemed that we were going to be free and it really looked like freedom was forward and repression was backward and the world moved ever forward and eventually all of us would be free.

And now I get to see, from the inside, the West sliding backwards into fascism.

You don't know where you are going, but I do. It's painful to watch you harming yourselves like this.

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@markhburton @humanhorseshoes Yes, but they could have had an actual revolution in 1989. They didn't. They could have opened the communist archives and purged the people of the old system from public functions like the rest of Eastern Europe. They didn't. They could have protested against Orban en masse with pitchforks and torches every day in the last 15 years. They didn't. Instead, they mostly vote for him.
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@humanhorseshoes @markhburton There was a bit of pussyfooting at first, and Merkel looking aside in exchange for Big Auto's interests in HU. Then they had to keep their own rules of due process and long deadlines. But it happened for the first time a few weeks ago that HU permamently lost about a billion EUR and this will continue. The weakening of the HU economy might topple Orban's power in 2026.