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[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 55 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (49 children)

Thanks DNC

Should have just ran Bernie instead of forcing Hillary and propping up Trump

Now the world has Dr. Frankenstein’s political monster (with dementia)

[–] Nudding@lemmy.world 22 points 8 months ago

It was only a matter of time until the empire with a military industrial complex went from evil to stupidly evil.

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[–] 4grams@awful.systems 38 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It is obvious to anyone with a functional brain.

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[–] Mastengwe@lemm.ee 34 points 8 months ago (11 children)

Yeah… he said as much already. But do be sure to tell the kids that think both sides are equally as bad because of a single issue.

Especially when both are equally to blame on said single issue.

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (5 children)
[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Did they just both sides their bothsiderism?

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah that’s what it looks like but the sentence there doesn’t actually make sense when you read it tbh

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[–] LudwigvanBeethoven@sh.itjust.works 29 points 8 months ago

And yet, more than 40% of Hungarian voters want to vote for Orbán again. Under his corrupt electoral system, that will be again a 2/3 supermajority. From a Hungarian: The prevailing belief here is "Orbán lies and sucks, but never again for Gyurcsány" or "Everyone sucks, Fidesz is the least bad" or even "There's no better alternative". This fuck should be voted out in 2026, but we know he won't.

From the state's founding, Hungary is a Western country, which never wants to be part of the East on purpose. […] Eastern politics can't tolerate autonomy, can't tolerate independence, and can't tolerate freedom. It eliminates the defences defending a human's independence. […] It makes one vulnerable; if need be, it intimidates. […] Since the East stepped foot in Hungary, freedom-loving Hungarians like us always wanted the same: to liberate ourselves from their withering hugs, and to remove their domestic guards. […] Our wish always was this: we wanted a Western democracy which builds on Christian culture, and on the ideals of freedom, equality, and fraternity. We always fought against the faux-democracy […]

– Viktor Orbán, 2007, in a segment to the young people in Hungary.

illiberal democracy my ass.

[–] Nusm@yall.theatl.social 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Read all about it in this month’s riveting issue of Duh.

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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Trump has the first half of "dictator" covered ....

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 8 months ago

Penis potato?

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah, no kidding.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 3 points 8 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said that President Trump’s recent meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán shows that he “wants to be a dictator.”

President Biden went after Trump for his meeting with the Eastern European leader at a campaign event in Pennsylvania.

“You know who he’s meeting with today down at Mar-a-Lago?” Biden said at a campaign event in Pennsylvania.

“Orbán of Hungary, who stated flatly he doesn’t think democracy works, he’s looking for dictatorship.”

Grisham also said that she has “sat in many bilateral meetings with world leaders” and that Trump  “always looked forward to speaking” with figures like Chinese President Xi JInping and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, leaders who have been criticized for their authoritarian leanings like Orbán.

Orbán went to Trump’s home in Florida and also posted a picture of them together on Facebook.


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