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Hungarians take to the streets

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by GatorNorth, Mar 15, 2025.

  1. duggers_dad

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    Fake News ?

     
  2. gatorrob87

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    I don’t know if you are trolling here or not. Hungarians appear to disagree with you on “liking” Orban, as do most leaders of free Europe (a phrase we used to use when we were opposed to the unliked ideologies you listed).
    In addition, here are a few other things that socialists, communists and autocrats don’t like:
    Freedom of speech and the press
    Free and fair elections
    Representative government
    Being accountable to their constituents and their people
    A free judiciary
    A separation and balance of government power
    Free markets
    The right of free people to bare arms…
    And much more.
    My apologies if you were just trying to get a reaction and I missed your intention but it just came across as the most un-American response I have seen in sometime.
     
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  4. homer

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    Were they wearing their goulashes?
     
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  5. duggers_dad

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    Your own link indicates that the US homicide rate is nearly seven times higher than Hungary’s.
     
  6. duggers_dad

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    Budapest could be more like Dublin if Orhan wasn’t so authoritarian …

     
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  7. exiledgator

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    Yeah. You fell for it.

    That is totally a parody account. The author is just unaware of it.
     
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  8. ajoseph

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    What about authoritarians?
     
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  9. Gatorrick22

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    Define what you call an authoritarian... if you are insinuating that Obran is an authoritarian? Otherwise, explain what you're intimating.
     
  10. duggers_dad

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    People call Orban an authoritarian because they’re told to, Pavlov’s dogs.
     
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  11. duggers_dad

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    Now this is an anti-government protest …

     
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  12. ajoseph

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    Yes, I was insinuating that Orban is an authoritarian. He single-voice rules Hungary. He has aligned himself with other authoritarian leaders, as well.

    Here’s some article:
    Hungary’s Descent Into Dictatorship

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/08/world/europe/hungary-viktor-orban-trump.html

    Authoritarian capitalism - Wikipedia

    Hungary’s authoritarian leader is no gift to US conservatives


    5 Lessons From Hungary: How to Fight Authoritarians - The Forge

    The ‘authoritarian’ lessons Trump and the GOP want to learn from Orbán’s Hungary
     
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  13. duggers_dad

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    Funny how we sympathize with the Japanese when they say they want their culture to remain Japanese, but go berserk when Hungarians signal the desire to remain Hungarian.
     
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  14. duggers_dad

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    Ireland could have used an Orban …

     
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  16. Gatorrick22

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    Every country has a right to protect their culture, according to the Leftists... except for the U.S.A.
     
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  18. GratefulGator

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    I think US culture is more regional than tribal...
     
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