The Hungarian prime minister concedes to Péter Magyar, who is set to win a supermajority in the 199-seat parliament.

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[–] 156 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

I was very unsure that Orban hadn't rigged the election, and Hungary would become like Belarus.
I am so relieved to see that democracy worked in Hungary, despite Orban controlling most of the media.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I bet they were rigged, just not enough.

    He sent meat and wine packages to people to buy their votes, control the media and more. Sure is a big relief 😮‍💨

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Yes I saw the unpacking of such a box. Looked pretty nice actually. But you'd have to be pretty stupid to fall for it. So IDK if it had any effect.

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  • [–] 112 points 7 months ago (23 children)

    His last name is Magyar?

    His last name is basically "Hungarian" lol

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  • [–] 81 points 7 months ago (12 children)

    Hi, I’m Dave American, and I’m running for President.

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  • [–] 63 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    That would be enough for some voters

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I'd at least want to hear his policies regarding cheeseburgers first.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    We're going to put a cheeseburger in every tummy, and deport all the vegetarians

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  • [–] 34 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)
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    And it isn't even a crazily rare surname! We also have plenty of these:

    • Tóth, which used to mean Slavic, Slovakian or Slovenian (today: 'tót')

    • Horváth, which means Croatian (today: 'horvát');

    • Németh, which means German (today: 'német')

    • Szerb, which means Serbian; Rác, which used to mean Serbian

    • Bolgár, which means Bulgarian

    • Lengyel, which means Polish

    There might be more, but these 6 came from the top of my head.

    UPDATE:

    • Török, which means Turkish

    • Cseh, which means Czech

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  • [–] 73 points 6 months ago (31 children)

    Hope Vance comes to Spain to endorse Feijoo (right) and Abascal (extreme right) too. Everytime he endorses someone, this one loses!

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (13 children)

    Wishing for him to come to Sweden and visit our Sweden Democrats.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (11 children)

    to be fair they seem to be doing a pretty decent job of getting themselves into jail and ousted from the party

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (10 children)

    yeah the "one bad apple" party just keeps producing single bad apples

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    Well the full expression is "one bad apple spoils the barrel". As in one of them being evil and corrupt generally encourages the other ones to do the same thing. Especially if it's a high up in the party, they set a precedent.

    Also a lot on the right seem to be rich and are using right wing rhetoric as a way to win power, so they're already from the "laws don't apply to me" class anyway, so act as per usual.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    yeah the expression the party has used, calling them "enskilda rötägg" (literally meaning something like "singular instances of rotten eggs") doesn't really translate. interestingly the sweden democrat party members are all mostly working class. they got started as a swedish arm of the BNP so they had basically the same audience, but they've cleaned up a lot since the 90's and unlike the BNP of today no longer say the quiet part out loud.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    Yeah, but their main objective is still to throw out all immigants. They don't really care about anything else, even if they pretend to. And of course they're attractive to angry racists.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    i honestly think there are people in the party who no longer want that. unfortunately their base hasn't gotten the message.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I feel like the party becomes more "moderate" at the higher levels (as in they have no actual opinions, they just want power) whereas at the lower levels (i.e. municipal) people have a much broader range of opinions; with some being severely misguided, some just being terminally conservative (but not actual nazis), and a lot just literally being nazis who just barely manage to avoid reflexively heiling each other on the street.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    god yeah, i still remember the guy in mora who was angry that he was misrepresented in the interview where he said that immigrants could stay until they got into government.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    The rotten egg analogy makes more sense. Each egg is completely sealed off from the others in the group. Since the shell is only permeable to gasses, one spoiled egg will not spoil the bunch.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (14 children)

    Every time? Did he endorse another loser before?

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago* (10 children)

    The rigth winger en Canada, and in general has showed support to all the right wing parties candidates in Europe. And how could we forget that he visited the Pope, and he died next day!

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    The one in Canada was slated to win by every metric, but endorsement by American right wing politicians (in the midst of a trade war they started) caused a wild backlash. He even lost his hometown riding, which... Yikes.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    When this is all over, the world will need to throw a thank-you party for the US electing Trump and waking up the voters of the world, shaking them out of their complacency to clean up their own houses.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I think this is kind of the way accelerationists actually think.

    Tbh I thought your trump getting elected alone might be such a shock to your political establishments that your liberals would actually swing to the left for once.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    I don't know why I have any confidence in "my fellow countrymen." I went to a public high school for 4 years, I "met the masses" there, and 90% of them were idiots, 60% of them were mean spirited, racist, bigoted idiots. And now they vote.

    Before 2024, I honestly thought "there's no way they'd ever put that clown back in." And here we are, orange face paint and all.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Was the pope a right winger too?

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    To be fair, if a left winger got endorsed by Vance, that would pretty much also kill their political career.

    Vance's status as poison is a universal thing for the entire political spectrum.

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  • [–] 67 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Great, now put Orban in prison for his crimes against democracy so he can't come back.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Magyar is just proposing a modification of the constitution (well, it's not literally called the constitution, but imagine something similar) so that nobody can be the prime minister for more than 2 terms.

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  • [–] 59 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Most important: it's even a 2/3 majority. Without that, Orban could have still blocked most of the changes. Now, he cannot.

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  • [+] -58 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I'm glad we can now poor money into the black hole of corruption that is ukraine unhindered.
    Not that it already caused an awful crisis here in the EU.
    Glad they're working on stealing my pension now.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

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  • [–] 56 points 6 months ago

    Finally! Congratulations to the Hungarian voters who voted against the fucking Russian and MAGA stooge. Welcome back to the EU!

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  • [–] 200 points 7 months ago (18 children)

    Thanks J.D. 😄

    I know little enough about the guy, but if he was approved by Donnie I presume he was horrible.

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  • [–] 99 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    He visits, the old pope dies. He visits, your entire political party is marginalized. Frankly if I were a world leader I’d want to stay as far the hell away from JD Vance as possible.

    Actually, as just a regular Joe I’d * also * like to stay as far the hell away from JD Vance as possible.

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  • [–] 54 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I like my couch the same way I like my dinner: unfucked.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    If he buys me a new one he can have it

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    He's propped up by Peter Thiel which should make people worry, if he was a tiny bit effective....maybe he is and there a big grand scheme at work but I don't think Maga will rally behind him.

    Course I don't the ins and outs of their opinions beyond racist good and being accepting is bad. I hope the gas prices sink them, as horrible as a tiny thing his stance on things. I'm sure Thiel can afford a new lackey and has some ready to bring up. Hell he probably planned for that, Vance is so bland that he's probably only there to make a case but not accomplish much.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    Well that’s quite the Brodown now isn’t it? This sauce just got a little thicker. Mmmm Mmmm Mmmmm ( Samuel L. Jackson inner voice) C’mon, let us have some more please. Can’t really make this sort of stuff up without a pretty damn good barometer & heading on it all.

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  • [–] 34 points 6 months ago

    This post has been on the top of my home feed all day and it brought a smile to my face every time I opened Lemmy lol

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  • [–] 32 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    he even conceded:

    In a surprisingly early and gracious concession speech in Budapest, Mr. Orban congratulated the opposition saying, “The responsibility and opportunity to govern were not given to us.” But, he also made a vow: “We are not giving up. Never, never, never.”

    —https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/world/europe/hungary-election-orban-magyar.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aVA.Kuhl.h2lgWO2W5PiU

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    This is the part that makes me suspicious about the whole thing. No way would a tick like Orban just admit defeat. They would at least insinuate that the election was not quite right.

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  • [+] 10 points 6 months ago (1 child)
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    Indeed. However, they've been pumping public money out of the country via money front institutions for quite a while: the ex leader of the National Bank embezzled 650 billion Forints, which is about a metric shitton even in such an inflated currency (update: just a little shy of 1.8 million EUR). They were seen moving their stuff in literal shipping containers to Dubai. I haven't a single doubt that all that will be used to fund their return with whoever playing as Orbán's hand puppet.

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  • [–] 50 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    as a Hungarian I'm over the moon 🎆🎆🎆

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