Hungary has lost its entitlement to significant EU aid due to rule of law breaches, as reforms were due by the end of 2025. According to the European Commission, the forfeited funds amount to more than €1 billion ($1.
I’m always surprised that this kind of rhetoric works. If the EU were such a big bully, nothing would stop Hungary from just leaving. Like, at some point you’d have to ask yourself why a supposedly competent and well-meaning leader keeps you in a relarionship with an entity that allegedly only wants the worst for you.
Why not. From its inception this place was populated by religious fruits, tax dodgers, the desperate and uneducated. Hell, half of the country fought a grizzly war against the other half that the losing half still isn’t over. The losing half started it so that men much like Trump could own other men. The slave owners weren’t the ones doing the fighting, of course, rich men don’t fight wars. They stirred up the poor, unlearned yokels, told them that they were being oppressed and sent them to die and kill, which they did. There’s still folks who claim “the South will rise again”.
People don’t have the energy or will to pour time into politics so they’re easily swayed by whomever speaks with most authority, even if they’re just blowing smoke up their arse. It’s how all these nazi parties are rising to the top in most countries; they paint a very easy to understand picture of complex problems and promise easy solutions that they can’t deliver.
“How do we solve crime? Most criminals are immigrants so we just boot them out. Not all criminals are immigrants of course, so we’ll need to also increase the police force. Give them more surveillance tools.”
I’m always surprised that this kind of rhetoric works. If the EU were such a big bully, nothing would stop Hungary from just leaving. Like, at some point you’d have to ask yourself why a supposedly competent and well-meaning leader keeps you in a relarionship with an entity that allegedly only wants the worst for you.
“The enemy is strong while also weak” is standard fascist propaganda.
It has been a “the enemy is strong” while at the same time “the enemy is weak” for hundreds of years. Most people are simply not critical thinkers.
Welp, I’m surprised trump managed to become the president of the USA. Twice. Unfortunately it seems this is how the world works unfortunately.
Why not. From its inception this place was populated by religious fruits, tax dodgers, the desperate and uneducated. Hell, half of the country fought a grizzly war against the other half that the losing half still isn’t over. The losing half started it so that men much like Trump could own other men. The slave owners weren’t the ones doing the fighting, of course, rich men don’t fight wars. They stirred up the poor, unlearned yokels, told them that they were being oppressed and sent them to die and kill, which they did. There’s still folks who claim “the South will rise again”.
Trump is as American as baseball.
People don’t have the energy or will to pour time into politics so they’re easily swayed by whomever speaks with most authority, even if they’re just blowing smoke up their arse. It’s how all these nazi parties are rising to the top in most countries; they paint a very easy to understand picture of complex problems and promise easy solutions that they can’t deliver.
“How do we solve crime? Most criminals are immigrants so we just boot them out. Not all criminals are immigrants of course, so we’ll need to also increase the police force. Give them more surveillance tools.”
Bam! Authoritarianism.
Hungary is landlocked. Serbia is on its way into the EU.
The EU could be a bully that is so big that they cannot be left.
That seems like a huge stretch even to someone who gobbles up all the anti-EU propaganda to me. But you never know, I guess.
Serbia is not even close to being allowed to join the EU.
It’s enough if they would join in 10 or 20 years.