The prospect of that changing is going to benefit the Hungarian working class.
It's not gonna change significantly, it never does. I'll eat my words if it does but I don't think it will, I don't know of an example where an Eastern European country got rid of local corruption and things were much better for the working class, it just doesn't happen that way. I think if you believe all this corruption money is suddenly going to make its way to healthcare and infrastructure you're being a bit naive.
It's a material fact that astounding amounts of wealth have been siphoned out of the Hungarian state and into the pockets of Orbán and a selection of his cronies.
What's the difference between the wealth being siphoned by national bourgeoisie cronies or foreign multinational cronies? Neoliberalism is the ideology of corruption, it's inevitable either way.
It's also a material fact that Hungary's democratic institutions (which, yeah, liberal democracy - were never great to begin with) have been systematically hollowed out to the point that it is a genuine shock for my friend that the supreme court (which has been packed with Orbán toadies) didn't overturn the election.
So, uh, they haven't really been that deeply compromised after all? I think your friend bought into opposition propaganda, same thing is happening in my country, they like to portray our ruling party as this greatest evil that ever befell the nation when in reality when they were in power once or twice they didn't really do anything significantly differently, our policy was largely dictated by more powerful European nations either way.
It's not that Magyar is good, but rather that outsiders struggle to understand the depth of corruption and depravity that was the Orbán regime.
I'm from a certain neighboring country of Hungary and with a fairly similar political situation and I can say libs in these east/southeast European countries tend to exaggerate how much of a problem corruption really is. Their worldview is incapable of a holistic analysis of human civilization so all problems of a country must come internally, whether that's corruption, an evil oppressive "dictator", a vague notion of "culture" or whatever else they think of.
I don't believe anything is significantly going to change for Hungary other than the foreign politics.
Can we move it up even more? Like next week ideally?
China encourages Israeli friends to engage with us in various forms of economic and trade cooperation, and hopes that all sectors will actively safeguard China-Israel relations and play an active role in advancing bilateral friendship and practical cooperation.
Why does China have to have such cringe foreign politics?
Funny title but in all seriousness very based, fuck missionaries I hope they all get clubbed to death by the uncontacted tribes they're pestering.
Fucking amazing
"We will forcefully integrate you into our culture by excluding you from our culture"
Genius, what could possibly go wrong.
Spectacular mental gymnastics, 9.8/10
Maybe reality just has a leftist bias. Why should the truth be dead at the center?
Fine by me, I won't miss you.
You sound completely deranged.
That's definitely a part of it, I'm a millenial and in my parent's circles I know of a grand total of maybe one happy boomer marriage (and it's not my parents).
Personally I just plain old don't want kids, might consider it tho if my partner wanted it (she doesn't thankfully) and there wasn't a climate catastrophe coming.