Actually rational take?? Holy hell

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.

Did this sad blob of cells just say that illegal immigration is an invasion? Did he just quote a dissenting opinion as a basis?

What the actual fuck. This sounds like something Orbán would do. Oh wait, they like the sound of that…

For young people, No. 1 is becoming pretty clear, although parents influence is a thing.

For a bit older people up to gen X, it's "yeah sure but the opposition isn't better" (which it is, but everyone is homophobic) or "playing two sides is smart" not realising how fucking cynical that is today.

For even older people, ie retirees, it's that Fidesz ramps up retirement pay close to every election like a pet-owner playing with their dogs.

Note that what is now the Opposition had a speech recorded in 2006, where the party Leader, Ferenc Gyurcsány, openly said "We have lied through the last eight years" and "We fucked this [very vulgar version]. Not a little, [we've fucked this] a lot". Orbán is obviously lying way more but he doesn't say it out loud (Or is smart enough not to get it recorded).

If you want ice scraped off the pavement in russia, just write Навальный [Naval'nyy] on it.

Hungary presents: grep --kis--és-nagybetűk-figyelmen-kívül-hagyása

Yeah that is a resounding no. PS: I am not exaggerating. That is the first translation that came into mind

Bypass Paywalls Clean is fantastic, need to install from xpi though

lovely. I mean my username is probably the easiest one lmao

Pretty sure signal won't be forced to do anything:

Encryption plays an essential role in securing communications. The international human rights law test of legality, necessity and proportionality should be applied to any measures that would affect encryption. Both the UN Commissioner for Human Rights[1]and the European Data Protection Supervisor[2]have concluded that the EU’s proposal for a regulation on child sexual abuse material fails this test[3].

this is from May this year, when Spain proposed this. How in the everliving fuck the EU can get away with violating human rights?

So yeah I'll eat my hat unsalted if this actually will break encryption

You had me in the first half, not gonna lie

Please please please defederate ASAP! Today I got lots of hexbear posts in my feed, and a lot of them mocked the """ultra-liberals""" on sh.itjust.works. Even communities, which at first glance don't seem to be about politics, just post anti-literally-anyone-who-is-not-a-tankie content. I especially love how apparently the Uyghur genocide is a media lie.

I vote for defederation.

Just looked at them, and to be honest, it is pathetic. Their uhh... interesting interpretations of the Bible, and that they dismiss the arguments of people who have the opposite political viewpoints. This, in my view, is unacceptable. They (the alt-right, which seems to be the primary users of the instance) really only want to humiliate left-of-centre people. And when humilitation is the goal, that is not an opinion, that is hate.

sh.itjust.works should not federate with (show content of) instances that is completely dismissive and hateful of a group of people.

I also think that defederation should only be used against extreme cases of botswarming, which is something that looks to be happening: 6727 total users against 108 active in the last month, and 139 in the past half-year.