Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted with Pegasus

Re:Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted ... by tiborsaas on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @05:01AM (#27891442)

While I wouldn't call if a fraud, but they skewed with the election system to bend it towards in their favour. They for example introduced monetary support for small parties in a way that made it really easy to commit fraud, which surprisingly did happen at a large scale. It also resulted in people voting for those fake parties and not on the opposition with real power. They won 2/3 power like this.

"Belorussian-style regime", to name a few:

- control of state media packed with non-stop propaganda

- openly friendly towards dictators / other regimes

- suppressive, openly anti-liberal laws

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Re:Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted ... by wildmanx on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @09:46AM (#27893627)

US style, to name a few:

> - openly friendly towards dictators / other regimes

Trump cuddling with Kim-Jong Un and being a good buddy of Putins.

> - suppressive, openly anti-liberal laws

US Republicans are working on overturning Roe v. Wade, opening the door to more anti-liberal laws. Heck, in some states, women have to drive hundreds of miles to the next abortion clinic and risk getting intimidated by big guys with guns on their way in. Cause freedom.

> - control of state media packed with non-stop propaganda

I give you that, the non-stop propaganda in the US is privatized, e.g. Fox News, Washington Post, OANN, MSNBC, etc. Still propaganda.

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Re:Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted ... by tiborsaas on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @05:13AM (#27891526)

Sure, liberal is an umbrella term. Instead, imagine a country where we let people live their life however they want, do whatever they want to their bodies and think for themselves.

This is not Hungary and we are heading towards the opposite direction.

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Re:Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted ... by emteycz on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @05:22AM (#27891567)

Which country in EU is like that? I don't know of any. And there are much worse counter-examples than Hungary.

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Re:Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted ... by ReptileMan on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @06:22AM (#27891957)

And after corona lockdowns, talking about stripping all kinds of rights from the unvaccinated which country in the world right now is moving in the right direction?

Hungary is not worse than the rest.

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