Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted with Pegasus

Re:Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted ... by inglor_cz on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @05:49AM (#27891757)

"Maybe, but what "tribe" are you part of is completely fluid"

There is a lot of friction when changing tribes. Especially if it means changing your religion, language and culture. Few people can make that jump.

I would not call this "completely fluid".

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted ... by goodpoint on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @07:26AM (#27892424)

On the contrary, studies clearly show that people are aligning themselves more and more with "tribes" that are based on a geographic area.

Cheap travel and social networks made it possible.

We are doing it right now on HN.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted ... by inglor_cz on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @08:02AM (#27892703)

This only really concerns highly educated professionals who can speak fluent English or other lingua franca. We on the HN are precisely such a self-selected subset.

But European electorates as such (and we are talking about the EU here) do not, in the big picture, resemble this self-selected elite, and elected politicians must take that into account or risk growth of populist parties thriving on topics where the general population and the elite disagrees.

[ Parent | on HN ]