https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/18/europe/hungary-make-europ...
However, it is a signal (we cannot really talk of dog whistle here, it’s rather obvious) to other far-right parties with similar nationalist agenda that he’s on their side. So a better reading might be “make [individual countries in] Europe great again”.
Yet curiously Hungary has been allowed to steep down into authoritarianism, and none of Orban's excesses like media or judicial overreaches have been been overiden through submission.
What a uneducated, populistic and stupid take. Just a litle basic statistics about net contributors vs net benificiaries: https://www.statista.com/chart/18794/net-contributors-to-eu-...
Gemany pays shitloads of money into the EU so that places like hungary can benefit. If they feel that's being "steamrolled" into accepting things like the contracts they fucking signed they can fuck back off into irrelevance. As a German tax payer i'd appreciate that very much.
As a German tax payer too, i appreciate very much that Orban does not roll over and take blackmailing* from Brussels regarding the migration crisis and what Hungary will allow regarding its remaining sovereignty.
* "Hungary has been ordered to pay a €200m (£169m) fine for its refusal to uphold the rights of asylum seekers"
Germany as well as other countries should be thankful that Hungary actually built border protections, something you will never see from established centrist parties and bureaucrats.
PS: Money, Power(, Football) - will always be of interest, be it for the Commies or the Righties. Corruption on both sides, it is just a human thing.
But that's always the trick of the fascists, First violate the rights of the undesired so you can get people used to it, then violate the rights of the rest.
[1]https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/06/13/ecj-fines-hung...
Says who? As a Hungarian I never voted for these “human rights” that allows third worlders to waltz through our borders and into our backyards.
If they don’t like being detained at the border they can pound sand and go back to where they came from. We never invited them and they went through several safe countries to get here.
I wonder how much migration would it take for the overwhelming majority to realize that these “ideals” are utterly ridiculous and go against the very idea of statehood. 10 million economic migrants? 50mil? maybe a hundred?
Ironic considering that "Let's Make America Great Again" was Ronald Reagan's campaign slogan in 1980.
Not really. The closest Nazism had to "Make Germany Great Again" was Völkism [1], an anti-modernist movement looking to resurrect not a proximate golden age but romanticised Ancient Germans.
> A prominent theme during the Nazi Party's ascendancy was restoring Germany to its former greatness, and Adolf Hitler used the phrase "make Germany great again" upon occasion.
> What's False
> "Make Germany Great Again" was not a (campaign) slogan employed by Hitler, and Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler are far from the only politicians who promised to make their countries "great again."
He kinda succeeded…
And Make Britain Great Again is so much better than America/Europe/literally anything that doesn't have great in its name
It’s harder to argue against “Make America Great Again” or “Black Lives Matter”. Their object-level meanings are fairly anodyne and positive. It’s much easier to argue against “MAGA” or “BLM”, since the meaning is obscured by the acronym.
Political movements with nice slogans should avoid turning them into acronyms.
I see no joy
I see only sorrow
I see no chance of your bright new tomorrow
So stand down Margaret
Stand down pleaseI mean, I guess it's become like a brand name. But if you think about it for a minute, it's carrying a subtext that Trump failed last time.
Belgium proposed the damn thing.
A lot of Germans still remember the Stazi, so its pretty unlikely that this shit is going to pass.
Both the far left and right in Germany are against this, correct?
There are obvious historical reasons why they shouldn't try far-right, race-based politics, yet here we are [1].
[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/rise-germanys-most-succ...
We never learn (long-term) from the past.
they are neither far left/right
Are Linke and AfD are for chat control? They're by whom the coalition is being threatened.
The most likely outcome after the next election at this point looks like a coalition between the CDU and the Green party.
Unfortunately, CDU is probably in favour (they're pretty "law and order") and the Greens probably won't care enough to oppose strongly.
So essentially everyone who isn't very into law and order type politics and cares about civil rights is against this, regardless of where they are on the political spectrum. This is typical for such issues in Germany.
That does not apply to the afd.
That does not make me very hopeful.