But also, this feels like it’s pure theater

Lmao what the fuck kind of question is that? “Can you trust lying shitheels on <controversial_topic>” 🙄

Isn’t that super illegal? Like, I don’t for a second think anyone will be prosecuted for it, but still.

Lmao ok sure buddy

I’d say they’re looking pretty fucking grand from where he’s standing, because he’s still in charge, and shitposting about insane things, and ordering the military to do whatever he feels like, and has a secret police force and concentration camps now, and is pretty obviously getting away with some very heinous and lurid crimes around sexual assault and pedophilia, and is not facing any meaningful consequences whatsoever for anything.

2008 was when the conclusion was unavoidable

The Iraq invasion and all the Halliburton bullshit was when I began to realize that the justice system truly has two separate tracks.

At his press conference yesterday, Magyar was extensively asked about his views on Russia and called for “pragmatic” relations between the countries (Europe Live, Monday).

Hmmm

He argued that Hungary “cannot change geography” as it still relied on energy supplies from Russia, even as he suggested he would push to diversify these sources in the future.

Well, yeah. And the reason Ukraine has been so (justifiably) obstinate about wrecking energy supplies that go to Hungary is because Orban was refusing outright to explore alternatives, with predictable consequences.

I think it’s too soon to tell, tbh, but it’ll surely be an improvement from Orban - though that is really not a high bar.

Well, that, and the rich fucks are very fucking obviously dumping our taxpayer money into their own accounts while overtly manipulating the market in ways that people not affiliated with the regime would be prosecuted for, in addition to executing the most pants-on-head idiotic geopolitical strategy in modern history, simultaneously starting a bunch of completely unnecessary and fully unjustified wars for no reason other than to distract from credible and pervasive allegations of lurid sexual abuse and pedophilia. Oh and they’re pushing theocratic idiocy too. And concentration camps. And summary executions. And we can go on, but you get the idea.

I fucking hate that my taxpayer dollars are paying for all of this. Genuinely makes me want to seek citizenship elsewhere and so I can renounce my US citizenship.

My grave disappointment and fury at Hillary for giving away the fucking game certainly is coming to a middle

In actuality, it’s more accurate to say that this is how uncritical and self-deceptive his followers are. The followers we are talking about here are Christian Dominionists (aka adherents of the 7 mountains mandate).

They largely don’t care about his insanity because they genuinely believe orangeboi and the regime are a means to an end - and, you know, they’ve finally got a shitload of Christian Dominionists in the regime’s leadership now. Them caring about the initial post was a rare outlier of them actually caring about this shit, because it began to tread - and reflect very poorly and obviously cultishly - on their messianic worldview.

To be fair, it was likely by accident

I feel like you’re way too invested in whatever hill you’re trying to die on here, and nobody else understands what you’re doing either.

What’s your endgame here? What are you trying to do? Are you an energy vampire, or do you just enjoy being a pointlessly argumentative pithy nonce?

Who’s putting raisins in a cheesecake…?

You’re missing basque style

If you think that’s the only thing China cares about, you are deluding yourself. What do you think the belt and road initiative is for, and why do you think China was willing to put up with it being deeply unprofitable for them for so long?

I have been telling people for well over a decade that Christian dominionism will be the death of us all, and for the most part nobody listens. I’m so tired.