Hell yeah! Also fuck JD Vance.
Even couches don’t want to fuck him.
Why people not call him DJ? If nobody respects him, I’d pretty much call him DJ all the time. I know attacking someone because of their name is … you know, not good. But in this very case, I attack him not because of his name, obviously. So, I call him DJ pretty much every single time, I don’t have any respect for the man to call him properly.
I don’t get what that means. Is it supposed to be an insult? I don’t know of “DJ” being an insult. Also, it could be confusing with the president being D. J. Trump.
DJ is not an insult per se, of course. But calling Vance a DJ is surely an insult, as you don’t get him seriously, and mocking him instead.
I have never heard anyone calling Trump a DJ, but yes, makes sense, I guess. I’ve heard him being called an orange ape or monkey though. It seems, it differs from culture to culture.
Best news in a long time. 👍 😎
Congratulations to Hungary, hopefully this will restore democracy in Hungary, although Peter Magyar is also extreme far right, he at least support democracy and EU and that Ukraine can become a member of EU.He’s not “extreme far right”. He might be more right-wing than the average EU leader, but that’s what you’re going to get in a country that has been flooded with right-wing propaganda for decades.
Realistically, what matters is that in this election Hungary had a choice between Orban and not-Orban, and not-Orban actually won. Because someone else won in a relatively free and fair election, it’s possible that the next election can be between a left wing option and a right wing option.
Peter Magyar is also extreme far right
The extreme far right is against the EU, Nato, Ukraine and democracy, all of which he is not. He’s a conservative in the more traditional sense. On the EU-level Tisza is a part of the EPP.
Thanks, I was also just informed that he favors wealth tax and lower taxes for the poor. That sounds more left/center than far right.
Afaik he didn’t leave Fidezs because he didn’t agree with Orbans political views though.
Well, in the sense that Orbans primary political views are “We should build a far-right nationalist dictatorship/oligarchy led by Viktor Orban”, Magyar does actually disagree with his core political views.
although Peter Magyar is also extreme far right
My dude, he’s a pro-EU hardliner who just won on a platform of wealth taxes, removing income taxes for the poor, and taking back the nation’s wealth from oligarchs to fund a better social welfare state.
Wow that sounds amazing, from what I’ve heard he was pretty far right. Best hopes for Hungary that this really pans out as a major improvement over Orban.
He needed to present as ideologically the same as Fidesz in order to avoid the election turning into an idpol clusterfuck.
🌟✨🎉🎊 !
GG Hungary!
Yes this will do a lot to restore normal relations between Hungary and EU, which will benefit both a lot.
Wow, he actually conceded?
Does anybody know why he wouldn’t just hard-rig the election, considering how long and obviously they’ve soft-rigged it?
because unlike US politicians, he’s actually read enough history to know what happens to eastern european politicians that try to hold onto power past their time
He tried, but the election system was solid enough that he couldn’t hack it so fast.
It’s pretty open, as a private citizen you can ask to be a vote counter, and plenty of people do so every election. You get to observe the voting, work with the staff (even get paid for it), and count the votes. If you see anything out of the ordinary, you can have it noted, and it becomes public knowledge immediately through the election system.
So if he tried to mess with that, it would have gotten violent.
https://lemmy.world/post/45468912 . The election system was quite fucked up actually.
That’s voter fraud, not election fraud is my point.
Orban’s strategy was stealing EU money for himself and his cronies. The EU largely stopped funding Hungary, so the money dried up and he has no reason to cling to power that hard.
Just a couple of examples for anyone who wants to see some. A $200 million “privately funded” soccer field/academy that gave huge tax breaks to all companies involved in his home village of 1800 people. It seats 4000, more than double the towns residences, over an hour away from any large city. Orban is apprently a huge soccer fan, so im sure having a brand new stadium built in his tiny home town was just a coincidence.
This also included a $3 million, EU funded train that goes 3 miles from the village to another one that just so happens to have another of his familys palaces. Orban got EU funding for that train by promising it would have 2000 riders/day. Instead, in its first year, it had less than 2000 riders, total. Yes, instead of 730,000 riders/yr, it had 2000 riders/yr. It now just runs on weekends.
Also, apprently all highway work in the country is done though subcontractors that all buy stone from Orbans fathers stone mine at marked up prices.
Does that mean Ukraine can finally get its funding?
Afaik aid for Ukraine was supplied regularly, it’s just that Orbán had to be greased every time with some money from the EU to Hungary.
From 1 April, doesn’t seem like Orban caved until the election. Now that the new dude is in, maybe it’ll happen quickly. Waiting on the news…
Fico from Slovakia has said that he would pick up the Russian stooge torch if Orban failed. Guess we’ll see if it was a bluff now.
Slovakia is probably even more dependent on EU funds than Hungary. If the EU says “no more money from the EU”, Slovakia might fold quickly.
wait … are they related?
Magyar is an incredibly common Hungarian family name, it means “Hungarian”.
It also basically means ‘man’ or ‘person’:
From Old Hungarian mogyër. The first element (‘mogy-’) is likely from Proto-Ugric ‘*mańćɜ’ (“man, person”). The second element, ‘-ër’ (“man”), retained in ‘ember’ (“man”) and ‘férj’ (“husband”), from Proto-Uralic ‘*irkä’ or ‘*ürkä’ (“man, son, boy”).
So Hungarians were super lazy in the choice of the last names, not even picking the profession or patronymic, but just ‘man’.
Magyar(Hungarian) is his call sign. It’s a funny coincidence since both of them are political targets of the Orban regime.
They’re also potentially in sight of a ⅔ supermajority, which would allow them to overturn Orban’s laws.
It’s all but guaranteed now. It’s not even narrow, almost 70% of parliament.
You love to hear it.
Congratulations to Peter Magyar! Orban had better stay away from unmonitored windows from now on.
… and airplanes
Magyar first came to prominence for his criticism of government politicians after the Katalin Novák presidential pardon scandal. In February 2024, Magyar released a voice recording of his wife that he had secretly made without his wife’s knowledge or consent in which it was revealed that the president of Hungary, Katalin Novák, had granted a presidential pardon in April 2023 to Endre Kónya, the deputy director of a state-run children’s home near Budapest. The deputy had coerced children into covering up sexual abuse by his superior, János Vásárhelyi, the home’s director.[7] The scandal resulted in anti-government protests demanding that Novák resign; she did so on 10 February 2024.[8] The same day, Magyar’s ex-wife Judit Varga, the former justice minister who had countersigned the pardon, also announced her resignation from the National Assembly and her role leading the Fidesz party list in the June 2024 European Parliament election.[8][5]
On 20 March 2024, Magyar testified for several hours at the Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office regarding the high-profile corruption case involving President of the Court Bailiffs György Schadl [hu][43] over bribes paid to former Secretary of State for Justice Pál Völner.[44] Shortly after his testimony, he announced to the press that he had proof in the form of audio recordings that Cabinet Minister Antal Rogán or his associates had manipulated documents in the case in order to hide evidence that would have incriminated Rogán. In a Facebook post a few days later, he promised to make the recordings public at 9 am on 26 March 2024, the date of his next appointment to testify and present the evidence to the prosecutors. He wrote that once this happened, Chief Prosecutor Péter Polt as well as the entire Orbán government would have no choice but to resign.[45] On 26 March, Magyar released the recording to the public. It contains a two-minute discussion between himself and his ex-wife Judit Varga about the Schadl-Völner corruption case. Varga’s comments implicate Rogán in tampering with evidence by having his and/or his associates’ names removed from documents associated with the case.[17] He has turned the recording over to prosecutors.[4]
YESSSS.
