Why have the oligarchs turned against the Cheeto recently? What did he do to anger Murdoch et al.?

50 is insane already, these are cancelled non-refunded holidays.

Who conquered what land? Today’s people, outside of the settlers, were mostly just born into an endless war

I think most Jewish people today experience the Holocaust through the lens of the history being taught to them. As do we all by the way. And with no direct experience, the takeaway becomes whatever they are taught.

Mostly a general distrust towards the government. There was that time when they harvested everyone’s email addresses for the vaccines, then blasted propaganda on them if you remember.

But I also think DÁP is kinda okay, except there was no reason on having Ügyfélkapu+ then, changing the system twice in as many years. It’s mostly a promise to get voters from Mi Hazánk, and I agree with the basic premise even though I am not a lunatic.

Can you sum up what do you think is the play here and how can changing course on Gaza distract from Gaza?

Nope, they want to tear down the DÁP and make something that is auditable.

I am not saying they can’t do more, or that they are not culpable.

I am saying that this is Macron inching away from the genocidal chorus towards the side trying to do something. I am not even saying he’s actually going to take that side, just that maybe he will.

Yeah, but the biggest issue in front of the EU that has any chance of altering anything in the short term is the trade deal. How does this distract from it?

How is this making me forget about Gaza?

I think the guy above you is asking what is Macron recognising as “Palestine”. As in does he recognise Palestine as a state under attack by Israel for example, and in recognising Palestine, does he also say that Israel is unlawfully occupying their territory.

Or what exactly does Macron say Palestine’s legitimate government is. Hamas? Fatah? The Knesset?

This could be a signal that they would take the right side on the Israel-EU trade debate.

Don’t give up your dreams, it’s shit everywhere, you might as well do something that interests you while getting fucked by the system like the rest of us.

Option two is to do tech pretend-work for some big corpo for six figures, and check out of the workforce and find fulfillment somewhere else.

I get your point, but I guess since the pedo rape orgies are most likely still ongoing, your daughter could be kidnapped and end up in a room with Trump, so to a degree, we are in it.

Though Netanyahu should be send to the ICJ in The Hague, but ofc Israel, USA and others don’t recognise the court.

Neither does Hungary since a month ago by the way

Shareholders are interested in share prices and dividends, not volume or even revenue or profits,

They should be correlated, but look at Tesla.

He is not taking stances on a lot of issues on purpose, he’s fighting against a propaganda machine that makes Fox look like an amateur. It was able to destroy a previous challenger because he said “Hungary must implement the joint decision of NATO. So, if NATO decides to support Ukraine with weapons, of course [Hungary] will support it.”

He seems to be economically progressive while culturally conservative and strongly euro-atlanticist. He refused to lean into progressive culture war issues, his stance was basically “we will restore the right of assembly that should guarantee people being free to do Pride, but I’m not going to go to it, or support Pride specifically”. On the other hand, he is proposing wealth taxes, very strong anti-corruption measures, more funding for education and healthcare, support for small businesses, stronger worker’s rights and unions, a right to data privacy from both corps and the government, a focus on train transit and other stuff like this for example.

About Israel vs. Palestine, he might support Israel just because that is the traditional Western stance, but I expect he will just abstain from votes there, or rather support whatever the EU consensus is.

Hungary is in a weird place with the Gaza genocide because Budapest has a very large Jewish population compared to a lot of other places, and they have an outsized influence on Hungarian politics as they are traditionally overrepresented in the cultural elite. And as I hear from people there, every Jewish family has the “idiotic bigoted uncle, that would be the weird conspiracy theorist Nazi in a non-Jewish family, but in Jewish family, they will be hardcore Zionists or straight-up settlers. This then makes the Gaza issue complicated and hard to take a side on for most of these people.”

That includes you if you don’t live on the Sentinel Island or something.

Don’t act like “it can’t happen here”.

The US is one of the strongest economies in the world, in spite of what orange man is doing.

And mostly a service economy, which is of limited use at war. You can repurpose a data center for spreading propaganda - who is winning that war again today? - you can’t retool it to make drones or shells.

By the way, the biggest, 70% market share drone manufacturer is Chinese. One million drones per year manufactured, 400000 large agricultural drones in use worldwide. Russia, which let’s say isn’t the GDP powerhouse of the world, launches 5k drones per month in Ukraine now.

US manufacturers deal in thousands of units per year manufactured.

We have ten times the weapons that the next 10 military powers have combined.

Russia had a truly bonkers amount of tanks, and they got blown apart by modern weapons. They lost more tanks than the entire US tank stockpile, twice over if you believe the Ukrainians, but even the low estimates are higher than the US stockpile number.

We are separated from our biggest adversaries by oceans, which we own by virtue of having 10 times the naval vessels.

Ukraine, a nation with no navy, rules the Black Sea with drones. You could say that the Russian navy was incompetent in leadership and/or manpower, but which peer enemy has the US Navy fought since 1945, and did it not lose two fighter jets in a single month by them just tipping overboard in maneuvers against a bunch of rebels with no navy or significant weaponry?

Also, the US has 8900 km of land borders, to nations it has just threatened with invasions. What if the US really invades Canada? Do you think a battered Canadian government would think twice about accepting Chinese aid for example? What if such aid comes in the form of an army outnumbering the US army multiple times?

I’m not trying to repeat “the US is doomed” tankie agitprop, but shit is changing fast, and a really terribly shit leadership is absolutely capable of sinking it. Even without a war by the way. You guys look like the Balkans looking from the outside in.

Just to be clear, we’re all already poor and dependent on other people