I live in an area where the main road is surrounded by dozens of British/English flags, and the average person is your typical primitive ‘stop the boats’ Reform voter (moreover, not even Reform is far right enough for some of them and they would rather vote for Restore).

There was a new store building erected around the main square, and as the beams first appeared, they started guessing what it could be in the Facebook comments. Half of them were about how it would surely become a mosque.

All the while the situation got so bad here that a certain bus stopped service in the area after 7PM because packs of vicious kids threw rocks at the windows. The same type of kids had started fires several times, shot fireworks at people during Halloween, and became a regular nuisance, often throwing various objects at cars.

Those kids are all white, full of hatred and always going around in large groups, dressing like a typical London phone snatcher, riding scooters, wearing the same balaklava (that is completely fine and comfortable to wear for them, unlike the MUCH thinner “I can’t breathe” face mask during covid), listening to the same music, and in general, trying to look like the same thug that their racist parents imagine the average immigrant youth to be.

I have never considered right wing radicals significantly smart, but the British right wingers around here are the dumbest, most primitive, most disgusting types I’ve had the displeasure to interact with.

If only there was terabytes worth of video evidence proving that, alongside with all the war crimes such as shooting at medical personnel, media and first aid staff…

Don’t forget the economic shock that would follow. Everyone has a few grand in their piggy bank? Time to raise prices, buying power has just gone up. Then people complain they still have the same standard of living. Salaries stay the same. Prices won’t go back down. The dollar is worth even less.

Guess who wins there.

You can’t just do this. I see a title beginning with ‘Trump, 80,’ and get super hyped, then it just says he woke up eventually.

Smokers routinely light up at bus stops, elevators, parks, restaurants and even hospitals.

Even in Western countries there’s not much you can do. I keep seeing jerks smoking at bus and metro stops (or right next to/outside those), but what can you do? You won’t call the police for such a small thing, and even if you did for some weird reason, the smoker would be long gone.

Sure, you can ask them to not smoke there. One: good luck with that; two: not like they would stop doing that from then on.

“My mother told me not to meddle in others’ business, even though she has lung cancer,” Ms. Zhang said in an interview.

Yeah, once they smoke under your nose in a place they shouldn’t, they make it your business, as well.

I had to re-read it 3 times to realize that BUM wasn’t meant to be an acronym (which is also a new method) or nether regions of the body, but >>!BAM!<< in their own language. We also say ‘bumm’, but with a long ‘m’.

Dammit.

I doubt you could cram more than three into those hands.

Just for context: during the previous Pride he stayed away and went abroad, and deliberatery had been avoiding the topic of LBGT stuff until the elections.

Imagine looking for a Philip screwdriver.

That’s totally true. I just thought of the possibility because I grew up where not every toilet was civilised.

Not necessarily in the defense of single sex toilets, but I imagine not all men are gentle, and women (maybe even anyone else) would choose not to get peeked at from above by a nasty weirdo. I know, I know, not like only one gender could do it, but if I had to find a reason why one would want to have single sex toilets, this would be the reason that makes the most sense to me.

Or, you know, people being religious fanatics stuck in the 18th century, but who would be like that in 2026? /s

Total area of lethal spots on the body > same on the head.

On the one hand, you have his ear hit. On the other, you got Kirk. When it works, it works. When it doesn’t, you don’t have a second chance, and dozens, hundreds, thousands might die (Gaza, Iran, US) before the next attempt because you missed your shot.

About that 80%:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage
You can get shot in the frontal lobe and happily run the country into the ground in the next decade. Also, at this point I doubt aiming at Trump’s brain would make any significant difference.

I’m almost sure that over time we will see that it’s not a black and white picture, but FUCK it feels so good to watch the changes at the moment!

From the government media showmen’s face melting while watching the results, to the announced politics of the new government, to the current interviews featuring the old talking heads either confessing or getting cornered in their own lies, to the Ukraine support finally getting the green light.

I know already that, politically speaking, I’ll be missing these months (hopefully, years) for a long time later in life.

Yeah, the same goes the other way around. Don’t get me wrong, quite a good number of Hungarians do read about world politics, including the US; they are just not your average Orbán voters (not saying those people don’t; but the majority doesn’t). Oh, and the ones that do browse the Internet for news: your average Hungarian mostly browses Facebook where everything is tailored to keep you in your bubble. Younger people tend to use other sources, of course, but FB is still the default social media site there.

Oh, don’t worry… most Hungarians that exclusively watch Orbán controlled media (imagine Fox news from most freely available channels) don’t know much about the US - especially not about the struggles of the country. They might see things like Trump meeting a political leader or shaping world politics (like ganging on Zelensky with Vance), but media almost never covered negative things about the government or its friends (but happily threw shit at opponents, of course - even as far as straight lying to smear them).

Indeed. However, they’ve been pumping public money out of the country via money front institutions for quite a while: the ex leader of the National Bank embezzled 650 billion Forints, which is about a metric shitton even in such an inflated currency (update: just a little shy of 1.8 million EUR). They were seen moving their stuff in literal shipping containers to Dubai. I haven’t a single doubt that all that will be used to fund their return with whoever playing as Orbán’s hand puppet.

Magyar is just proposing a modification of the constitution (well, it’s not literally called the constitution, but imagine something similar) so that nobody can be the prime minister for more than 2 terms.

And it isn’t even a crazily rare surname! We also have plenty of these:

• Tóth, which used to mean Slavic, Slovakian or Slovenian (today: ‘tót’)

• Horváth, which means Croatian (today: ‘horvát’);

• Németh, which means German (today: ‘német’)

• Szerb, which means Serbian; Rác, which used to mean Serbian

• Bolgár, which means Bulgarian

• Lengyel, which means Polish

There might be more, but these 6 came from the top of my head.

UPDATE:

• Török, which means Turkish

• Cseh, which means Czech

Well, I’m gonna be honest, we’ve been watching the results with my brother and we were both uncertain until the last moments. News were coming in about the system going down for a firewall update(“yeah, this is when the manipulation happens”), the threat has been there from the beginning because of the GRU members… But we’re both rather relieved.

Now comes 4 years of uneasiness, because while we’re both happy, we’re still ahead of a Pandora’s box.