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  • If I got right what you’re saying (I might have misunderstood it), the situation is slightly different in Hungary. Instead of the media outlets and conglomerates trying to appease the governing party, it was actually an active takeover by direct and indirect government relationships/strawmen.

    Slightly less relevant context:

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    Back when the popularity of Internet was on the rise in Hungary, one of the biggest news media sites was origo.hu. It got later bought out by a company that kept getting funds from one of the organisations handled by the later minister of finance. Nothing to see here.

    One of the largest and most popular independent media sites, index.hu got also taken over in a similar fashion by Orbán’s most infamous strawmen of the times, Lajos Simicska. Later on they had a falling out, and it was funny to see how suddenly his media took a 180, and in a phone call with a reporter he also called Orbán a scumbag (well, ‘geci’ /p.:~getsy/ was the actual term, which is a slur word for semen/cum, basically meaning scumbag, and the paraphrased ‘Orbán egy geci’ /Orbán is a ‘geci’/ became a meme, but I’m meandering off). However, his control over these portals was taken over, and for a short while there were only one or two significant news/media sites independent from the party’s control.

    Huge media corporations are selling us out

    So the situation here is rather similar; the only difference was that we’re not the US, so let’s take the ‘us’ out of the above.















  • Dicska@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldgrabs popcorn 🍿
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    10 days ago

    For a second I was playing with the thought: what if this was done for an actual reason? Like, you don’t have a garage, a huge storm is coming, and you don’t want your quad to be blown into someone’s bathroom. Plus, it makes the car heavier as well, so it’s two birds with one stone. But there’s nothing else I could think of (provided it’s not a moron).


  • hastighet

    As a native speaker of a language that’s unlike anything, I envy you folks so much. Knowing enough English and German you just look at it, and go ‘aaah, speediness’ (I guess the ‘hast’/‘hastig’ bit is the same as ‘haste’/‘hasty’ in English, and the ‘het’ is the same as ‘heit’ /~ness’/ in German).

    You wouldn’t guess the word, but reading it in context is so much easier.



  • Let’s think about it cold. Kill seagull -> no witnesses, and the next seagull might do the same. I mean, let’s get on his level of apeshit crazy, and let’s assume seagulls actually understand stuff like humans, morals, and above all, human morals, and on top of that, they even care about those and want to comply. You didn’t give it a lesson, because it died before it could learn from it, or before it could let the other seagulls know it’s not cool to steal chips.

    Hell, even when I’m trying to get on his level, it’s still primitively dumb.