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#Orbán is running for his 5th-straight term as “prime minister”. He & his #nationalist #populist #Fidesz party are facing their toughest race in 2 decades against a center-right challenger, #Tisza party led by Péter #Magyar, that could bring an end to Orbán’s 16 years in #power.

Orbán has bristled at the slightest mention of the #election by any of his partners in the #EU, decrying any expressions of support for his opponent as a grave breach of #Hungary’s sovereignty & meddling in the election

WIST Quotations4d ago

A quotation from Orwell

A nationalist is one who thinks solely, or mainly, in terms of competitive prestige. He may be a positive or a negative nationalist — that is, he may use his mental energy either in boosting or in denigrating — but at any rate his thoughts always turn on victories, defeats, triumphs and humiliations. He sees history, especially contemporary history, as the endless rise and decline of great power units, and every event that happens seems to him a demonstration that his own side is on the upgrade and some hated rival is on the downgrade.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)

More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/45763/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #comparison #competition #defeat #ego #face #faction #history #nationalism #prestige #takesides #usvsthem #victory #winning #nationalist

Orwell, George - Essay (1945-05), "Notes on Nationalism," Polemic Magazine (1945-10) | WIST Quotations

A nationalist is one who thinks solely, or mainly, in terms of competitive prestige. He may be a positive or a negative nationalist -- that is, he may use his mental energy either in boosting or in denigrating -- but at any rate his thoughts always turn on victories, defeats,…

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Miss Kitty 🌈🌈🌈Mar 31
@jd-vance-1.bsky.social 👇🏻 You are not #Christian. - You are a #nationalist. #God didn't put any nationalism in love. You don't know anything about anything, but definitely not about #love. Your #shame would cause you, does, to #murder the #innocent. You would #crucify Him again. You're the #alien.

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Ultra Verified 🇺🇦 🇬🇱Mar 29

Countries all around the world are tightening requirements for citizenship, permanent residency and work visas.

All seemingly in direct reaction to #republican #racist right wing #nationalist #fascism in the USA, joining in to #deny human beings basic #dignity and #rights based upon (at best) artificial provincialism, and of course plenty of that outright #bigotry as well.

It's awful.

Miss Kitty 🌈🌈🌈Mar 29
@jd-vance-1.bsky.social How is #American #Crusade different than #Islamic #Jihad? Please remind me of the difference again? Is there a footnote in the #Nationalist translation version of The #Holy #Bible #commandment to not kill that says except #Muslims?

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhDMar 25
The symbolic/traditional date for the beginning of the #GreekWarOfIndependence is #ThisDayInHistory in 1821. In a little over a decade it had succeeded in created one of the first #NationStates in the world, helping to unleash the wave of #nationalist violence that has followed.
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📰 Pro-Europese premier Golob wint verkiezingen in Slovenië

https://nieuwsjunkies.nl/artikel/1A9l

🕓 04:00 | NOS Nieuws
🔸 #Verkiezingen #Nationalist #Liberaal #Slovenie #Europa

Pro-Europese premier Golob wint verkiezingen in Slovenië

Bij deze verkiezingen stond Slovenië op een kruispunt: verdergaan op de liberale en pro-Europese weg of kiezen voor een populistisch-nationalistische weg.

Liam O'Mara IV, PhDMar 21
The #PonceMassacre was on #ThisDayInHistory in 1937 in #PuertoRico, when police under a military governor opened fire on a #nationalist demonstration, killing 19 & wounding 200+. The protest was to commemorate the ending of slavery and to demand freedom for a political prisoner.
MarkMar 19

#Russian #psyop targets #Hungarians in western #Ukraine as #Budapest-Kyiv tensions rise

Russia has launched a major #HybridWar operation targeting the Hungarian ethnic community

Posing as #Ukrainian law enforcement officers or #nationalist groups members, Russian operatives making calls to ethnic Hungarians demanding they leave the country ^ threatening #violence

The calls were made from Russia

https://kyivindependent.com/russian-psyop-allegedly-targets-ukraines-hungarian-community/

#RussianAggression #RussianThreats #terrorism #fraud

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Liam O'Mara IV, PhDMar 15
I've never found an exact #ThisDayInHistory the Association of German National Jews was founded, but we know it was in March of 1921. An extreme #assimilationalist, #antiZionist, #nationalist group, its ~6000 Jewish members were pro-#Nazi, but were still killed in the #Holocaust.