I often ask myself "What the hell? Why aren't the #Russians protesting all this shit?" As a westerner, this apparent disregard is really difficult to grasp. @anderspuck talks about three theories and speculate what could trigger a potential revolt. Good stuff!
Excited to announce that the @EUCommission has updated it's follow buttons on the website footer!
What's that first platform there? Could that be #Mastodon?
And where did the link to #X go?
All the posts and comments here on Mastodon calling for this, trust me we read them!
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When will Russians start protesting?
An excellent video as usual on why #Europe really needs #Ukraine for defence from @anderspuck - and if you want to hear what Ukrainian #PolarScience can do for and with us in #Antarctica, we are organising a showcase in Brussels at the natural history museum on 11th September.
Details via @OceanIceEU to follow!
Fidesz' massive defeat comes despite:
- multiple active Russian disinformation campaigns
- the US government actively supporting Fidesz
- Fidesz owning the majority of TV & radio stations + newspapers
- Fidesz having gerrymandered the crap out of the country
- many documented cases of voter suppression & paying disinfrenchised voters for support
- Fidesz pouring unprecedented $$$ into their campaign
Feeling a little proud of my country for the first time in a while 🇭🇺
Just noting, for the benefit of people who are pointing out that Hungary's PM-elect isn't some sort of progressive saint:
1. Yeah, his party is centre-right, but it's also the furthest left of the parties with seats in the new parliament.
2. Winning a two-thirds majority in a system designed to disadvantage opposition parties is a seismic shift.
3. Look back over the last century-and-a-bit of Hungarian history and you'll see the red-rag Left doing many horrible things which have not been forgotten. You'll also see the interwar fascism of the Horthy "regency" and maybe you'll agree that Hungary can have a bit of near-centrism, as a treat.
So, this is where us outsiders sit back and shut up and watch as an antidemocratic system is brought back to something resembling normality.
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