@SocraticEthics as a yung Hungarian this was one of my proudest day! “Ruszkik haza!” (This is the “Russians go home!” what the crowd chanting)

@Wuzzy they banned it just an hour ago xdd

@Mab_813 @Wuzzy It’s true, Karácsony and the leadership of Budapest wants to organise the event. A lot of previous critics of the Pride from Hungary already stated that they’re willing to attend on it, to protest the banning.

@nixCraft I think its some kind of quiet quitting since you at least have a good time writing that code to a particular soulless tech corporation where your work is mostly trying to keep alive some legacy product and attending pointless meetings

@tomtom @Free_Press Im not sure about the exact numbers but im optimistic. There is two things to my optimism. Fidesz held there last couple of events in small squares (right now in front of the Magyar Nemzeti Museum, they closed the streets from Kálvin square to Asztoria) to be sure they can fill it and to give a sense of big number. Meanwhile Tisza fill the Andrasy street from Oktogon to Deák Ferenc square which is much bigger space. Other thing is that Fidesz transports its followers by rented buses, and the opposition supporters are usually came by train. And unfortunately there was a technical issue in Szolnok (one of a major satiation in the country) which prevented a lot of people from arriving in time to the Tisza event. So although the Tisza event would be bigger they managed to out number the Fidesz one. If you are interested here is an English article by one of the Hungarian independent news portal about Orban’s speach https://insighthungary.444.hu/2025/03/16/orban-promises-crackdown-on-media-and-civil-society-calls-them-stink-bugs

@tomtom @Free_Press For comperison, here is a picture from the Fidesz event held on the same day.

@tomtom @Free_Press Marc 15th is a Hungarian national holiday, and the protests was against the current prime minister’s, Viktor Orbán’s regime. He and his party, which is called Fidesz rules the country since 2010 with more or less unlimited power, with political tools used by Putyin, Trump and other semi authoritarian leaders. Until this point the population was so fragmented that the majoritywas ether apolitical or frightened, but since last year’s February there is a big shift in the general political climate. At that time they pardoned a convicted child abuser despite their family first agenda. After that and a lot of other stuff a new political party created (its called Tisza) and since then, they are growing despite all of the effort from Fidesz against them. The picture is taken on Tisza’s gathering/protest.

@ChallengeApathy It’s obvious that you feel like there is no other system where you have the same chance to get ahed if your definition of getting ahed is based on values what the system put ahed of you.