Canadian conservatives talking about “Soviet style bread lines” in response to Avi Lewis proposing public grocery stores, while there are literal bread lines at food banks.

If the justice system in Germany is not completely compromised this should get thrown out at court the moment this video evidence is presented and the “media worker” should be charged instead.

There are better and worse democracies. Overall, democracy this decade is on the decline: https://www.v-dem.net/publications/democracy-reports/

Since it’s called the GNU Image Manipulation Program, why not pick up the extremely low hanging fruit and call it GNU Imp? It also comes with a free mascot.

Edit: And given that Wilber already has a cheeky smile and two horn-like ears, it wouldn’t even be that much of a new mascot either. I mean come on people, do I have to think of everything around here?

They joys of a bunch of right wingers jerking each other off. Meanwhile, Sanchez is the only one doing the honourable thing and calling a spade a spade.

I keep seeing this point raised but it doesn’t make sense to me. If no invitation was extended, then the point of not officially denying it is… what exactly?

I mean let’s be as charitable as possible to Magyar. You are the pm-elect. The Israelis make a claim that’s untrue. That claim actually hurts your reputation as a break from orbanism. If you let it be, it puts you in a box, it constrains your movement. Why stay silent? And if you don’t want to rock the boat too much, why not even make a half assed walk back, as in “we talked and agreed in principle on a state visit, potentially after the next Israeli election in October” (that would keep your options open and give you plausible deniability for any play you choose). Instead, just …silence? What’s the play here?

A much simpler explanation to all of this absurd-adjacent hypotheticals, an explanation that requires the fewest hypotheses (Occam’s razor) is that …an invitation was made.

Yes, and the EU has at various points made collective commitments to it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_and_the_International_Criminal_Court

Technically, undermining the ICC is also blocking an EU thing.

Because the Polanski Greens are offering a real left alternative.

There is only one solution to right wing authoritarian populism and that’s left wing libertarian populism.

Europe really needs to get over cold war red scare propaganda.

You know how the way the homeopathic charlatans work is by diluting a tiny amount of active ingredient into a huge amount of water and then tell you that creates more potent medicine?

Don’t you see the same logic here? They are not diverting the funding that used to go to pseudoscience towards evidence based care. No no no, sir. They are diluting a tiny bit of good decision making (defunding the quacks) in a huge amount of bad decision making (healthcare cuts).

Just like you can’t dilute a tiny bit of, I dunno, acetaminophen in a 100 liters of water and claim it is still medicinal, you also can’t dilute a tiny bit of reasonable policy in billions of euros of cuts and call the whole package sensible.

Just conservatives enshittifying things.

And how do they plan to pay for the climate-change damage that causes? For the property damage, emergency services and insurance costs caused by additional flash floods, wildfires, heat domes, and droughts?

For a bunch of conservatives, this is fiscally irresponsible.

(Let’s start using their language against them.)

In all sincerity, I wish you and Hungary all the best.

The Israelis kind of have a point here, that the “burning of Judas” Easter tradition in many European and Latin American countries is indeed a case of folk antisemitism.

Just Google “burning of Judas” and “antisemism” and you’ll find plenty of gross examples.

That said, the Israelis should also freshen up on the ancient fable about the boy who cried wolf…

PS. Send Netanyahu and his cronies to the Hague, end the genocide, dismantle apartheid and the occupation, free Palestine and pay them reparations.

His party is a member of the EPP. How do I define “left”? Anything to the left of the EPP would do for now.

I’m glad that Orban is out but it’s not like Hungary just elected Zohran Magyardani.

Here’s to hoping for a shift in the Hungarian Overton Window such that the new guy will in a few years be outvoted from the left.

For sure! But it has to be done in a way that is lazer focused on making sure no worker is left behind. The Green New Deal (not the Von Der Leyen simulacrum, the Bernie Sanders original) is trying to articulate that idea. The Polanski Greens in the UK and the Lewis NDP in Canada are all about offering this democratic ecosocialist vision forward. Without this leg of the equation, fake green capitalism is just a gift to the far right.

How Brechtian of you.

The one lesson we should have learned since 2008 is that politics cannot be ignored. This kind of supposed technocratic neoliberalism has failed.