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cookiesnrap 🇪🇺
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Ich lese gerade wieder diesen „Ungarn ist ja nicht Russland“-Take – und genau da liegt das Problem.
Ja, natürlich: In der EU wirst du als Oppositioneller nicht einfach verhaftet oder aus dem Land gejagt. Die Latte so zu setzen, ist aber absurd niedrig.
Das System von Viktor Orbán funktioniert ja gerade deshalb so gut, weil es unterhalb dieser Schwelle bleibt: Medien kontrollieren, Regeln verzerren, Ressourcen lenken – ohne offene Gewalt.
Und genau das macht es für Europa gefährlich. Nicht, dass es wie Russland ist. Sondern dass es zeigt, wie weit man auch innerhalb der EU gehen kann.
Wer dann sagt „die EU setzt ja Grenzen“, hat nicht unrecht. Aber er unterschätzt, wie gross der Spielraum darunter ist.
Und genau solche Verharmlosungen sind politisch nicht neutral:
Sie senken die Aufmerksamkeit für genau die Entwicklungen, auf die Parteien wie die Alternative für Deutschland setzen.
Das Problem ist nicht, dass Ungarn kein Belarus ist.
Das Problem ist, dass es Wahlen gibt – aber keinen fairen Wettbewerb mehr.
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Ich habe darüber schon verschiedentlich geschrieben: Der Erfolg von Péter Magyar in Ungarn ist bewundernswert, aber eine wichtige Rolle haben die Grenzen gespielt, die eine EU-Mitgliedschaft auch einem Herrscher wie Orbán auferlegt. Er konnte tricksen und foulen, aber es gab genügend Freiräume für Magyar, um eine mächtige Bewegung aufzubauen: Er konnte sich frei bewegen (wurde nicht inhaftiert/getötet/aus dem Land getrieben), er konnte die sozialen Netzwerke ungehindert nutzen, er konnte Geld akquirieren. In europäischen Ländern außerhalb der EU (Russland, Türkei, Belarus, in diesem Fall Georgien) ist das nicht gegeben, wenn ein Potentat sich erstmal eingerichtet hat. Bei allem Genöle über Brüsseler Bürokratie: Die EU kann was!
Terje Helland@terjehelland
🇬🇪🇭🇺Hungary under Orbán shows that a heavily rigged electoral system can still be contested. Georgian opposition is right to study it. But the comparison only holds if you understand precisely how different the Georgian reality is. 1/11
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A big ongoing development in UK EU relations is Labour MPs now understanding the importance of freedom of movement. Replacing the cakeist Customs Union calls with this shows a real evolution in thinking to respond to what Brussels is saying.
theguardian.com/politics/2026/…
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@NicholasCraven_ When you’d spent hours on a shitty limewire connection and the supposed mixtape was just white noise 😭
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people really take for granted that every song is at your finger tips, you used to have to go see a bard and he only knew like 30 songs if he was good
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@PolishPalace @Andric1961 But when have facts ever got in the way of national stereotypes? See also Northern European ideas about Mediterranean working culture etc
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@Andric1961 as a Brit observer I have to agree. But it's breaking down, and fast. There's more than grudging admiration for Poles now amongst Germans. Polish autobahns are better. So are the railways. Everything works. This surprises them
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Admittedly, this impression is not based on polls or hard facts, thus hard to prove. Same goes for my impression that many Germans suffer from a similar (and similarly unjustifed) superiority complex towards Eastern Europeans. Life experience just fostered those impressions.
Michael Martens@Andric1961
In a regional context, many Serbs (not “the Serbs”) suffer from a superiority complex, thinking they are smarter, more dynamic & modern than their neighbors in Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania, while those in fact have long since surpassed them.
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@Nore_MCC Dark Times
NO THANK YOU
LGSEO
Honourable mention:
Melt My Eyez
Forever Story
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What are your top 3 2010's hip-hop albums?
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@KaterynaLis I see I’m already following you but don’t often see your posts. Thanks for nothing, Elon.
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So many important news and updates are happening right now—please help me break out of my bubble and share more stories about Ukraine. Share this page and encourage others to follow so we can expand our reach and improve coverage together.
I’m trying very much to help keep both your sanity and mine by sharing accurate news and analysis from Kyiv and Washington, DC, with sources from all sides 😉
Attached some random photos of me:
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Rubio phones Europe, saying the US should close their bases in Europe and remove their troops.
This is Europe’s reaction:
Coinvo@Coinvo
🇺🇸🇪🇺 MARCO RUBIO: "Since Europe won’t allow us to use the bases we man and fund for their defense, we ought to close them down and remove our troops."
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as sample based music stays under attack, remember:
“you can even chop off the fingers i type with, those i hold the mic with, thinking i might quit, they dont know, that only makes more determined, ich lebe fur hip-hop, you can ask the germans” -GZA
Nicholas Craven@NicholasCraven_
hip-hop artists have been sacrificing their careers for decades to bring you great sample based music, pharaohe monch, de la soul, etc. only for fans to create a sample snitching database that would be sold for hundreds of millions to one of the biggest investors of ai warfare 😭
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GET OFF THE PRICE CAP IF YOU CAN. DON'T IGNORE THIS (unsure if you're on the Cap? You likely are!) There's a window of opportunity to lock in prices below the current Cap to avoid the huge hike coming in July. M'full briefing & top deals list here... #hiya" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">moneysavingexpert.com/latesttip/?anc…
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🔴 EXPOSED: How Viktor Orbán Bankrolled the Network Around Reform UK
As Hungary’s Prime Minister suffers a historic electoral defeat, Byline Times maps out how his government’s funding arm channelled hundreds of thousands of pounds into organisations at the heart of Britain’s hard right.
bylinetimes.com/2026/04/14/exp…
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@HermanZeGerman I think Carlos Tevez was the main man in all this (for players at least)
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have just stumbled upon this article on the remarkable snood outrage of 2011, even madder than I remembered
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15th highest wage bill in the Championship btw, incredible feat
The Touchline | 𝐓@TouchlineX
🚨 Unless they lose their remaining four games 8-0, Frank Lampard is going to get promoted with Coventry City and win the Championship! He became their manager last season when they were 17th in the league table! 🤯👏
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Tackling "waste" or "growth" is not unfortunately going to produce enough extra spending for all the non-priority priorities like defence or for example tackling the cost of living and thus is UK politics essentially currently broken by the challenge of demographics.
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Are we really complacent on defence or just stuck because no politician of any party think they can win an election without prioritising pensioners?
ft.com/content/88b1f1…
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An insidious offshoot of sending influencers in to do a journalist's job is that it props up and justifies the celeb-on-celeb interview, which we've all fallen prey to, is generally bad for the form, and like many things may be Jimmy Fallon's fault. theguardian.com/culture/2026/a…
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@tmorello @suffolkvillage One of the select few who have never sold out 🫡
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Today’s the 30th anniversary of RATM’S um, ‘memorable’ performance on SNL. There was a fight onstage between our crew and SNL stage hands moments before our performance, wrestling over some upside down American flags which adorned our amps. Timmy C then attacked host/billionarie/presidential candidate Steve Forbes’ family in the dressing room with a wadded up flag. Secret Service flooded the hallways. SNL cut (censored?) our second song and kicked us out onto the sidewalk.
Evil Empire entered the Billboard Album Chart at #1.
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@emreadsthebooks I went in completely blind and enjoying it so far (maybe half way).
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I have some spare time and the count has started to call to me from the shelf...
Do I answer the call to finally read this mammoth of a book???
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@SHREKRAP Had to rewind the first verse about 40 times before I could move on, first time I played it.
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