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This is now normal...

The “anti pedophile” law in action

Posted on January, 2022 by MwBp • Leave a comment

A high school teacher sent a dick pic to a 14-year-old. The schools demands to know who trapped the poor thing. The dick pic was fine. Continue reading →

Forcing a member of the audience to perform fake oral sex on you is good comedy now apparently
This is now normal...

Forcing a member of the audience to perform fake oral sex on you is good comedy now apparently

Posted on June, 2021 by MwBp • Leave a comment

If this is a progressive TV channel, what is an oppressive one? Continue reading →

Of course the new pedophile law is really a homophobic law
2020 - Not 1920 / This is now normal...

Of course the new pedophile law is really a homophobic law

Posted on June, 2021 by MwBp • Leave a comment

An autocrat against pedophilia doesn’t make sense. An autocrat using pedophilia to attack homosexuals does. Continue reading →

This is now normal...

He just can’t shut up

Posted on March, 2021 by MwBp • Leave a comment

Orbán called young doctors servants, children “public goods” and Katalin Karikó, the inventor of the mRNA vaccines “a Hungarian housewife”. And that’s just last week. Continue reading →

This is now normal...

When a car part dealership knows the law before it is published

Posted on March, 2021 by MwBp • Leave a comment

Just a little thing but a microcosm of what is wrong. Continue reading →

The last non-Orbánist radio channel is shut down
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The last non-Orbánist radio channel is shut down

Posted on February, 2021 by MwBp • Leave a comment

Klubrádió has been the last radio that did not belong to the Orbánist media stable. It has been shut down. Continue reading →

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MPs got 786% richer under Orbán

Posted on February, 2021 by MwBp • Leave a comment

One of the sickest things in Hungary is that people regard it as normal that politicians get rich, that they are rich, and that they become politicians exactly because they want to get rich. Continue reading →

Punk is not dead – but it is censored and beaten up in a dark alleyway
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Punk is not dead – but it is censored and beaten up in a dark alleyway

Posted on January, 2021 by MwBp • Leave a comment

A punk band’s concert video was censored to remove all Orbán-critical content and a band member was allegedly beaten by unknown henchmen outside his home, days after the concert. Continue reading →

This is now normal...

I think it’s a pattern

Posted on December, 2020 by MwBp • Leave a comment

Just take December 2020. The month started with the political appointee at the helm of Petőfi Literary Museum publishing a combative editorial calling George Soros the “liberal Führer” whose “liber-aryan followers worship him more subserviently than Hitler’s did Hitler”. He called Europe “George Soros’ gas chamber”. Continue reading →

This is now normal...

Covid emergency spending: Sport, sport, church, sport, church, sport, sport…

Posted on December, 2020 by MwBp • Leave a comment

…and a few radically overpriced respirators from friendly companies Continue reading →

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