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Breaking: A protest worked!
10000 people protested against the planned Chinese communist mega-university in Budapest on Saturday. The government appears to have backpedalled on the project. For now. Continue reading
Can the militarization of the regime really not happen?
R. Daniel Kelemen from Rutgers has given an interview to Népszava and in it he mentioned that the benefit of an EU-membership might be that Orbán will not resort to Lukashenko-like violence because an EU member state can not sink as deeply into autocracy as a non-member could. Continue reading
Defining a cult: I know it when I see it
Arguably, every effort to define something starts with “I know it when I see it”. Then we proceed to draft a definition that includes what we want included but excludes what we don’t. Continue reading
Cults as authoritarian high control groups
They are just the spectacular tip of the authoritarian control iceberg Continue reading
Why Do Humans Oppose Human Rights?
What is the point of freedoms if one feels he can’t use them? Continue reading
Orbánists today don’t even know what democratic principles they spurn
“Excuse me, comrade, you gave me the verdict, not my statement” Continue reading
What is Orbán afraid of? Part 2.
The media, weirdly enough Continue reading
What is Orbán afraid of?
One way to gain an edge in the absence of reliable information is to watch the autocrat and see what he fears Continue reading
The pollution is not great, not terrible
What does this photo remind you of? Continue reading
Meanwhile in Budapest 