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A monument to past subservience is somehow the perfect way to celebrate present day submission
Funny Fraud

A monument to past subservience is somehow the perfect way to celebrate present day submission

Posted on February, 2021 by MwBp • Leave a comment

Nothing says self respect like erecting a statue to the feudal owner of your ancestors on the last dime of your village. Maybe perhaps erecting the statue on debt. Continue reading →

After Orbán
System Decay

After Orbán

Posted on December, 2020 by MwBp • Leave a comment

“I feel like I win when I lose” 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 →

System Decay

Emergency powers, changing constitution, rewriting the election law… and a little bit of Covid

Posted on November, 2020 by MwBp • Leave a comment

The timing is the most interesting Continue reading →

Corruption is a feature, not a bug

Make Corruption Noble Again

Posted on October, 2020 by MwBp • Leave a comment

Today’s gangster is tomorrow’s aristocrat, mkay? Continue reading →

Corruption is a feature, not a bug

If we can’t punish politicians for accepting bribes – can we at least ban from tenders the businessmen who bribe them? Please?

Posted on October, 2020 by MwBp • Leave a comment

A proposal that really just serves to show how helpless we are Continue reading →

Hungarian corruption 10x EU average
Corruption is a feature, not a bug / Data

Hungarian corruption 10x EU average

Posted on September, 2020 by MwBp • Leave a comment

12x more corrupt than Romania, 8x more than Slovakia Continue reading →

Would you give your job (or your life) to bring just one corrupt strongman to justice? Because that is the price
Real existing Orbánism

Would you give your job (or your life) to bring just one corrupt strongman to justice? Because that is the price

Posted on September, 2020 by MwBp • Leave a comment

Two prosecutors were fired trying to stop the case against a corrupt Orbánist MP. He is now even bragging about it Continue reading →

Oligarchs don’t buy politicians here – It’s the other way around
Corruption is a feature, not a bug

Oligarchs don’t buy politicians here – It’s the other way around

Posted on August, 2020 by MwBp • Leave a comment

Eastern oligarchs are made by their kings – they don’t buy politicians because they are owned by them Continue reading →

The Orbán-government’s go-to excuse is that “it is a private business’ internal affair”
Corruption is a feature, not a bug / I dare you to do business in Hungary...

The Orbán-government’s go-to excuse is that “it is a private business’ internal affair”

Posted on July, 2020 by MwBp • Leave a comment

Too bad it’s a willful misrepresentation of the truth Continue reading →

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