Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
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Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
18hr ago
No, not really. If you ignore what has always been the actual issue - foreign policy rgule-of-law stuff, corruption, stuff like running push-poll "national consultations" without any purpose other than tweaking Brussels, I'm not aware of any particular domestic/cultural policy stuff that has been done Hungary and hasn't been done by at least one other EU member country without a particular reaction from Brussels. Just an endless machine of anti-EU (and now anti-Ukraine) populism to maintain power and do corruption, as listed in the OP.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
22hr ago
It's been perfectly possible to restrict immigration through various means (such as in Denmark) while being a loyal member of the EU.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
1d ago
Most of EU decisionmakers will be perfectly happy if Hungary elects a guy who does most of the same stuff as Orban does expect for being pro-russia and picking continuous fights with the EU.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
2d ago
It's a classic video game that is still very playable today vis-a-vis graphics and can be obtained for free from Steam as Ur-Quan Masters, I don't find it particularly surprising.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
5d ago
"Iran agreed to open the straits that were already open before this debacle" is a laughable spin attempt.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
6d ago
Sure, but that's ephemeral if the question is whether Trump is making Europe spend more on defense through bully-boy tactics or whether Europe would be spending more on defense anyway - and, indeed, an important point is that it's after Europe has done what Trump ostensibly wants it to do that Trump has decided to start provoking and undercutting Europe in various and sundry ways.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
6d ago
Europe started ramping up defense spending in 2022 already (for obvious reason) and hiked it more from 2023 to 2024 than from 2024 to 2025.
Since this is basically a cue for me, I'm currently basically out of work. I had a big project in Feb-March that fortunately earned enough money to keep me going for this and the next month, but the current amount of other work is so sparse that I will probably be forced on the dole (unless me and my sisters get my mother's house sold in the meantime) until August, when I'll be hopefully starting an internship that might springboard on to another career. This was preceeded by a major client that has basically kept me afloat for 3.5 years announcing they're moving to AI-oriented workflows with less human translators on the loop. So yeah, there are almost certainly still translators going, but it's looking like the end of the career for me.
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