Remember: Viktor Orban has built a corrupt, stagnant Hungary that is much poorer than it should be

Anne Applebaum

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/viktor-orban-hungary-maga-corruption/682111/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3yuJNKCeSUHqZt7t_axS7lQ&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Trektor

@anneapplebaum poverty has the future

PedestrianError :vbus: :nblvt:

@anneapplebaum But hey, white male supremacists in Hungary can feel good about themselves even if they're struggling to make ends meet because their fellow working people without white male privilege are being punished even more than they are. That's the most anyone outside the 1% ever gets from supporting fascism.

xgerman

@anneapplebaum checked the Hungary stock index BUX and it’s not too shabby: https://www.intellinews.com/hungarian-stock-market-among-global-leaders-in-2025-bux-jumps-40-419562/ - many things can be true at once but it’s curious that their companies do so well.

LΞX/NØVΛ 🇪🇺

@anneapplebaum fun fact but all corrupted state are killed by the very own corruption that help them to be built (see russia, that lose a war due to the corruption in the country).

Nuwagaba Gift

@anneapplebaum
Can true and good leadership make Hungary rise back to it's feet?

kryten

@anneapplebaum a couple of questions come to mind.

1. Why don't Hungarians rise up and kick Orban out?

2. Why isn't Hungary booted out of the EU?

Osteopenia Powers ;

@anneapplebaum
That's right, fascist fucksticks. You voted for racism and your share of the spoils, and you get, racism and poverty for yourself too.

Elsa

@anneapplebaum as Long as all of his relatives are Fine with EUtaxpayer‘s Money, as Long as they got Rich Orban is
Fine.

Robin Barton

@anneapplebaum What a very sad concept for americans