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  • Right wing? It is smack in the center.

    The tisza party has published their policy plans. (full version pdf: https://magyartisza.hu/program)

    Here are the left-wing ones:

    Economic Justice and Redistribution

    Reduce minimum wage tax from 15% to 9%.
    Lower income tax for workers earning below the median wage.
    Tax the super-rich with a 1% annual wealth tax on assets over 1 billion HUF.
    Cut VAT on firewood, healthy food, and prescription medicines.
    

    Expanded Social Safety Net

    Double family allowances, maternity support, and childcare benefits.
    Guarantee a minimum pension of 120,000 HUF per month.
    Provide "Pensioner SZÉP Cards" with up to 200,000 HUF in annual support.
    Increase home care fees by 50% for family caregivers.
    Give a "Newborn Kit" worth 50,000 HUF to every baby.
    

    Labor and Public Sector Support

    Increase pay by 25% for social sector and educational assistants.
    Strengthen union rights and rebuild national social dialogue.
    Enforce equal pay for equal work between men and women.
    

    Public Goods and Equality

    Establish independent ministries for Healthcare and Education.
    Maintain tuition-free first university degrees.
    Build social rental housing and more student dormitories.
    End period poverty by providing free hygiene products in state schools.
    Fund Roma integration through school buses and new scholarships.
    

    State-Led Public Services

    Nationalize debt enforcement and make it non-profit.
    Take over company liquidations to ensure a non-profit, transparent process
    


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  • Then I am very hopeful, because what’s happening here from Orban’s ruling party has been very contra-productive lately. The polling also shows a decisive lead in favor of the opposition party, Tisza. (58% vs 35%)

    Here is a translated satirical summary from r/hungary of how absurd things are in the official communication (and there are still two weeks!):

    After summarizing the information provided by Gergely Gulyás over the past few weeks, the situation has now become completely clear to me.

    The fact is that the Ukrainians support Tisza, so Ukrainians have infiltrated Tisza to leak information about it, thereby weakening Tisza. But other Ukrainians are infiltrating these Ukrainian infiltration groups to prevent the leaks. However, yet other Ukrainians are monitoring them to expose the Ukrainians who are preventing the leaks. Meanwhile, the Hungarian secret service exposes the Ukrainians, but the Ukrainians leak this information through an investigative journalist working for them three years before the Tisza was founded, which Ukrainians again refute, and then Ukrainians also confirm it even in the past.

    Meanwhile, the Ukrainians want Tisza to win, but the Ukrainians also want Tisza to lose, so the Ukrainians are campaigning for Tisza, while Zelenskyy is campaigning against Tisza, which other Ukrainians are coordinating so that the Ukrainians don’t know what the Ukrainians are doing.

    Meanwhile, the Ukrainians secretly want to attack Orbán to boost Fidesz’s support, and everyone knows about this because the Ukrainians leaked it so that the Ukrainians wouldn’t remain in the dark. Meanwhile, within the Tisza, the Ukrainians want to destroy the Tisza, which the Ukrainians are trying to defend from the Ukrainians, while within the Tisza, the Ukrainians are investigating who the Ukrainians are. So, here’s where we stand: the Ukrainians are supporting the Tisza, the Ukrainians are sabotaging the Tisza, the Ukrainians are monitoring the Ukrainians, the Ukrainians are exposing the Ukrainians, the Ukrainians are misleading the Ukrainians, the Ukrainians are controlling the Ukrainians, and the Ukrainians are trying to figure out who the Ukrainians are.

    In short: the Ukrainians are fighting against the Ukrainians as part of a complex, multi-pronged intelligence operation to determine what the Ukrainians ultimately want.

    It’s perfectly clear.

    The only question now is when the Russians who support Fidesz, who are, of course, also Ukrainians, will appear in this story.















  • There are many ethnicities in India and China. Your equivalence breaks down, because then both an uyghur, tibetian and han chinese would be the same.

    I get it, if we are talking about outsider’s perspective, I for example can’t tell apart a typical chinese from a typical korean or japanese person. Due to the lack of exposure, my brain only registers them as “asian person”. Maybe the language can give a clue, but that’s debateable.

    Still, the broader the brushes we paint with, the more erroneous generalization are.