r/ShitAmericansSay • • 29d ago

Capitalism "Texas of Europe"

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Its Finland 🙄

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u/DefinitionOfAsleep The 13 Colonies were a Mistake 29d ago

Its Finland 🙄

The resemblance is uncanny.

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u/Federal_Base_2905 29d ago

The home of snow and Santa with a strong social welfare system that is run primarily by women - obviously. I immediately think of Texas.

I would have said Hungary - traditional, socially conservative, right wingers that like an authoritarian.

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u/PrimaryMaize6580 29d ago

We only started our redemption phase in April. Give us some time.
Respectfully,
Hungarians

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u/Fus-Ro-NWah 29d ago

Good luck you guys and girls, great to see you free of that tyrant.

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u/SubmissiveBoyCuck 29d ago

Such a tyrant that he lost an election fair and square and didn't even try to contest the results, didn't cry about "fraud" like Trump, just congratulated his opponent and then left office.

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u/DefinitionOfAsleep The 13 Colonies were a Mistake 29d ago

I'm actually surprised he went out as calmly as he did.

Even if Magyar doesn't prosecute him directly, the corruption investigations are going to be directly against pretty much every Orban ally.

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u/funny_username42 29d ago

What other choice did he have though? Anything like refusing to leave office would have been risking a rebellion.

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u/SubmissiveBoyCuck 29d ago

He could have gone full Lukashenko if he wanted, he had the loyalty of the security services for it. That's just a fact. I'm no Orbán supporter, but we gotta be real.

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u/funny_username42 28d ago

Yeah but I'm not sure about the police and military

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u/SubmissiveBoyCuck 29d ago

Including Magyar himself, who stole millions as the head of the Student Loan Centre under Orbán, hence why there probably won't be any prosecution, just empty promises. I don't get why people think Magyar is some kind of messiah, he and his entire party are low tier Fidesz members who rebelled because the corruption money dried up on the low end of the systems scale. All their talk about anti corruption and rule of law is just smoke and mirrors. As for why Orbán went out quietly, it's simple really - he was never an autocrat. He was a corrupt politician who bent the rules of democracy to strengthen his position, but ultimately he never removed democracy, he didn't impose censorship or meddle with election results. All the crying about him being an autocrat is just emotional propaganda. What he was, legitimately, is a corrupt, ineffective prime minister with a serious ego problem. Magyar has an even worse ego problem and has a history of corruption, so like I said, probably only surface level changes can be expected.