“It never happened but they deserved it”. It’s a classic rhetoric of people who deny or white wash genocides.

They don’t really deny Slovakia’s legitimacy, at least not officially because it was part of the deal to join nato to give up on those claims.

From Orbán most of these are a performance towards his different voter blocks. Even in a single talk he gives he swings between far left and far right rhetoric depending whom he wants to pander to.

Maybe he said something that I don’t know about, but recently he even started to distance himself from the Hungarian minority parties in Slovakia in favor of Fico. It’s all about staying in power and finding the right allies for it.

Looking at historic facts and evidence selectively, misinterpreting them, ignoring anything that contradicts them. Also, just making shit up and saying it with a straight face so you don’t question them. It also helps that the time period isn’t well documented so they can just fill the gaps with fantasy.

If you don’t know much about history and don’t look into their claims at all they can be surprisingly convincing.

Also that it’s a foreign holiday that was imported to make money and taint our culture.

Some who are more into conspiracy theories also say that they want to push uniformity through American pop culture because “The Jews™” want to make a one world government and enslave everyone.

They say it’s anti-Christian because instead of practicing the Christian customs of remembering the dead and praying on this day, kids go out to party dressed as demons.

Source: my neighbor is a far right conspiracy theorist and goes on the same rant about it every year.

Why? Many European countries struggle with not having enough people.

Yeah, that’s what I think, too. Orbán seems to jump from far left to far right rhetoric depending on which voter block he wants to pander to, just to stay in power.

I don’t think most controversial things that he pushes matters to him as much as power and money, the only thing that I think he’s really passionate about is fixing our demographic issues.

The funny things is that despite all the nationalistic rhetoric, Orbán would rather build relations with Fico because they’re both pro-Russia than the Hungarian minority parties.

HERE’S SOMETHING THE EUROPEAN MIND can’t fully comprehend: Come November 2024, Donald Trump may be headed back into the White House

What a condescending way to start an article

This is not funny

Yes, there are issues where both major sides are bad. You don’t always have to pick a side and 100% adopt their beliefs.

This is a cultural thing, in Europe we take these kind of things much more seriously. We take pride in our regional products and they’re protected by law. It’s not tied to a company like in your example, that we care much less about, it’s more a matter of national or regional identity.

But this logic goes even further. For example, in my home country you can’t label almond milk as “almond milk” since it’s not actually milk but a plant product.

Paywalled article

15 minutes walk

That’s an ironic thumbnail

I recently found out that the suburbs in the US have NOTHING other than single family homes.

No small grocery store, no hair salon, no post office, no pub, no tiny kebab place around the corner, nothing. There are areas where you have to drive 30 minutes just to buy bread.

Now I understand why 15-minute cities are such a buzz among Americans.

You misspelled pacman

Poland had two of those “friends”