I haven't posted here yet, but the craziness going on in lil old dictatorial Hungary is worth sharing.

I don't live in Hungary anymore, but this article still makes me mad, every paragraph is a different mindf***.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/14/europe/hungary-lgbtq-law-intl-latam/index.html

Depressing and aggravating. We will fight and celebrate when these dinosaurs die. They won't be the first dictators we dance on the graves of.

Another hard right government resurrects Thatcher's Section 28.

I know it would open up an unfortunate precedent about the EU "controlling their member states' politics" but I wish they'd just kick Hungary out of the club for stuff like this. It's a more sinister story than most authoritarian nations around the world because it's happening within the supposed democracy sphere.

Orbán and his government need to be gone. This is the sort of thing you'd wish there'd be mass protest for.

Their government is nowhere near gone any time soon so I really hope and expect EU to respond, and quickly. No one wants the likes of Poland, Greece and Italy to get inspired to start passing laws like that, if not already.

The whole thing is exhausting and not at all surprising, and smells like Russian bot farm influence. Although most things do nowadays