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  • I’m not Hungarian but I was at Batthany ter from 6PM to 2AM and experiencing history by yourself is much different than seeing it on TV. There was a group of high schoolers in front of me who were hugging among eachother constantly once they knew Tisza won, broke my heart.

    When I was coming back, on the shuttle bus to Warsaw Chopin a Hungarian woman was watching a recap of the election night smiling, and when a bird’s eye video of the crowd appeared she was shaking her head in disbelief/pride. Yes, I was watching her phone from above - standing - while she was sitting, shut up

    With those kind of rosy-eyed stories in Poland we say “and then the bus driver sat up and started clapping” and indeed I may be on an emotional high compared to people who just saw the facts on TV, though I don’t even feel a fraction of some Hungarians may be feeling.

    Also I couldn’t join in on any of the chants but the simplest “-ria, -ria, Hungaria” lol













  • I don’t get how people didn’t realize that you’re not supposed to follow what he does day after day. He says and does outrageous things so the algorithms and media like him, so he’s everywhere. Is making a personal choice to be exposed to such news all the time really healthy for you? Being exposed to live news and following them is an illusion of the “civic duty” of being informed. Better read a history book to give context to current events than forget the news you read now an hour later.

    I prefer my US news slow - after they’ve been left to simmer for 2 weeks. And I agree with OP that they should be contained.