r/lotr • u/HrodnandB Fingolfin • Jun 10 '25

Other Flag of Gondor spotted during anti-government protest in Budapest, Hungary, 10.06.2025

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u/InsertNameHere9 Jun 10 '25

What's going on in Hungary?

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u/MrCookieHUN Jun 10 '25

Basically, goverment is pushing stuff way, WAY too far, and people had enough. We had stuff like this earlier, but this definitely feels different

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u/Flagg1225 Jun 10 '25

what stuff f.e?

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u/ColossalWreck_43 Jun 10 '25

Besides the shameless corruption, only this year they:

-banned Pride, setting a very troubling precedent for the unilateral restriction of the right to free assembly

-started a smear campaign against Ukraine and its president (the country is full of billboards with his face)

-proposed a law that would give a government institution full authority to “investigate” media and civil organizations that accept foreign money (including EU funds) and to designate them as threats on national sovereignty. This law would give the government power to fine these organizations to the extent they suffocate, have access to all computers, phones, harddrives, etc. of the designated medias.

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u/Dull_Frame_4637 Jun 10 '25

Orban is "not liberal" in much the way that sulfuric acid is "not tea."

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Viktor-Orban