recarsion@discuss.tchncs.detoMemes@lemmy.ml•2024 is going to be the beginning of the end of us all
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9 months agoHungary is seriously fucked up at the moment but calling it fascism is a huge stretch. It’s not like these fuckers actually believe in anything, they’ll just do whatever gets them the votes and the cash. Not that the tendencies aren’t worrying (in fact I’ve left the country because of them), but it’s not a full blown dictatorship yet. Source: am Hungarian.
Good point, it’s always a tendency and I don’t know where the cut off is. Subjectively I’d say Hungary is nowhere near there. Especially since as I see it, our government’s tendencies don’t come from genuine ideological conviction but selfish interest. If anything it’s an oppressive oligarchy, but not fascism. I hope I’m not just coping.
Wikipedia’s definition:
In my understanding, only some of these things can be argued to be true about Hungary, and none of them to an extreme extent. Of course I don’t know the future and I won’t excuse the crimes of my government, again I left the country because of them, but I want to be realistic and fascism isn’t a word I would throw around lightly.