I lived in Hungary for several years under the Orbán dictatorship.
The funny thing was, people could and did say whatever came into their heads, protests were held in front of the parliament, there was a gay cruise bar down the road and Orbán held elections.
And yet, the country was a dictatorship.
Whereas in the UK, people tend to be distinctly guarded and if they do say the wrong thing very publicly, they get locked up.
And yet, it's a free country.
Once you understand that words can mean whatever we want them to mean, it begins to make sense.
😂 Kamala in deep thought after Maduro’s capture…
“ Venezuela is a country, but we don’t live there… so it’s not our country… and when we go there, we are in another country.”
Spot on Dahlia!
Här MÖRKAR/LJUGER @SVT om orsaker bakom upproret i Iran och ger nyheten endast 40 sekunder. En stad på gränsen till Ryssland ges flera minuter. SVT är ett hot mot allmänbildningen! Detta är Nordkoreansk TV utan någon som helst tvekan.
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Dear bored straight women with humanities degrees: shaving your head and getting a septum piercing doesn’t make you “queer” or a member of the LGBTQ community, and it doesn’t give you license to lecture actual homosexuals about their own history, oppression, and rights.
John Fetterman brings the Kennedy Center to complete silence as he delivers this emotional message on stage:
“I know and I love people who voted for President Trump. They are NOT fascists, they’re NOT Nazis, they’re NOT trying to destroy the Constitution.”
“I REFUSE to call people Nazis or fascists. I would never compare anybody — anybody to Hitler.”
“Like Charlie Kirk, all I could say is let people grieve — give people the space. I’m not going to use that terrible thing and that assassination to make my argument and try to put out my views.”
“It’s like, my God, he’s a father that had his neck blown out by a bullet. And now people have forgotten: President Trump was in my state — was shot in the head. Could you imagine where our nation would be if he were hit in the same way as Kirk? We really got to turn the temperature down.”
If I knew 25 years ago that I'd be lumped under the same alphabet umbrella as weird fetishists, transvestites, and boring straight people inventing genders daily because they have no personality, I'd have stayed in the fucking closet. https://t.co/1twxSQibhQ
BEST I'VE EVER HEARD TRUMP!
"If Comrade Walz and Comrade Harris win this November, the people cheering will be the pink-haired Marxists, the looters, perverts, flag-burners, Hamas supporters, drug dealers, gun-grabbers, and human traffickers."
https://t.co/udMpUw21tQ