Taras Donetchanyn

Raised in Donetsk 💔 on a mission in Budapest. architect & artist. fight rucsizm and authoritarianism in EU

[Taras Donetchanyn @tarastt]

Generated this coloured version of my charcoal sketch with Ai

#art #unbreakable #stablediffusion #controlnet #ukraine #war #ruzzia

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Russia Is a Terrorist State.

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Since Russia is failing on the front lines, it is escalating its terror against Ukrainian civilians. Swarms of ballistic, cruise, and hypersonic missiles, along with drones, were launched at Kyiv. The explosions are so loud that the ground is shaking.

Russia is a terrorist state.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Russia launched one of the largest air attacks of this war on Kyiv this morning.

More than 50 missiles and 700 drones were launched at the city.

This video shows a cruise missile hitting central Kyiv

[Taras Donetchanyn @tarastt]

@PM_ViktorOrban Bye. Pls. Go.

[Taras Donetchanyn @tarastt]

Thisnisntoo much lool

[Taras Donetchanyn @tarastt]

@JohnOSullivanNR The freedom of speech and expression is transmitted by the greatest European minds, John. And that’s what EU stands for but you always keep trying to kill it. Why?

[Taras Donetchanyn @tarastt]

@roddreher God this is unbelievable how one can be so stupid!! Politico twisted the actual words and ofc you are not interested in the reality but only shitty propaganda.

[Stack Of Truths @StackOfTruths]

Durov, you're twisting the ruling.

The EU didn't say "ban teens from social media except LGBTQ+ content."

The Court said: Hungary cannot ban LGBTQ+ content entirely while allowing other content. Equal treatment under the law.

You know this. You're just playing victim for your audience.

Meanwhile, Telegram is a known hub for child abuse material, drug markets, and terrorists.

Worry about your own platform's crimes before crying about "protecting children."

[Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek) @magyarpeterMP]

Until 31 May, the Orbán puppets may voluntarily step down from their positions. This applies to the President of Hungary, the President of the Curia, the President of the National Office for the Judiciary, the President of the Constitutional Court, and the Prosecutor General.

On 12 April, the Hungarian people voted for a complete political transformation.

If these officials do not step down voluntarily by 31 May, then — on the basis of the mandate received from millions of Hungarians — we will remove them from office.

[Szabolcs Panyi @panyiszabolcs]

Over the past decade, Western far-right figures have effectively colonized Hungary, serving as Orbán’s pseudo-intellectual mercenaries: milking the state, running institutions, obtaining Hungarian (and EU) passports, and attacking and smearing Orbán’s critics at home and abroad.

[Robert Horvath @RG_Horvath]

The banality of evil.

Rod did not just 'repost fake news.' He circulated a vile slander that Peter Magyar had microwaved his family's pet in front of his children.

This was not merely 'dumb' - it testified to how he had internalised the dehumanising discourse of Orban's propagandists.

He didn't think to verify the absurd, Orwellian claim because it was 'normal,' received wisdom, for those on the regime's payroll.

As Arendt understood, modern tyranny owes less to malice than to thoughtlessness and a failure to reflect on the consequences of one's own actions.

[Pete @splendid_pete]

Magyar is calling for a new, fair election in Vas County’s 02 district after what he says was a seriously manipulated result.

In a video on his official channel, Péter Magyar lays out the case that the seat was effectively won through deliberate deception. He claims Fidesz MP Péter Ágh benefited from a tactic designed to confuse voters.

A “decoy candidate” with the exact same name, Péter Magyar, was put on the ballot despite not even living in the district and regularly showing up at Fidesz events. That candidate pulled in 909 votes, which is a lot more than the 258 vote gap by which the Tisza Party’s candidate, Viktória Strompová, ended up losing.

He also notes that police confirmed on April 9 that a criminal investigation has been opened into suspected election fraud, specifically around how recommendation signatures were collected for the decoy candidate and others.

Magyar calls the whole thing a cynical abuse of power and says Ágh should show some basic integrity by refusing to take the mandate. He’s pushing for a rerun of the election, arguing that people in North Vas deserve proper representation, not a result shaped by tricks like this.

He also tells Strompová to hold her head high and step up as the real representative of those voters.

[Taras Donetchanyn @tarastt]

@roddreher Can’t wait Tisza to prosecute DI propaganda machine including you for looting poor Hungarians together with orban.

[Taras Donetchanyn @tarastt]

@DAaronovitch He has been doing it for the whole time residing in Budapest and getting paid 100k a year from Hungarian tax payers without their will. He doesn’t care about anyone around and never did. This really says a lot about how low one can get for 🤑

[Taras Donetchanyn @tarastt]

@roddreher in the poorest country of EU. And you tell us that you really care about Hungarians and their culture. Sick.

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Rod was paid $100,000 annually. The money came from Hungarian taxpayers.

[Taras Donetchanyn @tarastt]

@roddreher This is so crazy. With all that tax payers money you illegally got and time you spent in Hungary you couldn’t even learn here a damn little thing about the real situation with the country. What a waste.

[Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek) @magyarpeterMP]

The remaining votes are still being counted, and we have already gained three additional parliamentary seats.

[Taras Donetchanyn @tarastt]

@roddreher Oh no i am so not sorry to hear that. Finally we stoped funding this propaganda machine from our pockets. You guys were exactly those foreign agents that orban was talking about blaming it all on EU. Thank god ppl WOKE up before you destroyed this country. Viszlát!

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Orban lost on Sunday. Before the celebration runs too long, JVL at The Bulwark has the harder question.

In 2014, Orban’s share of the vote dropped from 52.7% to 44.9%. He still kept his supermajority. Because by then he had already rewritten the constitution on party-line votes, packed the courts, set judicial retirement ages to force out sitting judges, built a majoritarian multiplier that converted pluralities into supermajorities, gerrymandered the parliament map, and banned political advertising everywhere except state-controlled broadcast media.

He told an Austrian newspaper what he was doing and why: “I make no secret of the fact that in this respect I tie the hands of the next government. Not just the next one, but the next ten.”

Péter Magyar won the vote. What he inherited is a constitutional architecture specifically engineered to survive this moment. Long-term agency appointments. A Budget Council that can dissolve parliament if the budget fails. Courts packed with Fidesz loyalists on 9 and 12-year terms.

Winning the election is the first problem. Unwinding a system designed to outlast elections is a different and longer project. JVL’s piece names the question every democracy facing competitive authoritarianism eventually has to answer: Are you willing to take democracy off the honor system?

Hungary just showed the world that you can vote an authoritarian out. The next chapter is whether the system he built lets the vote mean anything.