Yeah, the real difference is that Iron Man did more work in a 3-hour movie than Musk in his whole life.

Yarr!

It’s basically a mishmash of Ancient Ugric, Turkish, German, Slavic and Romani words with grammar that is an eldritch monstrosity, nobody really knows where it came from, and it is seriously weird.

There are only two real tenses, but nineteen cases and two different ways of doing imperative, which are kind of equivalent but carry cultural and tonal differences in certain contexts.

Francis M. Wilhoit

Don’t get me wrong, I was not advocating for nazism. I know you by reputation to be knowledgeable about history, so if you could recommend some literature into it, I’d love that.

What I’m saying is more a kind of fear I have instead of a statement, I just saw that nazi regimes seemed like able to channel economic productivity into some societal goal - even though that goal was utterly despicable and evil, like a war - instead of just having the economy grow as a cancer.

And made machine looms.

Some Hungarian prefixes can be piled on without limit, while still creating meaning.

The word “úszni” means “to swim”.

Úsztatni - to make someone or someone swim
Úsztattatni - to make someone make someone swim
Úsztattattattattattattattattattni - to make someone make someone make someone … make someone swim

Can be done with any verb, and maybe some other suffixes as well.

I would really love to have a conversation about how the Nazis had a great economy, capable of going from rebuilding from WWI to starting WWII in 20 years.

I feel like worshipping the economy, and having it be the sole measure of society, inevitably leads us to the far-right. China is not going to magically crumble, and economic prosperity is achievable without societal progress.

We need to have societal progress as the goal, not some magic by-product of line go up.

For the people equating Hungary to this, there was another rally 80 metres away filling streets and squares, chanting “Russkies go home”.

It was way bigger than this one that Orbán filled up artificially by mandating waterworks workers attend by force.

Orbán’s days are numbered. It will not leave the EU, and it will get back on its feet. All it needed was for the EU to stop financing Orbán.

DU

It’s literally just that the language uses compound words constructed on the spot, as opposed to compound phrases. When you say “insect death”, German grammar just dictates that if it’s written without prepositions as “insect death” and not “the death of insects”, you have to write it in one word.

The same works in Hungarian as well. “The death of insects” would be “a rovarok halálozása”, while “insect death” has to be written as “rovarhalálozás”. Every compound phrase without a preposition to clarify the relationship of the words becomes a compound word.

Actually, Hungarian is even worse, because prepositions and some other stuff also become suffixes, and are thus attached to the word. So the phrase “happening at the time when insect death is caused” can be translated word for word as “a rovarok halálának okozásának idejében történő”, but it is equally right, and more succinct to use the adjective “rovarhaláloztatáskori”.

Yeah, I think both the faction advocating for the Israeli genocide and the faction advocating for throwing the election to someone who would more openly support the Israeli genocide and start some genocides on his own is stupid.

Harris sucks, but her winning is the best plausible outcome of the US election. It’s like a plane crash, just because the crash is inevitable you don’t smash the plane into the ground so it’s over faster, you try to save as many lives as you can while admitting that not all of them can be saved. That does not mean I think the people who can’t be saved are less valuable.

But if you want to effect change in Palestine, advocate for BDS, advocate against AIPAC, not against Harris, at least not in the general election, not now. The uncommitted movement was brilliant, and it was exactly the right time. It is not the right time now.

Infosec is an absolute shitshow everywhere to be honest.

The EU might stop supporting them, or even sanction them from their own trade, but I’m afraid the US will just make up for it by sending even more money. I still think that we in Europe should stop funding them, if only so that we can say that we were less complicit in these crimes against humanity.

Let’s be real, it might not matter either way.

Do you see the DoJ putting Leon in jail in the next decade, even if Harris wins?

Yeah, and they can afford to double down on everything, since the US has their back.

Currently, if POTUS Biden said the sky is green and up is down, VPOTUS Harris would echo it back with conviction, especially since AIPAC is breathing down their necks right before an election.

I’m interested in what POTUS Harris would do, especially with a VPOTUS Walz, and I’m hoping that this is political manoeuvring, and there is some shred of human decency in them that cannot come through because of how fucked up US politics currently are.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t expect much, but one can hope.

From where I’m standing, this may have the opposite effect, Bibi would look weak if he caved to pressure like this, and the genocidal idiots propping him up and keeping him out of prison might want to commit to the attack just to save face.

Don’t get me wrong, Israel’s current leadership should definitely be in the Hague already, I think where we disagree is whether this will goad or scare Israel. My point of view is that as long as the US does not stop its unconditional support, Israel will not be scared off.

I am interested in your point of view as well though.

A lot of countries have four year election cycles, but I think it’s just a general “are we doing better than a few years ago? no!” vibe.