Anne Applebaum’s article writes in length about the insane and out of this world experience that is the hungarian elections. Orbán’s propaganda machine keeps churning out cheap AI videos one after another, creating new bilboards about smiling Zelensky’s, and making TV ads about how Hungarians will be killed by russians if Orbán loses the elections.
And that’s not particularly new in Hungary. Orbán is a pioneer in black-campaigning, where the goal isn’t to make yourself the most liked, but to make yourself the least hated. The most infamous cases of black campaigns were done againt Péter Márki-Zay in 2022, who lead the united opposition, and Gábor Vona in 2018 who lead the far-right turned centre-right Jobbik. Márki-Zay was accused of wanting drag Hungary into the ukrainian war, while his wife was accused of blending infants during her time as a nurse, while Vona was accused of being a homosexual muslim, and turkish spy as well, Orbán even paid off a well-known trans public figure to claim that she was frequented by Vona often.
It seems that Orbán’s techniques don’t work well anymore, but it is still scary how a nation can live in 2 separate realities, and one if mostly shut out of the actual, non-government created reality.
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Anne Applebaum’s article writes in length about the insane and out of this world experience that is the hungarian elections. Orbán’s propaganda machine keeps churning out cheap AI videos one after another, creating new bilboards about smiling Zelensky’s, and making TV ads about how Hungarians will be killed by russians if Orbán loses the elections.
And that’s not particularly new in Hungary. Orbán is a pioneer in black-campaigning, where the goal isn’t to make yourself the most liked, but to make yourself the least hated. The most infamous cases of black campaigns were done againt Péter Márki-Zay in 2022, who lead the united opposition, and Gábor Vona in 2018 who lead the far-right turned centre-right Jobbik. Márki-Zay was accused of wanting drag Hungary into the ukrainian war, while his wife was accused of blending infants during her time as a nurse, while Vona was accused of being a homosexual muslim, and turkish spy as well, Orbán even paid off a well-known trans public figure to claim that she was frequented by Vona often.
It seems that Orbán’s techniques don’t work well anymore, but it is still scary how a nation can live in 2 separate realities, and one if mostly shut out of the actual, non-government created reality.