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like 80 percent of GDP, in nominal terms at least www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

bloomberg.comOrban-Era Graft Cost Hungary $194 Billion, Watchdog Chief SaysEntrenched corruption under former Hungarian leader Viktor Orban likely cost Hungary about 60 trillion forint ($194 billion) over the past 16 years, according to the head of the country’s anti-graft a...

ryan cooper

@ryanlcooper.com

9 June

Americans are weirdly cavalier about this, but Hungary would seem to prove stupendous corruption is eventually unpopular. and world-historical theft is what happens when you elect right-wing authoritarians, every single time

Bob Calhoun

@bobcalhoun.bsky.social

9 June

Even the Nazis! Corruption was through the roof there. The graft just looks like the least of their crimes so we don’t really think of it.

工an Monroe 🚰

@eean.dev

It was also a glass house situation, at least during the war. Between price controls and vast amounts of contractors, they had to make Truman VP to shut him up.

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