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Too overwhelming to dispute. That's a lesson for us all

Say what you want about Orban, he apparently respects democracy more than Trump…

I'm worried that the lesson our government is going to take from this is that 16 years is about 15 too many to allow anything close fair elections to continue after gaining power. But for the moment, I'd still rather be us than them.

BUT HE HAS THE WASHED UP COMEDIAN SUPPORT!

The good guys won. It can happen.

Did he dummymander and entire country

Keep fighting folks.

Says a lot when even the fascist dictator who followed the textbook to the letter and nearly completely overthrew democracy STILL has a more gracious exit than the US president. God, I hope minute one of the new government is undoing literally everything he did so this never happens again.

Going to be honest. Did not expect it to be smooth, regardless of the result. I thought Orban would go full "If I can't do this the easy way, we'll do it the hard way" once the loss was confirmed. Thank god, we didn't need another world crisis right now.

But I have been told you can't vote your way out of this stuff.

You just have to beat them with a supermajority so big they can't possibly rig enough races to hold on. For 2028 purposes that's probably like 33-35 states and 360-380 electoral votes.

But he didnt claim "rigged".... Trump will

"You can concede, or the public can take you down to the local service station, and give you a new view of the world."

If ever I’ve seen a “please don’t prosecute me” concession…

and he didn't just concede, he conceded PROMPTLY, and without a bunch of bullshit first

I guess he doesn't have a ballroom with a bunker.

What's so remarkable is that Magyar is about to achieve a supermajority despite the constitution rigged in Orban's favour.

I got this news alert and erupted in a spontaneous Defying Gravity scream

To note, the defeat is a rout. The opposition is projected to have a 2/3 majority in the parliament. The results were regularly pouring in. It's harder to cheat when it's so loopsided.

Sixteen years.

I'll vote for Democracy every time. The person is less important.

Or a step towards maintaining the status quo, leaving the door open for the far right to come back.

The time when the adversary is at their most flagrantly evil and bumbling is the best time to offer the strongest positive vision you can possible present, because while a ham sandwich could do better, winning by a (genuine) landslide will let you actually fix things.

A republic if you can keep it folks

I see the left cheering him on, because even if he's conservative he's fighting in the same direction as them instead of punching left inside of the big tent.

How much can we trust Tisza? He was in Orbans circle at one time, right? Is he gonna pull a Fetterman?

Now imagine 16 years of Trump II…

Could not agree more.

IF VOTING DIDN'T MATTER THEY WOULDN'T FIGHT SO HARD TO KEEP YOU FROM DOING IT

Well… yeah… if the cult will just stay home.

I would argue that step one is the primaries. A lot of Democrats in DC have been complacent because they know their district/state will vote blue. Threatening them in primaries is the only way to make them do their job. Look at how well it's working out for NYC. People need to start voting *now*.

If there's one thing authoritarian leaders fear, it's people with pitchforks.

This election is the proof that competitive authoritarianism is still a lot better than regular authoritarianism, rather than being a more entrenched version of it based on being able to fake democratic legitimacy

Well for what it's worth, the opposition party got close to 70% of the seats. That's more than enough to undo constitutional changes Orban did to the Hungary.

👏👍if anyone thinks their vote doesn’t count look to this election for a perfect example that it does. and this is why republicans are trying to cheat and going after free and fair elections.

No More-ban

And that little tax "error" is a nice timing too. This is what good news feels like

Honestly if Trump had any intention to be re-installing dictators he'd have gone into Brazil after Venezuela. Maybe Putin decided to offer him Ukraine.

*vanishingly unlikely it doesn't hold tbc

Yeah, you’re right. I’m glad Hungary finally got rid of him.

Yeah, this is just being too cynical to be believed. Russia doesn't have the forces left to pull a fast one, and the US removed many troops from Europe already. Too many votes are already counted and there were plenty of shenanigans already pulled. They shot their bolt and failed anyway.

Annnnd there it is. bsky.app/profile/seba...

yeah yeah like you ain't wrong we'll see but here's hoping

Oh look, and they did it with a vote. Just like we will. Make these fuckers dread this November.

I'm pretty sure he conceded because the election also left him without allies in power in the Hungarian Parliament. It was a defeat of the entire regime!