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@docrussjackson
May 25, 2021 • 8 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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On Friday, anti-democratic right-wing populist nationalist authoritarian PM with a long history of racist comments Boris Johnson, is meeting with Putin ally Viktor Orbán.

Under Orbán's leadership, Hungary has experienced democratic backsliding & a lurch towards authoritarianism.
Orbán's populism, social-national conservatism, soft Euroscepticism & advocacy of what he describes as an "illiberal state" have attracted significant European & international attention & criticism from domestic & foreign leaders, including Angela Merkel, but praise from Johnson.
Orbán has gradually undermined the rule of law, established tight control over the country’s independent institutions, adopted a new constitution & fundamentally changing electoral laws & the system of campaign financing.

Johnson's 👏 Govt 👏 is 👏 doing👏 the 👏same.#NotADrill
Orbán's Govt has captured the public media & taken control over much private media through an extensive network of Govt-friendly oligarchs.

Orbán's regime is close to Andrew Neil too, the @BBC is now led by Tory stooges, & Ofcom may be run by Paul Dacre.

These developments grant Fidesz-KDNP extraordinary advantage over the opposition: Hungary today can no longer be regarded as a democracy but belongs to the growing group of hybrid regimes, sitting in the “gray zone” between democracies & pure autocracies.

freedomhouse.org/country/hungar…
In 2017, Boris Johnson met Steve Bannon in the US, & Bannon met with Jacob Rees-Mogg in London.

In 2018, Bannon met with Michael Gove, & Bannon was filmed saying “I’ve been talking to him (Boris Johnson) all weekend about this speech. We went back and forth over the text.”
Also in 2018, Bannon advised Viktor Orban.

The links between far-right provocateur Bannon, Libertarian US billionaire-funded US & Tufton St free-market think tanks & the Spiked mob, the far-right Orbán regime & the UK Govt, are well-established & profoundly disturbing.

WAKE UP!
Some people argue Boris Johnson's "friend" Viktor Orban can't be an antisemite - as well as a xenophobic racist - because he's mates with Netanyahu.

Some people beg to differ.

politico.eu/article/viktor…

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🧵 QUALITY OF LIFE - DENMARK🇩🇰 vs USA🇺🇸

JD Vance has told Greenlanders that life with the US would be better than with Denmark.

Musk, Trump & Vance insist that Europe is in many ways inferior to the US.

But how accurate are their claims? What does the evidence say?

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Brainwashed by billionaire's propaganda, force-fed a diet of dumbed-down soundbites, divisive, misleading bigoted rhetoric, and adolescent memes, many Americans simply have little idea about how their quality of life compares to the average European's.

Let's consider the best evidence, and compare the US to Denmark on multiple key quality of life indicators:

🚨 Danes on average live four years longer than Americans

🚨 The US is 24th in the world in the happiness rankings. Denmark is No 2 (after Finland)
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🧵 Online #Incel communities foster misogyny, resentment & extremism, which have led to multiple murderous attacks in the US & UK, motivated by hatred toward women.

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When is a “think tank” not a think tank?

A 🧵 about how spurious and inflammatory claims, based on unevidenced cherry-picked data, are passed off as truth by partisan private limited companies and used as a weapon to divide voters and to scapegoat and demonise migrants. Image
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Democracy is under attack. As with the US, Italy is 1 of 5 European Govts undermining the rule of law ‘in nearly all aspects’, with changes to the judiciary & a “heavy intolerance to media criticism”, fueling Europe’s deepening “democratic recession”.

theguardian.com/world/2025/mar…
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“Europe’s democratic recession has deepened.”

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Many of Britain's most vocal 'anti-establishment' voices attended some of the most expensive schools on earth.

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Jacob Rees-Mogg's dad's 1997 book was originally called The Sovereign Individual: *How to Survive & Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State*😱

It predicted “cybercurrency,” the decline of nation-states & the ascendance of a “cognitive elite” who would rule the world.
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Access his original (25 February) article here:

thenerdreich.com/the-sovereign-…
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