The triumph of Freedom

Yesterday's referendum in Ireland was a triumph of freedom!

Sounds lovely, doesn't it? Well, this is actually the case! In the splendid world of Capitalism, freedom means that you are free to choose as long as you make the right choice. If you don't make the right choice, you can very quickly stop being free. That's a solid fact. I wonder how many Greeks did actually know the name of Lucas Papademos before he became prime minister...

Got the point? All right then, here comes the blissful part: The people of Ireland are not so foolhardy as the stupid Mediterranean bunch of lazy slackers down there at the Balkans! Here we've got some really wise and judicious people who - after being "isolationist" and "anti-european" in the past (Shame on them!!!) - have finally made up their minds and decided to choose the right! Here we've got one more nation we don't have to completely destroy in order to save them! Of course they will be destroyed anyway, but they will suffer with pride and happiness knowing that their freedom was preserved. Isn't that just wonderful?

Oh, come on!

Sacra Corona

An ode to the imperial hippies...

Man, I do love the Holy Crown of Hungary! It's simply grand. Our royal crown is the coolest in the Universe! If you ask the big experts of holycrownology, one of them will sure as hell explain that the whole thing is about tolerance, respect of other nations, freedom, unity, equality, peace, blah blah blah. Tons of idealistic tree-hugging hippie shit. Just go and ask them!

But most importantly it is about the sovereignty of the people! Every citizen of the realm, no matter if he or she is Hungarian, Slovak, Serb, Gypsy or Jewish, is a "member" of the Crown, and the Crown is completely superior to the king who wears it. The king doesn't really matter the tiniest piece of shit. He's just a figure carrying it around. It's the Crown which matters! The nation is ruled by the Crown itself. It's a completely independent and sovereign entity... Well, except for the fact that we are all its members, so there's no crown without the people. The Crown is us! Ain't that brilliant?!

Some more laments

Daniel, thank you for the wind-up trotsky toy rhetoric!

Ever since I came out of my trotskyist closet, you just can't stop throwing shit on me! You know, that's just a little bit weird, because I've been posting all my shit on Twitter for weeks and my style was the same for countless years, so I really don't know the logic behind your attitude! Do you have some ego-dystonic trotskyophobia which you must let out on me or what the fuck?

Or is it because I used the f-word? I told you why I used the word and you also know that words representing homosexuality are widely used without a homophobic tone in Hungarian language. (Or maybe it is because our culture is so homophobic, but nevertheless they are used by non-homophobes as well.)

There is power in a union

There is power in a democracy, power in the land
Power in the hands of a worker
But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand
There is a power in a Union

Now the lessons of the past were all learned with workers' blood
The mistakes of the bosses we must pay for
From the cities to the farmlands in the trenches full of mud
'cause war has always been the bosses' way sir

The Union forever defending our rights
Let's fight the Right Wing, all workers unite
With our brothers and our sisters from many far off lands
There is power in a Union

Now I long for the time that they realize
Brutality and unjust laws cannot defeat us
But who'll defend the workers who cannot organize
When the GOP send their attorneys out to cheat us?

Money speaks for money, the Devil for his own
Who'll come speak for the skin and the bone?
What a comfort to widow, a light for the child
There is power in a Union

The Union forever defending our rights
Let's fight the Right Wing, all workers unite
With our brothers and our sisters from many far off lands
There is power in a Union

With social justice and equality
For every man and woman who wants it
There is power in a Union

Art is industry

Like I said, I really hate Mr Dalí. And I'm not even ashamed of it. I have very good reasons to hate him. First of all, he was an extremely disgusting person, to say the least. He had a pathologically egoistic personality and a particularly abominable penchant for the worst possible kind of aristocratic buffoonery ad nauseam. Other than that, he was openly supporting the Franco regime in spite of having played the super cool anarchist in his youthful years. I claim he would have been much better off shot in the head at the civil war, but I guess they just knew he would lick their boots after they win, for which he turned out to be very useful later on.

Laments of a lonely trot

I thank you for all your good wishes! I am still with the CWI, but I don't pay any membership fee, because I don't belong to any local group at the moment. Right now I am trying to find more people interested in trotskyism and willing to build a Hungarian chapter. I made a Facebook page called "CWI Magyarország".

Counter-revolution from the Left

*** The 15th of March is a national holiday in Hungary supposed to commemorate the revolution of 1848. Apart from (or instead of) doing such noble deeds, the occasion is being used since 1989 to stage some high-profile rallies by the whole political spectrum. This year was no exception. Daniel Marton reports and analyzes from Budapest... ***

Eljen a Haza

As you may already know, yesterday was a national holiday in Hungary. You probably know it because of Google. We used to live under the Austrian empire and we didn't like it, so we made this revolution stuff in 1848. That was the year of European revolutions - the heyday of liberal nationalism - and the people of Hungary were eager to jump on the bandwagon. You know the old cliché of our freedom-loving character which makes us think that we are the greatest and coolest freedom fighters in the world. It is based on two Hungarian revolutions, and one of them is 1848.

Anonymous for Hungary!

Dear anons! DOSing kuruc.info is some damn good work done very well which you should keep up in the future! Our right wing is more than ripe for some real kicking in the ass.

There is one thing you must never do: listen to the bitches bitching! I mean, when they start bitching about your "decision" being bad, because the gypsies are bad, it's not neutral, blah blah blah. Are these bitches smarter than you, maybe? Do they even sound so? You know they don't. They are just bitching. And it's really annoying.

These voices are the rotting spoilage of history. You are here to wash them away.

To the voices: The spoilage is not in our history. The spoilage is in you!

Oh, I love History! For example, I love to think about the reason why Saint Stephen, once considered the traitor of our nation, is now considered its founder. I might also muse about Attila Jozsef the communist, Ady the "anti-hungarian" or Szecheny the foreign-minded capitalist... And the list goes on and on. 

So you wanna guess who is trying to erase our past?
Just ask one brave kuruc about the Holocaust...

Sorry to disappoint you, but there is no point of decision here!  Anonymous has always been engaged against the far right and it will always be in the future. No fucking choice to be made. So please keep your lengthy sermons to yourselves. No one gives a fuck!

Python Challenge Hints

Level 0

Trying to change the URL to 1.html shows a hint. The picture says 2 on the power of 38... Which is larger than 1, of course. But it also says how you can compute the number with Python.

Paste the result into the URL between the last '/' and the '.html'. (This is the way to solve all the levels!)

Protest Math

I must correct myself at one point about the Hungarian situation. Like many uncritical people on both sides, I just grossly overestimated the significance of this love march for the government.

The right-wing has just shown that they can still beat us in protest math. So what? Does this mean the people, the "men on the street" still love the government? No. Fidesz has made it once again what they made for eight long years. That's it. That's the story. No more and no less. As you might already know, the Hungarian right-wing has an idiosyncratic feature compared to their western counterparts: they have a voracious appetite for massive public rallies.

Kimble Goes Jail

If I were paranoid enough, I would sure as hell claim that this pathologically selfish and childish fat-ass with all of his obnoxiously tasteless buffoonery and the personality of a pampered five-year-old is the invention of the Copyright Mafia to demonize the file-sharing movement.

We are the 16%!

Yesterday's "peace march" was a truly astonishing PR stunt. After more than 20 months of amok from a government doing its very best to make some policy against both sides in as many issues as possible, finding so many brain-dead morons to march for them is a genuinely remarkable feat of organizing skills.

Long live the Dear Leader!

"Emberemlékezet óta Magyarországon ekkora tömeg még nem demonstrált a kormány és politikája mellett."

Na, és a 2002-es kétmillió? Szegény Rákai Philip presztizsét ne gyalázzuk már! Sportszerűtlen!

Our great 50 cent army

Just a little piece of info for all those turbomagyar government thugs out there:

It is currently 84% of the Hungarian population who are DISCONTENT with the way things are done by our (not so) splendid government.

Mr Orban might however win the next elections, but the word "democratically" means:

Endlösung

It is an irresponsible response and a disservice to people who rely on them for information use their services. It is also an abuse of power given the freedoms these companies enjoy in the marketplace today. It’s a dangerous and troubling development when the platforms that serve as gateways to information intentionally skew the facts to incite their users in order to further their corporate interests.

A so-called “blackout” is yet another gimmick, albeit a dangerous one, designed to punish elected and administration officials who are working diligently to protect American jobs from foreign criminals. It is our hope that the White House and the Congress will call on those who intend to stage this “blackout” to stop the hyperbole and PR stunts and engage in meaningful efforts to combat piracy.

This text was not written by a delirious schizophrenic tea-party granddad from Texas. It was written by the Motion Picture Association of America: a huge and almighty lobby group representing the interests of the American film industry. Now you might after all get a clue of why some people keep calling these guys the Movie Mafia...

Urgent call for unity pt 2

"Ennyi van, hogy a Szolidaritás és a Milla a Gyurcsányt támogatja és viszont. Nincsen összeesküvés elmélet. Csak ha mondjuk egy Gyurcsány mentes ellenzéki szövetséget szeretnél összehozni, akkor ez a két szervezet nem lehet benne. Jó, a Milla talán kevésbé, de valahol úgyis összetalálkoznak, mert a Millát olyanok csinálták, akik az SZDSZ környékén voltak mindig."

Orbitron Megacivil Megaharcos ezt a zseniális epigrammát küldte válaszul az előbb publikált jegyzetemre. Eredetileg azzal indított, hogy amit írok, az nem hülyeség, hiszen - idézem: "a Milla és a Szolidaritás Gyurcsány és a DK seggében van tövig". Ezt nevezem, baszki! Pure genius!

Urgent call for unity

Egyszerre vannak jó dolgok és szar dolgok. Az a baj, hogy a szar mindig jobban látszik...

Már a WiFi-átnevezős kampány után felébredt bennem a gyanú, hogy a Millában valami nagyon nincs rendben, és ez a gyanúm azóta megerősödött! Habár Juhász Péter személye és az LMP-képviselők kitiltása eddig sem túl sok jót sejtetett, viszont azóta egy kicsit bedurvult a helyzet, úgyhogy a köcsögség valamivel látványosabb.

Például a február 2-i tüntetéstől mi a fasznak kellett elhatárolódni? Vagy a Hírszerző hazudik? Természetesen a Hírszerző minden, csak nem szent, de azért az egyik cikkük mindenesetre elgondolkodtató:

http://hvg.hu/velemeny/20120109_milla_cegledi_allamfo

Man of the future

Gyurcsány-blog:

Tegnap reggel Berlinbe mentem, hogy pár barátommal találkozzam a német szociáldemokraták közül. Frank-Walter Steinmeierrel irodájában találkoztam. Frank-Walter korábban külügyminiszter, alkancellár volt, most a Bundestagban az SPD frakció vezetője, és nem kétséges, hogy a jövő egyik embere...

Wikipedia:

Russian opposition activists celebrated when Steinmeier lost elections in 2009, signaling their discontent with him. Oleg Orlov, head of the Memorial human rights group, said that Steinmeier had prolonged Schröder's policies on Russia and that Germany's policies were "extremely bad for civil society, democracy and the country as a whole".

In 2008, Steinmeier refused to meet the Dalai Lama. Instead, he issued the statement "it takes a lot of courage not to meet with the Dalai Lama these days", which the New York Times described as "extraordinarily cynical" and accused him of prioritizing money over human rights.

Madarat tolláról...

For a few to be immoral

"For a few to be immortal, many must die... You really don't know, do you? Everyone can't live forever! Where would we put them? Why do you think your time runs out? Why do you think taxes and prices go up the same day in the ghetto? The cost of living keeps rising to make sure that people keep dying. How else could we live a million years?"

'In time' is a very nice (well, watchable) class war movie for the end of this turbulent year, with a message simple enough for the working masses to grasp. That's what I love in the Hollywood left!

The dialectic of history

What Hegel says is that basically everything is understood in a dialectic process. On the individual as well as on the social level. This is the reason why he said "philosophy is the history of philosophy". This is one of his famous remarks. But we could just as well say "physics is the history of physics" with the same authority, for that matter!

Poor old GWF

Guess I found the worst misuse of hegelian dialectics ever:

youtu.be/dLVPSPWfJB0

The title of the video might stop you wondering why I just said this, but let's still muse on for a while. I think it really shows just how "anti-hegelian", how totally atomized - that is, individualistic - our society has become...

The duty of philosophy

The duty of philosophy is not to solve problems, but to redefine problems! To show how what we experience as a problem is a false problem. If it is a true problem, then we don't need philosophy. For example, let's say that now there would be a deadly virus coming from outer space - so not in any way mediated through our human history - and it would threaten all of us. Basically, we don't need philosophy there. We need good science to stop this virus. We don't need philosophy, because the threat is real. You cannot play philosophical tricks and say "no, this is not a threat", or whatever. You know what I mean? The threat is there. You can see it.

Viva Slavoj!

Let's say you have a good old-fashioned father. It's sunday afternoon, you have to visit grandma. The father - old-fashioned, totalitarian father - will tell you: "Listen! I don't care how you feel" - if you are a small kid, of course - "You have to go to grandma and behave there properly." That's good. You can resist, nothing is broken.

Roll over Stalin

In this eye-opening video, you can finally see the truth about North Korea. In case you've missed it. For example, you can see large buildings and forests on the countryside, which proves that the countryside is actually rich. Because the Imperialists, after seeing that Pyongyang is so rich - since they have even larger buildings there - have turned their focus on the countryside, saying most people live there in poverty. So now you can see they don't. Brilliant!

Anything is Possible

In this great Western culture, we are constantly being told that everything is possible. We can travel to the moon, we can build skyscrapers higher than ever, computers faster than ever, telephones smaller then ever, we can cure AIDS and cancer, we can live to 200 years, we can build bridges across continents, we can have a larger penis, et cetera, et cetera...

Let us not be Palestinians

Our ardently national socialist Jobbik party has a slogan which says: "Let us not be Palestinians in our own homeland".  I think I agree with that. Actually, I not only agree, but I claim something even more:

I say we should not be Palestinians basically anywhere!

Warm-restrictive

Many years ago, I used to study some kind of social psychology. In my textbook, there was a very simple abstraction about analyzing the different ways of parenting. Simple abstractions, when applied outside the domain of classical Newtonian physics, usually don't get us closer to understanding the whole truth, but this one might be useful to understand Germany.

A neten

A neten megjelenő tudományos orbánizmusnak egy színvonalasabb példája az indexen megjelenő "Jövő idő" cikksorozat, amelyet a Budapesti Kommunikációs Főiskola mittudoménmilyen stratégiai fűmuftija vetett papírra. Nem teljesen orbánista, hanem inkább tudományos. Picit feláldoz a pártvonalból a hitelesség kedvéért. Nagyon jó szövegek vannak benne, és az egész nagyon izgalmasan, már-már akciófilmbe illően festi le a közeledő hatalmas válságot, amelyről az amerikai elemzők nem akarnak tudni, és amelyben a nyugat összeomlik, a kelet pedig győzelmet arat. Különböző igazságok és féligazságok gyönyörű montázsa.

Cantarea Romaniei

Nehéz ügy, amikor az ember egyik barátjáról kiderül, hogy fideszes. Régen is nehéz volt, de most még nehezebb. Azt gondolom, ma már elmúlt az az idő, amikor még hidakat lehetett építeni és árkokat tömködni. Mostanában legfeljebb csáklyás létrákat érdemes építeni és ágyúkat tömködni.

Elmúlt az az idő, amikor még egy erőteljesebb Fidesz-kritika után az ember látni vélhette Andrej Zsdanov szellemét előbújni a palackból... (Vagyis éppenhogy most van az az idő, amikor konkrétan előbújik, csak épp a másik oldalon.)