Why did we re-elect Mr Orban?

First of all, I didn't. Neither did any of my friends or relatives and neither did at least 73% of the eligible population. It was the remaining 27% which did. Hailing from the City of Cheap Hipsters otherwise known as Budapest, thus having to compete with a liberal amount of unemployed or government-employed Sociologists and other BA's spending their precious time on their precious (and popular) Hungary blogs written in sufficient or even eloquent English, I might just concede to the notion that there's nothing I could possibly add to this debate. However, with bullshitting being the national sport here, I just cannot help but think there is.

So how did this shit happen?

Anarchism for dummies (hu)

Forrás: Gondolkodj&Lázadj blog

N: Az a legfőbb baj veletek, hogy nemzetellenesek vagytok.

A: Mit értesz azon, hogy "nemzet"?

N: A magyar nemzet a magyar emberek összessége! Azok, akik magyarnak érzik magukat, mert magyar a szívük-lelkük. Ezt talán Illyés Gyula fogalmazta meg a legjobban: "magyar az, akinek fáj Trianon".

A: Ugyanez az Illyés írta később a Horthy-rendszer legélesebb kritikáját, a Puszták népe című szociográfiát is. Mi mindenféle elnyomás ellen harcolunk! Alapvetően minden állam az elnyomásra épül, tehát mi mindegyik ellen küzdünk az USA-tól Izraelen át a Kínai Népköztársaságig. Ha a román vagy a szlovák állam elnyomja az ottani magyarokat, mi azt is ellenezzük.

N: Érdekes, hogy mégse látunk titeket egy olyan demonstráción sem, ahol ezek ellen tüntetünk! Ebből is látszik, hogy hazaáruló nemzetrontók vagytok, a magyarság ellenségei!

A: Szerintem meg az látszik belőle, hogy nem akarjuk megveretni magunkat az eszmetársaiddal, de ez most lényegtelen. Egyáltalán nem vagyunk a "magyarok ellen", hanem éppen azt akarjuk, hogy ez a nép is szabadságban és békében élhessenek, mentesülve a kizsámányolás minden formájától. Ti vagytok azok, akik fenntartanátok a magyar emberek kiszolgáltatottságát egy igazságtalan és erőszakos rendszerrel szemben. A radikális nacionalizmus a tőkések utolsó mentsvára.

Wasted Talent

Letter to woman who posted this article with the caption: " so much wasted talent :( "

Wasted talent? Wow, that's cute! It's naive and childish in a very funny way to assume that this shit coming out of Ivy League schools is meant to "create value" in any way instead of consuming it as the modern ruling caste of corporate feudalism. Come on, what planet are you from? Were the first and second estates of medieval France ever meant to create anything? Well, neither are these fucktards! All they ever learn is nothing but the Ideological Apparatus as described by Althusser: an ossified dogmatic mythology infused with more or less mathematical formalism just to make it convincing for a seemingly rational society. The very essence of their "talent" is nothing but pure parasitism. That's what they learn to do since early childhood. 

The purpose of the finance industry is simply to suck off the surplus value created by the rest of society and turn it into unproductive investments like artificial islands, futuristic weapons, incomprehensible arts or fancy arcologies costing hundreds of billions while doing absolutely nothing for the survival of mankind. These are the pyramids of today. No, there's no conspiracy here: that's just how a society with 85 people owning more wealth than a billion people actually works. That's how the system is stabilized. What we need is no more and no less than a new revolution of the new third estate: doctors, engineers, teachers, factory workers, etc. This infernal embodiment of pure evil called the finance industry is the very heart of the global power apparatus with money being the direct representation of power, and that's why it must be destroyed. Not reformed or humanized or whatever, but burned to ashes and dredged with salt. The whole monetary system of the United States must be re-built from scratch. Any questions?

Lenin as a golden calf

Letter to Russian girl who liked my solidarity pictures for Ukraine

See, I'm not obsessed with Lenin :D

This needs some clarification indeed because I certainly see there are many on the far left who are totally obsessed with him while I'm not. Okay, maybe I'm just a traitor who preaches about revolution while voting for the greens or the centre-left, but still I criticize these from a far left perspective and there are many far left parties in Europe I would vote for, which means I also belong to the far left. That being said, I really think these nostalgic commie assholes are a huge pain in the ass. No, I don't like them! I hate them. They keep posting this arrogant shit on their blogs and facebook pages about the Ukrainian protesters being the bad guys because some of them are nazis, and the police being the good guys because Lenin. What the fuck?

Religion in my life

In Europe it's really weird, but it's commonplace in America: Atheists being far more obsessed with religion than their Agnostic and Oprahist (i.e. "spiritual but not religious") compatriots combined. It's not necessarily their fault because religion is still quite a hot topic over there and Atheists are still compared to nazis and pedophiles on a daily basis, even by living monuments of compassion like Oprah herself. If you are an Atheist but otherwise a conformist who respects authority, Europe is definitely your place. Europeans tend to treat religious feelings the way they treat penises: you can be as proud of yours as you want but you don't keep showing it off in public, not to mention pushing it down other people's throats.

Confessions of an ex-zionist

Okay, I know there are few things more disgusting than a gentile envying the Jewishness of a Jew, but the thing is that I've always been totally fascinated by Judaism since my early teeange years. At the Bible school I always enjoyed the old testament much more than the new, and I really loved the fact that Jews were very liberal just like me. I was always bewitched by their relentless intellectual pragmatism. I learned Hebrew and I read Chaim Potok and I listened to Ofra Haza. Of course I was on Israel's side! If not for anything else, then just to piss off right-wingers. The ground zero of my sympathies turning into a foolish obsession was the point where I seriously considered supporting the ultra-violent thugs of the Jewish Defense Leage. Those days the only topic I was willing to talk about was Judaism and Israel, so I connected those to even the most unrelated things. Fortunately it all started to fade away in a very prosaic way when a girl from Israel just pissed me off with her ego-centric behaviour, so I decided to take a softer line. I even started flirting with the idea of a Palestinian state on the West Bank instead of the East Bank (replacing that shitty kingdom of Jordan), so I can safely say I was a soft-line zionist until a Zizek speech and some other things opened my eyes to the bitter truth: there's nothing particularly Jewish in this regime anymore! I found that this culture I hold so dear is being turned into its exact opposite by the ideological apparatus of this new kind of zionism. Yeah, that's when I became an "anti-zionist"!

No Anthems Day

Update: A levél címzettjével azóta rendeztük a dolgokat, barátságunk immár megbonthatatlan!

Magamba szálltam és elgondolkodtam, de nem kellett volna. Eddig ugyanis egy kicsit szégyelltem magam, de most már annyira se. Nem voltam jó arc, de másrészt nem voltam is arrogáns és nem is kötekedtem senkivel, tehát a legkevésbé sem érdemeltem ki azt a minden szintet alulmúlóan alpári bánásmódot, amit te és a degenerált haverod énvelem szemben tanúsítottatok. Ezek után egyszerűen nem tudom magamat szégyellni. Ha a mégoly tenyérbemászó trollkodást még egy általad ismert és gyakran látott elvtárstól is csak a nyers erővel tudod kezelni, az gáz. Nem kicsit gáz, hanem nagyon gáz. Igazából én már több szilveszteri buliban is megtrollkodtam a himnuszt, mert kamaszkorom óta van egy ilyen gonosz szokásom, de valamiért mégsem történt velem soha semmi. Persze, az is igaz, hogy eddig nem a munkásmozgalom(!) kőkemény fenegyerekeivel buliztam, hanem haszontalan ingyenélő egyetemistákkal és társadalmunk egyéb melléktermékeivel, de azért voltak köztük jobbosok is. Mit gondolsz, vajon mit szóltak be ezek a jobbos egyetemisták? Bizony ám: SEMMIT! Na, és tudod, miért? Azért, mert úgy voltak vele, hogy nekem elvakult balliberális létemre nyílván ez a rögeszmém, vagyis rám hagyták. Wow! Képzeld, ilyen is van! Kemény dolog, mi? Pedig a jobbosokban állítólag nincs is semmi empátia! Nos, annyi azért mégis szorult beléjük, hogy szilveszter alkoholmámoros éjén békén tudtak hagyni egy láthatóan problematikus embert.

Miklos Horthy was GAY!!!

I tell you man, this dude was sooo fucking gay! I really don't know why he's celebrated for selling our country out to Romanian goatfuckers and then to German sheepfuckers, but he sure as hell loved the cock!  Yeah, just look at that fucktarded fucking face of that smug fuck! You know... Well, you probably don't know after being spoon-fed with this rosy bullshit about us being the bulwarks of your shitty Western civilization, but here's the thing: those inglorious commie basterds you keep cursing, they were actually dying like shit to defend our holy mighty fuckin Big Hungary in the first place (i.e. back in 1918) while this fudgepacker gave it all up to Romanian gipsy fucks as if (s)he were doing a yard sale! I might also add that Big Joe Stalin as a matter of fact or at least all probability and common sense was quite ready the give us all those shitloads of land back if only we stayed neutral instead of racing down the bottom with our supposed enemies in sucking nazi cock! Yeah, we brave Hungarian fighter dudes never trust those Commie dogs, eh! We trust you American motherfucks who set us up back in 1956, right?

Oh, wait! I almost forget: You know what's still gayer than this fuckin dude? Pretty hard to imagine, I know, but yeah, I tell you: It's that coke-for-cock Zázrivecz kid with his Better Hungary outfit, man! Woohoo! This nuschool post-postcommunist Casanova with all his doggies & kitties & 'Dawson's Creek meets Family Frost' chick flicks at Gellert hill is a real butt-buddies' lovefest!

Ah yeah, the future! It can't be... Oh, wait a sec! Didn't the great admiral just pass away like some seventy years ago? Hmm, you guys must know some real wicked shit about spacetime!

Note to Gays & Gypsies & Germans: It's okay, I was just satirizing the shit!

Err... No hard feelings, right?

Who the hell is John Galt?

"Russell Brand is correct about the French Revolution coming soon to your neighborhood. That's why I'm moving to Costa Rica and taking my money with me. Who is John Galt?"

Not you, that's for sure. Have a nice trip!

First of all, revolution means no one giving much fuck about your pieces of paper with numbers and "in god we trust" printed on, or anything else you claim to own for that matter. Yeah, you can go and change your dollars into Costarican won or whatever, but then what?  Tax havens are easier to destroy than you might think.

Second, no one gives much fuck about you either. Even if you're Mark Cocksuckerberg himself, there are still thousands of poor people more gifted and skilled than you. No, you don't matter. You're just one less reactionary asshole we have to deal with. No one needs you here.

I might just remind you that the evil empire your herione escaped from was still ahead of free&brave America in the space race until that wicked commie JFK started pouring billions into the education of poor people. Back in those days (between 1942 and 1964), the highest rate of federal income tax was steadily around 90% and yet the United States have managed to invent computers and nuclear weapons and dozens of other very important things, win the second world war and put the first men on the Moon. Now it's just 40% and yet the United States do not give us anything but fetish gadgets and fucked-up military campaigns against the shittiest armies in the world. Not to mention spoiled little teenie boppers jacking off on Ayn Rand!

So again, how's that shit about individualism?

Antikommunizmus sucks

Kritikai elemzés és comingoutolás a Fent&Lent blogközösség részére
A téma forrása egy régi, de kellőképpen rosszindulatú rosszhiszemű bejegyzés

Van egy rossz hírem: kurvára nem vagyunk komcsimentes övezet! Egész egyszerűen azért nem, mert ha az MSZP-t és társutasait nevezhetjük posztkommunistának, akkor igazából magát Sztálint és az ő társutasait is nyugodtan nevezhetjük annak. Miért ne? Ha egyszer valamelyik olvasónak netán kezébe kerül az Elárult forradalom című remekmű, abból megtudhatja, miről is van szó. De ha már itt tartunk, akkor természetesen e remekmű szerzőjét is simán nevezheti posztkomcsinak az az olvasó, aki történetesen inkább a LibCom nevű angol webszájtot olvasgatja, és akkor az ő body countja már tényleg a nullához közelít.

Turanism for dummies

I've just been kicked from a Facebook group called "Turkish-Hungarian friendship" because I honestly thought this ethnic shit can be done without Nazis on board, but it looks like I was wrong. I must note that Turanism is indeed not supported by the mainstream scientific community and genetic studies show our present-day population is mostly Slavic and Germanic and Persian. Nonetheless we used to have the same religion before Christianity and the invading Magyar tribes were basically Turkish. I often think that we [socialists] must try to co-opt all this historical bullshit as long as we [humans] cannot exterminate it for good, but I always get totally disappointed by the activity of Nazis.

Then again, what did I expect? Any casual observer would very casually remind me how all this etchnic bullshit is rapidly disappearing as we speak, and casually ask what made me think otherwise? Even Nazis themselves seem to care ever less about their roots as the immediate problems of the day seem to be more than enough for them to care about. So what the hell were I doing in a Facebook group for Turkish-Hungarian friendship in the first place?

Migrant solidarity

Kettős Mérce (post):

Ma migránsok, olyan emberek tüntettek Budapesten akik szeretnének ebben az országban élni és dolgozni: 

"A tüntetés célja, hogy felhívja a döntéshozók és a közvélemény figyelmét arra, hogy az Országgyűlés nem büntetheti a menedékkérőket azzal, hogy elzárja őket, nem csorbíthatja a jogorvoslathoz való jogukat és nem teheti még kilátástalanabbá a Magyarország által védelemben részesített üldözött személyek integrációját. A menedékkérőknek a brutális őrzött szállások helyett, a menekülteknek pedig a túlzsúfolt és embertelen “előintegrációs” táborok helyett a nekik járó szociális, egészségügyi és jogi segítséget kell nyújtani elsősorban szociális lakhatás, a munkaerőpiachoz való könnyebb hozzáférés és megfelelő minőségű egészségügyi szolgáltatások nyújtásával."

Fénykép: menekültek és szimpatizánsok ülnek transzparenseikkel a Roosevelt téren

Szituáció: (szélső)jobbos trollsereg szokásához híven támadásba lendül...

Nobody steals our chicks and lives

I just found a fabulous website pimping Hungarian women in the very graceful fashion of all those lovely dating sites supposed to send you a Chinese/Ukrainian lover by priority mail. It's genuinely funny because the whole thing reads like a vintage issue of Playboy from the 70's, when Hungary was indeed a popular source of pretty young brides for Italians and Germans. Those were the days when we didn't laugh our asses off reading such inane descriptions of our society like this one. It lists the benefits of our famously pretty girls in such a prudently straightforward way that it makes you feel like reading a user's manual for a new TV set. Too bad that the stuff has absolutely nothing to do with Hungarian reality...

Goulash, anyone?

It's totally weird to see this one in the Daily Hatemail, but it's all correct. János Kádár was a very enlightened technocrat compared to all those pathologically arrogant and feeble-minded stalinist idiots like Brezhnev and Honecker, but even to our "democratic" politicians of today. If only he were alive and the Hungarian Socialist Party (aka MSZP) would nominate him, he would most certainly win with an epic landslide next year. The funny thing is that this "socialist" party - the successor of the regime's "communist" party - actually did win with an epic landslide in 1994, after four years of right-wing bullshit. As we may have expected from the greatest champions of technocratic reformism on the Wild East, these "reformed communists" almost immediately started enacting some very brutal policies of neoliberal austerity...

Enemy of the enemy

Metakrtitikus gondolatok egy Észak-Koreát védelmező íráshoz

Időnként nem egészen értem, hogy Észak-Korea "rendszerkritikus" barátainak konkrétan melyik rendszerrel van oly nagy bajuk. Nem mintha bárkitől is el akarnám vitatni a rendszerellenesség nemes bélyegét, hiszen magam is rohadtul utálom, mikor egyes ilyetén beállítottságú kritikusok "liberális demokratának" próbálnak beállítani, de azt azért látni kell, hogy a két hivatalosan szembenálló rendszer valójában nagyon is jól megvan egymással: Észak-Koreánál jobb ellenségképet keresve sem találhatna magának a nyugati jobboldal, míg ugyanez elmondható az amerikai neokonzervatívokra a Kedves Vezető szemszögéből. A két dudás egyelőre nagyon is jól megfér egy csárdában, sőt mi több: szükségük van egymásra! Kiegészítik egymást, mint a yin és a yang.

The witch is dead

"There's no such thing as society!" - Thatcher, 1987

"There's no such thing as Thatcher!" - society, 2013

Okay, I'm not happy in the strict sense for Maggie's death because I know it doesn't make our lives any better and I knew how the right wing was going to use the event the saturate the whole media landscape with dribbling hagiography - even from the "socialist" president Obama, which is really nauseating albeit not surprising - and they can also accuse the hard left of being insensitive or whatever.

They live

This picture tells it all! It's an artistic composition...

- On the background, we can see the monstrous abomination of Capitalism as it spreads and grows and consumes everything. ("Játékterem" means Gambling room!)

- At the center, the large white box is actually a commemorative plaque for anti-fascism which kind of looks like a piece of ruin from the late antiquity. Indeed it is a forsaken relic saved by chance from the all-consuming memory hole of right-wing idiotism.

- At the foreground, however, we can see the power of the people par excellence!

Feel it!!!

Protagoras pt 2

Scene 1: Socrates is rushed out of bed by Hippocrates

Hip: Socrates! Socrates! Wake up!

Soc: Hippocrates, what the holy fuck is wrong with you? My god, it's 4 AM!

Hip: Socrates, I need to talk to you! I have splendid news: Protagoras is in town!

Soc: What? Dude, he's been here since friday! How come you didn't know?

Hip: Oh God, I was pursuing my fugitive slave for five days and I just came home recently! Shit happens, you know. Well, at least I managed to take him back...

Soc: All right, now tell me what's the matter! Why aren't you sleeping now?

Did Protagoras rob you on the street or what the fuck?

Hip: Hell, yeah! He robbed me, that's for sure! Of all the wisdom he's keeping from me! You know, we were already finishing our diner when my brother started to talk about this guy and I just got so excited! Come on, he's staying with Callias! Why not go there right now?

Soc: Mother of mercy, relax! That son of a bitch is probably sleeping now after having spent the night with some hookers in town. I'm pretty sure you will find him getting his shit together in the afternoon. You can go pay him a visit and of course some very good money as well. If you do that, he will sure as hell become your super best friend!

Hip: Really? Man, I wish this were the case! He can take all the money I have! And I want you to speak with him on my behalf. You know, I'm young and I've never seen him, and he is said to be the most the most successful speaker in Greece!

Soc: All right, take it easy now! Let's go to the garden, pick up some fresh air and talk this through...

Protagoras pt 1

Intro: Socrates starts telling his story to some guy

Guy: So how's it going with that young and handsome Alcibiades? I just saw him yesterday, his beard is fully out. Still I say he's sexier than ever!

Soc: What? Of course he is! Young guys are the sexiest when their beard comes out! That's what the great Homer said too.

Guy: Sure, sure! So how are things going? Is he being nice to you?

Soc: Oh, yes, he is! Especially today. He just helped me out in an argument. But you know what happened? I just found a man who was so much sexier that sometimes I didn't even notice he was there!

Guy: You're kidding me, right? No one is sexier than... Hmm! I guess this guy is from another town, right?

Soc: Yep! He comes from Abdera.

Guy: And you tell me this stranger is really hotter than the son of Cleinias?

Soc: Yes! And you know why? It's the brains, man! That's what makes a man really sexy! I tell you, this guy was so just smart, it just blows your mind! Protagoras is the smartest man in the universe!

Guy: What? Protagoras is in town?

Soc: Yes, he's been here for two days.

Guy: Oh boy! Why didn't you just start with this one? Did you converse with him?

Soc: Yes, and I said many things.

Guy: Lucky bastard, you! Now you gonna sit down and tell me all that happened!

Soc: I'd be delighted! It all started out very early in the morning with that idiot Hippocrates, the son of Apollodorus and brother of Phason. It was not even dawning when I hear him banging on my door like shit...

Delhi vs Steubenville

I just love it when right-wingers are mocking the perceived stupidity of left-wingers because it always boils down to the notion that ideas beyond the scope of their ideological indoctrination are simply to be called stupid. I have always admired the graceful simplicity of this cognitive pattern. A very abstract example would look like this:

Liberal: "2 + 2 + cos(0) = 5"

Conservative: "What? 2 + 2 + 0 = 5 ? Man, you're sooo stupid!"

Liberal: "You know, the cosine of..."

Conservative: "Oh, not again! Yet another brainwashed idiot who buys that Marxist nonsense about triangles!"

Flat Earth Society

Libertard: Climate change wackos. Awesome.

JD: Kill babies kill, so we can drill baby drill.

Libertard: Who's killing babies? And who ever took Sarah Palin seriously?

JD: How long have you been on this page, Ryan?

Libertard: A while. Based off of this video, I cannot tell if you are defending climate change, or simply pointing out that the media is ignoring it.

JD: Defending climate change? Am I defending the fact that industrial pollution is heating up the atmosphere? Who defends that?? (Other than the industries doing it, that is...)

If you have been here for a while you will know the US military kills lots of babies, all the time. Sometimes Americans kids, too.

Black block for the 1%

Gecire szubjektív élménybeszámoló

A tegnapi hökös-jobbikos flashmob véleményem szerint minősíthetetlenül primitív, arrogáns és infantilis volt. Nagyra értékelem, hogy a végén egy-két tag leszakadt a csoportról, hogy értelmes diskurzust folytasson velünk, miután a többiek elmentek, de maga a performansz ettől függetlenül minden lehetséges kritikát alulmúlt.

Clever racists unite

Background: notable fascist blogger sentenced to 14 months, suspended for 5 years, just one day after prominent member of the governing party writes insanely hateful propaganda against our largest ethnic minority. (See previous article!)

All right, folks, here's the brilliant idea: if you're an anti-racist, they will pay you a ticket to ride public transport in "gypsy-infested" areas so you can see for yourself how bad those people (in quotation marks, of course) actually are.

Chairman, wow! Now that's what I call a blockbuster! I just go to those areas and I will immediately become a good racist like them! Veni, vidi, vici! How could I just fail to think about this? It's obviously because I'm such a stupid brainwashed liberal, hell yeah! Even though this "you wouldn't be so liberal if you'd have to live with them" bullshit is practically the one and only argument racists ever made during the entire history of mankind, and they always make sure to burp it into any kind of discussion anywhere anytime. No matter if the discussion is started by liberals, libertarians, socialists or conservatives, no matter if it's started at daytime or nighttime, they will always stand up to tell you the big fuckin' truth...

Cheers from Bavaria

The following article is NOT from a fascist hate site. It comes from a prominent member of the governing Fidesz party. Apart from being the most arrogant columnist of the "mainstream" right-wing press, he's a regular speaker at pro-government rallies attended by tens of thousands. (Hundreds of thousands according to the government!) I tried to reproduce the author's boorish and tasteless writing style.

Source: http://www.magyarhirlap.hu/ki-ne-legyen

Among these two citations[1] lies the gypsy question of Hungary.
The year 2013 has set off with a new Cozma case[2]. The only difference is that the victims were not internationally recognized top players but "just" in the youth league. Who got stabbed by the cowardly, disgusting and harmful animals.
This phrase above will be the motive for the fake outrage. Which is much simpler, rewarding and turns much more profit in this polcorrect [sic] world than facing the facts.

Atlas shrugging

So Gerard Depardieu is gone. What a sordid moment for the people of France! Because he was so offended by the prime minister calling him pathetic after he's been working since the age of 15, hell yeah! Nothing to do with earthly issues like money, God forbid, nothing at all! And man, he was raised by his father to be a global citizen, now wasn't he? Come on! Ain't that just fucking cool? Vives les self-made citoyens globales!

Sure as hell this all is none but a super evil left-wing conspiracy of those pinkos runnig the French media and trying to destroy him for the crime of supporting Sarkozy. Yeah man, as if that commie French media were not airing his simple position of reactionary individualism every day and every night! Or maybe I'm wrong? Do they leave a few fleeting moments for the wicked communist propaganda that after France made him world famous and insanely rich producing and marketing and buying his movies, it might be a nice and decent thing to shut the fuck up and pay the tax? My goodness, those cheese-eating surrender monkeys are so full of envy!

God bless

Amúgy most éppen megint hánynom kell az Egyesült Államoktól. Mert hát van ugyebár ez a 2nd amendment, ami sokak szerint azt mondja, hogy mindenkinek lehessen fegyvere...

"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

Ezt a szöveget még akkor írták, amikor az országnak még nem volt saját hadserege, hanem miliciák voltak az egyes államokban, tehát ezt próbálták valahogy kodifikálni. A mondatban elvileg nincs benne, hogy minden egyes polgárnak legyen fegyvere, de ez igazából teljesen lényegtelen. A szesztilalom is bele lett amendálva az alkotmányba, aztán most mégis lehet Utah államon kívül bárhol piát kapni...

Demand

Imagine there's no heaven
You don't even have to try
And hell is not down below us
Ain't nothing new under the sky
Imagine all the people
Finding out today...

Imagine there's no countries
Soon there won't be anyway
Nothing left to kill or die for
And no religion to hold a sway
Imagine all the people
Six feet down in peace...

I may say you're a dreamer
You dream this system can live on
I hope someday you will wake up
Or the world is gone

Imagine no more options
I'm pretty sure you can
The only chance to see tomorrow
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Having to share the world...

I may say you're a dreamer
Sure you're not the only one
I hope someday you all wake up
Or the world is gone

Green is not the new Red

This just in: the congress of the green party LMP has decided to slam the door on this new anti-Orban alliance called 'Together 2014', which is made up of three practically non-existent organizations and a technocratic millionaire who appears to be charismatic because of our well-known politicians being either assholes or retards or both. As you may already know, these organizations are the liberal outfit of dynamic yuppie go-getters called Million For Press Freedom or just Milla, the more or less official action network and political meme of the more or less affiliated trade unionists called Szolidaritás, and the businessman's own thin-tank which may very well have more than 3 people among its ranks. The name of the guy is Gordon Bajnai, pronounced 'buy-nuy'. He used to be prime minister for one year and he did some austerity which was not cool, but the capitalists seemed to like it.

This decision of LMP was welcomed with a great deal of support by the hard left, and you may be surprised to hear me disapprove it, but that's what I actually do. And I have quite a few good reasons to do so. It's not that I am "gravitating to the right" when the situation develops like some of my late activist friends would suggest, no! I'm not gravitating anywhere! As a matter of fact, I am much more extreme than most of the hippies and ragtag activists who make up the alternative left-wing scene, so this is really not the point here...

The faith factor

Good news: Kyrsten Sinema is the first representative having openly declared herself 'not religious' in the history of the US Congress! Even though one in 535 is more than a hundred times smaller than one in 5, which is the actual proportion of non-believers in the USA, it is sure as hell better than zero. Plus, apart from being smart enough to make this move, she also looks quite good!

Yeah dudes, Atheism is sexy!

I wonder if she's going to stay alone, like Bernie Sanders, representing a huge mass of American people, or will there be more swallows to come?

Oh, and I almost forgot the wonderful trivia: She calls herself... Guess what?

A "Prada Socialist"!!!

Now come on! Ain't that just wonderful?

This is how I'd like to see the new American Woman :)

BMI calculator in Haskell

bodymass :: Float -> Float -> String
bodymass weight_kg height_m
    | bmi < s = show bmi ++ " emo"
    | bmi < m = show bmi ++ " normal"
    | bmi < l = show bmi ++ " fat"
    | otherwise  = show bmi ++ " lard-ass"
    where bmi = weight_kg / height^2
          (s,m,l) = (18.5,25.0,30.0) -- Pattern!
          height = if height_m>100 
                   then height_m/100  
                   else height_m