Summary
Hungary passed a new anti-LGBTQ+ law banning Pride events and allowing facial recognition to identify attendees, sparking large protests in Budapest.
Protesters blockaded the Margaret Bridge over the Danube, blocking traffic and ignoring police orders to leave. The law, passed 136-27, amends Hungary’s “child protection” legislation, which already restricts LGBTQ+ content.
Critics call it an attempt to scapegoat LGBTQ+ people and distract from economic issues.
Despite repression, support for Budapest Pride is growing, with many vowing to attend in defiance of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s crackdown.
I will be the bearer of bad news and tell you this will do didly dick, the issue with both Hungary and Slovakia for that matter is that the leftist and progressive voters are highly concentrated in the capital, but in both countries they just get massively outvoted by the rest of the country.
Unfortunately those are the areas that dislike people from the capital and the people who watch the state media for whom this will be spun into “woke people destroy property to support pedophiles” type stuff.
While I am from Slovakia I am Hungarian and do have relatives that watch the M1 and other state controlled TV channels, the brain rot is fucking real.
Still the protests/riots have to happen otherwise things will just continue to get worse
This brain rot is happening everywhere. I used to think that rural areas were where populism takes place, but I was wrong - it’s the suburban areas.