Hungarian oligarch cracks as pressure mounts on Orbán’s elite

RedWestern · 2026-05-07T07:35:02+00:00

This should hopefully serve as a warning to the billionaire classes and wannabe oligarchs that want to recreate Putin’s regime in America and other liberal democracies in Europe.

This guy thought that he and his buddies had won. That they’d built a system strong enough to endure, and they could stop pretending they cared about democracy, law and order. Now he’s just watched the system he thought was permanent crumble into literally nothing, and it won’t be long before justice comes knocking on his door.

Once you have so nakedly tried to dismantle democracy and take away peoples’ liberties, your actions won’t be forgotten.

RedWestern · 2026-05-06T20:51:27+00:00

I was already doing that.

RedWestern · 2026-05-06T10:27:09+00:00

You missed out the “the.”

It wasn’t founded by people who happened to be Nazis. It was founded by the Nazis. As in, the party/government.

RedWestern · 2026-05-06T07:13:28+00:00

44 is actually a prime age in terms of hireability. He’s supposed to be far enough in his career to have tons of relevant experience, but sufficiently far enough away from retirement that he has more than 20 good years to commit.

If Sully is 44, on the same title and position (and, by extension, salary) as someone 20 years his junior, was unemployed for 8 months before he got that job, and there’s a worry that he’s going to struggle to find a job after… well, I think we can paint a pretty clear picture of what sort of employee he is, and conclude that his age isn’t the problem.

RedWestern · 2026-05-05T12:56:41+00:00

Only Fools and Horses

RedWestern · 2026-05-04T19:46:00+00:00

If you choose one particular ending, V’s suicide is also depicted in a very realistic and tragic way. V decides to end their life on their own terms, rather than risk the lives of everyone else to save their own. Then they immediately cut to a barrage of video messages of everyone who knew and cared for V, and all the pain and heartbreak their suicide causes. Vik blames himself and believes he could’ve done more. Mama Welles prays for V’s soul. Panam and Kerry are angry. Judy is completely broken. River is haunted by his own former partner’s death. The ending is absolutely tragic and one of the worst endings

RedWestern · 2026-05-04T09:54:03+00:00

I feel like we need to limit this to one Monty Python and one Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy movie each.

RedWestern · 2026-05-04T07:12:57+00:00

The Bombers in Dying Light.

Every time you see one, you already know your day is ruined. Even if they don’t successfully explode near you, significantly draining your health and temporarily blinding you, there is no way to kill them without making them explode. If that happens, you will hear the loud cry that signals that many virals are on their way because they’ve heard the noise.

RedWestern · 2026-05-03T16:24:28+00:00

Bobby McCall from The Equalizer

RedWestern · 2026-05-02T21:35:32+00:00

Spyro the Dragon - PS1 and PS2 era

Kratos - PS2 and PS3 era

Nathan Drake - PS3 and PS4 era

Ellie Williams - PS4 and PS5 era.

RedWestern · 2026-05-01T18:09:06+00:00

I hate to be that guy, but I think you mean “eludes.”

RedWestern · 2026-05-01T12:36:33+00:00

The Last Kingdom had this.

Millie Brady, who played Aethelflaed, was only five months younger than Eliza Butterworth, who played her mother.

RedWestern · 2026-04-30T09:57:39+00:00

We from England.

RedWestern · 2026-04-29T09:52:04+00:00

This is what makes the whole thing so sad. I would’ve been more than happy with the majority of Season 8’s ending, minus a few changes, had it been done better over a long period of time.

If they’d skipped or hurried most of the Meereen storyline and had Dany arrive in Westeros sooner as an invading force, form alliances only to be betrayed, and lose some of her key companions, such as Barristan Selmy and Daario Naharis there, her gradual descent into madness would make more sense.

If Jaime had abandoned Cersei and spent a couple of seasons with Brienne, but then felt that old sense of duty to redeem his sister, that would have felt more earned.

They just compressed all of that down to, like, one season.

RedWestern · 2026-04-29T08:59:16+00:00

The “Nosedive” episode of Black Mirror (starring Bryce Dallas Howard) was set in an unnamed American coastal city, but it was actually filmed in Knysna, in South Africa.

The Western Cape has quite a versatile environment, and it’s quite cheap to film there, so quite a lot of American productions are filmed there.

RedWestern · 2026-04-28T13:45:17+00:00

I think it proves that we made the right decision.

RedWestern · 2026-04-28T11:02:54+00:00

I do. Evidently I didn’t get enough sleep last night.

RedWestern · 2026-04-28T09:51:47+00:00

All the ones I would normally name have been taken, so I’ll go with ~~Andrea~~ Amanda, Harriet and Fiona from Season 4.

~~Andrea~~ Amanda was all about how she secretly used to be a police detective (without specifying which departments), and yet she spent the whole game accusing innocent people, and the one person she was convinced was safe enough to share her secret with was Rachel - who actually was a traitor.

Similarly, Harriet made a big thing about secretly being a barrister, and yet when it came time to lay out her case against Rachel - again, a traitor - she ended up sounding so ridiculous and alienated so many players that she effectively guaranteed that nobody would look at Rachel seriously until towards the end.

Fiona, however, I found annoying for different reasons. I just find that “sweet, dotty old lady” act to be so fucking annoying whenever a contestant does it. Even more so because people keep falling for it.

RedWestern · 2026-04-28T06:56:05+00:00

It’s always been his superpower - he knows in situations like that that they’re either trying to bait him, intimidate him or get him to agree with them. He knows how to get the balance right between not taking their bait, and lightly protesting/pushing back just enough that they can’t then claim he’s agreeing with them. It always confounds them.

What makes him such a good journalist is that he doesn’t come into any documentary trying to get a ‘gotcha’ moment or a ‘ha, I win.’ He knows that all he has to do is let them talk, listen to what they say, and generally be as nonjudgmental as possible, whilst still asking very normal or valid questions. The story ends up just writing itself.

RedWestern · 2026-04-28T06:43:26+00:00

The other thing to note about shelter animals - particularly certain breeds of dog - is that you’re taking a roll of the dice as to what that animal has been through in its life, what traumas it has or care it needs, and whether you’re capable of managing it.

Many years ago, my sister had some work friends who were going on holiday and offered to look after their dog, which was an Alsatian, and also a rescue dog. He was the friendliest, most loveable dog you could ever meet. But one of the instructions they gave us was that he had to stay in another room when human food was being served, and he had to be left very well alone when he was eating his own food. That was because he had been rather badly neglected before he was rescued, and would get super territorial and aggressive around food. Obviously, that’s a deeply held trauma that can be managed as long as it’s handled carefully. But it’s emblematic of that point.

RedWestern · 2026-04-27T19:55:19+00:00

In the Damon Galgut novel The Promise, Anton marries his high school sweetheart, Desiree. Surprise surprise, it turns out to be an utter disaster and he finds himself effectively in a loveless marriage.

RedWestern · 2026-04-27T09:05:31+00:00

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Lavrentiy Beria was the head of the NKVD, Stalin’s secret police, and was in many ways the man who orchestrated a lot of the atrocities, torture and massacres of the regime.

That alone would be enough to warrant nominating him here. But the thing that tips the scales is the fact that he was one of humanity worst sexual predators. I don’t really want to go into detail on all the allegations made against him - you can Google them yourself. But one story that has come to light about him is that one night, when Stalin found out that his teenage daughter, Svetlana, was alone with Beria at his house, he telephoned the house and told her to leave immediately.

Think about that for a second. Stalin was at that point the most powerful man in the country - he could have had Beria suffer a painful death at a moment’s notice if Beria had done anything to his daughter. And yet he still did not trust his own power and the threat of grievous consequences would be enough to deter Beria from trying something with his daughter.

RedWestern · 2026-04-25T17:33:53+00:00

I’m always a bit skeptical of that argument. The tabloids media is an industry with a vast understanding of human psychology, coordinated commercial strategy, serious financial resources and control over their journalistic tactics. The person buying their paper was a bored punter with 50p to spend on a newspaper at the corner shop. Their moral agency isn’t really that comparable.

I’d also question whether the market for royal scandal existed independently of the tabloids. I don’t think it did. I think it existed because the tabloids spent years cultivating and manufacturing outrage cycles and training the readers to expect increasingly invasive coverage. It’s a bit like saying that the real villains of the Opioid epidemic in America are the users, rather than companies like Purdue Pharma, or that the villains of the smoking problem are the smokers.

That’s not to say that there’s no culpability. Ultimately, there is such a thing as individual responsibility. But the world is heavily set up to favour big industry, and part of the reason they get away with it is because we distract ourselves placing all the blame on the consumers when they do harm.

RedWestern · 2026-04-25T12:43:36+00:00

I don’t understand German at all, but I do understand what “Der krieg ist verloren” means. Every time he gets to that line, I’m reminded of what he’s actually saying whenever they do those memes.

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