🇪🇺🏳️🌈⚖️🇭🇺 A legal earthquake - CJEU finds Hungary to have violated EU law on multiple counts with its anti-LGBT+ legislation (as expected) but also for the first time in history, in an EU law-reshaping precedent, finds Hungary to violate Art 2 TEU in a self-standing manner.
A chart showing the share that Fidesz-led electoral lists won in % of votes (multi-member constituency or party list), of registered voters, and of seats.
Mr Orbán's Fidesz built itself an electoral system that boosted it until it didn't.
In 2014, the first year under the system, Fidesz-KDNP won a ⅔ majority with 27% of the registered voters. Now, with 30% of registered voters, it is on track to 29% of the seats.
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Made in base R with extrafont
a personalist movement using populist messaging and triumphing after all ideological differences in the opposition had to be purged to create sufficient mass and momentum (pun intended). And it only took 16 years to pass in the heavily tilted landscape. What more can one want from 'democracy'
the cards were definitely more stacked against the opposition in Hungary
that one didn't turn out so good
the first competitive authoritarian regime whose rise and fall I have closely followed as an adult. (Although the fall part is definitely premature to call yet)
3 weeks left to apply!
Slightly pursing my lips as I applaud President Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner so everyone knows I'm not really supporting him
just an absolute banger this one, not much else to add. Time for a rewatch
we are all here to bear witness to the dying days of human-generated, text-based social media
I guess partly what I mean is that the incentive to show in the one published paper that the result is robust to 100 pseudo robustness tests is all the stronger, with dubious implications for quality. But I agree that maybe this is the preferred equilibrium in a constrained set
other than when it comes to publication bias. But I guess that's not really a concern because every result is robust and incontrovertible
not at all related to the OP but it just struck me how this is yet another facet of the varying salience of judicial politics in the US vs anywhere else. Court watchers are so sparse this side of the globe that we can't afford a single one of them to quit lest we be condemned to eternal darkness
the sound of your ratemyprofessor ratings dropping
is the question about why the militias aren't using a code formatter?
Spain CHES data *chef's kiss*
A 🧵on how the @vdeminstitute.bsky.social accountability indices help us understand how democratic backsliding is occurring in the United States.
tl;dr: in principle, vertical constraints on the president remain strong; in practice, horizontal and diagonal constraints have been greatly weakened.
a good reminder that the average undergraduate was about 9 years old when the Brexit referendum took place
every time you think the bigot spigot is already turned up to max
an incredibly rough year for irony and it's barely March
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FPTP giveth, FPTP taketh
Matt Goodwin tweet Statement: @GoodwinMJ • 39m "We are losing our country. A dangerous Muslim sectarianism has emerged. We have only one general election left to save Britain. Vote Reform every chance you get. I will continue the fight. I will always fight for you. I will stand at the next general election. Matt." Picture below of Matt Goodwin typing something on his phone.
Victor Anichebe @VictorAnichebe Can you tweet something like Unbelievable support yesterday and great effort by the lads! Hard result to take! But we go again! 23/10/2016, 14:24
I can't even treat myself to that mega standard pack without feeling guilty
though I'm definitely better at maximizing passive income in-game
now I wonder how our choices about managing balatro economy map onto real life personality
if the first two skips aren't both investment tags I'm not touching it
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true of most trade agreements. On the flip side, the political investment in their passage also rarely matches the projected benefits
I always believed in the emergence of a pan-European media conglomerate based in Bratislava