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I would like to remind you that you have only got a few days to choose your entry. 2 days left to register and to select a song 37 countries have registered so far 29 songs have been selected so far

I must say that I think we already got a very strong lineup, maybe one of the best since I joined TISC? But maybe I am a bit biased because I am hosting. And only 9 out of the 29 songs are in English! Far more diverse than Eurovision.

UK sends Ed Sheeran, NZ sends Lorde. The "big guns" are finally here. Canada and its influence with Shawn Mendes and The Weeknd.

3 days left to register and to select a song 37 countries have registered so far 28 songs have been selected so far

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It's... until the registration and selection deadline! 4 days left to register and to select a song 35 countries have registered so far 22 songs have been selected so far

Parties change. Fidesz for example was a liberal centrist party between 1990 and 1994. Yes, Viktor Orbán was a liberal politician. After 1994 they realized that there was a power vacuum on the Hungarian right-wing, and they turned Fidesz into a conservative party. Did they change their name? Nope. The liberal Fidesz politicians who couldn't identify with their party anymore simply left. Just like how once Jobbik became a center-right party the neonazis decided to leave and made a new party called Our Homeland.

2006 and the complete ineptitude of the Hungarian Socialist Party destroyed the left-wing here far more than the communists ever did. I mean, look up the 1994 Hungarian election results: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Hungarian_parliamentary_election We went full red just 5 years after the fall of Hungarian communism and the socialist party was in charge for 12 years (1994-1998, 2002-2010). The 2006 unrest and how the socialists handled it changed everything, and to this day the left-wing can't figure it how to build back its base back. I think Hungarians don't actually hate left-wing politics. The issue is that the new wave of Hungarian young politicians think that Western progressivism is the answer against Orbán. Sometimes it feels like the opposition thinks they are campaigning in the US, not in Hungary. I mean, the main strategy of the 2022 opposition campaign was to literally copy Biden's anti-Trump campaign, and it didn't work because Hungarians don't hate Orbán the way many Americans hate Trump. This fucking "we are morally superior, give us all the power" centrists neoliberal shit needs to go because it clearly doesn't work in this country. Push some actual left-wing ideas because in this country it might actually win an election for them as it did before.

Jobbik went from far-right to center-right when Fidesz radicalized itself so much that there wasn't any point to being on the far-right anymore if you actually had any aspirations of winning the election, which Jobbik certainly during the 2010s. And now we got a new far-right party instead of Jobbik, outside of the united opposition, but they don't have the same large voter base. Jobbik had 20% of the votes for two elections (and maybe even 30% at some point between the elections), the current far-right party got 6%. Anyway, maybe the opposition learned its lesson this time: change comes from the left, not from the right. Hungary needs a healthy left-wing that can stand on its own, without parties like Jobbik. As long as the left-wing is a shadow of its former self, without any new leaders and new ideas, Orbán will never have a real opponent in Hungary.

When the remaining Hungarian free media just releases the "doomer wave" version of TISC winner Listen to Your Heart because there's nothing else left to say about what's happening in Hungary

All will fall. Orbán just won an election with a landslide and his #1 message was that he will ensure that Hungarians will get their cheap gas from Russia. People are waaaay too selfish to sacrifice their own comfort, decades of failed green politics already made this clear.

Nah, Kaczyński pretty much said yesterday "Fuck the Hungarian communists! Go Orbán!", it was a clear declaration that Poland is 100% behind Orbán regardless of their disagreement on foreign policy. As long as Orbán stays in NATO and to some extent acts like Erdogan, Poland will forever be on our side. And I have no doubts about that PiS will remain in power, they are doing exactly the same thing that Orbán achieved here, they just a bit less smart.

I would say that business with China will always be seen as a "necessary evil" even by Orbán's supporters due to the whole communism thing, but as long as these projects don't harm the Hungarian economy, nobody will truly care outside of a vocal minority who mostly live in Budapest. Basically you can do whatever you want here, just try to not mention communism while you are doing it. I honestly don't know how the project going right now, I assume it's going very slowly because the last few years hasn't been great because, you know, COVID and stuff. It will probably get made eventually unless the countries collapses in the next few years.

Yeah, it really is. Orbán already opened the gates for China with the Fudan university in Budapest, and this is only the beginning. He probably lost Putin as a major anti-West ally on the world's stage because Russia will be weakened no matter how the war ends, not to mention that his allies inside the EU (Poland, V4) now hate Russia even more. "It's free real-estate" - China looking at Hungary, probably. People will say that this is a win for Putin, when the reality of the situation is that China will reap the benefits of literally everything that we currently see happening in Europe. The new world order is here. I just hope that our Chinese overlords will be kind to us.

Huge victory for Orbán, truly historic. There's literally no hope for anyone else to win an election in Hungary until something truly catastrophic happens to the Hungarian economy, he's just too powerful and too popular. I was a fool for thinking that there was a chance. There never was.

Apparently the user has participated in TISC before under a different username, or at least that's what I am being told. @Memo And I totally did not forget about this rule at all when I made my previous post. Nooo, not at all. (Lesson learned, take a break from organizing an event when you are distracted by an ongoing election in your country. )

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Just put them in the Asian federation. That will probably be the solution anyway for both Russia and Belarus in football once the war is over and the dust settles, unless by some miracle there will be a regime change in these two countries, which is still very unlikely.

We got two more weeks until the selection deadline. For now my plan is to follow the schedule as long as it's possible. Meaning that I will pause the contest if anything happens that would result in users withdrawing due to not being able to listen to the songs and vote. I will start warning jurors of the upcoming deadline once we reach the final week of the selection.

On our national holiday Orbán pretty much declared in front of a huge crowd of Hungarians that we must stay neutral. He said that the EU and US won't protect the interests of Hungarians and they might sacrifice us for their own gains. "We are between East and West, North and South." "We can't gain anything from this war, but we can lose everything" He sees Hungary as this neutral state between Western Europe and Russia, not as a country that is firmly in the Western alliance, which is very strange because we are part of NATO. And he clearly doesn't care at all about what happens to Ukraine. Meanwhile the opposition also had their big rally before the election and Donald Tusk pretty much called Orbán a traitor. He said that the Hungarian opposition must win this fight for Europe the same way Ukraine has to win their fight against Russia. The opposition is going full in on the Western Europeans message and hope to God that Hungarians want to be part of Europe. Based on polling I think the opposition will be disappointed, Orbán's message of "we should protect our own interest above all else" is resonating with the Hungarian public.

It's March 15th, our national holiday where Hungarians celebrate the 1848 Hungarian Revolution, so I thought that this is a good time to reveal our entry for this contest. I have never planned to send the same act for the second time at TISC, but I don't really have another choice as I couldn't find a better song to represent our country. Carson Coma revealed this song one year ago and I immediately thought that it might be a better entry than what I chose for them last year, but it was too late to change the submission for the 2021 contest. I guess there are no "what ifs" anymore as this single will now also be a TISC entry and hey, it's a difference genre of music, so yay, it's not just the repeat of our 2021 song! Please, give a warm welcome to Carson Coma for the second time at TISC... Hungary Carson Coma - Pók Lyrics

For now we are "on schedule", the deadline is April 10, which is still very far away. I will wait until the end of March to reassess the situation.

The US and UK banned the Russian energy imports. The EU thankfully isn't jumping off a cliff by joining this ban. Still, shit might hit the fan soon, the prices of literally everything will go up.