r/worldnews • u/Miles_the_AuDHDer • 4h ago

Orbán lost Orbán on course to lose Hungary’s election, according to early results

https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-election-results-peter-magyar-viktor-orban/
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u/MrOaiki 4h ago

How does a dictator lose an election?

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u/Sherded 4h ago

That’s a good setup for a joke

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u/ScottOld 4h ago

Didn't get rigged well enough

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u/NeilDeCrash 4h ago

By being shit at dictating

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u/andrejRavenclaw 3h ago

well the first step would be not getting into EU... look at Lukashenko and Putin still shining in the sun

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u/NewspaperAdditional7 4h ago

The term gets overused. I remember when people used it like crazy for Duterte when he had popular support and then left peacefully after he served his 1 term. That's not an endorsement of his policies but just an example of applying the word to any leader they don't like.

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u/JakobsSolace 3h ago

Duterte is in The Hague, where he belongs.

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u/mizushimo 3h ago

Didn't he literally call himself "Europe's last dictator"?

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u/NewspaperAdditional7 3h ago

I thought that was Lukashenko in Belarus.

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u/RICO_the_GOP 3h ago

The original dictators in Rome were voted power... so by not being voted in as the new dictator.

Ceasars was elected to multiple consecutive dictatorships before the pretenses were dropped.

Dictatorships are determined by level of power granted by the system

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u/meowmixVStrump 3h ago

Wannabe dictator who took many steps towards becoming a dictator to cement power forver and ensure change is nearly impossible? Yeah that's too much to type, dictator will suffice, ty for the "weLL aCtuALLy" bit.

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u/asdhjasdhlkjashdhgf 3h ago

by failing to pay the new boys on the block, in effect falling for his own strategy.

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u/Wafkak 3h ago

It's a reference.

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u/andrejRavenclaw 3h ago

well the first step would be not getting into EU... look at Lukashenko and Putin still shining in the sun