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by ricardobeat 1613 days ago
What “opinions” do Hungary and Poland hold?
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"opinion" is probably the wrong word when we are talking about countries but people in Hungary and Poland seem to favour more nationalistic and conservative politics and have a thing for strong leaders.

It's a bit like California v.s. Alabama situation. Also, not limited to Poland and Hungary, it pans along the West v.s. East, so it's like North vs South in the US.

For example, EU says you have right to bring your partner to EU. Then Denmark says that you can register a long term relationship and have the full rights without a formal marriage, Poland will say that you need to marry.

It also goes beyond the social issues as the strong leaders tend to mangle with the judiciary system to make their ways and EU is really not happy about it. When that happens, the countries get fined and their leaders will bash EU in a similar way like some American politician bash the federal government.

You can check for your self in the username of your parent comment, which includes a racial slur. This specific slur is common in Hungary so make of that what you will when judging the amount of bias in that comment.

On a side note I am not sure if that username complies with HN TOS.

hating on gays, muslims and separation of judiciary from executive are definitely opinions
An opinion is something that can be represented as a proposition about the world. It's the non-factive superclass of a fact: i.e. the structure of a fact, but not requiring/entailing the property of truth. Hatred is not an opinion, it's an emotion.

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