Even left-wing mayors are now sharply criticizing Karácsony’s work.
I think the solution is simple!
If your street is snowy and slushy, just paint the snow rainbow-colored and the mayor of Budapest will immediately start dealing with it!
Even Karácsony’s own mayor friends have voiced criticism over the snow removal situation: the convicted DK mayor, the Buda mayor, and Örsi from the 2nd district. For once, I have to agree with the actual mayors on this issue. If I saw correctly, Örsi Gergely, the district’s mayor, is planning to purchase his own machinery. That’s how dissatisfied they are with what Karácsony Gergely is not doing under the label of snow removal.
Priorities, right? So the mayor had time to accept a Pride award, but didn’t have time to properly do his job. Again—because we’ve already been through this once during the previous heavy snowfall. I honestly don’t know what the right solution would be. Maybe we should place little Pride awards all over the city on top of the snow, because that seems to be what really gets Karácsony Gergely’s attention.
1️⃣ Mockery = substitute for evidence
“Paint the snow rainbow-colored”
“tiny little Pride awards”
👉 This is not an argument, but an emotional short-circuit.
Here, humor doesn’t open thinking — it shuts it down:
if you laugh → you stop asking questions.
This is ridicule framing: make the opponent look ridiculous so there’s no need for data, responsibility, or organizational context.
2️⃣ Identity conflation (snow removal = Pride)
The text deliberately mixes two completely different issues:
- city operations (snow removal),
- cultural/symbolic events (Pride awards).
👉 The message:
“If there’s Pride → there’s no work.”
This is false cause-and-effect, classic moral panic framing.
3️⃣ “Even the left criticizes” – false consensus
“even left-wing mayors criticize him”
“I have to agree with them for once”
👉 This is a form of authority laundering:
internal criticism is inflated into full legitimacy, as if:
- there were a unified left-wing judgment,
- a professional consensus existed,
- this were an objective, politically neutral fact.
In reality, there is no data, no comparison, no weather or capacity analysis.
4️⃣ Personal attacks and labeling
“convict DK member”
“doesn’t do snow removal”
👉 This is character assassination:
the problem is no longer the system, but the individual’s supposed “incompetence.”
That way, there’s no need to talk about:
- FŐKERT / FKF capacity,
- legal responsibility frameworks,
- district vs. city-level competencies,
- extreme weather protocols.
5️⃣ Symbolic scapegoating
Throughout the text, the target is Karácsony Gergely,
while the actual operational questions remain invisible.
This is a centralized scapegoat narrative:
one face → every failure.
6️⃣ “Őrsi is buying a machine” – cherry-picked example
The mention of Őrsi Gergely is a token reference:
- no data on what kind of machine,
- why now,
- under what authority,
- at what cost,
- what it solves at a system level.
👉 This example is not analysis, but political stage décor.
7️⃣ The priority narrative: moral judgment
“He had time for this… but not for that.”
This is a false dilemma:
as if a city leader could only do one thing at a time.
👉 Function:
handing out moral superiority, not searching for solutions.
🧠 Summary – what is the real function?
This text is not about snow removal, but about:
- identity reinforcement (“we are the normal ones”),
- manufacturing a cultural enemy (Pride),
- personal smearing,
- emotional mobilization.
📌 What it does not contain:
- data,
- a responsibility map,
- costs,
- comparisons,
- proposed solutions.
Only mockery + labels + a scapegoat.