I turned him down because it would just be a money sink

There is no money. I don't read them because they are all fed with propaganda money from either side

You get all water and no meat on that soup

yeah that's what I told the investor

Visegrad Post ran out of money in 2017 and had to fire everyone

now they just run badly-translated opinion pieces

People don't read them to get informed, they read it to assure they are right, and that market is full on both sides

I tell people the same thing when they ask me if I'm going to report on the 2020 presidential election

there's no way for me to do it without a big paycheck and no one's going to give that to me

unless I sing their tune

I like Mariann, she's a friend of mine, but Magyar Hirlap is incompetent

I have another friend at PestiSracok, they have the same problems

Yeah, that's right. And 888 is intentionally insane

Good right wing or even unbiased journalists are hard to find

moreover any attempt at honest reporting, if it gets traction, will just make me a target

for example I'm not going to Poland this year for the independence celebrations

not after Jared Taylor was banned and the government is probably on high alert for foreign "extremists"

it's high-risk, zero-reward

I would rather sell weird novels about sex addiction

Yes, that is how it is, unfortunately

there's more money in running a book and merch publisher

I am prob going back to Budapest soon once the merch store is online to get some models for a store shoot

Melissa used to do that for a living, I'll ask her if she can hook me up with some photographers etc.

I do photography, but unfortunately not portraits or modeling

ah cool

this project's not coming to fruition for a few months

the first book hits the production line, then I talk to my friend at the merch store and he gets the shirts etc. up

he uses generic models but I want to go the extra mile because I have the money

Isn't it feasible to run it from there? Lack of models?

I looked into it, the scene in Georgia is a joke

everyone with a clue has moved to Russia or Europe

the economy here is in freefall after Putin's flight ban

that's good from an expat perspective because the value of the lari has sufficiently declined to make Georgia one of the cheapest expat destinations in the world

but it's bad because human capital is fleeing left and right

also Georgians are...incompetent

to put it mildly

starting to suspect those "low corruption" indices are goosed

How so? Lazy?

it's very clannish and everything here relies on familial connections

Tbilisi is a bit better than the rest of the country

The latin American model, I see