Combative political rhetoric aside, no one is asking Serbia to "stop" but, on the contrary, to start. Serbia stopped a long time ago
In one part our public - which I just made up, but I'm sure will come to life one day - is an increasingly popular hypothesis that an entity that figures as President of the Government of Serbia, Miloš Vucevic, is not exactly a classic person of flesh and blood, but a product of the artificial intelligence industry - well, more artificial than intelligence - and that it is only possible to explain some of his otherwise incomprehensible words and actions. This theory goes on to say that Vučić most likely acquired it in China, which does not sound impossible; the only trouble is that, it seems, he didn't sell it in some high-end industry, but on the market. Courage, what? So he bought an already outdated model, not exactly top quality, and most likely not from the first owner. And the troubles don't end there. It didn't come with any spare parts.
Maybe this sounds absurd to you, but how else can you explain that the same Vucevic, until yesterday the mayor of Novi Sad, just a few hours after the November 1st tragedy in Novi Sad, calmly went on a "business trip", to China?! The only logical explanation is that he urgently needed some components that had fatally broken and without which he would not be able to function. If what we get from him can be called some kind of "functioning". What would it be like if it broke down?
Jokes aside, the people of Novi Sad know that Miloš V. is of human origin because they remember his father, a lawyer, and an old radical rooter, who during the mayorship of Maja Gojković was practically the second man of the town. Alas, the big question is, does the fact that it is perfectly natural-made say anything in Vucevic junior's favor? Namely, there are some things that we do not expect from robots, especially if they are of more rudimentary construction, but we certainly expect them from human beings, especially from high-ranking public officials. Among them are certainly empathy towards the troubles and sufferings of fellow citizens and general human decency.
Someone who knows and feels any of this will cancel on November 1st any trip anywhere beyond Čurug, let alone to China, a country whose companies owe us some very serious answers regarding the so-called. reconstruction of the Novi Sad railway station. And he will be with people who had the misfortune to be entrusted to his care and protection. Um, because he is the prime minister of the country whose citizens have just died due to the responsibility and fault of that same state, um, because he was the mayor of Novi Sad during the "reconstruction", and he is essentially the same now, only through one of his amateur stuntmen. Which looks more like it was assembled in North Korea, one day when there was no electricity, so the kit was assembled by hand.
However, after keeping quiet for a while, Vučević once again shone with his best natural qualities, declaring that "Serbia cannot stand still because of 15, 155, or 1555 people who died."
What is problematic about that statement? Nothing, except the statement itself; otherwise everything is correct. Explain, please, Pančić?
It is true that no country can "stand still" because of any and any kind of disaster, be it caused by a natural factor or human hogwash. Life always goes on, with all its needs. But, combative political rhetoric aside, no one is asking Serbia to "stop" but, on the contrary, to start. Serbia stopped a long time ago: normal political life, media, judiciary and everything else stopped. The demands of the protestors can be sublimated into a restart, that is, liberation from the constraints of a hijacked state and an enslaved society.
Vučević, therefore, demagogically reverses theses, at the same time astonishingly insulting and tasteless bidding on the numbers of victims, which in the context in which it was said is simply an unbearable example of robotic insensitivity - to apologize to the robots. There are banal, formal truths that are not even thought of, let alone spoken, for reasons that are self-evident to anyone who has been socialized at all. Imagine if you said to the devastated parents of a child who, for example, died in a traffic accident: "What are you dramatizing? Well, all people are mortal, and if he hadn't died now, your child would definitely die someday, even if at a very old age." Come on, it's all normal, life goes on!"
Considering all that, it's actually a shame that Vučić didn't buy Vučević at some market of discarded robots in the deep interior of China. If nothing else, that one could perhaps be upgraded, and there is no chance of fixing this natural one. Nor for his boss, anyway.
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