When you have the mechanisms of illegitimate power at your disposal, at some point you will cross the line and do terrible things just to prove - if only to yourself - that you are not ridiculous
It sounds seemingly quite logical that dictators and authoritarian rulers are not prone to sentimentality and moods typical of "weepers", such as, for example, nostalgia. They have neither reason nor time for it, for them every new day is a new joy in messing up other people's lives. We are not counting here on a situation in which they lose power, and survive socially and physically. Then they are also nostalgic for the time of their god-and-beating, but as people of action, even then they will not indulge in mere lamentation, but will look at how to return to power. If they succeed in this, they are usually even more unbearable in the rerun than in the premiere, because they are driven by the urge to take revenge for the injustice done to them, and any loss of power for them is an injustice of heavenly proportions. One such person will move into a big, white house again in a few days, and may God help us all with him.
How are things with ours? provincial lord? The state of decadence and loosening of the screws that hold it together is visible to the naked eye, and he did not lack a sense of pathos and theatrical self-pity even in some of his much calmer and safer times. Although a part of his personality always strives to prove his macho credibility, he is not of solid enough build to be convincing in this; that pre-pubescent roaming around and infantile reference to his own hooligan skills ("let all five of them come and I'll beat them up") always seemed more funny than scary to him. And that's exactly what's scary: when you have the mechanisms of illegitimate power at your disposal, at some point you'll cross the line and do terrible things just to prove - if only to yourself - that you're not funny.
Be that as it may, the illegitimate owner of Serbia is still in the saddle, perhaps more firmly than many think who are carried away by the effects of the first situation in these dozen years in which he was seriously thrown out of balance (here, therefore, I am not talking about internal balance, because that a sad story that is better not to touch), so he certainly has more urgent and smarter things to do than sighing over a "better past": his "better past" is still the present. What is happening all over Serbia is a fight over whether there will be a future.
And yet, I have a theory that there is at least one thing according to which the so-called Vučić is already nostalgic. I bet on a signed copy of Dr. Vojislav Šešelj's book "Sanader's cat Aleksandar Vučić" that you would never guess what I mean! Namely, it is about the cry "Vučić, faggot" that echoed for years not only in sports arenas but also in the so-called oppositional and, in the broader sense of the word, Budji gatherings during the first decade of his reign. Now suddenly he is nowhere to be found (at least on the streets and in colleges, I can't vouch for fan subcultures, but realistically, who cares about them anymore?). Is Vučić suddenly amnestied because of his alleged preference for the same sex?
No joke, Vučić was angered by this "fag" of his personality for a long time, because in the mental world of people like him, it is the worst possible insult. Someone with stronger nerves would not even look back at that side effect of an inarticulate and therefore completely harmless rebellion, but not him: it genuinely affected him, and it was touching to watch: hey, a seemingly grown man...
And then, suddenly and without warning, literally in a fraction of a pro-November second, things got damn serious. A country in which he is not responsible for almost anything, but is asked about almost everything, directly, in front of all of us, killed fifteen of its citizens, mostly young people. Or is "state" no longer the most adequate word, but a corruption-mafiocratic octopus? Whatever it is, it has killed before, these are not its first victims, and they are unlikely to be the last. But never has her murderous nature been so clear and visible. Many realized only with that tragic moment that this is a question of survival: either all of us with our small but only lives, or This without end.
At that point, the infantile insult of "Vučić the fag" becomes senseless, impossible, too obviously too stupid. At the latest, it starts working for him, not against him, and he becomes aware of it. He much prefers incoherent insults from those who are fundamentally similar to him, than mockingly humming "Get out, baby", or outright ignoring, which is an unbearable blow to the ego of any self-righteous person.
That's why I wouldn't be surprised if AV, in addition to organizing the Praetorian Guard, the so-called loyalist, deal with the restoration of the structure of his false opponents and essentially brothers in values and convictions, who would try to take control of the anti-regime narrative again with their idiotic ramblings, which emit only meaninglessness and impotence, and that is exactly what an autocrat needs. For an autocrat begins to truly fall not so much when he loses control over his supporters as when he loses control over his opponents.
Less than two days of blockade - that's how long it took to see how weak and powerless the public media service is, both from the outside and from the inside. At the moment of writing this text, it is the eighth day of the blockade, and the sixth that RTS is not broadcasting its program. They also seem to be facing a strike inside the house. And the essence of blocking RTS is not in what it publishes, but in what it keeps silent
In the months after the fall of the canopy in Novi Sad, the flames of rebellion spread throughout Serbia. The first protests started in Novi Sad right after the tragedy. The authorities responded with arrests, police cordons and intimidation, but instead of calming down the protesters, new protests followed.
The rector of the University of Belgrade, Vladan Đokić, has been the target of top state officials and regime tabloids for months, who label him as an insidious instigator of student protests, an opportunist, "the face of evil" and "the leader of the criminal octopus." How and why a rector became "state enemy number one"
"I'm standing in the cordon, and my daughter is shouting at me 'aw, aw, killers'. What should I do? If they ordered me - I would throw down my baton and bulletproof vest and stand on the side of my child," a police officer from the south of Serbia, who works as needed in the Belgrade Police Brigade, told "Vreme"
The recent formation of the Đura Macuta government is part of the regime's revenge and cynicism. This can be seen most in the "black troika" of new ministers appointed to deal with the parts of society that are the leaders and symbols of the big rebellion that lasted for several months, the cause of which was the fall of the canopy in Novi Sad, which claimed 16 human lives. Education, universities, unsolicited media and parts of the judiciary that refuse to listen to orders, either publicly, with announcements, or hiding behind legal procedures, should be dismantled. Those who will have no problem doing everything they are told, even reinforcing the orders with their own inventions, are chosen for this.
Who mentions the extraordinary elections when the rating of the party in power is falling, and according to all surveys, Vučić is not the most important political factor in the country, but the students?
The brutal beating of students and citizens in Novi Sad shows that the regime is not only ready to take revenge - it is actually carrying it out
If in reality the principle of balance is violated - the way the incompetent regime violated the relationship between the concrete elements at the Novi Sad Railway Station - reality will behave like a canopy: it will fail to obey
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