RE: The stench of death in the Romanian state
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it is interesting how fast people forget, and how fast the ruling class forgets, even in a country that not so long ago was pretty pissed at them, and how it end up.
people also forget that elected officials are not there to make themselves rich but to serve the people. people do have power, but for people to actually do something, most of the time it needs to be a desperate situation. and that is coming from personal experience. we have protests for 7 months now, and to be honest i am not the best protester. yes i did attend some, i did participate in some, i do some online shitting on what is happening, but i am not hungry, not thinking what i will eat tomorrow, so i will not go all in.
and that is what they are counting on. the poor and uneducated will vote for 30$ or a new washing machine (true stories) if they are not brainwashed by the everyday propaganda (our president had over 200 live national tv appearances this year) and the "middle" class (not sure is it actually middle, more those who are not hungry) will most of the times not risk the status quo.
There are from time to time people who will say fuck it, i don't care what will happen, and most of the times there was a braking point for that to happen. Cezar is one of them.
100%. I had wondered about things in your country, specifically, while writing this. It seems when we were in Graz, the news was quite full of updates. Now, I admit I haven't seen much info either way about the situation. Everything is forgoten, which does raise a question over the whole "if only people knew, this would never happen" theory.
this was two weeks ago
after that they started arresting people so there was chaos for a week. with everyday protests in bigger cities, but on smaller scale around the city by blocking the roads. they started sending full equipped police against it, so people started crossing the pedestrian crossings non stop. the mdf even tried removing the crossing in one street.
there are thousands of tickets written for crossing the road or even standing on the side walk. i am pretty sure we have to be living in a simulation.
the joke about goldfish memory is bad as it should be about people memory :D they need to be reminded all the time.
100%. I'm starting to think so, too. I'm sorry. It sounds like a shitty situation to be living through. I hope nobody's paying those tickets. If it's anything like the tickets given out during Covid for breaking curfew or any of those bs laws, they may get overturned with time (as long as the people didn't get scared and paid).
And that picture. Wow. The fact that this is happening and so close from me, and yet I hear nothing of it, is frightening. I hope the people win. And remember :)
it is a weird thing. the mix of life goes like normal and fuck this is all just fucking crazy. like some kind of dystopian sci-fi where life looks normal but you know fucked up overlords are up there.
i think news ignore protests around the world most of the time. they don't want to give ideas. :)