When Spring hits here, it really hits. It was absolutely fucking GORGEOUS, and I had an invite from an NPR Lady to see a nice show at an excellent brewery. Outdoors under a canopy, perfect view of Keuka Lake and the vineyards. Times like this are what make the bullshit worthwhile. And I didn’t ask her what she thought of the violent nutjob being taken out on the NYC subway- I knew the answer, and I’m sure she knew mine. It’s best sometimes to just shut up.
But open your mouth long enough to sing Happy Birthday to a bunch of folks like one of the few philosophers who don’t make me roll my eyes and close the book; a guy whose 1812 wasn’t OUR 1812; one of our local heroes (even has a street named after him); a guy whose dick supposedly shamed Milton Berle; a woman who had a leg up on you; and my favorite method actress.
Enough of this folderol, let’s get to the important part, the Links themselves.
God, I love California. I usually don’t watch the videos at the top of stories but this one was really worth it.
Of course, this is impossible because California has common sense gun safety laws.
Hey, Al, still send a Hanukkah card to Yankel Rosenbaum’s family every year?
I think we can safely say that we’ve seen the last Richard Dreyfuss movie. Too bad this didn’t happen before Jaws.
This song came up on my Amazon HD feed while driving home and as soon as I heard the opening notes, I knew what it was and I knew I’d be a blubbering mess. I was right.
whaddup doh’
Fun fact Norma Kuzma (hah!) aka Traci Lords was born in Steubenville, Ohio. Steubenville also gave the world Dean Martin and Jimmy “they bred them for sports” the Greek.
Ah Traci Lords, prettiest mouth in porn.
Ha! My father-in-law is from Steubenville.
$200,000,000 per person? Straight up fucking retarded-fuck off freeloaders.
How to entrench a race war for $200 Alex.
Honestly, when people start tossing around numbers like that it’s time to just turn off the lights, lock the doors, and go home. To say they’re pig-ignorant is an understatement.
C’mon Man, just give each eligible a 200M coin
Since everything that happened in the last 150 years is because of slavery, make the slavers responsible.
Pay them with Confederate money.
No, I think the coin is the way to go
“sorry man, I ain’t got change for that.”
Our government is drowning in debt at every level, but now they want to tax people who never have owned a slave to give to people who were never slaves in a state that never permitted slavery…
It’s beyond parody. It might not be so bad if afterwards we never had to hear about racism or deal with affirmative action again. But we all know that’s not the case.
As long they they pay off whomever out of their own state budget? And the whole thing implodes?
I say let ’em crash
Federal bailout incoming!
Bidenomics!
Well there’s a thought – take the money and GTFO of the country.
Hey, JI, what’s a good email for you?
ratbastard at burningman dot org
Inbound.
::hug::
That appears to be three requirements, not four. Maybe the fourth is having a PR flunkie on staff who has more than three fingers.
So no more black made movies unless there is a white exploiter, a couple Mexican/Honduran yard boys and an Asian professor.
Script writers going to have fun. All have to be paid the same rate to avoid a lawsuit
+ union scale
To me, the question is, will this plunge the Oscar’s into permanent irrelevance or do so to the entire Hollywood film industry?
Yes.
It’s not quite a blunder of Bud Lightean proportions but it’s up there.
More like Bud creating rules requiring trannies on the can after sales have cratered.
I loved the “Amos and Andy” tv show. Couldn’t be made today
I’m not even sure In Living Color could be made today.
Ugly Wanda? Men On Film? The Jim Carrey steroid taking female character? No way it could be made today.
Don’t forget Fire Marshal Bill and Homie da Clown.
Absolutely would not be made today.
The Jeffersons ?
Yes.
Nothing encourages stellar art like rigid and arbitrary rules.
I guess historical films are out.
Not really, it just turns out that everyone was gay,
“an underrepresented racial or ethnic group”
So, straight white people?
This is not going to do much for their foreign sales, I’m guessing.
https://www.oscars.org/news/academy-establishes-representation-and-inclusion-standards-oscarsr-eligibility
Four categories, each category needs at least one checkbox met.
White Jews don’t count.
Wait….since when are J_ws white? I thought those suave sheeny bastards are all North African?
A lot of Eastern European and Russian.
These days straight white men are the underrepresented group in most movies.
The wife was watching something on Netflix and a straight white guy came on and I said, he’s the bad guy. I was right.
Nice. It’s beautiful around there.
Five- or six-hundred-dollar electric bills during the winter are a small price to pay for healing the planet.
Buy a sweater.
Learn…..
To knit?
It’s best sometimes to just shut up.
A truly under-appreciated bit of advice.
I can think of dozens of times I wish I had kept my yap shut, and only a couple-three times I wish I hadn’t.
and only a couple-three times I wish I hadn’t.
Do those times involve STEVE SMITH?
Ron White reflecting upon being arrested in NYC; “they told me I had the right to remain silent…..but I didnt have the ability”
I am very sorry that I got caught.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/berkeley-prof-admits-claimed-indian-heritage-was-heap-big-falsehood
She identified as a native, isn’t that enough? What’s a lady got to do these days?
She only went half-way – she needed to identify as a native man.
“Sorry, not sorry.”
She identified as a Native American, what else do these bigots want?
Did I miss the part where she resigned?
“Resisting calls for her resignation, Hoover says she has “been working with restorative justice facilitators to better understand how members of the…community have felt harmed and betrayed, and ways I can work to meaningfully make amends.””
“I’m one of the good guys.”
“restorative justice facilitators”
Good Lord that has to be a plum job.
Funny how making amends to a disadvantaged community never seems to involve a white wokist resigning so they can be replaced by a member of said community.
The shooter near Cal State Chico must’ve been an out-of-state student.
…from Indiana, of course.
If you’ve seen Richmond or most of Indy lately, that math checks out.
But Richmond has that nice Quaker college! Surely non-violence is the rule there!
The requirements include having at least one lead character in the movie be from an “an underrepresented racial or ethnic group”, having at least 30% of the general ensemble cast be from at least two underrepresented groups (women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ people or people with disabilities), or having the movie’s subject focus on one of those groups.
Art will set you free.
I met Dreyfuss a long time ago. We was a nice guy.
We was a nice guy.
Are those their actual pronouns?
They bonded.
I saw him speak at a conference several years ago. He was outraged that we didn’t dump every spare penny into building more homeless housing. I guess it’s good to have a hobby horse, but he was part of that Bob Geldof school of advocacy: “don’t open up your wallets or inconvenience yourself in any way, demand your representatives to spend big on my hobby horse”.
Supporters of the shift argue the bans are good public policy that will lower planet-warming emissions
There is no such thing. And CO2 is not a pollutant.
Strange how this completely wasn’t a thing until six months ago, then it was a conspiracy theory, now it’s becoming a law. I really dislike these people.
It’s been a thing at the local level in California for a few years now, which is a major reason why the “Nobody is coming for your gas stoves” argument was BS.
If we don’t pay the
ransomreparations, it will be just the same as stealing the money from them.The entire narrative surrounding reparations is dishonest as the day is long.
It’s a shame that the post Civil War “Back to Africa” movement didn’t get more traction. The descendants of US slaves would have been much happier there.
🙄
I’d be ok with giving reparations equivalent to the average per capita wealth in Africa.
After subtracting their current net worth, of course.
Heck, I’d be willing to start at twice the average per capita wealth in Africa, as “punitive” damages. The point of restitution is put somebody where they would have been, right? Throw in a multiplier for punitives, and I think we’re done here.
Activists demand higher payments from California reparations task force: ‘$200 million’ per person
These are not serious people.
I know this is supposed to make me mad, but I find this absolutely hilarious. Only $200M? As long as we’re making shit up, why not a cool billion? And OMWC was right, the guy incoherently screaming in the video is comedy gold.
And yet in the mainstream media and across government, NOBODY is just saying the obvious: “This is stupid and insane, and Everbody. Knows. It.” Same for the all-trannies-all-the-time thing. And guys in girls’ sports. And Bud Light.
None of them have the guts or brains to just tell the truth that everyone knows.
And “Net Zero”. And and and…
Of course, this is impossible because California has common sense gun safety laws.
Which why media will focus on the TX incident yesterday.
Richard Dreyfuss says Oscar diversity rules ‘make me vomit’
Meritocracy is a racism.
🎶Sunday, Slutty Sunday🎶
https://archive.is/dguA3
I endorse this idea.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/22269040/boob-job-to-fix-sexless-marriage/
We used to have sex often, sometimes four or five times a day in our twenties.
Obviously the guy is still recovering.
This problem could be self-correcting.
Leftists in New York City who are protesting over the death of Jordan Neely tonight thought it would be a good idea to block trains by getting down onto the tracks.
“So, the equivocal number from the 1860s for 40 acres to today is $200 million for each and every African-American.”
Those 40 acres aren’t in down town San Francisco. El Centro, maybe.
Tell them they can have 40 acres in Namibia.
I hear Liberia is nice.
“the equivocal number”
Learn to English.
To be sure, imagination and creativity are good things in principle, but not when art is involved.
“…said Sharpton in his weekly Harlem headquarters appearance. “The precedent alone is a threat to all of us. We cannot allow this lawlessness to go unchecked.”
But enough about inciting riots in Crown Heights. Or Jessie calling NYC “Hymietown”. Which I still find funny.
Doesn’t Al still owe the IRS a shit-pile of money? Why isnt he in prison ?
My wife and I saw “Nefarious” in a theater yesterday. I’m shocked that this movie was made and released, albeit with zero marketing support. It was quite good.
https://youtu.be/aBVAqvrS8gc
Any relation to my fat white rapper persona, the Nefarious P.H.A.T.?
Looks cool. I heard an interview with the dude who made the film. Interesting guy.
ATTN: Tres.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/woman-who-wants-worlds-biggest-29916149
That face! Why do that to your lips?
No way. That face.
I bang fat broads but I dont fuck ugly fat broads.
And Im guessing she has some mental issues:
“Despite already undergoing five bum lift surgeries to achieve her curvy rear, Natasha has said she’s planning to have a sixth soon.”
a woman who had a leg up on you
I was hoping it was the birthday of Charlotte Greenwood.
Or maybe Melissa Mason.
Actions have consequences.
Professor arrested for shutting down pro-life event.
On April 19, U. of Albany sociology professor, Renee Overdyke, was arrested for shutting down our large LED screen and then resisting arrest. Her swift apprehension by police permitted Created Equal to resume the broadcast of our videos.
Her insolent students are so concerned about free speech. Free speech does not mean you can shut down the speech of others. The end.
Overdyke?
Really?
Lazy writing.
ChatJournolist
Complete with the performative screaming.
On the bright side, leftists screaming themselves hoarse all the time might shut them up for a while.
Incoherent screaming is never a good way to advance your politics. Ask Howard Dean.
Seems to have worked pretty well for Democrats since 2017.
Too much is not enough
“An apology and an admission of wrongdoing just by itself is not going to be satisfactory,” said Chris Lodgson, an organizer with the Coalition for a Just and Equitable California, a reparations advocacy group.
What if we bring you a shrubbery?
Apology for what? Black Africans still enslave each other. There are more slaves currently than ever in history. Every single person alive is descendant from slaves and slave owners. It was the norm, not the exception in every culture all over the planet for all of human history. You cuntes can fuck off.
“An apology and an admission of wrongdoing just by itself is not going to be satisfactory,”
Well, I guess I won’t bother, then.
Tell them they can have 40 acres in Namibia.
Are we at war with Namibia? I can’t keep up.
We have always been at war with Namibia.
Interesting.
The unidentified man who calmly got out of his car and began to shoot people down at the Allen Premium Outlets Mall on Saturday was described by neighbors as a long-time resident who lived with his parents and always wore some kind of security guard uniform.
The neighbors said that “he was very quiet, but they say they did notice certain unusual and quiet behaviors,” according to WFAA. …
FBI agents say the family has requested a translator.
“Does anybody here speak jive?”
June Cleaver isn’t available at the moment.
Jesus Christ the linked video is brutal. Not sure I needed to see that.
I think it is good to know what it really looks like.
Tundra, what is a good email for you?
And does anyone know a good email for Trashy?
minnetundra at geemail
incoming.
Got it. Thanks!
Gecko45 went bad?
Good morning, Old Man.
The date sounds perfect. I’m glad the weather finally flipped to the proper season.
Good. I hate to think that the cities are lost forever.
I was gonna link the Chappelle reparations skit, but we’ve all seen it. Good luck CA!
I went to Radio Shack yesterday and got a tuner box to hook to my over-the-air antenna. Now I can watch the F1 circus on the big teevee. I need to find an acceptable picture size setting. It came with a “component” input cable, so that’s what I’m using until I can find one of my orphan hdmi cables. Maybe that will fix the picture issue.
Radio Shack still exists??
@GT: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4322280
Thank you! I think I may have found it at YT sliced into bite-sized pieces. (Saving until after Sunday morning choral/early music shows on the satellite radio.)
My mama gets to come home from the hospital today!
😃
Excellent news.
This calls for an Official Frabjous Day! 😃
Happy Days are here again!!
Excellent.
Good to hear, hope she gets well soon.
Nice. My mother will be here next week. We are already arguing.
Aid and assistance
As Russia’s paramilitary organization, the Wagner Group, expands its presence in African countries, the Biden administration is pushing back with one of its prized tactics: sharing sensitive intelligence with allies in Africa in an attempt to dissuade countries from partnering with the group.
The administration has used this tactic with increasing frequency, including in the months leading up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. It serves the dual function of alerting allies to looming threats and placing adversaries on notice that the U.S. knows what they’re doing.
Now, those tactics are being deployed as part of a broader push to prevent Moscow from gaining an economic and military foothold in countries in Africa, including those that have previously worked with Washington, according to interviews with four U.S. officials with knowledge of the effort.
The U.S. has in recent months shared intelligence related to an alleged Wagner plan to assassinate the president of Chad as well as its attempts to access and control key natural resource extraction sites in countries such as Sudan and the Central African Republic, among other initiatives.
The aim is to highlight for African officials how working with Wagner is likely to sow chaos in the long term despite its promises to bring peace and security to countries facing political turmoil and violence, the officials said.
Don’t trust those guys. Trust us. We know what’s best for you.
Two old, rich white men talking nonsense.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/04/29/elon_musk_defines_the_woke_mind_virus_anything_anti-meritocratic_and_that_results_in_the_suppression_of_free_speech.html
Probably racist.
Musk is African American. He can’t be racist.
The recent sharing of intelligence on Wagner highlights how the standoff between the U.S. and Russia extends beyond the battlefield in Ukraine to Africa, where Biden officials say Russia is using Wagner as a proxy to strike deals and help make inroads on behalf of the Kremlin. And it underscores the degree to which the Biden administration believes Wagner — and the Kremlin — pose a long term threat to U.S. interests on the continent.
What might those long term interests be?
NO WAR FOR LITHIUM!
“San Francisco Democrats have been called ‘mean girls’ after they banned a lesbian Asian from setting up a liberal club in the city.
Cyn Wang, who worked for the Obama Administration, attempted to set up a group called the Westside Family Democratic Club, but was stopped because the title contained the word ‘family’ and for backing a recall of a woke school board.
The Chinese immigrant has long been a Democrat, and on paper looks like the perfect candidate to represent a liberal group. Wang voted for Biden in 2020, labeled herself an intersectional feminist, and denounced the Republican Party as ‘the biggest threat to our democracy.’
She also married a Mexican immigrant, who got her green card this month; runs a small family business and sends her daughter to a public school.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12055043/San-Fran-progressives-BAN-lesbian-Asian-setting-Dem-club-title-family-it.html
So literally Hitler?
Family is such a threat to marxists that even outright demonization of political opposition is not good enough for them.
The U.S. concerns and assessments about Wagner, including its operations in Africa, were also reflected in the highly classified intelligence allegedly leaked by 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixiera, according to more than 50 documents reviewed by POLITICO. Teixiera disseminated the materials on Discord, a social media messaging site, in recent months.
“Leaked” by a hand picked patsy?
50 documents reviewed by POLITICO
So 50 charges of espionage coming up for the staff that reviewed and wrote that piece?
Wild.
The Cathedral sure didn’t like the unity of the Tea Party and OWS.
The Nuge can’t even play in Alabama.
Ted Nugent’s concert in Birmingham has been canceled amid a wave of controversy on social media.
Nugent, 74, a hard rock veteran and political provocateur, was set to play on July 18 at Avondale Brewing Co. His appearance here, which was announced on Monday by promoter Red Mountain Entertainment, inspired intense reactions this week among concertgoers, who expressed anger and disappointment on the venue’s Facebook and Instagram pages. …
Detractors cited their opposition to Nugent’s far right-wing political views — which the rocker himself has proudly called “radical” — and said they wouldn’t support Avondale Brewing Co. in the future if Nugent performed there. They slammed the rocker as homophobic, transphobic, misogynistic, an intolerant hate-monger and more. …
On Thursday afternoon, Avondale Brewing Co. announced Nugent’s show was canceled, one day before tickets were to go on sale via Ticketmaster.
“We have heard the concerns of the Avondale community, which is so important to us, and in conjunction with our partners, have taken the necessary steps to to cancel the Ted Nugent concert scheduled for July 18,” the venue said in a post on Instagram Stories.
Weak.
inspired intense reactions this week among concertgoers
Who? You aren’t talking about people that were going to buy tickets.
The woke messaging matters, not the money. Their response should have been something along the lines of “We do not engage in politics or censor performers for their political views.”
My immediate thought.
They’re talking about people who might have bought tickets to other concerts hosted by the company.
I look forward to them cancelling the concerts of rappers who glorify street violence, drugs, and treating women as objects.
They’re just keepin’ it real, yo.
At the Janet Jackson concert Tuesday, Ludacris opened. He switched out “bitch” for “chick.”
As a plural, that doesn’t scan. Chicks is one syllable. Bitches is two. Or maybe the “es” is a demisyllable or somesuch.
No. It was quite awkward and there was a ripple of uneasy laughter through the arena.
Too $hort has a sad…
Today on r/AITA: “I want to ban my BIL from my house and events because he works for the GOP. AITA?” Resounding NTA.
Assholes.
U.S. officials fear Wagner could use profits it reaps from mining concessions and other business contracts in Africa to help aid Russia’s war efforts. Some experts have said Wagner’s access to minerals and its ability to export them to market is overblown — and that its profits are marginal and not likely to make an impact on the battlefield in Ukraine. But U.S. officials have in recent weeks gathered specific intelligence related to Wagner’s attempts to use its international connections, including those in Africa, to help support its fight in Ukraine.
What a bunch of losers. They can’t just conjure money out of thin air, like we can.
Might as well name it Adolf Hitler Highway, amirite?
The Florida House of Representatives has passed a road designation bill that will name a street after conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
HB 21 includes language first proposed by Sen. Blaise Ingoglia to name a stretch of Cortez Boulevard between U.S. 41 and S.R. 50/50A in Hernando County as “Rush Limbaugh Way.” Democrats in the House objected to the measure adding the Senate language, but to no avail.
Rep. Lindsay Cross was the first to ask whether the Limbaugh language was in the House bill, leading to objections.
“Why are we keeping that in the bill?” asked Rep. Anna V. Eskamani.
LOL that is how you troll.
The woke messaging matters, not the money. Their response should have been something along the lines of “We do not engage in politics or censor performers for their political views.”
Our job is to brew beer. It’s not to tell anybody what to think or what they are permitted to like.
And then your brewery gets burned to the ground.
Ding ding ding!
Most peacefully, don’t forget!
Meanwhile, in Minneapolis:
https://twitter.com/CrimeWatchMpls/status/1654737923625963520
Dinkytown is adjacent to the UofMN. Used to be a terrific neighborhood.
Things are gonna get interesting again this summer, I suspect.
More victims of white-premacy?
Supremacy, even.
Love the Crimewatch note that they can’t be sure that this video is recent, because there are so many assaults in that neighborhood.
Even in California I can’t imagine that the reparations push is going to lead to any actual payments, although it will lead to worse race relations, which may be its point. I don’t see how it passes Constitutional muster.
I think breaking race relations is the entire point.
Yeah, I saw your graph linked above and that sounds more than plausible. I’m hoping it backfires spectacularly on them, but I’m afraid it ends up just making life a bit worse for everyone.
Tundra on May 7, 2023 at 9:25 am
I think breaking race relations is the entire point.
Thanks, Obama!
Needs more cash too, I mean…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m3q7M5zFwM
Possible gangbanger. Seems to be dispute about the tat, maybe TX related. Idk. More questions to be answered if the authorities care to do so.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/allen-outlet-mall-shooter-male-dressed-in-black-wearing-tactical-gear-with-likely-tattoo-on-his-hand-the-allen-mall-is-a-gun-free-zone/
And of course the mall functions as a gun-free zone. That worked out well.
The quoted gun free is a No Weapons policy on their website. It’s TX, did they have 30.06 signs posted on the property?
Does it really matter?
Does it matter if the mall is actually a gun free zone or not? No, except to the narrative.
It matters in that if you can be thrown in a rape cage for violating the policy, you are less likely to be packing when shopping for new shoes.
Miami Grand Prix is on this afternoon, and it has an interesting grid order after a crash by LeClerc In yesterday’s qualifying. Hopefully it provides an interesting race.
Well, I’m banned from commenting at PowerLine. Since I have a Disqus account anyway, I would occasionally drop a comment there. Not any more.
My offense? In pointing out that of course Fauci knew about the gain of function research at Wuhan, I said that he “effing” paid for it. Apparently that was too much for their delicate sensibilities and was deemed a violation of their “no profanity” rule. Ah well, I’ll just have to come to terms with it and move on somehow.
“How the Media Led the Great Racial Awakening
Years before Trump’s election the media dramatically increased coverage of racism and embraced new theories of racial consciousness that set the stage for the latest unrest”
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/media-great-racial-awakening
From Tundra’s link. Also from 2020, but worth reading.
Curious what racial incident happened in 1995?
“Despite already undergoing five bum lift surgeries to achieve her curvy rear, Natasha has said she’s planning to have a sixth soon.”
Gravity never sleeps.
Well, I’m banned from commenting at PowerLine.
Endeavor to persevere.
lol
Mmmm. Garlic bread
Something must be done
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic promised an “almost total disarmament” after two mass shootings shocked the western Balkan nation this week. However, whether Vucic can follow through with his promise given the proliferation of illegal and unregistered weapons in Serbia, as well as the entrenched culture of violence even at the highest levels, is doubtful.
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Serbian gun laws are already fairly stringent, especially when compared with regulations in the US. Adults 18 and over may have a gun license only after a thorough background check with the police which includes interviews with family and friends, and a medical check that must be repeated every five years. People with serious mental illness, drug or alcohol abuse disorders, or criminal history are supposed to be denied gun permits, and a permit can be revoked if a gun owner is deemed irresponsible, Reuters reported Wednesday.
In order to obtain a firearm, Serbian citizens must also take a training course and pass a test about gun legislation. Firearms must be stored in a designated cabinet, and concealed carry permits are hard to obtain; firearms are meant to be kept at home or used for hunting.
There have been successful amnesties in the past as well; SEESAC, the South Eastern and Eastern Europe Clearinghouse for the Control of Small Arms and Light Weapons, tracks the number of illegal firearms handed over to the state. After the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, small arms flooded the region as is typical in post-conflict zones, providing opportunities for people to illegally obtain not just firearms, but ammunition and light weapons such as grenades.
But illicit weapons, by their nature, are difficult to monitor and difficult to control. “We don’t even have an assessment of how many illegal weapons are out there and what kind,” said Aleksandar Zivotic, a historian at Belgrade University, told Reuters. Furthermore, whether the government has the will to truly deal with the problem of gun violence as Australia and the United Kingdom both did after devastating mass shootings is unclear.
It’s almost as frightening as Indiana. Good intentions must prevail.
Yeah, it’s after the wars that guns flooded in. Not, no way am I going to be unarmed again.
The overlapping mechanisms of violence in Serbia — of the state against its citizens, of ethnic tensions exploited for the government’s benefit, and gender-based violence — come from the top down, Bjelos told Vox.
Maybe we can ship them some NGO goodthinkers to get their minds right.
So we have lots of state-sponsored violence, and the solution is for the state to take everyone’s guns? I thought we had some good self-licking ice cream cones here, but that one is top shelf.
Serbia, first under Yugoslav-era leader Slobodan Milosevic and now under Vucic, is considered a victim of state capture — “a process in which (political) actors infiltrate state structures with the help of clientelist networks and use these state structures as a mantle to hide their corrupt actions,” according to a 2020 policy brief from the Netherlands Institute of International Relations. Under Vucic, every political and government apparatus, as well as the media, have become organs — clients — of his political party, whether because they’re been filled with party loyalists, or because their funding depends on the government, in the case of the media.
And this somehow makes them unique?
Yeah, it sounds strangely familiar.
So I found this class chart and there was one point that particularly intrigued me, but I’ll let you find your own points of intrigue.
Personality – Sense of Humor?
No. Poverty — matriarchal
Under the SNS and Vucic, the apparatus of the state has been reoriented from public service to serving the powerful few, to the detriment of society. Whether the mass shootings present a turning point for Serbia to either move further toward authoritarianism or try to claw back the nation’s institutions is unclear, but for many, it has served as somewhat of a wake-up call.
I don’t see what slaughtering school children has to do with that. Political assassinations, on the other hand…