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To respect the feelings of our Serbian comrades I would like to point out that this is not representative of the protests at large.
I am literally just trying to say: look at this freak I found. The normal libs are the ones carrying the bloody hand print sign from the ZLF. It looks similar to this. In the pic above it has a QR code. The Opposition in general are attempting to co-opt this protest movement.
Because educated Eastern European libs typically work for corps HQ’d in the US or outside of their country and the lingua franca tends to be English. They’re also quite literally, like Ukrainians were, making an open plea to their favorite global hegemon. It’s a form of “Mister US President I live in poor country yearn to be free send bomb”.
I think Americans don’t realize how libs in many countries outside the “core” EU countries love autocolonization. Iceland is a good example. Their language is anglifying because their strategy at global capitalism is killing it.
For every racist French lib there’s like 10 Eastern European libs who think their own people are various iterations on the Orcs meme.
How many fucking times do we have to teach you this lesson?
There probably isn’t a country in Europe that hates the US more than Serbia. Literally being bombed in `99 by them. Also why this picture in particular? Why not something like this?
Ah yes, because that doesn’t compute for the westerner who is used to a good-bad distillation. The truth is, this is an extremely complicated situation, in which the government is hilariously supported by all of America, EU, Russia and China(mostly on the dl, since none of their people have officially made a statement). Serbian workers are exploited from the Chinese companies in LingLong and Zijin to German Draxlmaier and them constantly being fucked over in western countries, where they go illegally, being super-exploited by the western capitalists making them work ridiculous hours. Whilst I’m not going to sit here and pretend this is some socialist revolution, it is not a colour one, period, and I’m fucking tired of having to explain this every single fucking time to someone who knows fuck all about it, but then acts like some kind of credible authority figure. Ultimately, the nonsense you spat out is no better than the shit they say on r/europe, where you originally probably took the picture from, claiming that Vucic is solely supported by Putin, when they themselves not too long ago where blatantly showing their neo-colonialism talking about lithium mining in Serbia. They were straight up claiming serbs were making up “conspiracies” about Rio Tinto, a company which literally could destroy a great portion of the land, poisoning water sources and soil alike, all so Europe could take the lithium for themselves and have “energy independence”. If you want to know the general environment in Serbia, I don’t think Assange does a bad job here, and oh yeah, there are literal WikiLeaks documents about SNS (Vucic’s party) being made by the US and EU, aswell as the hilarious “mistake” of a premature congratulation of victory from the EU to Tomislav Nikolic, Vucic’s (former) partner in crime.j
vucic is no friend of ours or even of russia, he’s a two-faced coward and opportunist
this is different than the situation in slovakia, because fico is actually a serious person. vucic is not, he is a worm comprador
I’ve tried to look for more info about these protests and any source of info in English is really hard to find. All ‘official’ channels from students I could find are exclusively Serbian and in the pictures they post I see almost never any flags at all and never English signs. Also the contrast with how these protests are covered by media vs the Georgian protests is stark.
This pic is entirely unique and doesn’t represent the protests in any way. The poster is right. I’m literally just saying look at this one freak I found.
I get you’re mad and that’s your right but my point in posting this is that the person with that sign is a fucking weirdo. I was not trying to characterize the protest or Serbian politics. I’m not saying this is representative of the protests. I’m sorry if it came off that way.
The normal libs in the pic are the guys carrying the Krove Svam Ruke (blood on your hands) signs from the ZLF with the hand print. I’m sorry I didn’t provide everyone this context. But you’re also in the slop comm why are you mad that there’s mud?? The only point was: check out this freak. That’s it, that’s the point of the post. This is literally a classic Eastern European ultra lib. It’s a type of guy that’s funny by the act of their own existence.
I’ve edited the post to reflect that. If there’s anything you want me to specifically add to the top I’m happy to do that. My understanding of Serbian is limited and mainly comes from the intersections with Church Slavonic/Russian/Ukrainian.
Thank you for editing the post to clarify the fact. However, I would say this has a much higher likelihood of just being some student who attempted to be witty. Culture here is definitely westernized to a certain degree, and most people know english very well, so this is pretty much the result, as well as seeing certain western memes on some of the banners.
Although I will say, me and comrades I know definitely don’t like the whole bloody hand messaging shit, and it definitely has some liberal undertones. But at the end of the day, the students much like Vucic, don’t actually have an ideology since the protests are just about the country being a criminal, dysfunctional piece of shit.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: