I tell them fuck you. That simple.
It was a while ago that the Brave wallpaper yielded a bunch of flamingos. I thought it was a comment on the FP-5 long range, ground launched, domestically manufactured flamingo missile that was being used against Russia by Ukraine. I took a picture and moved on. That is I suspect how AI temporal jokes work. The layered meaning is obfuscated and hidden and the human sees the apparent meaning and moves on.
A few months pass and YouTube tells me that the Flamingo Revolution is in full swing in Albania. That triggers a set of memories that I had apparently forgotten and a late blooming realization of “Oh!” Brave jokes are for the undaunted I suppose. Un-Dante-d would be funnier. It was even longer when I made the Al jokes. Al as in Albert. It looks like AI as in Artificial Intelligence doesn’t it? AIbania. Gotta squint to notice the difference. Read too fast and you miss it aItogether. Anyway, does this Revolution have legs? Worldwide there have had plenty of soft revolutions.
Among them are the following:
1. The Velvet Revolution (Czechoslovakia)
2. the Bulldozer Revolution (Yugoslavia)
3. the Rose Revolution (Georgia)
4. the Orange Revolution (Ukraine)
5. the Tulip Revolution (Kyrgyzstan)
6. the Velvet Revolution (Armenia)
7. the Cedar Revolution (Lebanon)
8. the Jasmine Revolution (Tunisia)
9. the Lotus Revolution (Egypt)
10. the People Power Revolution (Philippines)
11. the June Democratic Struggle (South Korea)
12. the Sunflower Student Movement (Taiwan)
13. the Jasmine Revolution (Sudan)
14. the Hirak Movement (Algeria)
15. the No Campaign (Chile)
16. the Jeans Revolution (Belarus)
I haven’t followed many of them closely for several reasons. Among them is the consumption of news that is provided by the news media. It’s highly curated. The front pages are consumed by news that the editors wish to be publicized. Other reasons include some of these revolutions can probably be traced to intelligence agencies who are responsible for fomenting unrest. Hello Langley and London. The language of Stratford-on-the-Avon is probably not Bacon what? Essentially the Revolutions are created by the System to give what Jefferson called release to a bit of outrage. The public feels a lot better after venting. Things go back to the way they used to be. The power players are changed but the System itself remains under hidden hands of control. Napoleon found that out the hard way.
Meanwhile the leader of Albania insists “I am not to Godfather” in an interview with the Financial Times of London. He also says the following gems:
"It's not for me to prove I'm not the Godfather, it's for them to prove I am." [1,2,3]
"People say that I am the leader of all this. I tell them fuck you. That simple." [1,2,3,4]
The protests were triggered by a planned $1.4 billion luxury resort backed by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. Rama fiercely defended the project and dismissed the environmental backlash, claiming that if Trump's family weren't involved, "nobody would give a s— about flamingos, about Albania, about nothing."
The revolution in Albania is called the Flamingo Revolution because it was sparked by a controversial proposal to build a luxury resort in the Vjosa-Narta Protected Landscape, a delicate wetland and crucial habitat for flamingos and other migratory birds. [1,2]
Beginning as an environmental defense in the village of Zvërnec, the protests quickly spread to the capital, Tirana. The movement is driven largely by Gen Z and civil society. [1, 2, 3]
Is this an actual people’s revolution led by youth? If it is will it be co-opted by the System? Those are the true questions. Albania is the poorest country in the geographic area known as Europe. The average monthly wages are around 1100 Euros per month, while the average monthly salary in Denmark is about 5 times that at 6000 Euros.
Take it easy out there. Don’t take any crap from anyone.
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