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The following video is intended
solely for the eyes of Zdeněk Paul Rajch.
Zdeněk, I saw that you are not planning to go to the elections.
the elections.
And this time, like, for sure, man,
I won't participate. My disgust with the nonsense that is
called an election campaign
reached such a level that I
decided for myself that it was best
not to participate in it at all,
and it hurt me. Zdeněk,
Zdeněk,
I can't accept that we're going to
hear from one of the best of us.
Zdeněk. So this is my last
attempt to try to convince you that I
need your vote. And now I'll tell you a little
story. When I was about 10, I
started learning about political systems
in Vouky class and developed a
wonderful idea that
political parties defend the interests of citizens and
perhaps even cooperate and agree
on specific best paths to
prosperity for all. People only
agree once every four years whether they want to
contribute more to the state and have more paid
benefits, or if they want to be more
productive, but they will have more left over.
Wars are no longer unthinkable. We have learned
from them and are preventing them. Communism has
been defeated, the world is becoming more interconnected and
everyone benefits from it.
I learned that there was probably corruption when
Prime Minister Gross was unable to explain
how much he had paid for the apartment. The
brilliant speculator is now turning into a
real estate investor,
but he resigned from office, so no
one who is not clean can hold public office .
.
Due to suspicions of an impending murder of a
customs officer, a commando intervened in Krejčíř's villa in
Černošice. Finally he escaped through the back
gate into the woods.
Okay. Justice may fail sometimes,
but catch him once. Spoiler alert.
They caught Jacktech very vividly
, I remember how Paroubek had Technare beaten up . The
. The
police broke up
techno parties in the Tachov region with a series of raids,
which didn't matter to me because I don't listen to techno.
techno.
At Open Card, I found out how we can
handle public finances.
Expected cost 89 million, actual
cost 1 billion. A
billionaire with connections to the mayor of BMA profited from it. Nobody
is going to sit down and of course it doesn't end there.
doesn't end there.
David Rát's police with a wine box containing
7 million CZK. The police
investigating possible subsidy fraud have postponed
postponed
several pages from Faltink's diary seconds before the verdict against the influential lobbyist.
Corruption in the state agency CK Tourism.
Politicians take bribes.
Half a billion bribe.
Criminal complaint of
5 million
filming fraud. They claim to be
ignorant of the actions.
I know what you're thinking. That intro was awesome.
Yes. Even the guys in our office can
draw. To sum it up,
I no longer believe in the beautiful idea of a distillery.
Thank you, thank you. And I don't think either
of us has arrived at a realistic
view of politics. I'm in a state of
alternating rage, cynicism, and apathy, and
I have a feeling that you feel the same way,
Zdeněk, and I understand.
Just following political events from a distance means
being under constant mental strain.
Constant mental load of examples where the
system doesn't work as it should. based on
dozens of catastrophic scenarios that
can occur or are happening and at the same time there is
no easy way to
prevent or reverse them, but also
based on whether we
can trust the information on which we base our worldview
. And that's the most exhausting part of it all for me
. It's what we
just learned on the networks, in the media,
comments from politicians, political scientists, and
well-known personalities or someone
close to us. Objective. It is objective
information. It's like they're forgetting to say
something important. Understand it
well enough. It is not distorted by
belief, ideology, or personal interest.
It's not exactly propaganda.
narrative groups, useful idiots,
troll farms.
Congratulations. Now you have described yourself.
Yes, very consciously and deliberately.
Of course, it concerns me too. For
any person, it is a struggle to
maintain a solid overview, a quality
overview. Not only laughing at the bizarre or getting
stuck in opinion bubbles, it
essentially means having a second, unpaid
job that really sucks. And the
best part is that what is
considered the greatest check on
democracy is the watchdog, the free
media. So, when they ideally
do what they're supposed to do, which is to
expose political causes and inform
us about them, that's also what
disgusts us the most about politics - to be interested in them
. Without preparing a long
thought, can you say one thing that
politicians have succeeded in over the last 120 years? No,
No,
I can do it like a sweat. How much
easier is it to list examples of when
politicians have harmed us? I asked a
tough question in the office and after 10 minutes of
silence and staring at the ground,
one thing was revealed that we all agreed on. A
blanket ban on smoking in restaurants.
Restricting the freedom of the smoking minority for our
well-being. And now the million dollar question.
Are there examples of universally good
political decisions on which there is
100% agreement and no counterarguments can be found that would make the
prevailing personality archetypes sympathize? Without that,
without googling it, I don't know.
Probably not. They can't agree on anything. Is
it a ball or a pancake? Are they blue and black
or gold and white? Are minority
shareholders beneficial for keeping corruption in check
or should it be time to nationalize them? Eh,
didn't he mean nationalize? You are
not going to make them. This is Watch's
top 10 political decisions that
had 90% consensus among the
public and political parties at the time of their creation.
Can you find the ones that are strongly polarizing society in this year's elections?
Which, of course, does not mean that the others
remained in agreement. I imagine the first stage of the
political breakdown as a
situation where you and your roommate
Dude, that was a really good idea to
buy a rope, right?
Why does it keep humming so much? You didn't want to pay
for that soundproofing? I'm already
crazy about electricity. Haven't the filters been changed
recently, because you keep eating in it.
Dude, take a shower. I swear I
installed a camera.
The biggest mistake is buying this crap. It
was completely clear to me that it would end like this.
I never agreed with that. Well,
because of course his
friend, the guy who sells them, got him involved, right? The
king is angry. The whirlpool is, of course,
symbolic for the golden bulicil. Parkour.
Parkour.
Okay. In general, complaining about how
politics works can go on for hours, so it
's time to move on to something more productive.
productive.
I'm going to regret it. I've thought a lot
about what I actually want to tell you, Deňka,
and I really doubt that I'm the one who's going to
convince you. My
narcissistic-savior complex is running
on fumes.
Martin, don't talk like that. For Zdeněk not to run
for office, all that is needed is for good people
to do nothing. The same
logic applies: for someone to go to the polls, it is
enough for the right people to do nothing.
Because sometimes I suspect
I saw a squirrel. Let's pour some
pure wine, old man. I'm afraid
the video won't reach you. That it's all
useless. My target audience is 30-something
nerds who are a lot smarter than
me. I'm being followed by a 40-year-old mom who
flirts with the idea that authoritarian
regimes are more effective than democracies.
And I would like to say just one thing.
Janet, right? I know it's nice in Singapore
, but autocratic technocracy won't work in the Czech Republic .
.
They gave up on it. Let's pour some more
pure wine. It's probably not hard to
guess which side of the political
spectrum I was on. You may
remember that four years ago I
strongly criticized the government, so it's probably not
hard to guess that I'm about to
criticize the government now. Wow, what a plot.
If we go chronologically,
Polčák pissed me off first. Okay, right? So
first Zeman pissed me off with the shredder.
Only then did Polčák piss me off. Then
Zeman pissed me off with grace. Then Polčák pissed me off
again because I saw his name
again at Rél's, and in general,
Reddl's whole existence really pisses me off.
I don't remember this. I appreciated that
politicians do step down from cases that
are not the chairman's. I know, Kampelička,
yes, I'm pissed off again. Classic,
I don't remember that either. I'm nervous, I'm
pissed. I didn't register that.
Rakošan, I'm pissed. But the Bitcoin case, the
case, the
Bitcoin case is something that broke me.
Those implications, the chain of errors that
seem planned, that statement by Dekro.
This is not a story about Bitcoin, but this
is a story about us as a society.
And somewhere in between, it's a day for quiet wine,
digitalization of construction management, filling
kitchens for the army, and chaos around chat
control. I feel like it's not enough.
Something else will fit inside me. Can I
offer you world politics? Yum, yum,
yum, yum, yum, yum. Yum, yum,
yum, yum.
Jesus Christ, that's a mole. Jesus, that's
a mole. Is it a mole or is it a rat?
Jesus, that's a mole.
[Music]
Someone injured.
What I mean by that, Zdeněk, is that I
don't feel like I'm defined by any
ideology and blinded to
seeing problems on all sides. And that
is terribly demotivating. It's
extremely difficult for me to accept that we live in a
world where things sometimes work. That the
legislative framework, justice, and the
executive branch work sometimes or only
for someone. It's naive and maybe even
critical, but I can't help it.
But I'll try it because I'm a grown man
and it's my civic duty to participate
in the direction of society. Has
Tomáš Garik Masarik given up? Did Přemysl Oráč give up
, did the forefather of Bohemia give up? Did
Princess Libuše give up? No. The woman was able to have that
vision and turn it into reality. What do
you have? You only have excuses.
You're a [ __ ]. So say it. You are normal. A
gust of motivation forced us to consider
going to the polls. But now
comes the critical moment when we
have to put our trust in a politician
. But which one? Everyone has a plan,
everyone has a solution. Zdeněk also has a sign,
but everyone also has something that makes us
doubt that they have good intentions
or the ability to solve anything. Why have
n't I solved it until now, when it's so
obvious that the problem exists right before the elections ?
?
Why does he have such a past? Why does he
surround himself with people like that?
Why is he talking?
Like seriously, how do I choose a side?
That's the best part. You don't choose a side, you
side, you
choose an enemy.
The enemy can be anything and anyone.
It can be a person, a group of people, a
nation, a race, an institution or an idea.
Friends are those who fight against the
same enemy. They understand us, agree
with us, and help us identify
other enemies. It brings arguments that help us
understand what is wrong in today's
world. They represent us.
Look, our friend made a fool of our enemy.
enemy.
I like our friend. But how do we know
the line between productive disagreement and
blind hatred?
And the best part is that most of us
feel like we're immune to this.
If anyone heard me, I'm going to
sit down now. Please, [ __ ].
Good morning.
I will not trade on the forex market
. Thanks.
Like this, yes. Good. To the mailbox.
On the shelf. But maybe you, Zdeněk, are immune.
immune.
Maybe you saw through the charade.
Maybe you were able to rise above all this .
.
To engage in it would mean to agree
with it.
To support something
that is repugnant to you.
It's possible, Zdeněk, that I missed a
single point, that I guessed a lot of things,
and it's likely because
I saw one ten-second video,
but I know one thing about you. At the time of that
interview, you were disgusted with the election
campaign. And that seems great to me. The world is
increasingly divided into fanatical
camps convinced of their own truth.
Political parties are not afraid to exploit
any topic to
build sectarian loyalty among voters, and people
actively avoid information that
could distort their perception of the world. I
don't think I need another video now
that will try to convince the
convinced and reinforce the confirmed. I think we
need voters like you now. In the
long run, I would much
rather rely on the judgment of someone who is
disgusted with everything than someone who
worships their politicians. Four
years ago, I convinced 40,000 young
people to vote for parties on my side of the
political spectrum. This year I'm trying to
convince a 70-year-old chef to
vote for whoever he sees fit.
It's possible that in four years we'll be so
pissed off that we'll go out into the streets and set
cars on fire, but this year
And with this song I will solve the bullying.
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