There are people who should not be trusted even when they are telling the truth. Because they speak the truth by accident, without any real attitude towards it. They may even know it's true, but they don't really care. If the winds turn, they will continue to lie as much, or harder, than they did before they stumbled on the truth.
The tricky thing about the truth is this: only those who have serious continuity in speaking it are credible. Who, because of her, will receive both whistles and applause with equal indifference. Oh, yes, there is another very important thing: those who constantly adjust their tone to what is currently current, desirable, status-paying are not counted among the speakers of the truth.
Here's how it might look in our reality. These days, our non-regime media are full of the words of a certain Stanislava Pak about the dictatorial and destructive nature of Aleksandar Vučić's regime, and all those words, on their own, sound authentic - although, admittedly, it's not that we haven't heard them before in better versions. But wait, who is this Stanislava Pak? If you've never heard of it, it's not up to you and your general culture. If you've forgotten her, it's because she's forgettable. Unfortunately, I was not given that privilege of forgetting.
SP, an inconspicuous journalist of the state media from the nineties, emerged as a "media advisor" or something similar, to the newly appointed president of Serbia, Tomislav Nikolić. It was June 2012, and my main target in the following months was Nikolić and the "white slips" who brought this and a much worse misery on us.
And who knows what I wrote in one of those desperate rants of mine - clearly seeing the perspective of Serbia as a country of long-term decay and rot - and what particularly annoyed and upset the Court, the court's media adviser answered me on Twitter to the extent of her wits, media literacy and truthfulness. I don't remember exactly what she said for a long time, nor do I have it archived somewhere (I don't know how tweets are saved, and what's the point of this garbage), I only know that it was quite nasty. So much so that the editorial staff of "Vremena" - and we are not some overly sensitive sissies - issued a statement with the title "Hate speech by Stanislava Pak".
I looked into the archive of "Vremena" and found that announcement, unfortunately without precise dating (it is clear that it was made sometime between June and October 2012), and there is also a part of the screenshot of the spirited tweeting truth-loving Stanislava, from which this sentence can be reconstructed: " Serbia, we are miserable when the right to speak publicly is (...) a plexus called Teofil Pančić." What you can't see is, I guess, the "bag of com-". So, along the way, I received a diagnosis from the adviser to the President of the Republic (although I swear to you that she never examined me) plus one more than indicative rant on the topic of "the right to public speech"; it may have seemed to some at the time like an over-nervous reaction of a counselor eager to prove the speed and success of mastering radical language, but each of the following years showed that SNS systematically narrowed the "right to public speech" of all those who were not up to their standards.
At some point, the SP seems to have lost the "right to public speech", but not because she would have enlightened us with unknown truths, but only because she was left behind at the Court like the staff of the old ruler, while the new one did not fit into the puzzle. so he kissed her on the cheek.
Now she has decided that it is time to get out of her rut, to go out, and it must be admitted that she didn't do it unskillfully - suddenly everyone knows about her, and some even think that she has something to tell them. I - you know me - am a little skeptical: first I would like to hear a better explanation of that diagnosis, then let's see.
Another case, much more vivid, is the incredible and sad history of Jelena Karleusa, a person who also once accidentally spoke the truth, and for that she received the applause of many naive people, including me. It is, admittedly, that I clearly fenced off that the applause goes only to her defense of the rights of LGBT people, I don't think anything else about her inspires even an iota of trust and respect, but still...
The person of Karleuš was systematically embarrassed both before and after that statement, and actually "during" that statement: let's remember that "Impression of the Week" in which she sat in the studio with Borka Pavićević and Jovan Ćirilova, and with every opening of her mouth produced a cosmic dark matter in which everyone could disappear. Fortunately, dark matter indignantly refused to receive it.
Now we have the "new", but in fact forever the same Jelena Karleusa, as the heroine of the defense of "President Vučić" and his nice regime - which I guess some kešić promised her as a favor, and she doesn't hide it - and she does it in her unique style : without measure, taste, inner compass. It was not a problem for her to go to war with everyone better than herself - that is, with everyone - insulting and slandering them, and she will obviously not stop until this shit is over, or until she decides that it is no longer in her interest. However, the chicanery organized by Marinika Tepić is not just for hand-waving, it is a job for the prosecutor.
And then, sometime later, JK will accidentally say something right again. It is only important that we do not accept each other, it is a short-term phase of its unfinished development.