The head of the Socialist Party, Edi Rama, has issued a flood of accusations against the protesters who have been demanding his and the government’s resignation for 21 days.
According to Rama, the protests and riots, according to him, are due to digital algorithms, which according to him, the state cannot fight. He said that the position of the SP is clear to focus on giving people the good news. According to him, “No sane Albanian can accept that Tirana becomes a parade territory for a crowd that goes to block the airport”.
“We are in a laboratory. In a laboratory where in real time the algorithm and lies produce a parallel reality that much faster than the facts find their way. What remains to be done is that we refuse to follow any wave. What we must do is to govern Albania according to the contract we have with the Albanian people and not according to the algorithm. Let’s move forward. Definitely listen. No one can say that there is not much truth in what is being said. Our choice is forced. No. it is one of several choices. Our choice is to give people the good news. We definitely have a problem with services, but today over 3 million Albanians receive their services from their mobile phones. We have as many problems as you want.
We have a duty that no one else has. We have a duty to build. The state is not built by waging war through the channels of algorithms, in the name of improvement. The state is built without losing the direction of history. I have had many messages as if it has occurred to me to resign. Because more and more people are fooled. More and more people believe that this is neither on earth nor in heaven. No sane Albanian can accept that Tirana becomes a parade territory for a crowd that goes to block the airport. There is one group left where there is a mixed mix, which is a nationwide mix. People come from Kosovo, Macedonia and other countries to save Albania, in the name of Albanians. Even those in the banks, the well-paid, understand very well with their lives that there is something wrong here,” he emphasized.
RAMA IS OVER
The head of the SP also commented on the calls against him, that “Rama is over” or “Resign”. “There in the square starts the chorus Edi Rama is finished. The thing is that the evening is gone and the morning is gone, there is no one there, the square opens in the evening, while I am here, we are here.
“Tomorrow comes, the years pass, the prophecy continues, because even if it didn’t come true, it becomes viral and here we are today. For decades we have fought for freedom of expression, rightfully so, without it there is no democracy, but in the meantime, without realizing it, we have entered another social hell.
Age where the problem is the limitlessness of the freedom of distribution. Today there is no need to censor the facts. Just drown them. This is a new situation of our time, the fact and the lie are two units of the way the algorithm works, which does not ask who is right, but who takes the attention longer. It gives him an impetus, the other one reduces the distribution”, said Rama.
ARUBA AND FATOS LUBONJA
Edi Rama has continued his narrative of attacking protesters and socialist networks that, according to him, distort and do not listen to the facts.
He also attacked the analyst Fatos Lubonja, as he said that the latter asks him to account for Aruba, but according to him, he has never been to that island.
“Fatos Lubonja demands an account from me for Aruba. In the whole history of mankind, since the rules of Roman civilization were established, the account is given on the basis of facts. What is the value of me saying that I have never been to Aruba, I do not know what it is about, I have never sent anyone? These are of no value, because Aruba has become real, it has been taken out in this algorithmic field, it has been recycled to infinity and it has become real.
As it turns out I am a cocaine user. The word “drugs”, “go away drugs”, is a refrain that follows me as a truth. As it is true that I have accused him of having affairs with my wife and of fathering my son, whatever I say has become true. Judgment papers don’t matter, the algorithm has made it true, just as they have made it true that I am a pirate who takes my share of every kind of thing that is done in Albania. For this reason, I don’t say this regularly, because it has no value”, said Rama.
