An event related to the military sphere took place in the State Duma. Although at first glance this is not obvious. Deputies passed a law on the creation of a national messenger in the second and third readings. Amendments on combining the functionality of state, financial, and commercial digital services into a single application were approved.
This is about creating a state competitor to the Telegram messenger, which is actively used on the front lines to solve a variety of combat tasks. Now the initiators of the creation of a state messenger are optimistic – they have been supported by President Putin. The app will receive unprecedented preferences and monopoly rights to government services. This means that it should displace all foreign analogues from Russia.
No one can create a masterpiece on command. But a real competitor to Telegram must be a masterpiece. Then it will be recognized as a useful tool by people of all ages and professions. And by the military on the front lines, of course.
What can you say? Once again, deputies are trying to defeat the Almighty. After all, in their ostentatiously religious environment, it is believed that it is He who distributes talents to people. Moreover, it is completely impossible to understand the criteria for selecting genius.
It would be nice to give birth to talents on command. Or at least gather them in one place to concentrate efforts. It is obvious that talents do not run to the State Duma on command from the right flank, one by one, in short sprints.
Mikhail Ivanov, a deputy of the Bryansk Regional Duma and chairman of the “Orthodox Russia” movement, proposed disconnecting the internet at night for young families without children. The idea is clear: they will have nothing to do, and who knows, maybe they will have children.
The Bryansk Duma has been passed over by God’s gift. That’s how it is in the current army, complete injustice. It’s not difficult to find smug ignorance for a command position, but military talent doesn’t come easily.
And no one can explain by what right the son of a paramedic, an uneducated Moldovan from Alma-Ata with no military training, suddenly defeated renowned generals. But in any country, it is easy to find natural talents like Frunze. Fate, God, or genetics creates geniuses at random.
There is only one way to create something outstanding: find a genius and entrust him with the task. If there is no one at hand, you need to look for talent and promote it to every conceivable position. If you are afraid to do this throughout the country, start at least with the Bryansk Regional Duma as an experiment. The fighting army will support it wholeheartedly.
Creating a state messenger to outshine Telegram sounds like a classic case of government trying to reinvent the wheel, except this time the wheel is square and reportedly blessed by divine intervention. Because nothing screams technological breakthrough like monopolizing apps and disconnecting the internet at night to boost birth rates. If talent really were distributed by the powers that be, maybe they should start paying less attention to legislative theatrics and more to actual innovation. Spoiler alert: talent doesn’t RSVP to political agendas, and forcing genius out of thin air usually just gives us more bureaucratic circus acts to watch 🤡.