TIL: People in Georgia (the country) have been protesting every day for over 400 days
9 months ago by BoycottTwitter to c/til
People in Georgia have been protesting everyday for over a year (406+ days) but for whatever reason it's not currently getting much media coverage likely because the media tends to not report on reoccurring protests.
There's more information about the protests on the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/...
Basically they're protesting due to election fraud, democratic backsliding and protesting against pro-Russia policies, they want to be aligned with the EU.
Governments don't own most media. For private companies that rely on money, clickthrough rates decrease for events that continue and that has to be one contribution for the decrease
Governments don’t own most media.
Most media are indeed owned directly by governments or by people with ties to them.
Any chance you have some data to show how accurate that is? And, are you making a global statement, or just one about Georgia?
Go to reddit, pick the first media outlet you see and check who owns it, or check who owns reddit.
That's correct, those that own those governments own most media.
Multinational megabanks own most media, they control through DEBT
They also run THE FED, which is in direct control of the USAs money. The USA is not even in control of its own money.
Even without outside intervention, something that happens every single day is not news.
Just like the US state of Georgia.
hungary, some of the UK politicians, france, germany.
I mean a lot of countries have long running protests against their governments. While not an everyday occurrence, Serbs have been protesting since 2024 against the corruption of their government, government which is backed by literal war criminals.
Protesting for one day and patting yourself on the back is a farce. Real change takes sustained effort.
If protest would be an effective way to bring change, it wouldn't be allowed.
You may have seen the post months ago on research that shows nonviolent protest is more successful than the alternative.
I don't understand. Trump's only been president for 368 days.
They're protesting against Putin, not Putin's lapdog.
The protests have been disappointing recently but to be fair, their resistance to ICE raids is quite something. I don't think I've seen anything quite like it.
...in America. In the last 60 years.
Side note: when the "third reich" happens for the second time in history, it's called the "fourth reich."
everyday != every day
Good point, I updated the title.
MAGA won’t report on this because it’s against the Russians invasion of their country.
we talking the cool georgia or the one with atlantis
fuck the tbilisi tpolisi
Protests is a form of political action
If your comment is about your perceived failure of the protests in Georgia, you should read the linked wikipedia article which contains a detailed timeline of the different actions the Georgian people took, on top of protesting
Protest without violence or the very real threat of it isn't good. Look at the Belarus protests to see what happens when you don't protect yourselves and give up all power to the state.
You may have seen the post months ago on research that shows nonviolent protest is more successful than the alternative.
How is this downvoted at all? 400 days with no results is a fucking failure
this shit is happening worldwide. clueless and politically illiterate folks do "the protest thing" because at some point, somewhere, like e.g. in ##way_more_complex_scenario_with_totally_different_actors## it worked! so if we persist, it's bound to happen here, too, nay?
fucking nay.
a protest thing that doesn't have the implied threat of "..or else" is just a hang. and those don't produce anything of importance. see every "peaceful" bullshit protest walk or whatever else impotent, poseur bullshit those ignorant fucks use to dull the blade of revolt.
When I said "bring back the Soviet Union (starting in Georgia)", I mean Georgia should become a socialist country again and then others would follow suit, leading to the reformation of the USSR as a competitive multi-tendency country with the Communist Party as the main social institution, dedicated to anti-revisionist leftcom.
Does anyone think I should read theory a bit more?
👀 oh look a protest in eastern europe where they're waving american flags and being given column space in english publications
they're upset the party not aligned with the west won the election, then tried to do a jan 6 but failed so now they're doing this
I wonder how they've managed to maintain the protests for so long 🤔
Some protestors stormed the palace (and were stopped and subsequently tortured in detainment) so we should disregard every other instance of tens of thousands of protestors over the past several years. I am very smart.
To anyone who wants to read up on the protests instead of listening to a tankie lie about details and vaguepost about astroturfed protests, Wikipedia is a generally good place to start that cites its sources so you can follow up on details you're interested in:
literally read it out of the exact link you posted but go off with your namecalling king
what are you so fragile about that you have to accuse me of lying, and what are you accusing me of lying about?
Lol cope
Russia is falling apart, maybe after the next collapse you'll learn that only weak people want authoritarians to rule over them. Or maybe you're deluded into thinking having authoritarians rule over you will make you equals somehow?
When will Russians stop being so stupid?
- Are you more of a libertarian kind of communist (like leftcom or council communist)?
- If the USSR were to return, it'd be more of a competitive multi-tendency country with the Communist Party as the main social institution, dedicated to anti-revisionist leftcom.
I think ideologies are for the intellectually lazy. Different solutions are optimal for different problems. People thinking free markets for everything just want one simple solution for all problems they don't want to think about which solution works best for individual problem. Same goes for people that that socialism for everything. It takes effort to find different solutions for each problem, so the intellectually lazy gravitate towards ideologies that claim one solution will solve all the problems. That's never worked because it always winds up with telling an expert in a field they have to do things in a stupid way to conform to ideology.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Well I think that the people should own the means of production under a market economy (as long as no one's getting hurt) - that's how I'd describe libertarian market socialism which can be seen as a revisionist-type form of socialism (or a variant of Mutualism).
Sure buddy, you so smart great geopolitical analysis, now go to your room
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In the past decade there have been a drop in protests coverage worldwide, governments are now following instructions not to report on these.
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