tardigrada @ tardigrada @beehaw.org

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Update: After the 4th night of profests that saw Georgians stand again against their government's tear gas and water cannons, a new report says that 80% of protesters who were detained were being subjected to violence and mistreatment by the police..

Meanwhile, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said on Telegram that Georgia was "moving rapidly along the Ukrainian path, into the dark abyss. Usually this sort of thing ends very badly."

"Of course not," Medvedev told journalists when questioned about whether the ruling Georgian Dream party would agree to hold a new vote as demanded by the country's president, opposition, and the European Parliament.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, also said Monday that Russia views parallels between events in Georgia and those in 2013 and 2014 in Ukraine when a wave of protests was triggered by the then pro-Russian president's decision not to sign an association agreement with the EU.

It's time that Western democracies understand that this is not about Ukraine and Georgia, but on democracy. Putin and his fellow dictators around the globe won't back down until they are completely defeated. Any 'appeasement policy' towards Russia will be like a time travel to the 1938 Europe imo.

Georgia president calls for new elections as protests erupt again

Georgia's pro-Western president has said she will stay in post until new parliamentary elections are held, as protests continue over the government's decision to put EU accession negotiations on hold.

Speaking to the BBC, Salome Zourabichvili, who has sided with the opposition, described the current parliament as "illegitimate" after allegations of fraud in last month's elections.

Zourabichvili said she would retain her role as president, despite the country's newly elected parliament saying it would choose her replacement on 14 December.

@HatchetHaro

the post title makes it sound like china is making that demand, which doesn't make sense.

Yeah, doesn't make sense. The Chinese government fully supports free speech and rejects censorship. We all know that. Thanks. (/s, to be safe)

@technocrit

You could just read articles before commenting instead of posting always the same rant over and again.

I recently posted an article in another thread about Bluesky. It's from 2023, but worth reading in case you don't know it:

BlueSky is cosplaying decentralization

@DdCno1 @Powderhorn

The organization behind this is Democracy Forward, founded 2016.

This should indicate that it's an article published by researchers rather than journalists. I thought it's clear anyway that not all researchers in a field agree?

@InevitableList

Soviet Union, China, Vietnam

You obviously have no idea what it means to live -or have lived, as one of these countries already collapsed- under such regimes. But feel free to migrate there.

There is a blog post from 2023, but worth reading in case you don't know it:

BlueSky is cosplaying decentralization

Communist governments took power in poor countries and had to endure 'primitive accumulation' before they could start building a socialist economy. At best they created workers' states where employment and basic services were guaranteed to all.

Where was that?

Yeah, and you don't need to think on your own. Whatever the problem is, the cause is always the same. No mistake possible.

Here on Lemmy, most problems are simply caused by capitalism. Period. It's all you need to know. (/s, just to be safe)

Yeah, that's what they said before the election. For example, leaked videos of two speeches Russell Vought delivered during events of a pro-Trump think tank led by Vought showed what they intend to do:

“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda -- (archived)

“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can't do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so."

“We want to put them in trauma.”

@themurphy@lemmy.ml, did you even read @dharmacurious' comment or even the article?

around 75% of the shares were made without the posters clicking the link first

I would have guessed the number to be high, but not that high.

Not sure if this is still an issue?

Tell your Representative to Vote NO on H.R. 9495 to Stop Trump From Attacking Dissenting Organizations

Despite the fact that it was already defeated in a floor vote, Republicans in the House have a second chance to pass a bill that would give the incoming Trump administration unchecked power to shut down any non-profit organization that stands in the way of his MAGA agenda.

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This time, we need all Democrats in the House to vote NO on H.R. 9495 and send a clear message to Trump that they will not just give in to his power grabs. If this bill passes with bipartisan support, there’s a real risk it gets folded into the annual Defense bill, which would put it on a glide path through the Senate. We can’t let that happen.

When horror hits China, the first instinct is shut it down

There is also a good piece on the topic published by The Conversation

The foundation of democracy is the constitution and universal human rights, not the election result. Even if you'd get 99% of the votes in a democracy, you must be held accountable to the law, and that is not limited to, but includes the protection of minorities.

Maybe interesting:

Stop the Trump administration: no mass deportations