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/wiki/2024%E2%80%932026_Georgian_protests

Basically they're protesting due to election fraud, democratic backsliding and protesting against pro-Russia policies, they want to be aligned with the EU.

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[–] 141 points 10 months ago (15 children)

but for whatever reason it’s not currently getting much media coverage likely because the media tends to not report on reoccurring protests.

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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  • [–] 43 points 10 months ago (14 children)

    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

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    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.

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  • [–] 42 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    Governments don’t own most media.

    Most media are indeed owned directly by governments or by people with ties to them.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    Any chance you have some data to show how accurate that is? And, are you making a global statement, or just one about Georgia?

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    Go to reddit, pick the first media outlet you see and check who owns it, or check who owns reddit.

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  • [+] -7 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    That's not very statistically relevant.

    Also... why reddit when we're using Lemmy commenting on a channel designed for news links? Repeat your prompt for me?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Sorry, here's the prompt again. There's easily searchable information online about the consolidation of ownership of news channels. Instead of talking about that, you're going to reply with a story about the lack of education in America.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    That’s not very statistically relevant.

    what kind of debatelord nonsense is this

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Well they kinda have a point, brachiosaurus made a claim and porcoesphino asked for some evidence to back up that claim, but they responded with a vague, 'go look at Reddit and see for yourself', which isn't really statistically relevant when you make a claim such as, "most media state-owned".

    Edit: Grammar

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago*

    Its basic maths. A sample of one.

    Also, what the fuck?

    Where am I debating? I'm asking for information because I would love to have more information. Some random declaring something isn't really information. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the poster was mostly right. I'm not here to split hairs, I'm just curious and the reply doubled down with a non-answer

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  • [–] 66 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    The political elite all have economic ties to Russia and don't represent the will of their people causing significant tension.

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  • [–] 43 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

    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.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%E2%80%93present_Serbian_anti-corruption_protests

    Protesting for one day and patting yourself on the back is a farce. Real change takes sustained effort.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    its almost like protesting people without consciences doesn't do anything…

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago

    And look at all the change they're creating!

    Take note, US.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Title has big Troy Barnes energy

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    MAGA won’t report on this because it’s against the Russians invasion of their country.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I don't understand. Trump's only been president for 368 days.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    we talking the cool georgia or the one with atlantis

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago*

    fuck the tbilisi tpolisi

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    No need to write "The Country" behind it. We already know that Americans will not really protest even though their country turns into third reich.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] -5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    At what point do people stop protesting and start acting?

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  • [–] 29 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [+] -13 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    👀 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 🤔

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    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:

    https://wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%E2%80%932026_Georgian_protests

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  • [+] -8 points 10 months ago*

    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.

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  • [+] -17 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Bring back the Soviet Union (starting in Georgia)

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (5 children)
    1. Are you more of a libertarian kind of communist (like leftcom or council communist)?
    2. 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.
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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (4 children)
    1. 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.

    2. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    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).

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    Right... so what happens after I have to sell my shares to pay my rent? Or maybe my company does really well and your company doesn't. My company is successful enough to expand, but fuck that, I'm not diluting the share value by hiring more employees that would get a share in the company. Or maybe new employees don't get shares? After I retire do I get to keep the shares in the company? Is it legal for employees to sell the shares in the company? What's the value of something that's illegal to sell?

    If there's less demand for the products my company sells but still enough demand that the company could still function, but with fewer people, how is it decided which employee loses their jobs and which continues to be employed?

    The "owning the means of production" thing isn't actually feasible. When socialists that promise that get into power they invariably redefine the definition of that. Ultimately there's going to be people that are making decisions that impact other people. Call it wealth, call it power, you either have someone calling the shots (and hopefully that person is fair) or you get tragedy of the commons everywhere.

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  • [+] -20 points 10 months ago* (2 children)
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    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?

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