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bluemeanglove

5 months ago

This is literally my first post and it's not like I'm expecting to accomplish anything with it but I just gotta get this off my chest.

I'm from Georgia (the country not the state and I'm so sick of having to clarify that), and everything is going to shit over here.

Back in October the "Georgian Dream" party stole the elections, we all expected them to but that doesn't make it better. Honestly had the elections been legitimate they would've still gotten 40% which is just fucking sad, but at least they wouldn't have had a majority. But they weren't legit, these pieces of shit got 60%, and because of some additional bullshit we now have a single party parliament.

Recently they announced their nominee for president. He has no qualifications for it, no higher education or experience in politics, he's just an athlete. Never in my life have I seen a more blatant pawn.

They also said that they will halt any attempts to join the EU until 2028. Now this is obviously a lie and they never plan to join, but even if it wasn't it goes against the constitution, which says that the government should strive to join EU and NATO.

We've been protesting and have constantly been met with disproportional brutality from the police.

We did not choose this, but our ruling party is determined to drag us kicking and screaming into Russia. They've refused to help Ukraine in the war, and moreover they condemned the Georgian people that decided to fight with Ukraine of their own volition. They're taking away the already very limited rights LGBTQ+ people have in this country. They call pro-western media propaganda, and yet they run on being the only "good" way to join the EU.

They've been hiding their true allegiance less and less these past years and the fact that there's still people who believe the shit they spew frustrates me to no end. They've been in power for 12 years and unless someone real powerful steps in they'll stay in power for at least 4 more because far too many people cared far too little.