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        • huf [he/him]
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          2 months ago

          eh, probably not. if it's anything like the situation here in hungary, most of the protestors are agitprop-poisoned (but unaffiliated) libs who 1) dont know that this sort of law is par for the course in the enlightened west 2) think that even if that's so, it's different because democracy and 3) there's nothing wrong with western money trying to coup a government.

          • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
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            2 months ago

            That would be the profile of anybody who's not directly employed by a NGO, but the sheer number of NGOs per capita in Georgia suggests that statistically a lot of the people protesting would be doing it because their own livelihoods would be affected.

            • huf [he/him]
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              2 months ago

              oh sure, i just meant that eg my mother was never employed by any NGO and she's huffing this shit full force, so i think it's a western-style lib thing.

                • huf [he/him]
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                  2 months ago

                  ehhh, some sure. but i think NGOs are the only thing keeping some parts of our crumbling social services "working" since orban decided to spend even less on them than the standard neoliberal governments before him...

                  it's a mixed bag.

                  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
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                    2 months ago

                    The NGOs serve exact same role as missionaries did, they do some positive work to ingratiate the population, but the ultimate goal is to colonize and to take away sovereignty.

      • Z_MESH@lemmygrad.ml
        hexagon
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        2 months ago

        Those anti governments protestors see the law and "Ruzzian " barbarism . EU chief also said that Georgia can't get into their coven if they pass the bill.

    • huf [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      dont foreign funded NGOs have to declare it in the west too? i'm p sure they do, especially if it's from an eeeeevil country.

      • darkcalling@lemmygrad.ml
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        2 months ago

        The US law, FARA is far tougher than this proposed law, with further reach and harsher penalties and the US enforces it vigorously.

        Most of the EU states have similar laws. It's incredible and shameless how this is spun as some attack on democracy. It's really an attack on US attempts to gain full control of a country on Russia's border to do Ukraine 2 with.