Redditors are of course salivating over it https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1h412ri/this_pic_from_the_protests_in_georgia_goes_so_hard/

    • newerAccountWhoDis [they/them]
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      14 timmar sedan

      How do you think about trans people? Do you agree with your newly elected government's stance on lgbt issues?

      • thetaT [none/use name]
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        åtta timmar sedan

        i'm not a transphobe and i support the existence of trans people and that they have full rights.

        i don't know what you mean by "newly elected", this government has been in power for a while. anyways, i disagree with their very regressive stance on LGBT issues, but i don't think a different government will reverse course on this. i support this government for now because they're taking a somewhat anti-imperialist stance, something Georgia hasn't seen in decades.

        • newerAccountWhoDis [they/them]
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          tio timmar sedan

          Thanks for the answer

          i support this government for now

          Even American leftists are more principled than that.

          • thetaT [none/use name]
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            åtta timmar sedan

            our conditions are different from the conditions in America. in America, both bourgeois parties are on the same side and the same platform. in Georgia, the two sides are the national bourgeoisie, whose interests align with anti imperialism, and the comprador bourgeoisie, whose interests align with the west and who are now staging these protests. it is within the interest of our cause that the national bourgeoisie advance their cause as it is anti-imperialist, and therefore I critically support them. this is not too dissimilar to the critical support for Russia. it is quite dogmatic of you to assume that the conditions everywhere are the same as the United States, and therefore, communists globally must take the same approach everywhere. you have the wrong stance and the wrong approach.

            • newerAccountWhoDis [they/them]
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              fem timmar sedan

              Well since the US and Russia both follow the exact same ideology, you choose to support the neoliberal bourgeoisie over the other neoliberal bourgeoisie, the one that's openly homo- and transphobic and totalitarian in a sense that even the apparent liberties that one adorns themselves with are abolished. Great critical support and very right stance my dude

              • Babs [she/her]
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                tre timmar sedan

                The US and Russia are exactly the same? One is openly hostile to proletarian and resistance movements around the world while the other keeps aligning itself with them out of self-interest. Seems pretty different in the context of imperialism.

    • Piment [they/them]
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      22 timmar sedan

      this is a really basic questsion, but what do you think of this protest?

      • thetaT [none/use name]
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        elva timmar sedan

        it is so very clearly a western-backed attempt at counterrevolution. no other way to put it. the west used their NGOs and people with influence that they installed to organize these protests and to coerce university students to go to the protests.

      • thetaT [none/use name]
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        elva timmar sedan

        it's just the opposition being salty. even "international observers" cannot claim that the election was stolen. the opposition can't cope with the fact that their base of support is just a loud minority in the country and that in reality they're very small.

        https://xcancel.com/sopjap/status/1851703891727126946

        if you want to get the best info about the elections, i'd recommend giving this thread a read. actually, if you want to stay up to date on Georgia from an anti-imperialist, socialist source, give Sopo Japaridze a follow.