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Tag: Georgia_country

  • Department of politeness

    Department of politeness

    Creepy news are coming from Georgia country these days.

    Georgia to Establish Interior Ministry Unit to ‘Systematically Monitor’ ‘Hate Speech’ in Public Spaces

    Do they plan to use political prisoners labor in some sort of gulag?

    Do country really need lot of cheap, unmotivated, and non-qualified labor of e. g. 100 000 of political prisoners done in inhumane conditions?

    If they fear that these people who swear on authorities would vote on elections against GD, I may surprise them. People are much more complicated entities, so depending on how all that will be defined, plenty of qoci1 may end up under supervision of such “department of politeness”.

    or they plan to send them to russian army to help putin to take the Malaya Tokmatchka?

    Or GD want use this to create a Legalese Curtain whose purpose is to prevent citizens from leaving country? And what they expect? That these people, instead of migration away, would start to “produce new Georgians” en masse like rabbits?

    I am not surprised that GD who experience the syndrome of hyper-legitimacy2 just doing so to convince themselves they are legitimate.

    And in some way, GD leader Bidzina Ivanishvili just express the fear of losing power out of the blue. Without any vision, without any goal or plan to do, just pure fear of losing power. Repressions for sake of repressions and censorship for sake of censorship.

    In this regard I wonder what will be next? Outlaw of abortions? Total censorship of internet “a-la Kremlin” via “white lists”? Mass restriction of election and voting rights for literally “farting in public spaces”?

    Time will tell.

    1. Qoci is an acronym from ქართული ოწნება – qartuli ocneba – name of the ruling party in Georgia ↩︎
    2. Here I use a joking way to refer the problems of getting official recognition by GD-dominated disputed parliament and GD monopolistic government by EU and other democratic countries after results of parliamentary elections 2024 where GD got a lot of seats and main opposition parties still boycott this parliament ↩︎
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  • Unexpected thought about a personal experience of someone else

    PhotoEssay | Easter Affairs (Or How I Broke Omertà)

    This article gives me some sad mood and feel. Probably because of being reminder, that anarchism is a fancy utopia, a colossus that based on two sand legs.

    One such sand leg is an assumption that most people are good by default and their intentions are good or at least neutral. At least most of the time.

    And another sand leg is an assumption that people can easily choose community to live in, and live among people sharing our worldview and values. In practice we can’t do so, and instead, we first being born in a random community, and then, at best, we can leave it, and choose between two or three random communities, we know nothing about beforehand. And as usually happens, we have choose by some different factors. Like, what country allows to settle a foreigner at easier legal terms, for example. A city or district where rent is cheaper. Or country or city where there is more reliable internet connectivity. Or even country or city where it is easier to find a job. Or something else. But you can’t say “Ok, Kagi, please find a community where an internet hikka couple with an anarchistic worldview can settle with ease, not being disturbed too much by neighbors or political catastrophes”.

    BTW, this, the second sand leg, probably, is why internet, with all its limitations and unreliablilty, centralization from the start, and today anti-P2P nature, still lures people so much. The option to say “Hey, Kagi, please find like-minded people to listen to without too much need to talk myself.”

  • This story worth to read

    This story worth to read

    Sometimes we fill extra meaning anything, even appearing or disappearing of a large puddle on the street. The puddle I talking about is something I never seen in person, but I follow its fate reading the Dispatch column by at civil.ge

    All of three parts of this long story are worth reading.

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  • Self-exposure via too much security

    Self-exposure via too much security

    Reblog via 🦜 Civil Georgia

    Georgia Closing Airspace Over Abastumani ‘Ivanishvili Whim’, Sources Tell RFE/RL

    civil.ge/archives/730573

    On April 16, Georgia is to close airspace over the area of Abastumani, a health resort in the country’s south, with officials citing the need to ensure clear skies above the local astrophysical observatory. However, sources told Radio Free Europe/Radio…

    This move by Bidzina Ivanishvili with declaration of no-fly zone gives me some hint: if you want to fully unmask this putin pet faster, you should rally not on famous Rustaveli avenue or even near headquarters of his “Georgian Dream” pet party. The most sensitive place for Ivanishvili now is where he imposed so hardcore security measures, going so far up to declaring no-fly zone. So opposition should rally in Abastumani where his family residence is.

    I guess this kind of self-exposure via excess security is common among dictators and billionaires alike.

    The illustration picked as reminder that the Death does not care about your security measures. it even does not care whether you have enemies who ready to give you ticket for Kobzon concert. It simply comes in its own time no matter what you do.

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  • Now you can get deported from Georgia for burning Bidzina Ivanishvili portrait

    Now you can get deported from Georgia for burning Bidzina Ivanishvili portrait

    Here is quote from https://civil.ge Monday Cable for 6 April 2026:

    On March 31, less than a week before Afgan Sadigov’s deportation, the journalist publicly burned the portrait of Georgian Dream founder Bidzina Ivanishvili during the daily parliament rally in Tbilisi.

    Simply speaking, now, if you foreigner in Georgia, you can be deported to country you run from for burning portrait of Bidzina Ivanishvili, a Kremlin-friendly billionaire who “become rich” in russia’s 1990s, and who now being informal ruler of Georgia country. Bidizina hurry to build a russia-like dictatorship, and pushes via disputed parliament repressive laws that reminds me late-USSR jokes like this (voice of Gorbachev):

    Can’t I sleep, Raisa,

    Whole Russia is for Boris!

    You adopt a law, Raisa,

    That allow to love only us!

    Or in russian:

    Не могу уснуть, Раиса,

    Вся Россия за Бориса!

    Ты издай такой указ,

    Чтоб любили только нас!

    Boris Yeltsin is referred here, and his mass popularity in Russia in last years of USSR existence, what Gorbachev, the President of USSR, has been concerned about. Among that joke refers supposed leadership of Raisa, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev, in their family.

    So, this “Georgian Dream” leadership obsession over (their questionable, from my personal point of view!) legitimacy, matched the personal traits of Bidzina Ivanishvili, including paranoia and belief on supernatural effects of common protest performances like burning of his portrait and seeing them as magical rituals and spiritual attacks.

    Of course, any foreigners in today Georgia may notice that today Georgia is not a safe harbor like it was a decade ago.

    But note that Bidzina Ivanishvili is officially just a honorary chairman of “Georgian Dream” ruling party without any special duties and formal power or accountability. So why Bidzina Ivanishvili portrait that important? Because Ivanishvili is actual ruler of Georgia country and he builds a dictatorship here as soon as possible.

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