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Gsus4@mander.xyz to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months ago

Georgia goes ‘North Korea’ with bombshell plan to ban main opposition parties

www.politico.eu

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Georgia goes ‘North Korea’ with bombshell plan to ban main opposition parties

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Gsus4@mander.xyz to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months ago
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EU ambitions face new blow as analyst warns the government’s move “would be the end of Georgia’s democracy.”
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  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    Why bother with opposition parties when your country is a Russian vassal state?

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      This is likely what’s going to happen with Taiwan and China eventually.

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        China will never rule Taiwan, they’re not gonna start a war with all their trading partners over an island. It’s a nationalist rallying cry, nothing more.

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          China plans to conquer Taiwan from the inside via clandestine elected officials who will pass laws to lower the walls for China to politically “invade”

          Unfortunately from the last elections (the pro Beijing KMT party sneakily taking majority), it’s already working…before the citizens realize it, Taiwan will share the some authoritarian shithole regime appointed by the CCP and any talk that is not about the glory of China or unification will be a “separatist” 'national security threat"

          Remember Hong Kong

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            Exactly. China doesn’t need to start a war to take Taiwan. Win an election one time, then aggressively change the rules to keep your party in power permanently.

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              They already have parliament majority. Now they just need to unseat Lai with their own zealot as president and Taiwan is fucked. Not a single army boot will step foot in either (not until they have control anyway)

          • Gsus4@mander.xyzOP
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            What does this influence look like? Is it like the interference in elections elsewhere? Do they fund politicians like in the Philippines or Hungary or is it more like social media campaigns? What else should we be aware of?

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    I honestly couldn’t tell at first if this was about the country called Georgia or the American state called Georgia. It could honestly apply to both.

    I hope the people of the nation of Georgia are able to overcome Putlers influence.

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      https://georgiarecorder.com/2024/08/22/rid-of-raffensperger-georgia-election-board-blazes-path-for-counties-to-overturn-a-trump-loss/

      Thanks to laws passed by Trump allies in the state Legislature, Raffensperger has been removed from the election board. Other members were removed as well, eventually handing control of the board to a three-member MAGA majority that is dedicated not to free and fair elections but to elections that Trump can win. Trump himself, at a recent rally in Georgia, celebrated those three members, by name, as his “pitbulls” for victory.

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    Y’know, I’m pretty sure it’s a big red flag if anyone or anything is “going North Korea”.

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    I hate this, always wanted to visit Georgia, seems like a gorgeous country.

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      And their people seem super friendly. Every Georgian I’ve came across online have been extremely nice.

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      You still can, it’s not fucked… Yet.

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    Now this is giving me splinter cell vibes. I hope the CIA is not missing any agents in the area.

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      Funny you mentioned, I’ve been thinking about the first Splinter Cell game lately lol.

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      Wasn’t it also the first ghost reacon?

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