but for whatever reason it’s not currently getting much media coverage likely because the media tends to not report on reoccurring protests.
In the past decade there have been a drop in protests coverage worldwide, governments are now following instructions not to report on these.
Governments don't own most media. For private companies that rely on money, clickthrough rates decrease for events that continue and that has to be one contribution for the decrease
Governments don’t own most media.
Most media are indeed owned directly by governments or by people with ties to them.
Any chance you have some data to show how accurate that is? And, are you making a global statement, or just one about Georgia?
Go to reddit, pick the first media outlet you see and check who owns it, or check who owns reddit.
That's not very statistically relevant.
Also... why reddit when we're using Lemmy commenting on a channel designed for news links? Repeat your prompt for me?
We are talking about protests coverage and reddit is one of the most visited platforms in the world.
Repeat your prompt for me?
are you a bot?
That’s not very statistically relevant.
what kind of debatelord nonsense is this
Its basic maths. A sample of one.
Also, what the fuck?
Where am I debating? I'm asking for information because I would love to have more information. Some random declaring something isn't really information. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the poster was mostly right. I'm not here to split hairs, I'm just curious and the reply doubled down with a non-answer
Sorry, here's the prompt again. There's easily searchable information online about the consolidation of ownership of news channels. Instead of talking about that, you're going to reply with a story about the lack of education in America.
I get the condescending thing you're going for but this is lost on me:
Instead of talking about that, you're going to reply with a story about the lack of education in America.
That's correct, those that own those governments own most media.
Multinational megabanks own most media, they control through DEBT
They also run THE FED, which is in direct control of the USAs money. The USA is not even in control of its own money.
Even without outside intervention, something that happens every single day is not news.
Eh, that's basically the exact definition of news actually lmao
The political elite all have economic ties to Russia and don't represent the will of their people causing significant tension.
Just like the US state of Georgia.
hungary, some of the UK politicians, france, germany.
I mean a lot of countries have long running protests against their governments. While not an everyday occurrence, Serbs have been protesting since 2024 against the corruption of their government, government which is backed by literal war criminals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%E2%80%93present_Serbian_anti-corruption_protests
Protesting for one day and patting yourself on the back is a farce. Real change takes sustained effort.
Lol 400days so far doesn't seem to accomplish much still.
If protest would be an effective way to bring change, it wouldn't be allowed.
Russia has forbidden western NGOs. Likewise there are constant reminders in the West of which parties receive Russian funding.
No need to write "The Country" behind it. We already know that Americans will not really protest even though their country turns into third reich.
The protests have been disappointing recently but to be fair, their resistance to ICE raids is quite something. I don't think I've seen anything quite like it.
...in America. In the last 60 years.
You mean whistling and recording while they illegaly racially profile and abduct innocent people? True, that's something never seen before in America
Side note: when the "third reich" happens for the second time in history, it's called the "fourth reich."
And look at all the change they're creating!
Take note, US.
I don't understand. Trump's only been president for 368 days.
At what point do people stop protesting and start acting?
Protests is a form of political action
If your comment is about your perceived failure of the protests in Georgia, you should read the linked wikipedia article which contains a detailed timeline of the different actions the Georgian people took, on top of protesting
Protest without violence or the very real threat of it isn't good. Look at the Belarus protests to see what happens when you don't protect yourselves and give up all power to the state.
How is this downvoted at all? 400 days with no results is a fucking failure
👀 oh look a protest in eastern europe where they're waving american flags and being given column space in english publications
they're upset the party not aligned with the west won the election, then tried to do a jan 6 but failed so now they're doing this
I wonder how they've managed to maintain the protests for so long 🤔
Some protestors stormed the palace (and were stopped and subsequently tortured in detainment) so we should disregard every other instance of tens of thousands of protestors over the past several years. I am very smart.
To anyone who wants to read up on the protests instead of listening to a tankie lie about details and vaguepost about astroturfed protests, Wikipedia is a generally good place to start that cites its sources so you can follow up on details you're interested in:
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/2024%E2%80%932026_Georgian_protests
literally read it out of the exact link you posted but go off with your namecalling king
what are you so fragile about that you have to accuse me of lying, and what are you accusing me of lying about?
Lol cope
mope
its almost like protesting people without consciences doesn't do anything…
this shit is happening worldwide. clueless and politically illiterate folks do "the protest thing" because at some point, somewhere, like e.g. in ##way_more_complex_scenario_with_totally_different_actors## it worked! so if we persist, it's bound to happen here, too, nay?
fucking nay.
a protest thing that doesn't have the implied threat of "..or else" is just a hang. and those don't produce anything of importance. see every "peaceful" bullshit protest walk or whatever else impotent, poseur bullshit those ignorant fucks use to dull the blade of revolt.
Title has big Troy Barnes energy
Bring back the Soviet Union (starting in Georgia)
we talking the cool georgia or the one with atlantis
fuck the tbilisi tpolisi
When I said "bring back the Soviet Union (starting in Georgia)", I mean Georgia should become a socialist country again and then others would follow suit, leading to the reformation of the USSR as a competitive multi-tendency country with the Communist Party as the main social institution, dedicated to anti-revisionist leftcom.
Does anyone think I should read theory a bit more?
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