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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Lukashenko came to power before Microsoft released Windows 95. He's still there. Feeling old yet?

Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Yes, that's true, but when you're making a monster out of your predecessor and even talk about arresting their electorate (remember when Kobakhidze pitifully noted "we can't arrest those who votes for them"), at least the hypocrisy is evident when UNM's biggest supporters and donors are now in govt.

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

There are more 2004-2012 UNM members in GD today than in UNM itself. Why are we as a society eating all this "bloody 9 years" crap when they sheltered almost all criminals themselves

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

"Gunman visits Starbucks before shooting" is the most American thing I've heard in a while

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Marxism and Stalinism are two totally different notions. Why are we participating in this clown show

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

They may split their current mandates and call one of the groups "opposition" and, by 2028, even let them participate in the elections "independently," so there is a sense of legit multi-party parliament. They have everything on the table, but before that, they have to silence the resistance.

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

GD missed an opportunity to create the satellite parties for this year's elections. On the contrary, it absorbed or destroyed all the far-right groups to win their electorate for itself. Although no matter what, it can't function in a single-party parliament, even with authoritarian system. 1/2

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Yeah I think it's reading skills

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Dude, you're just blowing me off rn. If you don't want to understand, you won't understand. I don't even know what to reply. Either your English reading is poor or you deliberately pick my words out of context. And all this while you're ignoring my questions. Way to go

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

You think I wasn't there during 2008 war?

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Do you know what it feels like to have a man killed? Even face to face, when it's either them or me? I don't, but I have a really close experience to it. I'm not saying that everybody thinks the same. I'm trying to say it's fine to feel different and accepting this demands maturity

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Yes. It is violence when you kill someone while defending yourself, and it is a rightful violence. I don't understand what part of humanity you do not understand. Or maybe you've been arrested too? I don't even know your name. Ask Ukrainians, any honest man who's killed others how they feel about it

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

My whole argument flew right above your head. I understand your anger. It's ok.

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I've been arrested and beaten more than once. What's your point?

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

When your mom told you she's at home but all of a sudden she's behind the police lines. This is not a struggle for freedom exlusively by youth. This country belongs to all generations and we all should fight for it

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The beacons are lit! Gondor calls for aid!

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Thank you! I got the interviewer wrong but the idea is the same

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

That's their restraint, believe me. They're using the same tactics after June 20th 2019 violent crackdown. Nothing new

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Thomas Wier @trwier.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Weekly Georgian Etymology: დაუმორჩილებლობა daumorčilebloba 'defiance, disobedience', from Old Georgian ႫႭႰႹႨႪႨ morčili obedient, from Georgian-Zan *rčˠ- obey, hear, possibly an ancient metathesis of Akkadian 𒊑𒌋𒊺𒌈 rēštum female slave. Often used to describe civil disobedience.

Photo from recent protests in Tbilisi. The protesters are opposing the government's withdrawal from EU negotiations and numerous acts of extreme police brutality. The sign encourages the police to join the protests: გაიფიცეთ gaipicet 'go on strike!'

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Today, they're following you into a metro station, tomorrow - they'll enter your home; Today, they're beating you up, tomorrow - they'll shoot you. Today, they're refrained, tomorrow - they'll unleash the beasts within them. This is a victim & predator mentality. Don't run - face them. Be brave.

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Suppose the protest wanes. Don't forget that the next move is presidential elections and inauguration of degree-less Kavelashvili. In a country where almost every single adult has a university degree, it will cause another huge protest

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

It was US suspending strategic partnership. Both him and amb. to the US resigned hours before Matthew announced it.

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I won't lie - they are oddly refrained. What's brewing in their mind?!

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

You don't have to demoralise the people fighting right now like that.

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

They signed a contract to fulfil any command they get. Until now, we've been their punching bags, but they removed all signs of identity themselves. Now it's just a big mass of men in black masks who are ready to kill their neighbors and their children's friends. They've done it. Enough pity

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

They're bringing more from the regions

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Both lose a function and are effectively counterproductive where there's a water cannon truck. And in Georgia, riot police almost always have it as a backup. Concerning paint, it really is a good idea

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Centralised protests need strong leaders. Georgian resistance doesn't have any, let alone a strong one. Opposition has no support. It kind of is a dead weight tbh

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

HK protests must be used as a guidebook by everyone who cares about their own protests' success. It was a masterpiece of effective action against the police state. Alright, I might be a bit biased, plus HK govt. listened to the protests, while GD has zero respect for its own people

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Good to know that not everybody thinks to get out of here

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

To be honest, the protest of those within MFA and MoD is a unique event that we haven't seen in Georgia for a long time, maybe ever. Although it should be noted that the scale of it would almost definitely be predicted by GD. In a system with more than 300,000 employees, only 150 chose to speak up.

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Project Belarusization of Georgia started a long time ago. Think what the KGB would think and there you go

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Georgian military is out of question, and the police are well-fed and ideologically ground. So, no, I don't see that scenario playing out, although there always is a possibility

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

They like to act and then evaluate the people's reaction to their action. This is why I think everything is deliberate and well-calculated, including taking their words back. #ThinkLikeKGB, because we're face to face with it

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I wouldn't say that all this is a miscalculation. Yes, this time they are getting really close to breaking the country apart, but who knows, maybe their goal is exactly this

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Please stop spreading desinformation. There were protesters in the church, and the police tried to enter. There was even a live feed from the inside. Why are you doing this?

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

78th article of the Constitution of Georgia - "The constitutional bodies shall take all measures within the scope of their competences to ensure the full integration of Georgia into the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization".

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The thing is, outside they know us better than we do ourselves. Otherwise we wouldn't make so many mistakes. Thank you for this convo and your kind wishes! I wish you the same!

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I wouldn't compare Russia and Georgia. Those are two totally different worlds, so if we can't compare western parliamentary democracies with Georgia, nor can we do it with Russia. That's the problem exactly, nobody tries to analyze Georgian reality on its own

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Parliamentary systems work in countries with an experience of democracy and political culture - virtues, none of which Georgia possesses today. We just got schooled by KGB and we don't want to acknowledge it

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

While a president would be elected directly by the people for two terms max. and they'd know who's the person in charge, including for undermining the democracy. Today, there is no person in charge of the country whatsoever and state representatives are not the desicion-makers.

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

You can't point a finger to a state representative and demand answers from them in Georgia today. Its politics are turned into a circus with nobody to take any responsibility whatsoever.

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

In that case, you know who's accountable. The problem in Georgia is that since we turned into a parliamentary republic, nobody knows who's accountable. PMs are to answer to oligarchs, not parliament or the people. Since 2020, Georgia's parliament has been effectively a dead weight

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Georgia's reality is different. The Parliament has no legitimacy at all, and people don't hold MPs accountable. In this case, the parliamentary system is way more prone to fall into cryptocracy, an example of which we're currently witnessing in Georgia.

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Everything indicated that GD wouldn't step down: reviving the transparency law, CEC reform (being especially tricky, giving the people false hopes), opening of the new GD office, and many more. Instead of some self-reflection, everybody just agreed to play on GD's pitch blindfolded.

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Giorgi Sanikidze @gsani.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Let alone the opposition, in the pre-election period, people around me firmly believed that this time we would have fair & free elections. Do you really believe that Ivanishvili will give up the power? This was the question that was confronted by naive and idealistic views

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