https://apnews.com/article/georgia-lgbtq-rights-samesex-marriage-57ede62918ec995f21473f23f5676f80

Georgia's parliament on Tuesday approved sweeping legislation that curtails LGBTQ+ rights, a measure that echoes laws adopted in neighboring Russia.

The bill, introduced by the ruling party Georgian Dream earlier this year, includes bans on same-s*x marriages, adoptions by same-s*x couples and public endorsement and depictions of LGBTQ+ relations and people in the media. It also bans gender-affirming care and changing gender designations in official documents.

The Orthodox Church wields great influence in Georgia, and demonstrations against the LGBTQ+ community are common. Last year, hundreds of opponents of gay rights stormed an LGBTQ+ festival in the Georgian capital, forcing the event's cancellation. This year, tens of thousands marched in Tbilisi to promote "traditional family values."

"Traditional family values" are also at the cornerstone of the Kremlin's narrative in Russia, where authorities in the last decade banned public endorsement of "nontraditional sexual relations" as well as laws against gender-affirming care, among other measures. Its Supreme Court effectively outlawed LGBTQ+ activism by labeling what the authorities called the LGBTQ+ "movement" operating in Russia as an extremist organization and banning it.

The new initiative was announced by Georgian Dream after the country in June adopted the "foreign influence" law that critics also denounced as borrowed from Moscow's playbook. The measure requires media and nongovernmental organizations to register as "pursuing the interests of a foreign power" if they receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad.

That measure ignited weeks of protests and was widely criticized as threatening democratic freedoms and jeopardizing Georgia's chances of joining the European Union. The South Caucasus nation of 3.7 million formally applied to join in 2022, after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but the bloc halted its accession in response to the "foreign influence" law and froze some of its financial support. The United States imposed sanctions on dozens of Georgian officials in response to the law.

The anti-LGBTQ+ bill was approved on its third and final reading, with 84 of 150 lawmakers voting for it. It now must be signed by President Salome Zourabichvili. Zourabichvili, who has been at odds with the ruling party. She can veto the bill, the same way she vetoed the foreign influence law, but the parliament, dominated by Georgian Dream, can override her and adopt the legislation regardless.

Georgia's constitution states that "marriage is based on the legal equality and free will of the spouses" but does not explicitly ban same-s*x marriage, and the country's civil code clarifies that marriage is a "voluntary union between a man and a woman." The new legislation by the ruling party, which does not have the votes to change the constitution, contains a more explicit ban and is seen as a populist step to win the support of marginal groups.

Georgia will hold a parliamentary election on Oct. 26, with the ruling party seeking to retain its dominance.

Georgian Dream was set up up by Bidzina Ivanishvili, a shadowy billionaire who made his fortune in Russia and served briefly as Georgia's prime minister in 2012. It promised to restore civil rights and "reset" relations with Moscow, which fought a brief war with Georgia in 2008 over the breakaway province of South Ossetia. Russia then recognized the independence of South Ossetia and another breakaway Georgian province, Abkhazia, and established military bases there.

Many Georgians backed Ukraine as Kyiv battled Russia's invasion in 2022. But the Georgian government abstained from joining sanctions against Moscow, barred dozens of Kremlin critics from entering the country, and accused the West of trying to drag Tbilisi into open conflict with Russia. The opposition has accused the ruling party of steering the country into Russia's orbit at the detriment of its European aspirations.

Remember: almost all Europeans passionately support the criminalization of views that they dislike. You will be hard-pressed to find any left-wing Europeans who do not support the criminalization of homophobic speech, just as you will be hard-pressed to find any right-wing Europeans who do not support the criminalization of pro-gay speech. The idea of defending freedom of speech for views that you personally disapprove of flat-out does not exist in Europe. In Europe, defending freedom of speech means defending freedom of speech for views that you personally agree with and censoring views that you personally disagree with. In the '90s, leftists and "human rights activists" in Russia zealously lobbied the Russian government to enact all manner of restrictive laws against "hate speech", to supposedly protect the country from evil Nazis and commies. The laws were passed, of course; and, today, they are used primarily against leftists, LGBT rights activists, and Putin opponents - the exact same people who demanded that the laws be enacted in the first place. The exact same thing is now happening in other European countries, as far-right parties take power and begin using speech censorship laws pushed by leftists in order to silence anyone who opposes the far-right.

People who advocate drawing lines around freedom of speech always envision themselves as the ones holding the pen. They never even entertain the thought that someone else's definition of objectionable speech might differ from theirs.

The putrid diarrhea people of Kiwi Farms - the most rancid, worthless subhuman vermin on the planet, whose lives hold less value than the lives of fleas or ticks - have been largely predictable in their reactions to this, as if sweeping government power of this sort wouldn't immediately be used to shut down their vile online swamp:

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/georgian-parliament-approves-anti-lgbtq-legislation-echoing-measures-in-russia.200574/

User Vyse Inglebard:

God bless you, Eastern Europe.

User osooolemiiio:

Based <s>Khachapuri</s> Sakartvelo!

User Picnic_Boy:

It's almost like they don't enjoy seeing children marching in dildo parades. Weird.

User Toji Suzuhara:

A brilliant decision, you must fight this before it takes root. Otherwise you end up like Cali, which went from democratically deciding to ban gay marriage, to having fetish parades in its largest cities, in less than a generation

User Battlefield2142EU:

Odds are the mainstream media lying about the law just like the so called don't say gay bill in Florida. If journ*lists can't be trusted with reporting news in United States. Why should they treated with reporting news in eastern Europe?

User Nitro!:

All "gay rights" are infringements and it is morally correct to outlaw them.

User SSj_Ness:

You love to see it, too bad America is so cucked to strags and shitskins.

One user - Arcade Gannon - tells the truth and is, of course, immediately swarmed by MAGAt r-slurs:

Bans depictions of homosexuality in media.

Bans public gatherings promoting homosexuality.

This is oppression. They're outlawing public assemblies and broadcasts that go against what the government wants.

User The Punished Mitch:

If banning sexual deviants from corrupting children is oppression I don't want to be free.

User Reinhardo-sama:

Nah, cute twinks and s overplayed their hand. Now they get what they fricking deserve.

Another user - Montalbane - says what anyone with a functioning brain knows is actually going to happen (and is, of course, also swamped by the rest of the r-slur pack for it):

Ban gays from gathering

Label all your opponents as cute twinks and catamites.

Profit.

Gotta respect the hustle.

The same for another user, Miquella:

Now to label anyone they don't like as something so vague as LGBTQ activists to keep the sheeple convinced traditional values means being poor and subservient to the bourgeois class a fricking billionaire lol can't make this shit up idiot clowns

User The Punished Mitch:

It's really quite easy to avoid being labeled an LGBTQ activist, just make sure you don't try to convince kindergarteners that mutilating their bodies, padding out their allowance via prostitution or engaging in anal fisting during recess are acceptable practices and you'll be perfectly safe from accusations of LGBTQ-activism.

User Sperg Coalition:

What the frick is this word salad? Frick off strag lmao

Arcade Gannon responds to The Punished Mitch's "I don't want to be free" comment:

Tyrants love to hear it.

As of this post, the thread is still active, so I'm sure there's more wingcucked r-sluration to come.

Every time a Kiwi Farms member commits suicide, it legitimately makes my day. I am not even being facetious. As I have stated before, Kiwi Farms is a putrid swamp of the internet's worst psychopaths, neo-Nazis, incels, racists, degenerates, sadists, perverts, conspiratards, and QAnon mongoloids, and its members legitimately do not deserve to live. I would once again like to thank @Aevann a million times for making sure that this site does not turn into Kiwi Farms.

@Cream_a_da_crop said it best:

Null and his whole clique of cute twinks are some of the most insufferable people on the internet. I hope that KF gets permanently taken down and Null ends up in a fricking gutter somewhere, out of spite because he is the most unfunny unlikeable wingcucked cute twink on the internet. The users need to shattered into 1000000 pieces and cast to the wind. I don't care if my cow archives are gone there's plenty of documentation elsewhere

By the way, you r-slurred basement-dwelling neo-Nazis who worship Russia: Hitler considered Russians (and all Slavic people) to be inferior subhuman vermin fit for extermination. And, if Hitler had succeeded at wiping Russia off of the face of the earth before being defeated, the world would be a far better place today.

@Aevann, Marseybux for documenting and stirring up rightoid infighting please.

!lgbt !nonchuds !burgers !grillers

Saw some communists calling vegans "ecofascist adjacent", what do you think?

Today, we’re proud to announce the launch of the Floridian!

This train combines two iconic routes — the Capitol Limited and Silver Star — and will offer traditional dining throughout the full journey. pic.twitter.com/XZbtfUptJq

— Amtrak (@Amtrak) September 23, 2024

I'm so happy, Sheila's amazing! I love this sweet girl!

!animalposters !cats !catholics

!g*mers

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman admits he “personally” doesn’t care about Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to Blinken.

Follow: @AFpost pic.twitter.com/FPRLRpC8hN

— AF Post (@AFpost) September 26, 2024

I wonder if this could be explained by common ancestry of all Semitic peoples. Nope must be a practicing Hasidic

Wish he cared enough to get these wignats bonesawed too

Lol. Lmao.

That rich saudi kid is the king and you are a peasant about to be vaporized by his friends

I spoke extensively with someone who worked on Concord, and it's so much worse than you think.

It was internally referred to as "The Future of PlayStation" with Star Wars-like potential, and a dev culture of "toxic positivity" halted any negative feedback.

Making it cost $400m. pic.twitter.com/F5O0oy4gaQ

— Colin Moriarty (@longislandviper) September 20, 2024

Someone on /v/ transcribed the podcast and I will take him at his word because I didnt bother listening to it

>Colin Moriarty says that he verified this person worked on Concord and talked with him extensively

>He was shocked to learn that Concord cost $400 million to make

>Concord entered the alpha state in early 2023 before Sony bought them, Sony has been working with the developers since 2020.

>When they hit the alpha state, they have already spent $200 million working on it. Sony spend $200 million extra on it from 2023 onwards.

>The game was in a horrible shape during alpha, Sony felt they had to spend an extra 200 million in order to get the game into a playable state.

>A major expense was needed to outsource the game to other studios to finish building it and fixing it so that it was playable before launch.

>Two major things were not worked on until the last minute. Onboarding, how to get new players in and Monetization, how to get money from the players

>it would cost millions to keep the game going as well

>this is Sony's biggest and most expensive 1st party game in their history, more expensive than Spider-man 2 and TLOU2. They lost all of the money spent.

>They made $1 million gross revenue when the game launched, which was refunded.

>Sony had faith that Concord was the future of PS, it was believed to be a star wars level project where movies, tv shows, comics and toys will be made from it

>code name chaos was it's name in development

>internally you couldnt say anything bad about it due to toxic positivity.

>Herman Hulst was a massive champion of the game and you could not insult his baby.

>Colin Moriarty says that he thought the game would cost $100-200 million but he reconfirms that his source is solid and it actually costs more

>Sony execs believed in the project so much nobody on the ground level could change things. Which is why they bought the team.

>400 million is not included with the costs to buy the team btw.

>this is the biggest lost in PS history

wtf man? its not even round?? the cheese doesnt cover all the sauce???

seems everyone involved, from the chef to the judges, was drunk as shit

Age 29

timestamp

• buys house sight unseen with divorce bucks (330,000/600,000)

• 100,000 more renovating since it was a disaster

• the rest on "spending"

• was spending 5000 a month in past relationship

timestamp

• together for 10, married for 5

• met when she was 19 and he was 40

• "So I definitely think I was groomed in the beginning"

• "So he used money to control me" timestamp

• "He thought that I was cheating on him" claims she wasn't

• thinks she should have taken more

More divorce details timestamp

Debt deets timestamp

CC - $29,294/$29,500, just purchased 6,000 more onto it, 793 interest each month, 3000 this year so far

• "I didn't understand how interest works when I started that card" timestamp

• "Explain interest to me" - she tries

• Transactions get read off - timestamp

• Notable - Sims micro-transactions, "I own all the expansions," Pelaton subscription, $100 "Waterbean" coffee, ChatGPT subscription

• Trying to dispute a LinkedIn Premium she forgot to cancel, Caleb presses her

• "What is the difference between paying something with my debit card and using my credit card?" timestamp

• "I get airline miles which is how I flew here"

• "I have like 400,000 airline miles"

• 2 Cars, both on her credit since his was bad he drives one timestamp

  • 1727 due on his car,

  • 2 months past due - On autopay but there wasn't money so it didn't get paid, claims she's paid it now since husband got 4k on first paycheck (normally 3300, thinks 58,000 yearly), band director, musician on side ("percussionist"),

  • Mazda SUV, $34,000,

  • more than $800 minimum payment a month she doesn't know specifics, 10% interest rate

    • Was underwater on previous car, rolled over onto this one? High twenties purchase price on this car

  • Mazda 3 (2024), hers timestamp

    • Regrets purchasing this one

    • Old car was fully paid off 2016 Mazda 3, she wanted a new car because husband got a new car

    • Worth 28,000 and 18,000 left on it

• purchased a sofa with a subwoofer (using CC) when she had divorce bux

• 4 dogs and 2 cats

• "I'm allergic to both dogs and cats and pollen and trees and grass" timestam

Other CCs not paid off but not as gigantic, not as interesting

How much do you think you spent in a month? timestamp

• thinks 5 or 6 thousand, it's actually $10,333

• Presses the b-word on why she's not actually trying to fix things timestamp

"I had heard about debt consolidation" timestamp

Investing timestamp

• Does not know what an index fund is

• Does not know what the S&P 500 is. "Is that like stocks?"

• "I have like Starbucks stocks, I think, maybe"

Tries to ask her about the school's band timestamp

Caleb went to same Uni as husband at the same time, shits on the music program there and their football program timestamp

• She found him through tiktok, "every time he hears your voice he's like turn that off"

• Caleb recognizes him

• Husband says "his voice is annoying"

• Ton of student loan debt, got a Master's - has not been making payments? On some income-based thing?

  • "Hopefully like there is a change in presidency" timestamp

Went to Europe last summer timestamp

• ran up CC balance

• "money doesn't go as far as I thought"

Budget Breakdown

• Mentions that she didn't know property tax existed?

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The people get more money which is the point how much the rich have is irrelevant. (8)

Everyone gets to be able to lift 500kg with no issues, but one guy gets to be homelanderPlease ignore the fact that homelander exists and can kill all of us if he wanted to, it's a better situation than 200 years ago when everyone was only able to lift 50kgyou (0)

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Serious question: OP, are you rich? (-5)

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This is kinda a misrepresentation, as the middle/lower class gets richer, so does the upper class. Not the other way around (20)

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Thats....not rich...? Depending on where he lives that wouldn't even be enough to pay his bills (0)

You have a strange understanding of what it means to be rich, I would say. In my personal observation, anyone can become rich, but the problem lies in their spending habits—wasting money on things they don't need or on things that harm them. (2)

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I'm not denying his hard work, just pointing out the hypocrisy of saying "anyone can do it" when here in America the average cost of a master's degree is about $60,000 and he'd be out on the streets starving or dead if he spent 2 years job searching.Edit: that's $60,000 not including undergrad. (1)

I've heard this a lot, but the real issue is how people spend, not how much they earn. I read a post a while ago where someone mentioned that in America, people tend to spend a lot on things they don't need or that harm them, and then they complain about their salary. But I'm not there to say how it is. (1)

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You think the black book of communism is accurate don't you? (0)

Your words, not mine.Now, what's your argument in favor of communism other than "I'm a loser and I want the state to steal money from my neighbor and give it to me". (2)

Biggest Lolcow: /u/iltwomynazi

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the person who sees your vibrator as a threat and not a collaborator is not your soulmate

— ˖ ࣪⟡𝕭𝖑𝖆𝖟𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖔𝖙𝖍⟡ ࣪˖ (@Blazingoth) September 20, 2024

how is it that both sides come across as incredibly pathetic and nauseating !volcels can't keep winning like this its just not fair

gross p0rnsick foids are pathetic

I'm not like other scrotes haha plz let me fucc losers are pathetic

incels crying that whores would rather frick silicone over them are pathetic

all i can say is

its really good juice.

this was my blogpost for today

TL:DR it's because Heathcliffe should be darker skinned and is instead being played by a yt Australian. Also Margot is 7 years older than him but that's less dramatic so who cares?

It's nice to finally see the media getting woke to the wrong race topic.

Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, known for starring in Barbie and Saltburn, are to join forces in a major new film adaptation of Wuthering Heights.

The Australian actors will play Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff in director Emerald Fennell's adaptation of the classic Emily Bronte novel, set on the tempestuous Yorkshire moors.

They may be two of Hollywood's hottest stars, and it may be one of the most enduring love stories ever written, but their casting has left many film fans unimpressed.

Some pointed out that Catherine is in her teens in the book, while Heathcliff is described in the novel, written in 1847, as "dark-skinned".

"White Heathcliff and 34-year-old Cathy, and they both look like they belong on Instagram. I'm obsessed," wrote TV and film critic Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, external.

He's no, he's actually this person. He has a gore site mascot as his PFP. Go through his post. He has multiple accounts to try to intimidate people. This is very much the person he is.

— 8-ʙɪᴛ (@8BitProletariat) September 20, 2024

This guy has been calling @moderator out nonstop for over 24 hours, he thinks every Marsey pfp is @moderator, and he recognizes Marsey as the !wpd cat.

Anyway I'm going through his replies and reportmaxxing calls for violence, you should too.

The primary issue with the "woke is making video game women uglier" argument is that it's simply not true. Graphics have progressed and now women in games look more realistic. Some men are deranged and aren't sexually attracted to human women and they don't like this pointed out. https://t.co/g0ku5TkbMK

— Not a Good Jewish Girl 🇮🇱✡️ (@estherzelda0514) September 18, 2024

Our Jewish girl names the incel™ for the reason

G*mers point that the glorious Japanese show REALwomen

There seems to be some noticing going on when it comes to male models

John Mulaney getting on stage and mercilessly mocking everyone at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read pic.twitter.com/GNTNapo4e0

— Austen Allred (@Austen) September 23, 2024