Protests and violation of human rights in Belarus

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I need some help.

Already for several weeks there are protests in Belarus against a new law. In short the law wants to bring forth a new tax that people must pay when they are without a job. The government has it's reasons for this law, but the people dont agree.

People who are without a job longer than 6 months have to pay this taxes. For those who can afford it, it is no problem. For those who can't, it means more poverty in an already relatively poor country, where some people live of less than 200 dollars a month.

These protests are nation wide. Yet the state television doesn't talk about them. Instead they spread propaganda about how great this new law is.

There is a youtuber who films these protests. He tries to tell people to not go against the law and stay peaceful. Below is a video of this man, where you can see that he is attacked by police in civilian clothing. The screams you hear are questions he asks them what they are doing and to ask for other people to come to his aid.

People who are taken away like this disappear. For good.

youtube.com/watch?v=YHIkSKtz158

I am a citizen of The NL and want to do something against this scandalous affair. What can I do??

Post-soviet authoritarian state as it is.

Who gives a fuck about Belarus, really?

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>What can I do??
Not much really

Belarussians like Lukashenka. In Poland we have meme people who believe in "prometheism", so that somehow Poland is able to change "the East" by introducing the same concept of freedom and citizenship as it exists in Poland

Our government finances belarussian students and some even claim that they're preparing the "future bureaucracy" for Belarus in case Lukashenka is gone, and so they hire them in polish offices or at least allow them to practice some office work

Of course this will all fail. People in the East are simply different, they don't care about liberty (and dislike "psheks", so Poles), if they like anybody then it's either Russia or Germany. It doesn't mean that they don't want to have independent state, but in general they like autocracies like that. Who knows, maybe they're clever in this?

> I'm a citizen of [insert western country] and I want to do something about anti-government protests in [insert pro-Russian country]

CIA, nowadays at the very least you should have gotten a belorussian proxy, pretended to be a local, and shitposted about Putin

This way, your cover is blown immediately. Are you a cockhole by any chance?

>belarus
>real country
pick one

/thread

You keep the fuck away from glorious Belarus. Democracy not needed.

Actually, today Russian-Belarussian relationships have some issues, they started when Belarus tried to smuggle european sanction products to Russia.
Nowdays Russia started building border with Belarus.

>NEET Tax

lel

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wtf is happening in belarus

>started building border instead of annexing
This is what they mean by saying "Build bridges, not walls!"

>I am a citizen of The NL and want to do something against this scandalous affair. What can I do??
It's none of your business. Stay out of it.

>Teh evul state forces me to find a job instead of being a useless leech!
Oh, the horror!

All well and good when there's actually jobs to go around.

I have no fucking idea about Belarus because, let's be honest, who gives a fuck? But in the UK I have spent periods of 6 months looking for work and not being able to find anything so thank fuck for the financial safety net that we have. Without that, I'd have had no option whatsoever than to turn to crime/

If the government are unable to run the country in such a way that every single person (especially those with high education like myself) is able to find gainful employment then they absolutely should be liable to compensate those unable to find work.

I don't know what you can do but man this is a crazy law, Belarus has it hard enough as it is.

There is a ton of fuckin' jobs in the tractor factories.
Work is work.

Looks like a comfy country.

>paying taxes so some jewish oligarch can buy few extra planes
kill yourself state slave

>tractor factories
They need specialists, not random people from the street.

>Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match. It is a compulsory seizure of the property of the State’s inhabitants, or subjects.

- Rothbard

This law is fucking disgusting, as is the vast majority of tax.

There are an extremly fun collection of his quotation at Wikiquote. If u understand russian/belorussian check it. English version doesn't so fun.

We hired Gypsies with no experience to repair and maintain cars and somehow they learned to do it.

Thanks, potatolord.

People do not want to work for a 5 cents. What a fucking leeches!

Just compare them to those hard working oligarchs from London. Real workers champions!

> live in Russia
> be poor
> have to pay taxes for being poor
Genius.
The poor people will all just die or disappear.

WORK IS WORK
Belarus, not Russia.
Economy in Belarus is not as bad as you think.

>Russia
It's Belarus, fake Latvia.

Also check'd.

I spent two years in the uk after finishing highschool.

I was able to secure a full time job in under a month and a half. I applied for maybe ten admin office posistions. Interviewed for 5, and was made two offers.

Either you're a complete fucking autist or are not actually trying.

You have slave mentality. Probably you are a turk rape baby.

>WORK IS WORK
It's not when you can't even survive off it.

You shouldn't do anything. Stop with this mentality that you need to play savior of the world. Lukashenko is in power for geopolitical reasons and whatever happens will continue to happen unless this changes.

There are no jobs. Typical socialist story: state fears businessmen, kills business environment => budget hole => asinine laws to cover it => everything spirals downward because state doesn't create any valuable product, it has to enslave it's population, utopia achieved.

Well, user, how you can help? Send us some good books about economy, free market and capitalism so that we can punch our Economy Ministry by this books, becose we really have some troubles with our economy.

Stfu, pidorashka.

"I am a citizen of The NL and want to do something against this scandalous affair. What can I do??"

Fuck off and mind your own business, cuck

>Be an entitled bydlo NEET
>Demand higher wages
>Employer flips you off and imports Ahmed and Abdul who do the same job for even less money
>Proceed to complain about muh migration on a mongolian cartoon forum

You can.
Our economy is 84th on the world list and Belarus' is 53. More work over there than here. Yet we protest for work a lot less. Explain that dicky.

>You're foreign therefore you instantly have a higher chance of being employed
>You were looking for shit work
>I have a master's degree and 5 years amazing experience in 2 good companies. Low paid work isn't available for me, nobody wants to employ somebody they know will leave nearly immediately
>I'm not willing to move around the country or commute 2 hours a day

I'm fine now as I've gone self employed. But it's not as easy as 'just get a job' for a lot of people.

Well thats just logical. Employees with low skills are usually the ones who have to compete against cheap immigrant work force so no wonder they oppose migration

t. (((Opposition)))

> as a result be a 3 world poor a s shit muslim infected shithole but with a bunch of super rich oligarchs from London

wow amazing!

In Belarus most of the jobs are centralized, just like here.
Only those who can afford to live in the city can get a job.
And regional job wages are so low that you cant even pay the rent and feed yourself at the same time.

>not imprisoning the employer and his family until he becomes more nationalistic
Come on I thought you guys were hard

wow, that makes lot of good sense.
the real question is:
do they force you to pay the tax even if you can't find a job and you are searching for it? that would be irrational.

hint: its your attitude


> 5 years amazing experience in 2 good companies

why did you leave?

also why did you fall for the uni meme?
should have learned a trade.

You don't live here, so STFU.
No, but even lowest-quality jobs are not in the same geographic place as unemployed people, and rent is so high it's hard to move.

Belarus is basically a slavic, oil poor Azerbaijan. Its a country created by Soviets, and it maintained that authoritarian dictatorship mentality and life style long after the soviet lifestyle and system of corruption had gone stale. Belarus should be absorbed into Russia. Lukashenko is too risky on his own

Here in the US part of your income from a job goes towards your "unemployment benefits". Its a cost for your employer that could be addl compensation for you, but that unemployment insurance provides that "safety net" you speak of. But it only pays out untiul depleted. After that yoor only resort is general assistance, EBT food stamps etc. If OPs country cant afford it, then all thats left is charity from the proles. Nobody that can work should be forced to pay for slackers/ lazy fucks. Lazy fucks shouldnt expect them too, nor feel that protests should sway laws in their favor when its just not economically feasible for a country.

I was made redundant twice. One company went under because of oil prices, the other was relocated and I'm not moving to Germany.

I didn't fall for anything, to be an engineer you need a degree. I intended to build satellites, but that all fell apart in 2008.

I have a few trades, but again it's not as easy as 'just getting a job'. Unless you have your tickets you can't get on most sites. Unless you have contacts you can't get into most jobs.

Companies in the UK employ 18 year olds on apprenticeships at £2.50/hour. Why would they pay me £12/hr?

You don't know what you're talking about.

SO ARE HERE. But you don't see us complaining as much.

>calling hohol "pidorashka"

Shut the fuck up, maidanyti khohol.

As a NEET I am horrified by this development. My thoughts and tendies are with my fellow Belarussian compatriots at this difficult time.

Sounds like a good law. Fuck you NEETs

Where was this photo taken in Belarus?