The next time someone tells you the youth aren’t engaged enough in politics, just point them to Nepal.
According to multiple reports, the youth of the South Asian nation managed to oust the existing government following an attempted ban of major social media platforms and took to Discord to hold an impromptu convention to elect an interim prime minister.
The organizing appears to have worked. On Friday, the military accepted the recommendation of the protest group and named Karki the interim prime minister. Karki, who accepted the role, is expected to pick a new cabinet and eventually hold elections. According to the Times, that is expected to happen within the next six months or so.
just look at this. this is such a fascinating image. it’s so surreal. how did we get here?
Look at what the Kirk assassin wrote on their cartridges.
Internet meme culture is just culture now.
The internet.
You are asking the wrong question.
Its not, “how did we get here” its “How do we get there”
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Basic corruption and a ton of meddling by the right wing Indian government.
Looks fake
This is fascinating, I expected Karki to be a GenZ or Millenial guy, she is a 73 year old woman.
This is my nightmare, I can never keep track of any information on Discord. It’s just chaos.
Nowadays -
“I’m having trouble with x.”
“Okay. Open a ticket”
“Oh, thanks. Okay, so”
“—on the official discord.”To usenet! Let’s start a new world order.
The organizing appears to have worked. On Friday, the military accepted the recommendation of the protest group and named Karki the interim prime minister.
If only this is how it could go down in the US. Sigh…
but … it would be very un-American to fight corruption and listen to the demands of the people.
I wonder what the US military would do if the current administration’s head was cut off quickly enough so no significant orders went out to the military from them. Marshal law then eventually an election?
The head of the snake is very difficult to remove in the US because we have extensive, and very clearly spelled out succession laws, and the people next in line are just terrible.
Under current law, you would need to kill 22 people before replacements can be appointed. Possibly less if some of them are not constitutionally eligible to be president; but if it ever got to that point, I suspect we would ignore that provision.
Pulling this off is made even more difficult by both the heightened security given to everyone in the line of succession; and the fact that under our continuity of government plans, those people are deliberately never all in the same place at the same time.
Anything that could accomplish a full decapitation strike would likely require marshall law anyway, and would likely make the conditions for an election difficult.
Don’t forget, the house or senate can just pick another magat for Acting President. You basically need a designated survivor type incident, except without the designated survivor.
New live action one piece is looking pretty good
At this point, I can only say one thing fairly confidently:
We’re certainly living in a timeline
I still have this tab open from 5 days ago: Wife of Ex-Nepali PM Burned Alive, Gen Z Revolt Engulfs Country: Live Updates
I go back to it every day to check whether it’s still there because it feels so surreal that i think it’s somehow just a dream and i’m going to wake up every moment now and the news story will have disappeared.
On the other side of the same coin, a Nepali minister abandoned his wheelchair-bound wife to flee the mob. The mob extracted her from the building, carried her to safety, and got her to a local hospital… Then they resumed burning down the building.
And that’s the kind of strict laser focus that a revolution should have. You’re not revolting to hurt people or burn things down; you’re revolting because of what the people at the top have done. Destruction is a message, not the goal.
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“HAVE YOU GUYS EVER CONSIDERED A FOSS ALTERNATIVE LIKE MATRIX?”unable to decrypt message
I totally forgot they used the Straw Hat flag XD
On one hand, fuck social media. The recommender AIs that run it are only supposed to optimise engagement, thus optimising ad revenue. But they are far more powerful than that. They can influence public opinion as a whole. Totally out-of-band from the sovereignty of any nation. It is foolish to think that Google, Youtube, Facebook, Netflix, and Twitter aren’t abusing this power. Every responsible nation that wants to defend its sovereignty against recommender AIs must ban social media immediately, along with every other source of such recommendations.
On the other hand, everything else that happened in Nepal. I’m just glad the actual decisions happened on Discord, the least terrible of the platforms. At least Discord doesn’t have these sinister recommender AIs.
Hell… Yeah?
Does anyone who follows Nepali politics know if this is going to turn into a color revolution? Are western powers successfully using this as a pretense to get a right-wing government in?
