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.
At this point, I can only say one thing fairly confidently:
We’re certainly living in a timeline
Definitely one of the timelines of all time
May you live in times that are times.
just look at this. this is such a fascinating image. it’s so surreal. how did we get here?
Lol “pirate flag”. I’ve never watched One Piece but its from that isn’t it? They raised an anime flag
This flag has been used all over Asia by youth to express unity in dissatisfaction with corruption and a system that is stacked against them. I think it started in Indonesia, but I am not sure.
Smaller countries are easier to get new governments in. The bigger it is the harder it is to oust a leader, let alone get better leadership in after.
I think these south asians are on to something with their methods of protesting here, idk if I can say this on here but targeting the homes of lawmakers garnered by corrupt means, and government buildings, seems to be a good strategy.
Sri lanka, indonesia, and nepal all did this recently and I think I am missing some even.
Hello from the Philippines. I’m hoping we are about to here
Huh that sounds totally reasonable. Can’t see any issues.
Except Discord. That’s just stupid. At least use something E2EE.
The title is extremely misleading. No one is running a country via discord. The your rebelled successfully and after ousting the former pm they were asked by the military for a new pm rexommendation. They had discussions about that on discord and gave their recommendation afterwards. That’s all there is to it, no one is holding cabinet meetings via discord. The interim pm probably doesn’t even know what discord is.
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…
This is my nightmare, I can never keep track of any information on Discord. It’s just chaos.
To usenet! Let’s start a new world order.
Nowadays -
“I’m having trouble with x.”
“Okay. Open a ticket”
“Oh, thanks. Okay, so”
“—on the official discord.”
