Nepal currently being run via Discord after Gen Z uprising
Nepal currently being run via Discord after Gen Z uprising
Nepal Currently Being Run Via Discord After Gen Z Uprising
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.
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
How is it going with Marcos? Are they corrupt?
So the US should balkanize before they get better leadership
Unironically yes. We should still have a regional compact or something but clearly things are not working. People have wildly different visions of how the country should be run and this stupid power struggle isn’t helping anyone.
smaller countries have an easier time getting better government because in smaller countries, things are closer by, and it's easier to just walk up to your prime minister's house and set it on fire if he misbehaves. in the US, which is a thousand kilometers across, you can't just walk there.
I'm actually in favor of bringing political responsibility back to the local level. That means, communities largely organize themselves, with only few interactions with the federal government.
The federal government has become the monster it was checked and balanced not to.
We celebrate the feds ursurping authority because slavery, and then civil rights, but the feds are only authorized domestically to regulate interstate commerce, and forbidden from placing restrictions on movement of goods and people in the country.
We would have support across the country forcing the feds to back off getting into everybody's business.
Here we are with feds bringing military troops into cities to occupy the hoods the country has made, a clear violation of their authority. This is just getting warmed up, we should pass a constitutional smmendment forbidding the feds from income taxes beyond soc. sec., medicare, medicaid, etc really.
It could pass by referendums in 30 dome states, would just need a handful more.
It sounds extreme but is the only way to stop the executive branch long term.
Tbh Indonesia is not a small country, it has the 4th largest population and the archipelago is as wide as US. However the demonstrations there took place in almost all major cities.
I usually disagree with right-wingers, but maybe they're right about the small government thing. I much rather leave most of the governing up to the states. At least texans and floridans can't fuck up my life from that far away.
We tried protesting politicians houses in the UK a couple years ago. And even though the PM and his family wasn't there, and all they did was hang up a banner, the narrative was about how they were intimidating him with violent threats against his family and was widely condemed.
They imposed term limits on comfortable politicians.
It's one of the best things you can do to combat corruption.
Idk the term limits will help or hurt here. Being limited our lawmakers would sell out all the harder to set themselves up in their last term. It makes sense for executive positions because they can cement themselves in power.
I believe the answer is to organize and find and groom our own candidates that can win. Ones that will acknowledge and address the actual sources of our problems, which would be massively popular with voters you better believe it.
Indonesia is not exactly small
Indeed, and Indonesia did not change their government.
Which methods are you referring to?
Burning down and looting houses of corrupt politicians, also government buildings.
Bangladesh, Pakistan. Even Thailand. India would be devastating but it seems on the horizon