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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
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.
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.
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.
In One Piece, the main characters are pirates, sure, but that doesn't make them 'anti-heroes'.
This is because the world government of One Piece is Authoritarian / Fascist / Feudalist.
Yup.
Nepal is officially an Emperor Luffy's territory.
Look at what the Kirk assassin wrote on their cartridges.
Internet meme culture is just culture now.
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.
Unfortunately, when it happens here its going to be a long, awful, drawn out, bloody conflict.
conservative gang factions already killing each other, we can wait a bit longer as they weaken
They're in the purge phase. The Night of the Long Knives approaches as we head into October.
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.
New live action one piece is looking pretty good
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.
That's what I was thinking.
Like thankfully whatever they're up to isn't too interesting to Discord corporate or "U.S interests" right now, or their communications would be turned on them so fast.
But hey at least it's like a small step up from Facebook. Somebody help them set up their own Matrix protocol infrastructure. :D
Why would you use E2EE for a group with over 100000 members?
I also kinda doubt stuff like matrix could handle that many users. All-in-all, and I say this as not the biggest fan of discord, I think it was an okay choice.
I dunno how many users signal can handle in a single chat, but I suspect it's far less than the number they would have in their discord chats.
They're lucky they live in a country where the government is technologically illiterate. If they did that in the developed world they'd probably all be dead or in prison, instead of successfully, and relatively peacefully (from what I gather), overthrowing their kleptocrats.
Edit: their chat has 100,000 users
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.
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.
inhales
"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.
They have a lot to teach us. I for one, welcome our Nepali overlords!