In case you haven't heard, Nepal had a revolution this week. The youth got sick of the corruption and the final straw was banning most social media. They came out on the street, burnt down a bunch of institutions and the prime ministers home.
Politicians had to evacuate cling onto helicopter ropes.
The army took charge.
Gen Z used discord to vote on who to elected a female ex chief justice as prime Minister.
Let me know if I missed something.
@ideogram I've been present for parliamentary elections in Nepal. The parties are all represented by pictures and many people signed-in at the polling station with a thumb-print - i.e. there is a lot of illiteracy in the country - so holding a vote online at all is undemocratic, much less on discord.
Like I said, I'm waiting for an on-the-ground take from my friends, but this does not look right to me at all.
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Just got a msg from a Nepali friend:
"Hello brother !
How are you and where are you these days ? I tried to write you several times but messages were not delivered. Anyway i hope you're fine.
Well, about weird news of nepal is once again instability and anarchism taking place. In fact as you know it is explosion of people's anger. It is sad that more then 51 died , it was really destructive..., many things burned out and corrupted gouvernement resigned after that...
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...to control people's anarchy army had take over. Now college kids couldn't take proper decisions to choose a prime minister and to reform a government. Finally, today retired supreme judge seems take place of prime minister...but there are many debates on the issue of constitutional legality, so still there are many unseen possibilities....!"
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