Interesting to note that the teens and young adults who overthrew the government elected their new prime minister on Discord, and the military acknowledged the election and put the winner in place.
Interesting to note that the teens and young adults who overthrew the government elected their new prime minister on Discord, and the military acknowledged the election and put the winner in place.
I think the reason most of us haven’t said much about this is that if you’ve been around for a while (especially since the Arab Spring) you’ll remember tons of movements that looked very similar to this and didn’t produce the kinds of populist results some alt media types always say they will. I genuinely hope for the best for them, but clearly the recent precedent, especially for these kinds of “horizontal” movements, is that they get co-opted by NGOs and turned into pro-western, liberal states, if not just collapsing right back into what they had before.
Yes I also hope for the best here, but just being some form of inspiration for youth worldwide is fine for me.
Getting co-opted by NGOs and turning into pro-western, liberal state is not really a downgrade from before since that was the situation before the revolution.
Nepal has been a playing field for US and India, and with the increasing influence of US (accepting MCC by govt) things were bound to explode.
Every surrounding counties are getting unstable, and just being done with whole thing feels peaceful now. the government being. overthrown by people’s movement is such a relief since the alternative movement was going to be pro-Monarchy. there is a hope for left now, a leftist revolution overthrowing the ‘Nepal Communist Party - United Marxist-Leninist’ was just not possible.
Yeah, disorganisation like this is the western colour revolutionist’s best friend, their second best friend is western social media tools being used in all their organising.
There are steps being planned to get off discord. The lightning fast development had prevented any immediate influence from foreign power but the flood of bot account has started. Now all invite links are temporarily disabled and just the current insulated server should be fine for a while.
Yeah, this is a strange event, very unique, it has all the superstructure of western colour revolutions, but none of the calling cards or hallmarks, it’s a very unique event. I hope things work out well for the people.
Instead of being a unique event, it might just be one of the first. All the ‘strange event’ are just the things we noticed from previous color revolution. But that does not make those revolution any ‘less’ revolution for the people. People from surrounding countries being inspired and imitating such revolution is not really surprising event.
Using instagram to organize, discord to discuss and Facebook to share also seem less weird if looking from the perspective of Gen z. They are using the tools available to them to achieve their goal, unaware about the dangers inherent to such tools.
It is just very unusual to see something that, if in almost any other circumstance, would be concrete evidence of a US colour revolution, but doesn’t seem to actually be the case here. It’s like using an oven to cool food down instead of heat it up, it’s just so different to how things normally go. I do hope this is the first of many such situations, the tools of empire being used against them would be fantastic. But I’m still skeptical, it’s always a risk when they use tools that could so easily be co-opted. I hope that this isn’t the case.
Literally holding their vote on a western intelligence controlled platform (discord). Clown hours. CIA could have spun up tens of thousands of persona management bot profiles run by 20 people in army psyops to influence that in no time at all to say nothing of just straight up altering the vote totals.
I didn’t read If We Burn to not learn from it.
My proudest moment in a while was sharing a pirated copy with some college kids that were in the right path but were definitely in need of a little examination on what kinds of movements would be effective. I even tried to even it out a bit by saying that decentralized authority and defence of a revolution is possible and forms of it exist with Rojava and the Zapatistas, but the idea of a completely non-hierarchical, nonviolent populist movement is bait.
Dude I remember back in the cth days that Rojava was like fucking ancom candy. Seemed like every other post had something to do with Rojava.
If i had a book to recommend to pretty much anyone calling themselves a leftist even if they arent is that one. Not cause its like the best theory stuff or whatever, but so people who haven’t read theory may think twice before fucking it up for the rest of us. It’s actually a really easy thing to explain to aplotical normies. Ive expressed this concern at work and have basically phrased it as “they overthrew the government before figuring out how to replace it and generally the last people you want in charge are the most prepared to fill that void.” Don’t rob a bank without a plan, dont use your tongue to stop a fan. It’s common fucking sense really.
Oh absolutely, I just thought “fucking of course they did” when I read a bunch of gen zs used discord to elect a prime minister. Cool as shit, honestly.
Please don’t use discord to coup a government
7000 people voted in that “election” I bet 70% of them are bots