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.

  • xarm [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    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.

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      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.