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Regarding the situation in Nepal (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
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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.

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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    What's more likely? That reality inverted itself and all patterns of history are fake, or western leftists falling for another color revolution misinfo campaign for the 100th time?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    That is not a good analysis of the situation, or a good understanding of it. I guess I'll tell my friends on the ground in Nepal (and you should tell our Nepalese users too) that they are just "western leftists" falling for another "misinfo campaign" because their damn lying eyes and ears are just tools of the US government.

    This isn't some kind of "reality inverted itself" this is people using tools they use every day to fix a problem they had after the previous government turned out to be both useless and toothless. It's very, very dumb for them to use something like Discord to pick their new leader, but a big part of their issues was that the previous government was trying to ban things like Discord in the country, social media stuff that the average person uses every day, and doesn't give a shit about whether the US government can influence things on it.

    The worry is how easily the US government could co-opt this movement, because they are basically leaving every single door open for them to do so, and the US will probably end up using that, they just don't seem to yet. Taking a "this is a movement by the people, but will probably become co-opted" isn't falling for anything. It's using the information we have to assess the situation, instead of just assuming that any time anything happens it is the Big Bad US government doing it. That's not material analysis, it's being scared of the monster under the bed and helps no one.

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