The next time someone tells you the youth aren’t engaged enough in politics, just point them to Nepal.
According to multiple reports, the youth of the South Asian nation managed to oust the existing government following an attempted ban of major social media platforms and took to Discord to hold an impromptu convention to elect an interim prime minister.
The organizing appears to have worked. On Friday, the military accepted the recommendation of the protest group and named Karki the interim prime minister. Karki, who accepted the role, is expected to pick a new cabinet and eventually hold elections. According to the Times, that is expected to happen within the next six months or so.
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