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.

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    8 hours ago

    It is the system we have, it is better than most other systems in the world, and there is no way to change it for the better at this point in time. Supporting it being perverted into something else will lead to other perversions like we are seeing right now.

    You are falling into the Trap of supporting everything the right wing purports to support. I imagine you also defend everything to the hilt that the right wing attacks. While they are trying to make those things worse, but those things have legitimate problems of Their Own.

    Like Federal agencies, all of which are failing in their statutory duties. No offense but you guys are all fucking hopeless.