#nepal protest

Because Russian just sent drones into Poland in what’s being called “a test of NATO” to see if NATO responds and with who.

Because the biggest extinction event currently is still occurring off the coast of Australia with almost all Marine life being smothered by algae that should not be there like that.

Because we still don’t have the epsitine files and this is likely a distraction to get it out of the media.

Because far right parties (neo-n’s if you will) are gathering across the globe.

Because climate change is still an issue.

Because Women’s right are under attack in multiple countries and areas.

Because LGBTQIA rights are being taken away.

Because school shootings are still occurring in America with little to no news coverage.

Because there is a genocide in Gaza.

Because there is famine around the globe.

Because Nepal reportedly shot 19 people for opposing a social media black out.

Because Indonesia arrested reported over 1000 people for protesting against their government.

Because of the Congo.

Because of Ukraine.

Because of every other person and child who is not safe.

It was a whirlwind 48 hours that began with thousands of young people taking to the streets of Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, in protest and ended with iconic government buildings smouldering and the country's prime minister cast out. 

The dizzying speed with which the country's younger generation toppled Nepal's ruling government, using social media sites such as TikTok and Discord to organize, is still something those who were calling for change are processing.

An upsurge of anger in each country was powerful enough to bring down the ruling government, and social media played a key role in organizing the protests and quickly disseminating information about each government's initial heavy-handed response.

New No Kings protest on 10/18 and a reminder that you can always change your government by lighting the current government on fire. If people in Nepal and elsewhere can do it, the only thing stopping Americans are a mix of complacency with the current system (sure it's bad, but it'll change eventually if we let it sort itself out) and fear (understandable, if a lot of us lose our jobs, we're out in the street within a month, maybe less), so calling for a general strike is...trickier than it might seem. We can't have a revolution if people are too busy fighting over the scraps they need to live. But also, that's usually when revolutions happen, when folks finally stand up and say 'Enough.' Change doesn't happen overnight, usually, no matter how handy that 'Weeks where decades happen' quote from Lenin says (it is, sometimes, correct, I'll give that to Comrade Vlad).

From Rebecca Solnit:

In Nepal, young activists burned down parliament, forced the prime minister to resign, and toppled the regime. In Paris, the "block everything" protests shut down roads and wrangled with police today. In South Korea, the right-wing (Youtube-corrupted) president was ousted and tried for his coup attempt; in Brazil the right wing (Youtube-empowered; thanks Google) former president is still, I believe, on trial for HIS coup attempt; Syrians recently overthrew the Assad regime after half a century of authoritarianism; Indonesia, reports PBS, "has been rocked by massive anti-government demonstrations. The protests are led by students, workers and women’s rights groups angered by the yawning gap between Indonesia’s elites and shrinking middle class, and turned violent after a delivery driver was killed amid a police crackdown."

He's standing on the roof of enies lobby and ordering usopp to shoot down the world government's flag because they've imprisoned one of his friends

It's like superman being implicitly pro gaza and hawkgirl dropping putinyahu on a spike

You are fighting against people who in most have oppressed or are actively fighting for you, your friends, your family, your neighbors, that sweet lady who works in the supermarket and gives kids a little reminder to be kind and even that one person you don’t really like to be oppressed. They do not care about you or any the people you care about.

They want you dead they want you dying they want you tortured. And you’re trying to get them to chance via debate? Theyre killing you and communities.

Take a look, even a quick one, at different social moviments throughout history in history books but still, a little reminder:

The French Revolution is the birth of the humans rights and considered one of the biggest (of not the biggest) fights against class oppression and economic inequality. They were out there destroying prisons, going to Versailles with torchs and throwing anything at windows and eventually executing people (nobles AND plebeians). Do you think the nobility, the ones being conforted by the oppression, would have changed by any other means?

After the First Industrial Revolution to get rights we consider basic nowadays, because people were dying and losing limbs during production, they had to break machines and disrupt the production for the bourgeois.

This is in no way shape or form propaganda for you to not feel empathy towards Charlie Kirk’s death, personally I feel for his kids and his kids only (his wife knew who she married, stayed with him and gave out a speech recently -> also no his kids weren’t there when it happened) because it’s not their fault their dad fought for in favor of genocide in Gaza, the dehumanization of queer people and immigrants, the upkeep of the gun rights and for more structural oppression against women.

He considered queer people an error, learning about LGBTQIA+ “garbage”, people dying because of the gun rights pretty much a necessity to upkeep the Second Amendment.

Don’t feel bad for not being sad over him, he would have celebrated your death.

Likewise, the revolution in Nepal had more protesters deaths than politicians. How the wife of the ex first minister died is absolutely horrifying and there will be no “but” here just a reminder that she was no innocent. The country in 2023 had a 0.622 in the Human Development Index, ranking 145 out of 193 countries (https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/country-insights#/ranks) while the worldwide HDI in that same year was 0,756.

Revolutions start with kindness but nothing gets done with just that.