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.

  • monogram@feddit.nl
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    5 hours ago

    That is such a black&white way of thinking, so FPTP of you, as a non-🇺🇸: proportional representation ensures that by partisan bill are the defacto, law starts to hing on convincing other parties. Sure there will be exclusionary stances but it often comes with people voting for a different party that’s similar to yours

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 hours ago

      No, i don’t think you get what i meant, let me explain again:

      If the democratic areas want taxes to be at 50% for the rich and the republicans want them to be at 0%, then a middle way would be to set them at 25%. But this way, everyone is discontent.

      A better system would be to set them to 50% in the democrat areas and to 0% in the republican areas. For which you would have to have two distinct legal regions.