Nepal faces its worst crisis in years as curfew-defying protests target political institutions.

Demonstrators in Kathmandu have defied a curfew and broken into and set fire to the parliament building. They had earlier stormed the office of the Nepali Congress, the country’s largest party, and several prominent politicians’ residences.

Nepalese Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli stepped down on Tuesday amid escalating anticorruption protests. The resignation came a day after 19 people were killed by security forces in violent demonstrations sparked by a social media ban.

Exuberant young people flooded the parliament complex upon hearing the news, waving their hands and shouting slogans as smoke billowed from parts of the building.

    • Raoul Duke@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 days ago

      Americans: eh, too inconvenient. We’ll just make strongly worded signs and protest peacefully, then go home in time to show off on social media.

      • peteyestee@feddit.orgEnglish
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        5 days ago

        What’s wild is the American protesters are what… 0.06 % of Americans… We are all going to hell… There will be more suicide bombers and ayatollah in heaven than Americans.

      • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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        4 days ago

        Trump would love a reason to justify sending more troops into our cities. Take a look at our military spending compared to the rest of the world below.

        That’s the spark he needs to really take over, where as right now he is struggling to keep his base frothing.

        graphs

    • peteyestee@feddit.orgEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      Americans are worthless. That’s not something I want to say or admit but Americans can’t even hide it… the president leads them by their pussy. Honestly obtain tuns and hope you don’t get slaughter because truth be told they already own us completely. Americans are practically farmed animals.

  • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    The pictures coming out of Nepal RN are insane!

    NVM they’re angry at nepo kids. That makes much more sense. Carry on:

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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      4 days ago

      Can you really see this working in the United States? Trump would literally give orders to mow everyone in the streets down, and he would frame it as protecting the country from violence. His base would expand greatly from this, as propaganda around destabilization from riots would successfully stoke fear in his voters, as well as a number of independent voters.

      The only reason January 6th got as far as it did is because Trump, the sitting president, wanted the violence to succeed. We can see clearly that this is the case from the fact he pardoned every last one of them, including the most violent.

      The US military is the most monied military in the world by a massive, enormous margin. If it is used against the people, then the people will face absurd losses well before any resolution resembling what we’re seeing in this story. It may come to that still… But make no mistake, this is not going to work as well in the US right now. It’s not even remotely the same situation.