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Nepal Army Takes Over Capital As Politicians Flee By Helicopter, Mayhem Worsenswww.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/nepal-army-takes-over-capital-politicians-flee-helicopter-mayhem-worsens
476 sats \ 5 comments \ @siggy47 10 Sep Politics_And_Law
The collapse of the Nepal government situation has gone from bad to worse overnight and into Wednesday. Parliament has gone up in flames, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has resigned, there have been dozens of deaths and injuries - including among some government officials or their families.
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136 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 10 Sep
Mentions the under-discussed sequence of events:
  1. Children of politicians shamelessly showcase their wealth on social media
  2. People take to the streets to protest this, because why do politicians make so much money?
  3. Politicians ban social media (showing their hand? lol)
  4. SHTF (what did you expect?)
  5. Politicians flee
  6. Army takes over
The question is: if you weren't corrupt, would you still do 3 and 5?
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121 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 10 Sep
Didn't realize Nepal had it this bad....
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 11 Sep
Literacy: 63.49% 1 Access to improved sanitation: 45.8% 1 Income < $10/day: 72.78% 2
Both https://nsonepal.gov.np/ and http://cbs.gov.np/ are down right now, including their CDN which seems to be not indexed by waybackmachine...

Footnotes

  1. source: https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/nepal ↩ ↩2
  2. source: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/poverty-rate-by-country ↩
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36 sats \ 1 reply \ @gmd 11 Sep
I don't have anything intelligent to add other than this flying kick was wild...
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nitter 11 Sep
https://xcancel.com/WizardManic/status/1965325667211641079
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