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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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[–] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

I wonder what the US military would do if the current administration's head was cut off quickly enough so no significant orders went out to the military from them. Marshal law then eventually an election?

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 16 points 21 hours ago

The head of the snake is very difficult to remove in the US because we have extensive, and very clearly spelled out succession laws, and the people next in line are just terrible.

[–] homura1650@lemmy.world 10 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

Under current law, you would need to kill 22 people before replacements can be appointed. Possibly less if some of them are not constitutionally eligible to be president; but if it ever got to that point, I suspect we would ignore that provision.

Pulling this off is made even more difficult by both the heightened security given to everyone in the line of succession; and the fact that under our continuity of government plans, those people are deliberately never all in the same place at the same time.

Anything that could accomplish a full decapitation strike would likely require marshall law anyway, and would likely make the conditions for an election difficult.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Don't forget, the house or senate can just pick another magat for Acting President. You basically need a designated survivor type incident, except without the designated survivor.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 points 5 hours ago

So the only solution is europe grows some balls and nukes America, then whatever caveman is left, gets elected. Got it!

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 7 points 15 hours ago (2 children)
[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Under circumstances as dire as those you only have one shot, one opportunity.

[–] monogram@feddit.nl 2 points 4 hours ago

To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment Would you capture it or just let it slip?

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago

Marital law?

Pregernante?