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  • not reasons (because we all have many reasons to revolt) but a clear strategy, demands or even much information

    Such a typical Marxist Leninist bubble view if you are genuine. PLENTY of protests and revolts throughout history happened spontaneously at grassroots level. And the most common reason is being against government ineptitude and demanding to meet basic material needs of the public. The French Revolution, Singing revolution, the 1848 liberal revolution, Occupy Wall street, and even the Tea Party movement are ad hoc. If you actually read world history then you would not be such an antidemocratic simp.



  • Boomers aren’t Gen Z.

    The previous Nepali government, before being overthrown, literally stole tax payers money and flaunted their wealth and then tried to violently put down peaceful protestors, until people fought back and stormed the palace.

    You are just anti-democratic. You will just call everything a CIA sponsored coup or colour revolutions except for the illiberal ones you personally approve of.




  • And not every revolution you don’t like is CIA-coup. Oh right, nuance doesn’t exist with .ml. Of course it is in your interest and your pay masters to muddy the water. Again, even if there was external influence on colour revolutions, where is the indication that there is right wing authoritarian elements on these revolutions like before? Oh wait, for the typical tankies, the only legitimate form of revolutions is if it’s a violent one led by your OWN authoritarian and imperial ideals. As expected, you haven’t even called out the right wing movements funded by Kremlin.


  • Oh fuck off with that Kremlin propaganda of colour revolutions. Even if Gen Z protests has external influence, what is so bad about promoting democracy and end of government corruption? As bad as Western interference has been in the past, the colour revolutions tend to be influenced by soft power and no right wing elements. Would you call the French Revolution a colour revolution because it was influenced by the American revolution? Or the overthrow of Chinese Imperial dynasty by Sun Yat-sen because it was influenced by European liberalism? But I bet you aren’t saying anything about Russian-influenced far right movements because you’re a useful idiot for Kremlin!

    Kremlin is trying to demonize the colour revolutions because it will undermine their own personal power. It was Putin who helped Lukashenko violently put down protests in Belarus and those in Kazakhstan. If democratic change happens in Russia and their satellite states, their own kleptocratic regimes will decline and their own hold to power. That’s why they demonize colour revolutions despite being organic. Autocratic governments and sock puppets like yourself do everything in their power to de-legitimise grassroots movements that undermine the ruling class’ hold to power.


  • The 1990s was the most peaceful and prosperous time in humanity. This is not universal, if you were in Russia, Rwanda or the Yugoslavia, but overall there was fewer conflict. Humanity as a whole was riding high on the end of cold war, democratisation, and economic growth.

    a utopia but the humans still rebelled.

    Humans will complain no matter what. There is catharsis.


  • The payphones are still available in my country in case of emergencies. They were refurbished and less dirty than they were in the past. But funny enough, some payphones were converted as first aid stations. As much as our government can be deliberately inefficient and corrupt, they are good with adapting to changing times to keep some public services relevant. One thing I’m proud of is our postal service, which branched out to mobile network operator and banking to stay relevant.




  • I work in a highly automated job so there is plenty of downtime between tasks. We are allowed to use our phones even though officially we are not meant to be. That said, there is plenty of self-productivity activities you could do. You could read books, ebooks or audiobooks, listen to podcasts, watch gym training videos, learn and hone skills in self-learning sites like Udemy or Brilliant, etc. Of course, one could consume brain rot media like Tiktok, Netflix or Instagram to unwind but we all know it’s not productive in the long run.

    This is not imploring anyone to do it immediately, but in my case, I do side hustle of day trading and market speculation. While I am doing it, I learn as much as I could with how to trade better and reading the stock market news. I am not rich but I get couple of bucks every now and then. On the luckiest of days, I could earn hundreds within days. That supplements my income. It does not always work of course, I had my “bull run” two months ago but the stock market slowed down and declined even due to uncertainty in the market.






  • Playing in the arcade made me realise the role of luck no matter how much I try, which influenced my worldview. I’ve never really felt bitter about life as a result.

    Then as I grew older, I learned that arcades are rigged to make you spend more money to buy more tokens and keep playing but keep losing and the cycle repeats. It’s when you become adult you realise that life is rigged. And like with the arcade where you hit the machine or shake it to get your money back out of frustration, you have to shake the rigged system that we are in as well.