The leader of Nepal's largest communist party has been named the country's new prime minister

FlyingSquid , 1 month ago

Why do I never hear about Tankies talking about Nepal? Is it because they have real elections?

Inui , 1 month ago

How often do you hear about Nepal in any context? Most people can’t even point to it on a map and keep asking me how my time was in Tibet.

They have a whole history exhibit in the old Kathmandu palace that talks about the Maoist insurgency and their role in dismantling the monarchy prior to the royal massaacre.

Even so, the current government has been so ineffectual in some areas that some protestors have demonstrated to have the monarchy back. Part of this is because the Maoists and other communist groups lost their fangs when they started these coalitions and the government gets into standstills where nothing gets accomplished except the continual repaving of the roads to and from the airport whenever a foreign diplomat is due.

This is cool and good news.

FlyingSquid , 1 month ago

I’d just think that the people who praise “communist” countries like China and Cuba would like one where communists are elected fairly.

Are you suggesting that Tankies don’t understand geopolotics at all? Could that possibly be?

hark , 1 month ago

Usually it’s the American army (or their proxies) rolling their tanks into communist countries.

FlyingSquid , 1 month ago

Cool. That’s not what Tankie means. And the Tankies like it when certain countries do the same thing. Just not the Western ones.

hark , 1 month ago

I know it’s not what tankie means, not like it matters since it’s misapplied all the time. I just find it funny how the term has tank in it, and it’s often used by people who support the US, but the US has the highest military budget in the world by far.