I keep seeing this, but there's a lot of context missing here.

First things first: I'm absolutely not happy about QR codes and apps to get fuel. It's infuriating that they choose this solution to something they themselves caused, but it will have to do till the foreign currency problem is solved. We don't have our own oil, the best we do is have a state corp. called Ceypetco buy crude oil and refine that into various fuels like diesel/petrol/kerosene etc.

However, there are people here stockpiling what little fuel the government can get and reselling them at exorbitant amounts: that is wrong. So the government started to hand out fuel passes to one vehicle per person.

Nope, people found a way around that. Private bus owners would take their fill of diesel, not run their route, siphon the fuel out of their tanks, and sell them at huge amounts.

There's the additional problem that people in were dying in queues. So the solution was to assign a day to the last number of your license plate and have only those people line up for fuel.

So far, it works. And there's an uptick of vehicles on the road these days and we're able to get a little bit of the economy online.

Now, onto the fact about the president.

No. We don't like him. Our main demands were that the entire president, prime-minister, and parliament resign. We got what we wanted halfway, but they managed to ring up a few of what they wanted as well.

Starters: we have this recent piece of legislation called "National List" which has dubious legality and is most likely unconstitutional. This is where the current president Ranil Wickremesinghe got his break. Ranil was not elected to parliament, or any government office, and has been itching to be president since forever.

The previous president knew this fuck wanted to be president, so he made a deal with him before running away: I pull you in from "National List" and make you PM, you let me go scott free out of the country, I temporarily give you acting president powers, and then when I get to a safe haven, I resign and you become president.

Naturally this faggot jumped at the deal; he couldn't care for the people. He's also rumored to be a faggot anyway.

That's exactly how it played out.

Now the new Queen (Ranil) is playing the tyrannical ruler because he wants to protect this coveted position he got after so long.

The protests died down because of the crackdowns that he initiated. Ala Trudeau, the first thing this fuck did as acting president was announce martial law. That martial law got passed by parliament (brokering deals with parliament again).

On a side note, the protesters were infiltrated by Rajapaksha loyalists. We're currently dealing with a Ray Epps-esque infiltration and are being forced to regroup. Meanwhile, police are using every dirty trick in the book to arrest people associated with the protest. The bar association appears to be fighting against this as much as we can.

It's taking time, yes. Do I know how things will go? No. Do I have hope for the future? Yes.

Just like how all the attempts of the Demon-rats in the US is exposing their hate of America, the Rajapakshas and political establishment credibility/popularity has been dealt a severe blow.

The protests will start again, and with martial law in place I'm figuring it'll start into a bloodbath. All the more reason for this to escalate and people hit their limit.

Whatever happens. God wins.