• @[email protected]
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    641 year ago

    His face creeps me out so much. I usually try to attack the policies and not the person but it is just too much for me.

    It’s like if Jason Bateman was cast in an oddball version of Batman where the Penguin was actually Isaac Asimov.

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        Every time a post about this guy comes up people start commenting like they know anything about Argentine politics.

        The previous party (and only other option) was paying off IMF’s debt with money lended from China. There were printing money like there is no tomorrow. There were tight controls on the prices of everything. All while spending like crazy. Basically, they took all the money they could from every possible way.

        Argentina needs drastic reforms and costs cutting. No wonder US and the IMF are applauding Milei’s plan.

        More people ITT should get their first word asses up for a bit and take a look at the reality of our country instead of blindly hating on the new right winger. He is far from perfect, but also he’s the best we can produce, period.

        • prole
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          Just because the other guys suck, doesn’t make this guy ok. Or not a fascist.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            Choosing the lesser evil is a reality for Argentinians.

            I am curious about you saying he is a fascist. Why exactly? Look up that definition before answering.

            But again, what would you know speaking from your comfortable first world chair. The guy is not great by any means, I even would agree with you that he is not “ok”. But he is the best we’ve got. The other side is worse, nothing we can do about it.

            • prole
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              01 year ago

              But he is the best we’ve got.

              Ok. How about we meet here again in 2 years and see where you stand then?

        • @[email protected]
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          51 year ago

          No wonder US and the IMF are applauding Milei’s plan.

          This is very much not a good thing in my book. The IMF has a historical record of always recommending austerity policies that always fail to let the country staying afloat.

        • DigitalTraveler42
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          331 year ago

          His political allies are Trump and Bolsnaro GTFO here with this blind bootlicking bullshit.

            • e_mc2
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              Getting downvoted just for asking for some civil discussion… I’m getting some “good” old-fashioned reddit vibes here.

              • @[email protected]
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                41 year ago

                Yeah, I’ve noticed Lemmy has started to be less tolerant of different ideas/opinions lately. Not a fan of that.

                We need open discussions and disagreements, and being as civil as possible helps to facilitate that. Otherwise things devolve, some become afraid to voice their thoughts, and trolls thrive off of the attention.

                It’s super important that we try to remember there is another person on the other side (even I fail at this at times, but we need to keep trying!)

                • prole
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                  31 year ago

                  We need open discussions and disagreements, and being as civil as possible helps to facilitate that.

                  Yes, but I also want nothing to do with a community that platforms fascists.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            You brought up a good point and tarnished it with an insult.

            He may not a fascist but he’s certainly far-right and he allies with fascists.

            • CALIGVLA
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              81 year ago

              If you can’t see the red flags from a mile away, then I’m sorry for you.

            • DigitalTraveler42
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              Nothing like sleep walking right into another Videla, you’re as oblivious to it as any of these MAGAtards here in the states, I hope you head down to the clue store to buy yourself a clue before Milei starts sending people to the camps or declares himself dictator for life.

  • @[email protected]
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    TLDR:

    The Ministry of Culture (and a few more: Social Development, Education, Women, Labor) will all get merged into a new one called Ministry of Human Capital.

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      Ministry of Human Capital

      Did they have a contest to find the most inhuman, corpo-speak name possible or did they start with “Ministry of Human Chattel” and decide to tone it down slightly?

      • @[email protected]
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        141 year ago

        You don’t need a competition when you have an oxymoron like an anarco capitalist at the helm. They are naturals.

  • @[email protected]
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    301 year ago

    This feels like it’s going to end up as Anarcho-Capitalisms Cuba. Touted as proof that it works by supporters and as proof it doesn’t work by detractors. I hope the Argentinian people come out of this ahead, or at the very least not even worse off.

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      81 year ago

      Hard to be much worse off than over half the population living in poverty and using the black market to get basic things. In Europe and the United States, the black market is where criminals sell drugs. In Argentina, the black market is where everybody sells everything. Drugs or not.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        I don’t know about that. Capitalism with minor restrictions and major corruption are largely to blame for it. Taking away minor restrictions and just leaving the capitalism and corruption to their own devices, really only can end one way.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        Yeah, I know, which is why I fully understand chosing this guy over literally their prior finance minister. It’s pretty much “change nothing and hope it improves” vs “blow it all up and hope his ideas work half as well as he thinks they will”.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          If I remember correct, the saying is something like an idiot does the same things over and over again and expects different results. Sometimes you just have to blow something up and start again.

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    211 year ago

    On the chopping block is the Argentine Ministry of Culture, along with the ministries of Health, Labor, Social Development, and Education

    Feel like leading with the Mjnistry of Culture being cut over anyone of these to be odd.

    • @[email protected]
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      261 year ago

      Source appears to be called ‘Art News’, so they probably have a particular interest in arts and culture.

  • @[email protected]
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    201 year ago

    lol dude is that was he looks like? Jesus what is it with electing the weirdest looking cunts on the planet?

    • @[email protected]
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      131 year ago

      In Argentina, photographers usually try to get the most unflattering pictures of politicians so they can sell them to newspapers ideologically opposed to said politicians.

      That’s not what’s happening here. He really does look like that. You should see what he looks like when he’s posing for a picture.

      • prole
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        11 year ago

        Holy shit, talk about crazy eyes. Terrifying.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        The correct response to having shot yourself in the foot is not to start shooting yourself in the leg instead.

        Argentina has problems, but these are not the solutions to these problems. Not at all.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        The catch is privatization make profit a priority.

        Sure, the previous government was corrupt but wasn’t infected with the infinite growth cancer.

  • Erasmus
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    51 year ago

    Why does this guy look like a villain from Doctor Who?

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    Let’s see what happen with this fascist as the head of Argentina.