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Argentina elects Far-Right Libertarian Javier Milei to the Presidency
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Turns out America ain’t so bad
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argentina is just following india's lead.
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Yeah, Argentina is an absolute train wreck… BRICs bozos can scream all they want about the American dollar but that doesn’t change reality for Argentina’s f’d currency and economy.
This guy sounds absolutely nuts on the other end of the fiscal spectrum so I’m sure things will collapse spectacularly if he implements his policies. I guess the world will get a show.
This guy sounds absolutely nuts on the other end of the fiscal spectrum so I’m sure things will collapse spectacularly if he implements his policies. I guess the world will get a show.
Not surprising. Argentina hasn’t had sensible fiscal policies for a while.
We could probably expect similar movements in other similar countries as well.
High sales tax and not seeing its value in real time only gonna push folks further to this extreme.
We could probably expect similar movements in other similar countries as well.
High sales tax and not seeing its value in real time only gonna push folks further to this extreme.
He is actually a hardcore neoliberal
You not gonna delete this thread too? Be a proper mod and open them up.
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Argentina owes $44 billion to the IMF.
Milei's bright idea? Take out loans from the IMF to pay the interest on the debt to the IMF.
And 1990s privatization schemes. Macri is going to have his tentacles all over this. Milei's cabinet is going to be Macri folks. Watch.
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Why this dude look like Captain Kangaroo
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Not to mention same shyt, fukked up hairstyle.
Where they say supporter of Israel they actually mean he is very much opposed to Islam/muslims. That's been his main issue for years, seeing Israel as a front for the culture war between islam and the west.
His election was propably heavily influenced by people waving Hamas/ISIL flags at protests against the violence in Palestine though. Seems like a lot of people took note.
Argentina's President-elect Milei replies to Musk's interest: 'We need to talk, Elon'
Elon Musk has shared a video in which Argentina’s President-elect Javier Milei says equality should never come before freedom.
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Argentina’s President-elect Milei replies to Musk’s interest: ‘We need to talk, Elon’
President-elect Javier Milei waves during a joint session of Congress to officially declare him and his running mate winners of the presidential runoff election, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Updated 12:20 PM EST, December 5, 2023
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of the social network X, shared a video Tuesday in which Argentina’s President-elect Javier Milei says equality should never come before freedom, in a sign of how some notable conservatives are closely watching the incoming libertarian head of state.
“We need to talk, Elon,” Milei replied on X, formerly Twitter.
This is not the first time that Musk, the founder of SpaceX and CEO of Tesla, has expressed support for Milei on social media. “Prosperity is about to come to Argentina,” Musk wrote when Milei won the election runoff on Nov. 19.
In the interview excerpt that Musk posted, Milei spoke against efforts to make societies more equal, saying it is far more important for people to be free.
“There’s a sublime phrase by Milton Friedman that I find to be outstanding, which is that when you prioritize equality over freedom, you end up achieving neither. But when you prioritize freedom over equality, you achieve many of both,” Milei said in the interview, referring to the American economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1976.
In the same interview, Milei said that John Stuart Mill, a 19th-century British philosopher, economist and politician, argued that a society that emphasizes equality “ultimately becomes a society of looters and it sinks. That is the history of Argentina.”
The president-elect, who takes office on Sunday, also said income redistribution involves “using the repressive apparatus of the state to take from the successful” and distributing it arbitrarily “based on what the person in power wants.”
Milei has also caught the attention of former President Donald Trump and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who interviewed Milei before the election. Trump congratulated Milei on his victory in a phone call last month in which he told the president-elect he planned to visit Buenos Aires.
We've had 50 years of Milton Friedman fanboys and they still haven't figured out that pithy sayings don't mean shyt when we've seen it fail in real life over and over.
