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Argentina: "We're not fucked enough at the moment. Let's get even more fucked!"
We don’t like the candidates by the traditional parties. Let’s yolo it! :P
Well when things aren't going well, people vote far rights, the have the simple answers. People love simple solutions for complex problems.
Doesn't even require things to be universally bad. As long as there's substantial apathy about the status quo and enlightened centrists going on about "both parties being the same", the far right just needs a few disaffected groups.
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Far-right conservatives and facists have found quite the successful tactic for getting into power and getting their ways on public referenda: it's called lying and misrepresentation.
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A guy that looks like Austin Powers but is actually a 4chan neonazi. Argentine is completely falling apart, this will not end well for them.
It’s also interesting how the people get constantly humiliated by neoliberalism in the modern gig economy but still vote for the (even more) extreme right, which with 100% certainty will destroy their lives even more. It’s like begging your abuser to continue.
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Is this the figure with a médium to talk with his dead dog?
Yep, he is the one
This is the best summary I could come up with:
During this weekend’s presidential election in Argentina, he will make a starkly different choice, and back Javier Milei, a far-right libertarian trumpeting socially conservative culture war issues and explosive proposals to reshape Argentine society.
Polls indicate almost 50 percent of voters 29 and younger back Milei, the wild-haired outsider and self-described “anarcho-capitalist” who inveighs against traditional politicians, branding them as members of a “caste” that must be done away with.
It’s also a reactionary impulse: There is a strong backlash against pandemic-era restrictions, which helped popularize Milei’s anti-establishment rhetoric, and a spate of recent progressive wins in Argentina, including a momentous bill that legalized abortion in 2020.
What started out as a youth movement powering Milei’s campaign has now widened to include groups of all ages, all across the country — Stuchi called it a process of “intergenerational contagion” with people like him working to sway over older relatives.
She says the traditional center-left and center-right candidates in this election are so inexorably linked to the economic mismanagement at the origin of the ongoing crisis that it’s as though they were “invisible” to many young voters, leaving only Milei as a viable option.
Milei’s signature proposal to curb inflation — dollarization — is viewed by experts as likely unworkable, in part because of how few greenbacks are left in the central bank’s coffers.
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He's a horrible, idiotic, person but at least there will be some interesting economic and political studies to follow.
Argentina sure is dedicated to help economics science study
the term far right libertarian makes no sense.....
Libertarianism is a far right ideology
It wasn't always.
It was a left wing ideology until an American fascist co-opted the term for his own brand of rightwing nonsense.
I can't really see Ayn Rand as anything other than far right, and that's about as OG libertarian as you get. Free market, unfettered capitalism.
She's only OG if you disregard the fifty some odd years of the word libertarian referring to anarchists like Emma Goldman. Back before Murray Rothbard hijacked the term.
At this point I kind of agree that it's pointless to argue about it as the word's connotations have already changed.
But again the Ayn Rand as a Libertarian is still viewing the word through the altered meaning that rose to prominence in the US. Previous to that change it indeed was a wing of anarchism, a left-wing ideology.
Not really. It's fairly libertarian for sure, but she was a war hawk and in favor of IP laws.
The word libertarian was used to mean something more leftist before that term was claimed by the modern America right wing libertarian movement, but that movement was never anything but a catspaw for right wing oligarchs.
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