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After years of tripping over their own feet Argentina opts to shoot itself in the dick because change.
Ok.
It's a great country and Buenos Aires is a wonderful city but hoo boy this is … not likely to go well.
Desperate people resort to desperate measures when normal approaches fail. The ruling class forcing our countries to their bidding, against the interests of common people, are the cause for this.
And now they're going to steal everything you have left with this clown's help.
There are a small subset of the population that are voting for these clowns for exactly that reason... They are accelerationists. They want the 1% to steal the remaining piece of the pie from the 90% because people won't fight for change unless they are literally starving.
This is happening world wide; not everywhere but many places, and I wonder if the old style jubilee will be demanded.
I'm not Argentinian
The good news is that if you like Buenos Aires you'll be able to buy it for yourself soon
Former US President Donald Trump congratulated Mr Milei on his victory, saying he would “Make Argentina Great Again!”.
I'd love to see where Trump thinks Argentina is on a map.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know when Argentina was "great"?
Between 1860 and 1930:
Between 1860 and 1930, exploitation of the rich land of the pampas strongly pushed economic growth.[3] During the first three decades of the 20th century, Argentina outgrew Canada and Australia in population, total income, and per capita income.[3] By 1913, Argentina was among the world's 10th wealthiest states per capita.[4]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_Argentina
And then of course beginning in 1945 the ratlines assured the freedom of many nazi war criminals in Argentina. There are plenty of reasons for Trump to like Argentina during the first half of the 20th century.
Juan Peron loves him some Nazi war criminals.
Humanity is so goddamn stupid
I'm astounded that people still aren't aware that "right wing populist" means "your life will get harder".
lets see what that guy do outside change name of coruption to lobby.
I just hope that in the long term the country can finally liberate the people who are currently economically dependent on the state. So they can find their own economic path, no matter who is ruling.
They always give you money in Argentina. For exchange of a future vote, of course. But nobody really cares about giving you a way out where you are in charge and capable of finding and getting your own work and opportunities.
And the inflation, as always, eats the lowest class first, the one that has less opportunities to find a new job. And less capable of saving money. Remember that. The very high inflation is indirectly murdering people.
if he's like every other right wing populist, the poor will have it even harder. All for the rich, baby! Oh, and his own pockets will be filled.
Fuentes: Miami me lo confirmó.
I hope I'm wrong and that he's the first far right populist in history that cares about their citizens and not the money.
This guy looks like reports of decadent parties and wasting argentinas money on himself is right around the corner though.
wasting argentinas money on himself
you mean like Cristina Fernández de Kirchner?
In case you need context (because most people commenting doesn't seem to know anything about Argentina): Cristina Fernández de Kirchner served as Argentina's president between 2007 and 2015. Then, she was vice president in 2019 with Alberto Fernández as president.
The other candidate Sergio Massa has been Minister of Economy since 3 August 2022.
Amen.
For people who are not from Argentina, you should at least make the effort to understand the current problems argentinian society is facing.
If you don't care to do that, why even share any opinion at all and just hate Milei.
There's a lot of good reasons to hate the other candidates too. Even more than Milei if you ask me. The thing is, this guy does not come from the elite ruling class.
Disclaimer: I am not Argentinian, but I have family and friends over there.
Good bye Malvinas
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Far-right libertarian outsider Javier Milei has won Argentina's presidential run-off poll, according to provisional results.
Mr Milei's proposals, which included detonating the central bank, won support with voters desperate for change.
No matter, in a country where annual inflation is now over 140% and two in five people live in poverty, his win proves that Argentinians are fed up with traditional politics and economic disaster.
Posting on X, he said the US would "look forward to building on our strong bilateral relationship based on our shared commitment to human rights, democratic values, and transparency".
South American leaders have also been commenting on Mr Milei's victory, with Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva posting: "I wish good luck and success to the new government.
But Chile's President Gabriel Boric said he saluted Mr Milei "for his victory and Sergio Massa for his worthy recognition of defeat".
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