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People keep electing fucking imbeciles
Argentines have been suffering miserably for decades and that is with parties from both the left and the right. They’ve all been useless. There is literally no one else to vote for.
But now you’re choosing the con-artists who will prey on that fact to sell you lies and false promises, and when all is said and done you will be lucky to still have a democracy, let alone solutions. Both Trump and Bolsonaro tried to overthrow their government when the citizens realized they were frauds and kicked them out. Still, somehow, your elected leader supports them. Don’t expect any different.
But the US and Brazil both made the same mistakes, so don’t take it personal. Learn for yourselves. But try to be vigilant enough not to lose your democracy in the process, because there’s no going back after that.
Argentinian here, he’s not great but fucking believe me theyre the best candidate amongst all other 4 that are all supporters of the practices that put us in this decadence.
An ultra right wing populist is usually the worst choice. It’s always the fascists who blame the other parties.
It’s funny you say that because that’s what the current and previous government (both left governments) are doing
So by that logic as long as a candidate doesn’t support the “practices that put us in this decadence” they are good enough to vote for?
If this guy would be in favor of rounding up all gay people and shooting them, would you still vote for him? What about making it illegal for women to do paid work? What about shutting down all newspapers? If he proposed those things, would you still think he’s the best candidate?
If not, then where is your line? Because to me he already seems pretty fucking extreme.
You can also not vote or cast a voto en blanco as a protest. Why not do that instead of vote for a Trump / Bolsonaro type person? Do you think they were successful presidents who made things better in the US / Brazil?
The fuck are you on about? First off, if those were his actual proposals of course he wouldnt be the best candidate, but want to know something? All other candidates have NO PROPOSALS, AND IM NOT EXAGGERATING, Rodriguez Larreta’s is the current Governor of Buenos Aires, his campaing literally had not a single proposal, all others have nothing concrete either, Massa is the current Minister of Economy and he’s supposedly gonna fix the economy ONLY IF WE VOTE HIM PRESIDENT??? Milei is literally the only candidate that has spoken out loud what they will do
But wanna know whats actually extreme, DO YOU WANT TO KNOW? The candidates that support these practices are all compliant of the current government, GOVERNMENT THAT LET THOUSANDS OF ARGENTINES DIE OF COVID while they held the vaccines for the Political Class, had Parties during Lockdown and arrested citizens that only wanted to mourn their beloved ones. Furthermore they attacked the monument made in honor of the ones that died during the pandemic
He’s Anti Left, likes a dumbass and is Anti Abortion, AND WHAT? That Last Law was approved like 4 Years ago DESPITE THE ENTIRE COUNTRY manifesting against, our (corrupt) politicians turned their back to the people who voted them, while he ran for Senate, for his campaign promised that his Salary would be raffled back to the people and guess what, he complied and continues to stand by what he was voted for
Argies are not stupid, EVERYONE knows whats going on with the Politics of the Left here, and we’re Angry, our people is dying of hunger, bussiness have to close down because of the neck choking taxes imposed to support the “Rights for the people” from a Government making net red numbers every day to keep the working people powerless and the poor eating the trash they hand them to barely keep them alive so they continue to vote for them
“Argies are not stupid, EVERYONE knows whats going on “
Yes, they are and no, they don’t.
Just like EVERY country that suffered under incompetent and corrupt rule and gravitated to “change”.
I get it. Hell it’s be far not the first time Argentina has been in economic crisis. It’s a rational reaction with a reasonable basis that ignores the likely consequences.
That’s the point being made here - you want different, but is he actually better? Populist gestures like “he gave his salary away” mean he’s getting paid via other means. By whom? Why?
I get it - you’re sick of the status quo and he’s expressing the outrage you feel.
Good luck, really. I love BA and hope it works out.
Aced it. Milei’s following can’t be reasoned with. They are pretty much like that other world power that almost had a coup. God save us.
Excuse me but mind pointing at whatever specific thing I may have said is unreasonable off my participation on this whole thread?
Furthermore mind explaining to me how is it unreasonable to Vote for the Guy with a Wig-Looking Hair that’s done nothing wrong Politically when the other runner ups are a Drunk Terrorist (Bullrich), A Politician that sucks the dick of whoever is at Power to keep himself rich while proven completely useless in Charge (Massa), A LizardMan that opresses the workers with Police brutality and allows his paid supportive trope to disrupt peace on the streets (Larreta) and Juan Grabois (Self explanatory)
And finally, if you are Argentine yourself, please “Rescatate loco”
To the first, saying we are not stupid is obviously a generalization, of course there are but its far from everyone being stupid, our education is poor and has only gotten worse with the current Government (by a myriad of reasons, really) but you saying they dont know what happens is straight up wrong. I do mean EVERYONE knows it, ask ANYONE om the street, on the internet any argentinian WILL KNOW but what they respond depends on how they live, because this government PAYS the people to rally and support them with Tax Money, They pay them to live like shit and vote them when time comes, they are their only sustain because the government is killing the Economy and all of the citizen’s possibilities, like I said, to keep themselves in Power
And also, I get your concern for his financing, but unlike all other Political candidates, he has actually had a Job not related to Politics on the past, and he gives speeches where he teaches economics as it is his Mayor, is a Writer and generally a “celebrity” lately. I cannot deny if a certain interest institution finances him, but I can sure confirm his opponents are
I get it man but accept that opting for worse in the pursuit of change is not a solution.
To a large degree that’s what led people to vote for Trump - he was independent (not actually), self-financed (big nope) and an outsider (incompetent clown). Not saying this guy is akin to Trump but are you certain enough of that to still support him?
Argentina’s history has enough heartbreak and man this guy sure smells like a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Maybe he’s really not. Maybe his heart is in the right place. That’s a big maybe.
He’s going to make it worse. Guaranteed. Look at literally every fucking other country run by people like this.
So we are supposed to keep voting the Politicians that are ACTUALLY killing us, that are ACTUALLY getting us more debt everyday, that are ACTUALLY putting in power of all of their friends to guarantee their richness, that are ACTUALLY making it harder and harder to leave the country while they sail around the world for their vacations? That are ACTUALLY making it worse?
Instead of the guy that has done many things right just because he kinda likes another country’s asshole?
FUCK THAT, is essentially what this elections result means
Voting a fucking fascist in fucking power is not the fucking answer.
He will give you a 1 month high. You will feel like you’re taking your country “back” and “making it great again”. For 1 month. Maybe 2. Then it will not get better because fucking fascists don’t have fucking answers or fucking solutions. All they have is blaming.
So when shit doesn’t get better, what this fucking fascist will do is find some vulnerable minority or some people who do a serious non-dumb job and blame them. The gays. The indigenous. The judges. The leftist students. The scientists. The people who like to eat their salad with the wrong color tomatoes. Some made up shit.
And he will convince you that it’s those people’s fault that his bullshit anarcho-capitalist non-policies don’t work. So he will need you to support him to hurt those people more and more and more so he can anarcho-capitalism harder. Promising that if you hurt the right people enough then it will be all right.
But it won’t because there is no fucking magic and fucking fascists don’t have fucking answers to any fucking problem.
Don’t be a stooge for fascists.
Good luck.
We’re tired of bad. Lets give worse a go!
if those were his actual proposals of course he wouldnt be the best candidate
OK but my question still remains: where is the line for you? Because I think it’s fair to say that he would want to make abortion illegal, abolish sexual education in its current form, and let terrible things happen to the environment because he doesn’t believe in climate change.
Those things are apparently not enough for you because you still say he’s the best candidate. Maybe you disagree, but I think it would be terrible if women lost their right to a safe abortion or if children wouldn’t receive sex education.
Why not cast a voto en blanco? Just because other politicians are worse doesn’t mean you have to vote for Milei.
You say Argentines aren’t stupid and I agree. Americans and Brazilians are also not stupid. But how did far-right populist presidents work out for them?
I’m not saying the current politicians in power are good, but why support this asshole just because he opposes who you oppose?
The enemy of your enemy is not necessarily your friend, it could just be another enemy.
OK but my question still remains: where is the line for you? Because I think it’s fair to say that he would want to make abortion illegal, abolish sexual education in its current form
He has actually commented on all of this manners, about Abortion he said he personally doesnt care, but he’s an advocate that the pass of the law was done against the People’s Will (as I previously mentioned) so he’d call a Referendum on the law to revalue it and of course it will be the people’s will if it dissapears or not.
Climate Change? Sexual Education? For sure his views are problematic and I do not support his beliefs on that, but HELL MAN. People is DYING here either lf hunger or injustice, we need those fixed AND HES THE ONLY ONE WITH PROPOSALS ADDRESSING THOSE. Current government has FREED PRISONERS OF RAPE AND ASSASINATION because “they may die of covid in prison” Im sure as shit not voting them. Whatever he passes thats shitty we can fix later
There’s no clear limit, absolutes are never good, but id say being shitty as a whole is a reasonable limit
Edit: Adding to why not cast a Voto en Blanco, is because in Argentina the final election percentage of votes dont count Voto en Blanco, meaning that the total amount of votes thats part of the percentage is tinier the more Voto en Blanco there is, which means actual votes comform a greater part of the percentage, this results in Voto en Blanco giving more election power to actual Votes. Here is a saying that “The White Vote is a Vote in favour of the Most Voted” and it is technically correct. Due to the people that live off the government there will always be votes for them no matter how bad they are, if everyone for Javier Milei decided to vote in white instead, itll just make the other candidates percentage of vote grow not only making them win, but als look like 60% of the voters chose them instead of the current 28%
Fascism has worked out so well for you folks in the past right?
Do you mean the one-sided anti-democratic De Facto governments that persecuted opposition and killed thousands?
Or do you mean Peronisn the democratically elected fascist-ideology government that persecuted and killed oppositors while instated Laws to keep themselves in Power, which is the Ideology current government and Officialist candidates praise?
Either way, what either of those things have to do with Javier Milei’s Right, Democracy-enforcing proposed government?
We seem to like fast food and fast politics.
Bread and circuses has been a winning strategy with low information voters for as long as democracy has existed.
He’s the only one of the running candidates that hasn’t yet had the chance to demonstrate the country that he’s a putrid corrupt that will put himself before the people on every fucking step of the way as the others did over, and over, and over again, they normalized corruption so much that the average Argentinian believes that corruption is the only possible way to run a country, and there’s nothing left to steal. People worry about the loss of rights, but we haven’t been able to pay for adequate rights in a while.
He’s also the only one with a reasonable plan to actually stop the inflation that the other 2 parties brew for the past 20 years.
A country in crisis picks a fascist that will undoubtedly make things much, much worse. As if nobody learnt a single thing from the past.
Look at the Philippines, we elected the son of the former dictator. And it was a landslide victory. I can’t still believe he won.
The voters feel they have no alternative. They’ve tried the traditional left and the traditional right and both parties failed them.
Take El Salvador. They elected a fascist in 2019. He’s turned the nation into a police state and locked up tens of thousands of young men without a trial. But his approval rating is currently 80% … the highest in Latin America. The reason ? When he took office in 2019 the homicide rate was 51 per 100k people. It’s now 8. People can walk down the street without fear. Gangs no longer harass young girls and extort protection money from local businesses.
If we want people to reject fascists we need to give them alternatives that actually work.
The left wing governments have messed up so much that the people are voting into the far right as a knee jerk reaction.
Except in countries where the far right have messed up in which case the opposite is happening.
Basically the takeaway is from this that everyone is kind of shit. The populations tend to just flip flop between ideologies every couple of decades.
Basically it’s the political equivalent of yo-yo dieting you don’t actually end up any better off.
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Please look up the definition of fascist.
Please clap.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
With some 90% of ballots counted, far-right libertarian economist Javier Milei had 30.5% of the vote, far higher than predicted, with the main conservative opposition bloc behind on 28% and the ruling Peronist coalition in third place on 27%.
The result is a stinging rebuke to the center-left Peronist coalition and the main Together for Change conservative opposition bloc with inflation at 116% and a cost-of-living crisis leaving four in 10 people in poverty.
The October election will be key for policy affecting Argentina’s huge farm sector, one of the world’s top exporters of soy, corn and beef, the peso currency and bonds, and ongoing talks over a $44 billion debt deal with the International Monetary Fund.
As polls closed in the early evening after voting system glitches caused long lines in capital Buenos Aires, all the talk in campaign hubs was about Milei, a brash outsider who has pledged to shutter the central bank and dollarize the economy.
In the most important leadership race, within the Together for Change coalition, hard-line conservative Patricia Bullrich, a former security minister, beat out moderate Buenos Aires Mayor Horacio Larreta, who pledged to get behind her campaign.
Whoever wins in October, or more likely in a November runoff, will have big decisions to make on rebuilding depleted foreign reserves, boosting grains exports, reining in inflation and on how to unwind a thicket of currency controls.
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Low effort comment: He looks like an evil Beatles member
He looks like one of Bilbo’s judgey neighbors
Is he going to try and take the Falklands again?
No. He always sort of knew they belonged to England. /s
Ignorant post, with ignorant comments.
I’m going to guess his opponents were milquetoast candidates that were largely fine with a bad status quo.
Something similar happened in my city. The incumbent mayor saw his challenger as not worth his time, he’s held the office for a long time now. He wouldn’t debate, wouldn’t mention their name, largely ignored any campaigning for the primaries.
He ended up losing. A “far left” candidate won instead and then the same incumbent mayor spent the time until the election smearing the primary winner for being a socialist and had to start the most successful write in campaign I’ve certainly ever seen.
The old mayor ended up winning despite his hubris and we all continued on like nothing happened. It was gross and weird and it’s left a bad taste in my mouth since it happened.
Libertarians are not far right.
Libertarianism as a philosophy may not be. Libertarian as a modern political entity surely is.
Im not a fan of either, but you have to realize at this point the name has been hijacked by the far right chuds of the world.
