Imagine voting for someone that wants to get rid of the department of education. : aboringdystopia

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 163 points 11 months ago

The right wing is always stupid. Everyone else is sometimes stupid. But the right? Always completely pants on head stupid, if not cartoonishly evil.

[-] DrownedRats@lemmy.world 47 points 11 months ago

Do not attribute malice to that which can be explained by stupidity... But never fully discount it.

[-] FatTony@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Everytime I see this sentence my brain just refuses to understand it. What does this mean?

[-] JungleJim@sh.itjust.works 27 points 11 months ago

It means to not assume a person is evil if their actions could be explained by them being stupid instead.

[-] pixelscript@lemmy.ml 11 points 11 months ago

It gets clearer if you flip it around to sound less poetic:

Do not attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.

That which can be explained by stupidity, do not attribute to malice.

Or perhaps in more direct words someone might actually say:

If you can explain it with stupidity, it's probably not malice.

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[-] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 12 points 11 months ago

In this case it's definitely both.

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[-] ZhaoYadang@lemmy.world 128 points 11 months ago

And so begins the parade of Argentinians having their faces eaten off by leopards after voting for the Leopards Eating Faces Party.

[-] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 57 points 11 months ago

They've been getting their faces eaten off, so they voted for the other party that will eat their face hoping it will change this up.

[-] Apepollo11@lemmy.world 40 points 11 months ago

Politics. It's leopards all the way down.

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[-] half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world 75 points 11 months ago

How to loudly announce you're part of the fasc in-group.

[-] Gabu@lemmy.world 69 points 11 months ago

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[-] tiita@lemmy.world 47 points 11 months ago

I just don't get it. Every time a right wing government people get fucked and more fucked. Arguably even with left governments, but brexit / trump / bosonaro level fucked it's is hard to achieve..

And people still vote for these train wrecks..

What am I missing? What do I need to do get it? Lower my iq seems to be a possible answer, but I'm really struggling to see it

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[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 67 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Make the public dumber, less healthy, less connected, and less informed about the world so they can't stage a revolution and kill you. Perfect plan really.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 59 points 11 months ago

Trump's advisors are reading that list and salivating.

[-] Hyperreality@kbin.social 49 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Javier Milei's closest advisors are salivating because they're clones of the president's former dog Conan who died in 2017. According to Milei the ghost of Conan, named after Conan the Barbarian, advised Milei to become president during a conversation facilitated by a spirit medium.

Good luck Argentina. May the rest of us live in less interesting times.

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[-] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 55 points 11 months ago

In properly set democracy this should not be possible. President should not have that kind of power to affect other branches of power.

In general president should not have too much power at all, because it is stupid to have just one person to be able to cause so much change in general. Looking at you US.

[-] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 24 points 11 months ago

Presidential offices and ministries are both part of the executive branch of governments, though. Ministries are primarily there to organize the executive's work, so while removing ministries will affect that, it won't affect the separation of powers (like, say, the removal of responsibilities from a court or a chamber of parliament would).

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[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 49 points 11 months ago

Is there a Department of Women or is he just going to get rid of every woman in the country?

[-] Decoy321@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago

In case anyone is genuinely curious

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Women,_Genders_and_Diversity_(Argentina)

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[-] Alto@kbin.social 24 points 11 months ago

No girls allowed!

[-] famousringo@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 months ago

As you can see, cootie infections have declined 63% under my administration.

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[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 38 points 11 months ago

Bolsonaro eliminated the Labor minister first day of his government and made the economy minister absorb its functions. It's had to re-establish it quietly at half of his government because the economy minister couldn't keep with the job, but meanwhile slave labor on Brazil skyrocketed.

[-] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 35 points 11 months ago

Proposed remaining ministries:

Ministry of Men

Ministry of Strong

Ministry of Beer and

Ministry of RRRRAAAARRRGGGHHH

[-] LuckyBoy@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

Ministry of the paranormal

Ministry of animal cloning

Ministry of human organs harvesting

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Going for the chupacabra vote, I see.

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[-] Cyo@lemmy.world 35 points 11 months ago

I know a few Argentinians and since I live in Chile I know a lot about what's going on there. They have a lot of useless ministers for almost everything, at this point the previous government could have easily added the 'ministry of non-important matters' Their state manages the education really bad, many Argentinians complain about that, all those things managed by the state work really bad and are fueled by taxes. I agree that Milei's ideas are crazy, but seeing the options in Argentina, he was the less bad option there.

Imagine a state sucking almost every currency from every citizen just to fuel useless state institutions. I hope Argentina will recover with this change.

[-] Avg@lemm.ee 24 points 11 months ago

I guess we are all about to find out how true that is.

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[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

Uh, if you live in the United States, I've got some bad news for you in one year.

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[-] einlander@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

Department of Transport, so not even the trains will run on time.

[-] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

Bold of you to assume they were running on time

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[-] ohlaph@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

The only ministry they need is the ministry of stupidity. That'll be their national treasure.

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 19 points 11 months ago

He also wants to screw around with the Falklands again

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[-] mrfriki@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

That's called dictatorship. Argentinian people are not new to it.

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[-] ours@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

Making the next generation of fools to keep people like him elected.

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[-] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 17 points 11 months ago

Sounds like he’s trying to recreate North Korea.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 33 points 11 months ago

Pretty sure North Korea has equivalents to those ministries. Somalia is probably a closer approximation of where this is going.

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[-] joojmachine@lemmy.ml 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

> sees fascist reactionary right-wing bullshit

> "wow this is just like the socialist strawman I don't know anything about"

libs, man...

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[-] satanmat@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

Imho. They are not voting based on those facts. They voted for him because he said the things they want to hear. Nothing to do with the truth; you’re not being kept down by billionaires, it is those (wink) people….

No one who thought about it ever thought trump would build that wall and Mexico would pay for it; but people scared of MS-13 being active in their podunk town rallied around him for saying that

[-] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago

Argentinian here, they voted for him because they believe these ministries are overly burdened with corruption, meaning all the money gets embezzled and the ministries don't actually function. Massa, the opposing candidate, minister of economy had an 150% increase in inflation during his tenure. Lastly, they don't think it can get much worse so why not try something different

[-] catfish@programming.dev 43 points 11 months ago

Lmao can't get worse? They're in for a surprise

[-] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The point is that it's already so bad that they don't care.

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[-] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago

Are you sure it's not because everyone is stupid and/or a bad person? Like, extra sure?

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[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

Argentina only has two modes, Fascism or Peron, no in-between.

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[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

This is why you do not leave fascists alive once you've managed to get them out of power.

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