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[-] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 120 points 1 year ago

From everything I've heard about the election in Argentina, it was the meeting of "Anything is better than this" and "it can always get worse." The former won, and proved the latter correct.

[-] MarcoPOLO@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

Argentina needs shock therapy to realize milei is a dumbass

[-] loutr@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

That's what I thought about the US and Trump, yet here we are...

[-] EnderMB@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

We had the same in the UK with Brexit and Boris. We assumed that because everything is shit, backing people looking to do drastic changes that experts agreed was horrific was worth it. It wasn't, and now people are even poorer...

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[-] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 102 points 1 year ago

Milei — who has been described as an anarchocapitalist — set out to reduce the government’s involvement and oversight in many aspects of Argentina’s economy, including announcing that he would privatize many state-owned companies, would decrease labor protections and remove regulations that limit the amount of agricultural and productive land that can be owned by foreign companies.

Argentina going full GOP

[-] test113@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

RIP Argentina. I don't know the situation that led to this, but man, that sounds real, real bad for the average Argentine people.

[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 13 points 1 year ago

Argentinian should just bear it for a bit until multinational corporations swoop in and buy various assets dirt-cheap. Imagine all the future profits! /s

[-] qevlarr@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

Fuck around and find out. I'm so sorry for everyone who was duped by libertarians pretending they will do anything for regular people and not just the wealthy shareholders, everyone who was held back by economic sanctions in a war against 'muh socialism', and all those who saw the obvious coming but were dragged into it by the other rubes. This is going to suck. I hope the protests will work

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

Oh joy. Skyrocketing rent combined with plummeting wages.

This isn't going to destroy their economy at all...

[-] Fades@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That’s a right wing populist figure for you.

[-] intelshill@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Can this guy step down yet?

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