• LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml
    501·
    8 months ago

    I don’t know anything about the background.

    “Zionist Milei wins the Argentinian presidency pledging to dollarize the economy and break all relations with Argentina’s main trading partners.”.

    What made people vote for this guy?

    • olgas_husband@lemmygrad.ml
      53·
      8 months ago

      same as every fascist to date, a deep capitalist crisis and the inefficiency of liberal democracy to keep it’s word.

      in short, argetina took some big ass loans to imf during their military dictatorship, so they are in a permanent crises since that.

    • relay@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      25·
      8 months ago

      Even in a financial sense isn’t that just terrible for 90% of the people there.

    • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
      14·
      8 months ago

      Latin america is still very anti-communist, so if you run a campaign blaming everything on the leftists, you are going to be popular. It really do be as simple as that, milei just screams stupid incoherent shit and blames the left thats his whole thing.

      There were mass murders of leftists throughtout all latin america and its a wound that it is still bleeding.

      • Soviet Snake@lemmygrad.mlOPM
        4·
        8 months ago

        Plus Macri, the ex president owns a lot of the media literaly so it is quite easy for him to push for an agenda

  • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
    41·
    8 months ago

    Living in Brazil and seeing this is so sad, my argentinean friends, we already experimented with the far right candidate here and you could see how fucked up everything was here and now you want a taste of the same?

    At least I’m doing well now and I’m going to ask my friends if they want to come here they can crash on my house while they find something.

  • Emanuel@lemmy.eco.br
    39·
    8 months ago

    owari da

    In all seriousness, I’m not Argentinian, but I’ve been told that Congress and the Judiciary are not aligned with Milei. Hopefully this means only a term of stagnation and no policy instead of actually deterioration in Argentina.

    • olgas_husband@lemmygrad.ml
      22·
      8 months ago

      from what I’ve seen, this is just to save face right now that people are tense, after day one they will align and start to say that he is not that bad, we can dialogue and reach a middle ground and etc…

      • d-RLY?@lemmygrad.ml
        21·
        8 months ago

        True. The main thing they care about is talking without actual actions, and they would rather fascism take over instead of excepting that the centrist systems of liberalism’s version of democracy has failed. They fail to see that sometimes there isn’t a “next time” to rely on for them or their parties to exist let alone run again.

        • olgas_husband@lemmygrad.ml
          3·
          8 months ago

          is not that think vs act thing, my point is that this so called unaligned never even considered to oppose him or slow him in any way, instead they will legitimate him in every way, because he won “playing by the rules”.

          so they say they won’t support him just out of demagogy, because election still fresh, people are heated.

    • Looming mountain@lemmygrad.ml
      5·
      8 months ago

      I cannot understand how common Argentinia s would read this and think: yeah I will benefit massively from this platform. So then I wonder if they read it or not?

        • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
          2·
          8 months ago

          It’s funny because Trump has delusions of adequacy and genuinely thinks the reasons he got elected is because he was a fascist, and not because his opponent was Hillary. He’s cranking the fascism up to 11 in a desperate attempt to get re-elected and all it’s doing is turning people off. Hell, even his hardcore fascist base turned on him after whining nonstop about losing to a barely-conscious liberal cadaver.

  • DesiDebugger@lemmygrad.ml
    19·
    8 months ago

    What are the chances we see this guy run his country into the ground. Like that libertarian town in New Hampshire that got overrun with bears but on a national scale? This sounds like a nightmare to live through for any Argentine comrades.

    • Soviet Snake@lemmygrad.mlOPM
      12·
      8 months ago

      Some people compared him with that, lol. I really dont know how much he will be able to do, but he will fuck up as much as he can.

    • Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml
      7·
      8 months ago

      He seems geared to be as subservient to Israeli and US interests as humanly possible. If there is one thing the US is good at, it is expediating states that want to prostate themselves like that.

      The only possible obstacle I have heard is that their parlimentary body is pretty opposed to him and could be a roadblock to things like adopting the USD as the national currency.

    • 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
      71·
      8 months ago

      Country is already in the ground.

      He is definitely going to attract a lot of private investment so we will see a short term gain in growth but a massive decrease in living standards and material condition for the majority. I really hope this sparks some working class consciousness.

    • Ronin_5@lemmygrad.ml
      3·
      8 months ago

      Chances are 100%.

      He wants to privatize all public services. And undergo dedollarization.

      There is no silver living.

  • DavidGarcia@feddit.nl
    19·
    8 months ago

    he’s basically said he’ll rip out 90% of the government without replacement. I wonder how realistic that is given the powers he now has. can he even do that legally and practically? aif not, I’m sure he’d happily become dictator for life.