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TheDoozer, to world in Protests erupt in Argentina against President Javier Milei’s economic shock decree

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,

Argentina needs shock therapy to realize milei is a dumbass

loutr,
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That’s what I thought about the US and Trump, yet here we are…

EnderMB,

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…

MamboGator, to world in Protests erupt in Argentina against President Javier Milei’s economic shock decree
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Argentina is about to become the latest case study that libertarians refuse to acknowledge when you tell them their policies don’t work.

Goferking0,

Nah it’s not that it’s libertarianism failing it’s just that idiots version of it failing

What they’ll say when it fails or next time someone else tries to implement their ideals

AbidanYre,

He just didn’t libertarian hard enough.

DeadHorseX,
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I’m not a libertarian, I’m a social democrat.

The last century has been a total and unmitigated disaster for Argentina. The two options Argentinians had in this election were:

  1. More of the same by the guy who oversaw inflation reaching 160% (100% chance of things getting worse)
  2. A total wild card (99.9% chance of things getting worse)

Unsurprisingly, they went for the latter. I don’t think anti-libertarians get to gloat in this context, given it’s the Argentinian establishment which has overseen one of the most remarkable examples of total state-collapse and economic failure in modern history.

NoSpiritAnimal,
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This makes a lot of sense if you pretend he didn’t say or promise anything during the campaign.

DeadHorseX,
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Anything to add beside a snide comment?

NoSpiritAnimal,
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Not if you continue being wrong in easy to summarize ways

ragica,
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I don’t actually know anything. But casually to me it looked like a choice between 160% chance of it getting worse and a 300% chance of getting worse. And it’s not very surprising at all in these circumstances many go for the latter for all sorts of reasons (and delusions). But I don’t actually know anything.

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