this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2023
127 points (97.0% liked)

World News

39142 readers
4521 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News [email protected]

Politics [email protected]

World Politics [email protected]


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Uhhh.. Milei’s been in office for what, a week? Are you saying the “Peronistas” were driving people in to protest their own government?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

From one side, not all protests were against the national government, some if not most, were and are usually against the Buenos Aires City government (which is not peronist), or against some other government. You must take into account that Buenos Aires is a city with a high concentration of institutional buildings. So everything is in Buenos Aires. There's this old saying in Argentina "God is everywhere, but his offices are/he only attends in Buenos Aires"

On the other hand, the peronist party is a highly fractured party. It's more like a coalition of different minded individuals, that gather around the caudillo in turn. That's why Perón himself said "peronists are like cats, when you hear them screaming, they are not fighting, they are matting". Once the caudillo is in power, he must maintain it, and strength demonstrations are usually in the form of "getting the street". Meaning, making a ruckus and sending people to protest. This goes for both sides, sports and detectors.

So, as you can hopefully see, Argentina's politics aren't as straightforward as thought.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Fair. Argentina’s politics are complicated. I was there in 2002 and remember groups of people sitting in circles discussing the political situation at the time.

I love Buenos Aires btw, hope things get better.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Bruh. Yes. Remember there were protests against Trump before he was even president?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah except those protests were not astroturfed, just people with valid complaints.

And they were right.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Because Trump said what he was going tk do and people didn't like. He didn't even win the majority and had revealed himself tk he racist and sexist, of course people were going to protest him.