cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/2426645

If elected president, economist Javier Milei has pledged to eliminate government spending on research and shut down the environment and health ministries.

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[–] 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

These are public electoeal promises? who would vote for that?

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  • [+] -25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
  • [–] [S] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    From the article:

    To tame the crisis, Milei has proposed not only privatizing science, but also closing the environment and health ministries, and abolishing the current public-health and education systems. The anti-establishment politician has even floated the idea of allowing people to sell their own organs for profit. On environmental issues, he is equally provocative, calling climate change “a socialist hoax”, and saying that a company should be able to pollute a river as it see fit. “From his perspective, any regulatory intervention by the state represents an attack against market freedom and, therefore, against individual freedom,” says Maristella Svampa, a sociologist at the CONICET-funded Center for Documentation and Research of Left-Wing Culture in Buenos Aires.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    We need an island. A tiny island full of progressives, safe from the rest of the world...

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago*

    Unfortunately, so far whenever that has happened, non progressives have generally pretty swiftly ended it.

    It seems that it needs to be a very big island of progressives to stand a chance of survival.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    Eat the middle class huh? I'm sure it will do wonders for the Argentine economy.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Hopefully this idiot doesn't get in. Of course he is an "economist" 🙄.

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  • "Simpletons! Yes, yes! I'm a simpleton! Are you a simpleton? We'll build a town and we'll name it Simple Town, because by then all the smart bastards that caused all this, they'll be dead! Simpletons! Let's go! This ought to show 'em! Anybody here not a simpleton? Get the bastard, if there is!"

    -A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.

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