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[–] [email protected] 99 points 6 months ago (1 children)

lt-kitsuragi "Detective, please. I do not think you are doing a very good job at this President 'side hustle.' Just change the currency back, resign, and let's get back to the investigation."

[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 months ago

tequila-sunset

"But the dogs... they promise us further more..."

[–] [email protected] 95 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Does this mean that we can now ask chuds "BUT WHAT ABOUT ARGENTINA!?" when they bend over for capitalism so fervently?

[–] [email protected] 90 points 6 months ago (2 children)

i kinda brought it up to a finance type guy yesterday and he said that after decades of terrible economic policy, argentina is finally on the right track, even if it's gonna hurt in the short term.

these fuckers will bend reality until it breaks before admitting that maybe people need food to eat.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

"short term"

The exchange rate devaluation wouldn't have been as much of a issue if he had done it slowly and enacted price controls but noo shock therapy it is.

What does he thinks of Russia and Eastern Europe doing the same policy and failing?

[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 months ago

it'll be short for the people that die of hunger...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

They have been saying the exact same thing about the former Soviet Union for over thirty years now. Just some short term pain to correct for all the economic mismanagement of socialism. Any day now...

GDP per capita - itself a terrible measure, especially comparing socialism and capitalism - only in recent years got back up to 1991 levels in Russia. Ukraine (even before the SMO) never got back up to the Soviet level. The entire Eastern Bloc would have been better off today in GDP per capita terms if they just had barely above zero economic growth this whole time.

A whole effort post I made on the topic

[–] [email protected] 58 points 6 months ago

yeah but they're not going to know about it because their human centipede of talking points won't pass it to them

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

He has been unable to pass most of his reforms, so there's that. A better example is Menem, he caused massive damage in the 90s.

Socialism is not a bad word in Argentina, at all, so I'm hoping he will resign once he realizes he's getting nothing done.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 6 months ago (1 children)

you guys are so stupid, look at how much money they have now

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Adding zero after zero to the economy

[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago (2 children)

He looks like a Doctor Who villain! Like the sleazy businessman whose workers keep disappearing, then it turns out he's an alien in disguise or something.

No idea why it took me so long to make that connection.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

He has very British hair

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

He does look like the kind of guy who would try and strap Billie Piper into some kind of life-goo extracting machine, doesn't he?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago

Juice of neoliberalism

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but you know, this is good inflation.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

no it's like cholesterol, where some is "good" and some is "bad". you have no idea what the difference is but you think the point is to eat more eggs and less deep fried things or something

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago

Actually Existing Anarcho-Capilatlism (AEAC) in action folks

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago

I can't believe communism would do this

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Capitalism is when no food.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Actually true

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago

"Wait, no! Milei's not a REAL libertarian, he's a socialist too! Argentina's still corporatist, not capitalist! Want REAL capitalism? Just look at Medieval Iceland or England! We can TOTALLY recreate those CAPITALIST societies in the 21st century! Trus me bro!"

— Some 14-year-old AnCap edgelord on 4chan

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Any day now, it'll be a glorious ancapistan utopia! Trust me! ancaptain

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Wasn't this intentional? The first thing he did was halve the value of the currency. Seems kinda goofy to dunk on someone for accomplishing what he set out to accomplish

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

When the aim is to be evil, it's always right to dunk

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Regardless if it was intentional, his supporters domestic and abroad thought he was going to usher in the ultimate free market, free from regulations, age of consent, and communism

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago

Things take time, but he definitely is working towards making Argentine free to plunder by foreign capital.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

No. He and his team are incompetent. He tried to rule by decree, when that failed he tried to push a huge law and when that got pushback they tried to take it back to committee without understanding it meant they were back to square one.

Even so, blaming him entirely for inflation is silly. He's only the president, and has only had a couple of months.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

blaming him entirely for inflation is silly

This is true, since he's actually the third Thatcher that God visitted upon that country.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fourth no? Military dictatorship, Menem, Macri, and then Milei.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

He's simply more skilled than Pinochet and Macri at crashing the economy.

At this rate idk if anyone's going to top his ruin the country any% speedrun and I await the SummoningSalt video.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Listen up commies:
Crashes the economy

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

yeah, it is entirely intentional

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago

we did it, guys! we balanced the budget! and we get to build a new cathedral made out of bones with all the people we starved doing so!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

what was that one hard drive article? man who lost everything in bitcoin wishes just a few thousand more people warned him earlier?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

I like Pamphlets, great youtube channel. if you're on here Pamphlets keep up the good work

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Veneztina no iphone 10,000,000,000 killed

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Needs more sickle.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

I feel bad dunking on this bc people are being hurt by this jackass and his cronies

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

socialism is an impoverishing phenomenon

Javier Milei

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

I'd call this shit "Cargo Cult Capitalism" but that would let all the other forms of capitalism off the hook of being a fucking cargo cult.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

porky sure let himself go

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Real capitalism has ~~never~~ been tried.

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