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How young Argentines put a far-right libertarian into power www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/10/21/23925549/argentina-election-javier-milei-right-youth

6938 sats \ 16 comments \ @elvismercury 20 Nov 2023 bitcoin

Hernán Stuchi, a 29-year-old food delivery driver in greater Buenos Aires, grew up as a left-wing activist. During this year’s presidential election in Argentina, he told Vox he would make a starkly different choice, and back Javier Milei, a far-right libertarian trumpeting socially conservative culture war issues and explosive proposals to reshape Argentine society.

Interesting to read how a quite far left source constructs these events, vs the takes that have been bubbling around SN and similar. How should we expect the narrative to evolve?

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1062 sats \ 1 reply \ @okpj 20 Nov 2023

Isn’t a “far right Libertarian” just an AnCap?

Also, I like how this article states Milei being elected “plunges Argentina into uncertainty” as if 150% percent inflation in 2023 didn’t. Average inflation of over 200% per year since 1980… I’d say things have been uncertain there for a while.

I hope things change for the better!

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Zepasta 20 Nov 2023

Exactly

68 sats \ 0 replies \ @cyberpunk02 20 Nov 2023

far-right is basically a dirty word smear used on anyone they don't like now :(

22 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK 21 Nov 2023

Nice MSM-framing: a libertarian (like anyone who can't identified as a damn commie) is certainly a fascist. I love my media clown world!

41 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 20 Nov 2023

I’m politically to the right of A. Oh that’s B for Bitcoin!

174 sats \ 1 reply \ @Zepasta 20 Nov 2023

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15 sats \ 0 replies \ @_stacktoshi 21 Nov 2023

The same people love to hold intersectionality over your head when you just treat them like ordinary people, but to them anyone who doesn't tow the line is a brown shirt. I think we need to double down and just tell them if you have white skin, or like someone with white skin, then you must be a nazi too! Because Milei has about as much in common with Hitler as he does Stalin or Mao.

22 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 21 Nov 2023

"Far right". Kills me. I don't think these morons that write these headlines even know what that means or what a libertarian is.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @scottathan 21 Nov 2023

Vox is one of those groups still firmly trapped in a failed left-right mindset. The left-right spectrum is a terrible way of thinking about politics, and it only leads to demonizing other groups the way Vox is doing right now

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @022fbc9cef 21 Nov 2023

They could have just said "libertarian." Adding "far-right" only makes it sound like he is the bad guy. It is like saying he is a "nazi" or like Hitler.

I hate the narrative of the mainstream. Everyone is nazi today, except those people who actually call for murdering of Jews (those are progressive!).

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Jorj_X_McKie 21 Nov 2023

That was the intent. MSM quiver is full of arrows labeled ‘far rightI’, ‘Nazi’, and the ever popular’Hitler’.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kenn_b 21 Nov 2023

i guess, we just have to wait and see

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Superbadger 21 Nov 2023

It won’t evolve because the mainstream likes the binary of left and right, pushing people to the “moderate centre”. They don’t recognise that the true useful spectrum is between the statist and individual-focused, which oddly enough is what is considered far right and far left in their mapping

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SpaceHodler 21 Nov 2023

What does far-right libertarian mean anyway? Are all libertarians far-right, or only some of them?